World in pictures this week, June 25, 2026

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Bruce the Bat Dog performs a ceremonial first fetch before a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the Philadelphia Phillies in Washington.Credit:AP Photo/Jess Rapfogel

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A soccer fan shows off his hair dyed in Croatia's signature red-and-white checkerboard pattern while marching to the stadium for the team's World Cup group-stage match against Panama, in Toronto.Credit:Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP

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A displaced family with their belongings, return to their village following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.Credit:AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari

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A woman and her child swim in the Seine river, in Samois-sur-Seine, south of Paris.Credit:AP Photo/Thibault Camus

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A Shiite Muslim child flagellates himself during a Muharram procession in Ahmedabad, India.Credit:AP Photo/Ajit Solanki

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A pelican is reflected in the water on a hot summer day in St James's Park in London.Credit:AP Photo/Alastair Grant

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Parisians bathe in the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, as the national weather service, Meteo France, placed 54 departments, about half the country, under a red heat wave alert.Credit:AP Photo/Christophe Ena

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Uzbekistan's Avazbek Ulmasaliyev (25) runs to avoid water from the pitch sprinklers after the first half of the World Cup Group K soccer match between Portugal and Uzbekistan in Houston.Credit:AP Photo/Eric Gay

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A man walks with his dog through Red Square during sunset in Moscow, Russia, backdropped by the Spasskaya Tower and the Kremlin Wall.Credit:AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko