FILE - President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists
Sept. 19-25, 2025
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Eloy Martin, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
FILE – A fisherman prepares his net in the fishing community of El Morro de Puerto Santo, on Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)FILE – An anti-corruption protester kicks the shield of a policeman during clashes in Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)FILE – Adut Duor, 14 months old, sits on his mother’s lap in the malnutrition ward of Bunj Hospital in Maban, South Sudan, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)FILE – Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Saeed Murad Na’san, 20, during his funeral in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)FILE – Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembélé reacts as he receives the 2025 Men’s Ballon d’Or during the 69th Ballon d’Or awards ceremony at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)FILE – People participate in fire rituals during the Autumn Equinox celebration in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)FILE – Manchester United’s Amad Diallo, left, challenges for the ball with Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Chelsea at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)FILE – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after a Paris court sentenced him to 5 years after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)FILE – A construction worker makes his way along a track-level walkway in the metro tunnel beneath the Panama Canal during a media tour, in Arraijan, west of Panama City, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)FILE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest during an early morning operation in Park Ridge, Ill., Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)FILE – State miners march against illegal mining, alleging that independent miners are encroaching on their work areas, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)FILE – A model wears design by Hannibal Laguna during the brand’s show at Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)FILE – Participants build human towers, known as castells, during the La Merce celebrations at Sant Jaume Square in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)FILE – Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Harush, who was killed in a shooting attack yesterday at the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)FILE – A Hindu devotee performs rituals on the occasion of Mahalaya, an auspicious day to pay homage to ancestors in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)FILE – Damage is seen from mudslides after storms in Yucaipa, Calif., Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)FILE – Yuliana Andrea Agudelo embraces her son Sebastian Agudelo after he was rescued from a gold mine that had collapsed trapping over 20 miners, in Segovia, Colombia, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)FILE – Venezuelan Abraham Castro rides a cargo vessel with other Venezuelan migrants through the Gulf of Panama as he, his partner and her two sons travel south after giving up on reaching the United States, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)FILE – President Donald Trump, left, hugs Erika Kirk at the memorial of her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)FILE – Amal Al-Qishawi, follows her injured son, Yasser, 11, carried on a bicycle by his father Rafiq Al-Qishawi, as they flee northern Gaza Strip walking along the coastal road, near Wadi Gaza, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)FILE – An engineer watches a Ukrainian-made quadcopter drone at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)FILE – A pedestrian poses for a photo on the edge of an installation, a canal filled with flowers, during the opening of the city’s first art biennial in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)FILE – Netherland’s Anna van Der Breggen competes, during the women’s elite individual time trial event, at the road cycling World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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