The best photos of the week: From Fourth of July celebrations to Keir Starmer’s victory

Striking pictures from around the world

The Eramine lithium extraction plant at Salar Centenario Ratones in Salta province, north-west Argentina. Lithium is in high demand to supply the electric car industry. AFP

Labour leader Keir Starmer greets supporters at Tate Modern in London, after his party's UK general election win. AP

The downtown Los Angeles skyline is seen in the distance as fireworks go off to celebrate Independence Day in Los Angeles, on July 4, 2024. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP)

Friends and relatives carry the casket of 19-year-old Ibrahim Kamau in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA

An woman shows that she has voted in Iran's presidential election runoff, at a polling station in Qarchak Varamin, south-west of Tehran. AFP

A polar bear dozes by a pond at the Zoom Adventure World Zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. AP

A Venezuelan migrant child runs through a temporary camp after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia, in Lajas Blancas, Panama. AP

A boy plays with a football on a warm day at the El Cuilio pool in El Salvador. AFP

Mass, by Australian sculptor Ron Mueck, at the Voorlinden Museum in Wassenaar, Netherlands. AFP

A male Asian golden cat seized from an illegal hunter by Indonesian nature conservation agency BKSDA in Banda Aceh. AFP

A voter dressed in medieval costume leaves a polling booth during the annual medieval festival in Rodemack, northeastern France, as France votes in an election that could hand power to far right. AFP

Coldplay perform at the UK's Glastonbury Festival. Getty Images

A US flag hangs in the main atrium as passengers navigate the Fourth Of July holiday travel rush at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia. EPA

Flames engulf a home in Oroville, California. A heatwave is sending temperatures soaring resulting in red flag fire warnings. AFP

Romania defend against Netherlands during the Uefa Euro 2024 round of 16 football match at the Munich Football Arena in Munich. AFP

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey takes a bungee jump at Eastbourne Borough Football Club while on the UK general election campaign trail. AP

Couples take part in a mass wedding organised by the chairman of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani, in Navi Mumbai, India. AP

Newly-appointed Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, right, waves off his predecessor Mark Rutte, left, in The Hague. AFP

Palestinian children collect tomatoes after they fell from a lorry delivering aid in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP

People queueing outside a ramen noodle shop below the tracks as a Yamanote Line train pulls into Gotanda station, in Tokyo. AFP

Fishing boats moored at a beach in Danang, central Vietnam. AFP

Le Reve de Fitzcarraldo (Fitzcarraldo's dream) by Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira outside Nantes Opera in western France. AFP

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, centre right, and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, centre left, pose with new Cabinet members after a swearing-in ceremony at Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague. AFP

An aerial view of flooded buildings and streets after heavy rain in Yueyang, in central China's Hunan province. AFP

An honour guard prepares for a ceremony marking the first session of the new Parliament outside the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. AP

A drone view shows the Sun setting over a neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the arrival of Kenyan police as part of a peacekeeping mission. Reuters

Simone Biles leads the US women's celebrations as the 2024 team is named at the Gymnastics Olympic Trials in Minneapolis, Minnesota. AP

Security forces spray demonstrators at a protest over an Israeli Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to the military, in Jerusalem. Reuters

A crescent Moon rises over Grand Camlica Mosque in Istanbul. Reuters

An elite Guatemalan Army unit takes part in a parade in Guatemala City, marking the nation's Army Day. AFP

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