Priests attend the weekly general audience with Pope Leo XIV, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
A man clears the rubble as writing in Hebrew on the wall reads “revenge, regards to the arrested, people, wake up,” at one of the West Bank mosques that were vandalized and partly set on fire by Israeli settlers overnight, in the village of Jiljilya, north of Ramallah, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a working session at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George celebrates after winning the D.C. Mayor primary election during an election night party at the Howard Theatre, Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Habiba al-Kafarna, 5, who was orphaned when her parents, Ahmed and Sajida, were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in 2025, stands behind a sofa in the Gaza City home where she lives, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Kashmiri students hold placards as they participate in a government organized boat campaign in the Dal Lake to raise awareness about protecting agricultural land in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Argentina’s Lionel Messi (10) celebrates after scoring their second goal during the World Cup Group J soccer match between Argentina and Algeria in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)Fans watch Argentina’s Lionel Messi on a giant screen during the World Cup soccer match between Argentina and Algeria in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, June 16, 2026.. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, lay a wreath at the National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)Racegoer Suzette Field poses for photographers as she arrives on the second day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting in Ascot, England, Wednesday, June 17, 2026.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)A video from the Communist era secret police surveillance archives, seen through a pinhole, shows Anton Uncu sitting on a metal bed, a day before the opening of the “A.REST 1989 — The Securitate Video Archive” exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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