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Date:2025-04-13 08:52:14
July 26 – Aug. 1, 2024
Venezuelans take to the streets to protest the results of a presidential election that handed incumbent President Nicolás Maduro a third six-year term, a rocket attack in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights killed 12 children, and Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century.
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 Eloy Martin in Madrid.
Lilia Cosman, of Romania, competes on the balance beam during a women’s artistic gymnastics qualification round at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Residents rush to help injured children moments after a rocket attack hit a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Shams)
Displaced child Toleen Marshoud, who suffers from skin disease, sits at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 29, 2024. Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana )
An athlete from the Netherlands lays on the track after a practice session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
President Nicolas Maduro dances outside the Miraflores presidential palace after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A destroyed statue of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lays next to its base in Valencia, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 31, 2024, the day after people protested the official election results that certified Chavez’s protege, current President Nicolas Maduro, as the winner. (AP Photo/Jacinto Oliveros)
South Korea’s Nam Su-hyeon shoots during the women’s team quarterfinals competition between at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
South Korea’s Shin Yubin watches the ball during a mixed doubles semifinal table tennis game against China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 29, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Bigeye trevally fish swim against the current at Wolf Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Monday, June 10, 2024. This time of year, the Cromwell current comes from the west and is the coldest and holds most nutrients. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)
A rescuer consoles a man who lost his home following Tuesday’s landslides at Chooralmala, Wayanad district, Kerala state, India, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Soldiers of Ukraine’s Azov battalion light flares at a rally demanding the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war who are held in captivity in Russia, at Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, July 28, 2024. Several thousand people and soldiers gathered to commemorate the second anniversary of a Russia-orchestrated explosion that killed more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Russian-held Olenivka prison barracks. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Palestinian child Siwar Abdel-Hadi, 2, wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, lies for an X-ray at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Abdel-Hadi is the sole survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings. She becomes one of thousands of children orphaned in Israel’s campaign in Gaza against Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A fisherman casts his fishing line into the Mediterranean Sea from a rocky area along the Beirut coastline, on a sweltering hot day, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Firefighters spray water as the Park Fire tears though the Cohasset community in Butte County, Calif., on Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Iranians follow a truck, center, carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard who were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel on Wednesday, during their funeral ceremony at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
France’s Manon Apithy Brunet, right, competes with France’s Sara Balzer in the women’s individual Sabre final match during the 2024 Summer Olympics at the Grand Palais, Monday, July 29, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A crowd takes photos at the gates to the Tuileries Garden as the cauldron rises at sunset during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
The shadow of a motorcyclist beams through a barricade on Bolivar Avenue in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024, the day after the presidential election. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Simone Biles, of the United States, performs on the uneven bars during the women’s artistic gymnastics team finals round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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