AP Week in Pictures: Global

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A masked protester shouts to his colleagues as they block a street with burning tires as part of the national strike by the construction union, SUNTRACS, in Panama City, Thursday, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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Britain’s King Charles III, right, is joined by Prince William, Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and Kate Princess of Wales on the Balcony at Buckingham Palace after attending the Trooping the Color ceremony, in London, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

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Muslim pilgrims gather at the 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, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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French President Emmanuel Macron is reflected in a resident’s glasses after a ceremony, Tuesday, June 18, 2024 on the Île de Sein, Brittany. Emmanuel Macron paid homage to the 128 residents who left the island to join Britain after French Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s World War II resistance call of June 18, 1940. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

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An HSC-7 helicopter lands on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Laboon in the Red Sea, Wednesday on June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un attend the official welcome ceremony in the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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Little girls stand among men during Eid al-Adha prayers, held on the athletics track of the Dinamo stadium in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Kashmiris gather around a camel displayed for customers at a cattle market set up for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

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Sitting alone in a sea of empty red velvet chairs, a 6-meter-tall giant ‘Inflatable Refugee’ is photographed at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre de Liceu opera house, Spain, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Created by Belgian visual artists Schellekens & Peleman in 2015 following the refugee crisis in Europe by, they hope it to spark debate around the plight of refugees. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni prepares to address a final media conference at the G7 in Borgo Egnazia, near Bari in southern Italy, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

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A rescue boat cruises on the Seine river near the Eiffel Tower during a rehearsal for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony, Monday, June. 17, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

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Devout Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Jama Masjid, in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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The head of a cicada sits on a table after West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson cut the head and thorax from a live periodical cicada infected with the Massospora cicadina fungus during field processing at Morton Arboretum on Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Lisle, Ill. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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A resident, kneeling, reacts after landslides damaged his house in El Placer, Ecuador, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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A model wears a creation as part of the Dolce & Gabbana Spring Summer 2025 collection, that was presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Nicola Marfisi).

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Thousands of fishermen fill a large muddy pond and cast their nets in the southern Mali town of San, Thursday, June 6, 2024, for Snake mon, a collective fishing rite that begins with animal sacrifices and offerings to the water spirits of Sanké pond. For several hundred years, people have gathered for the rite, which is on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. Heatwaves in Mali in recent years have caused the pond to start drying out. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

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Firefighters work under a smoldering hillside left behind by the Post Fire Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Gorman, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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People watch the Russian Navy Admiral Gorshkov frigate arrive at the port of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. A fleet of Russian warships reached Cuban waters on Wednesday ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ariel Ley)

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A woman wearing sun protective clothing walks by a lingerie advertisement poster outside a shopping mall on a hot and sunny day in Beijing, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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A firefighter tries to extinguish a fire burning in Koropi suburb, eastern part of Athens, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (AP Photos/Petros Giannakouris)

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A fighter jet maneuvers on the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Mourners pray for two Palestinians during their funeral at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, June 14, 2024. An Israeli airstrike on a home in the central city in the Gaza Strip killed two people and wounded several others including children, hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hajjar)

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Mourners attend the burial service for Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima in Nsipe, Malawi, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

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A group of Kurdish migrants from Iran and Iraq who failed in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom by boat after being discovered by the police refuse to return to shore on the beach of Ambleteuse, northern France, on Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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A Muslim worshipper sits at the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque during the first day of Eid al-Adha in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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A musician plays the violin during the funeral ceremony for volunteer servicewoman, well-known stylist Shura Riazantseva, 40, during the funeral procession on city main square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Onlookers watch as rescuers work after a cargo train rammed into Kanchanjunga Express, a passenger train, near New Jalpaiguri station, West Bengal state, India, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Diptendu Dutta)

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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz of Spain drives during the Formula 1 Barcelona Fan Festival along the Passeig de Gracia in downtown Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Devout Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Jama Masjid, in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Pope Francis sits during a working session on AI, Energy, Africa and Mideast, at the G7, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Borgo Egnazia, near Bari, southern Italy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 14-20, 2024

People protested during a general strike in Panama, Muslim pilgrims gathered in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea and Vietnam. Kurdish migrants trying to reach Britain were discovered off French shores, and trains collided in India.

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.