Rescuers work together to clear debris during a search operation for survivors at the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital that was hit by a Russian missile, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors.
President Joe Biden used his highly anticipated news conference to deliver a forceful defense of his foreign and domestic policies, and batted away questions about his ability to serve another four years.
President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington, July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
French voters react to the projected results of the second round of legislative elections, near Republique Plaza in Paris, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
A coalition of the French left won the most seats in high stakes legislative elections, beating back a far-right surge but failing to win a majority.
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.
Reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises a clenched after casting his vote in the presidential election, outside a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods, Iran, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Actor Alec Baldwin talks with his wife Hilaria during his involuntary manslaughter trial over a fatal shooting on the set of the film, “Rust,” in Santa Fe, N.M., July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)
Nearly three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust,” Alec Baldwin’s trial over her death has begun.
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images published in the past week by The Associated Press.
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City and photojournalist Fatima Shbair.
People evacuate near the site of the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital hit by a Russian missile, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Staff members and others listen as President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington, July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A cow jumps over a group of revelers lying on the ground at the entrance to a bullring, during the fourth day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermín festival, in Pamplona, Spain, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
An animal rights activist takes part in a protest against bullfighting ahead of the running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival, at Plaza del Ayuntamiento, in Pamplona, Spain, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Election officials count presidential election ballots at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A demonstrator stands in a cage hanging from a pedestrian bridge as others wave Israeli flags during a protest marking nine months since the start of the war and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A Palestinian man holds the body of his child killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An upended tree lays on the rooftop of the Bethel Church in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, in Van Vleck, Texas, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
A boy dives into the water during training in Kyiv’s Liko Diving School, July 3, 2024. According to Ukraine’s first lady, more than 2 million children have fled the country. The departures have impacted various sports. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Theater director Zhenya Berkovich, right, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, sit in a glass cage prior to a court hearing in Moscow, July 8, 2024. The Russian court convicted Berkovich and Petriychuk of terrorism charges and sentenced them to six years prison. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A woman carries her dog out from her flooded home following heavy monsoon rains in Kathmandu, Nepal, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A Muslim woman mourns next to the grave of her relative at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, in Potocari, Bosnia, July 11, 2024, on the 29th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Lebanese shepherd Yussef Halimeh removes goat carcasses killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Toura mountain, south Lebanon, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, right, arrives to pose with newly elected parliament members of the National Rally party at the National Assembly in Paris, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A long exposure image shows the recorded temperature on a thermostat at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center, after 10:00 p.m. on July 7, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)
Jewish settlers pray in the Eviatar outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during morning prayers calling for the legalization of the outpost and the return of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A wrestler is doused in oil by an ‘oiler, during the 663rd annual Historic Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling championship, in Edirne, northwestern Turkey, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Hindu devotees toss flower petals as they lead the annual Ratha Yatra or chariot festival in Kolkata, India, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue who leads the G9 and Family gang, speaks to journalists in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Firefighters walk alongside scorched ground in their battle against the French Fire in Mariposa, Calif., July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A soccer fan dressed in a Spiderman costume watches a live broadcast of the Copa America quarterfinal match between Brazil and Uruguay, on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Barron Trump raises a clenched fist after he is introduced by his father, Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, at a campaign rally in Doral, Fla., July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
A supporter waits for the start of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Doral, Fla., July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Jenifer Romero flies a kite in the neighborhood Barcelona, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Britain’s new prime minister, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street in London, July 5, 2024. Starmer was appointed prime minster by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, after the Labour Party won a landslide victory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
