Veronica Smith watches from her doorstep as firefighters battle a commercial structure fire in South Gate, Calif., on Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
May 22 – 28, 2026 This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
President Donald Trump departs Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Protestors barride the entrance gates outside the Delaney Hall detention on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Newark, N.J. Inside the facility, detainees carried out a labor and hunger strike for days over alleged living conditions. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)Attendees celebrate after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, won the Republican party’s nomination during a primary runoff election night event Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)A veteran pays respects at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Monday, May 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)Palestinians mourn over the bodies of Hamas militant Imad Isleim, foreground, his wife and daughter, who were killed in an Israeli military strike, during their funeral at Al-Shafi’i Mosque in Gaza City, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) CORRECTION: Corrects surname from al-Salem to IsleimA child participates in the Piu Sik Parade with a replica gas station price sign model at the Bun Festival in Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)Residents uses buckets of water as they try to control the fire that hit a poor community in Manila, Philippines Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Machozi Naumi, 45, raises awareness of Ebola in the camp on the property of the city’s ISP (Institut Supérieur Pédagogique), where internally displaced people reside in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Red Cross volunteers help an injured woman in a shelter after a Russian strike on residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Josh Verma, 11, of Germantown, Tenn., reacts after spelling his word during the quarterfinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee at DAR Constitution Hall, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Palestinians offer Eid al-Adha prayers beside the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli bombardment, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)The sun shines over the statue of French tennis legend Jean Borotra at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) listen to speeches by deposed leader Ozgur Ozel during a rally in Izmir, Turkey, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Erdem Sahin)An injured student is evacuated following an early morning fire outbreak at Utumishi Girls School in the Gilgil area, central Kenya, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)Children train at the C-Stars United soccer academy in Willemstad, Curacao, Friday, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A cat is seen in the foreground as Muslim pilgrims pray at top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)A collapsed building where multiple people are believed to be trapped in Angeles city in Pampanga province, north of Manila, Philippines Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Lady Victoria Hervey holds a lipstick shaped purse upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘A Woman’s Life’ at the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)A new married couple in traditional attire attend an opposition rally marking the Independence Day in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)A man checks a house that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Burj al-Shemali village near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Spectators look on prior to Game 4 in the Western Conference finals NBA basketball playoffs series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder in San Antonio, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)Israeli settler parents travel with their baby on camels in the northern Judean Desert near the settlement of Kochav Hashachar, in the West Bank, Monday, May. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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