Nato summit and women dressed in banana leaves: photos of the day
Search and rescue efforts continue in the seven-story building that partially collapsed after being hit by a ballistic missile fired from Iran shortly before the US president, Donald Trump, announced a ceasefire had been agreed Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Bodies of Palestinians who lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Gazzat family home in the Es-Sabra neighborhood are taken from Al-Shifa Hospital for funeral prayers in Gaza City Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
US President Donald Trump boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, on his way to The Hague, to join world leaders gathering in the Netherlands for a two-day Nato summit Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
A service staff sets a table as preparations are underway in the Oranjezaal ballroom in the royal palace Huis ten Bosch for the Nato dinner that Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima are offering to participating heads of state and government Photograph: Remko de Waal/EPA
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and first lady Emine greet officials at Esenboga airport before departing for the Nato summit in the Netherlands Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky (L), and Nato secretary general Mark Rutte shaking hands prior to a Nato meeting at World Forum convention centre Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images
People watch as a wildfire burns forest land on Chios Island. Minister of climate crisis and civil protection, Yannis Kefalogiannis, visited Chios amid five separate wildfires. He warned that the simultaneous fires in different parts of the island suggest possible organised criminal activity and are unlikely to be accidental Photograph: Kostas Kourgias/EPA
Gravity Industries showcase their jet suits during a demonstration at the Defence and Security Industry Day on Britain's HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier at Marina Bay Cruise Centre Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters
Crew members of Taiwan's China Airlines receive training at their centre in Taoyuan Photograph: Ann Wang/Reuters
A man in an electric wheelchair crosses Pike Street in the sweltering heat in Kentucky Photograph: Michael Swensen/AP
Girls wearing traditional outfits dance during an event inspired by pre-Christian traditions, in which fairies, called Sanziene in Romanian, come to earth for the summer solstice bringing fertility to land and beings, at the Dimitrie Gusti village museum Photograph: Andreea Alexandru/AP
Devotees in the small farming village of Bibiclat celebrate the Feast of Saint John the Baptist while covered in banana leaves and mud. Known as the Taong Putik (mud people), the ritual happens yearly in the small farming village of Aliaga
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