Day in Photos: Aircraft Carrier Departure, NATO Summit, and Olympic Cauldron Returns to Paris
U.S. Navy sailors stand along the deck as they prepare for the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to depart from Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., on June 24, 2025. The aircraft carrier is leaving on its scheduled deployment to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
U.S. Navy sailors stand along the deck as they prepare for the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to depart from Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., on June 24, 2025. The aircraft carrier is leaving on its scheduled deployment to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Day in Photos: Aircraft Carrier Departure, NATO Summit, and Olympic Cauldron Returns to Paris

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Leaders of NATO member countries pose for a group photo as they attend a social dinner at the Huis ten Bosch Royal Palace during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague, on June 24, 2025. Haiyun Jiang/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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A member of the National Association of Recyclers of Bogota takes part in a protest against government neglect and difficult living conditions at Bolivar Square in Bogota, Colombia, on June 24, 2025. Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images
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Israeli emergency services and security officers search for casualties in the rubble of a building hit by an Iranian missile, in Beersheba in southern Israel, on June 24, 2025. President Donald Trump announced a phased 24-hour cease-fire process beginning at 12 a.m. EDT on June 24. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images
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Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani (R) and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam hold a press conference in Doha, on June 24, 2025. Qatar said on June 24 it was working on resuming Gaza cease-fire talks in days. Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images
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An aerial view of a straddle tractor spraying a treatment in the vineyards of Pouilly-sur-Loire, France, on 24 June 2025. Frederic Moreau/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
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A forensic scientist performs a demonstration of facial reconstruction to identify, from a skull, the recently recovered remains of a soldier from the Korean War (1950–1953) in a laboratory of the Division of Postmortem Investigation at South Korea's National Forensic Service headquarters in Wonju, on June 24, 2025. Roland De Courson/AFP via Getty Images
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A Cambodian police officer stands guard as students are allowed to cross the closed Poipet International border checkpoint between Cambodia and Thailand, at Poipet town in Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province, on June 24, 2025. Thailand's army closed border crossings with Cambodia in six provinces on June 23 to all vehicles and foot passengers except students and people seeking medical treatment, as a territorial row between the neighboring countries rages. Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images
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Dhows are anchored off Khasab, on northern Oman's Musandam Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, on June 24, 2025.  Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images
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New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo departs after voting in the Democratic primary at the High School of Art and Design in New York City, on June 24, 2025. The latest polls show a near tie between the former governor and state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani. Andres Kudacki/Getty Images
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An Afghan farmer pushes a wheelbarrow of tomatoes after harvest on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, on June 24, 2025. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
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Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh (R) welcomes Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (L) in front of the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on June 24, 2025. Altan Gocher/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
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The sun rises over Manhattan on what is expected to be the hottest day of the year in New York City, on June 24, 2025. Temperatures in New York City are expected to reach into the high 90s with a heat index of over 100 degrees F as the first heat wave of the year moves across parts of the Midwest and East Coast. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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An aerial view shows mourners carrying the coffins of those killed in a suicide attack two days ago, as they arrive at the Church of Holy Cross in Damascus's al-Qassaa neighborhood, on June 24, 2025. At least 22 people were killed in the shooting, authorities said, blaming a member of the ISIS terror group for the attack. Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images
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Afghan refugees climb onto a truck upon their arrival from Pakistan, in the Takhta Pul district in Kandahar province, on June 24, 2025. Sanaullah Seiam/AFP via Getty Images
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One year after the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Paris 2024 Olympic cauldron returns to the Paris skyline, from June 21 to Sept. 14, in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, on June 24, 2025. Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
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Finland's Lt. Col. Tomi Tirkkonen, deputy commander of the Kainuu border guard district (R), and Capt. Jouko Kinnunen, head of the border guard unit in the Kainuu district, walk along the newly erected fence at the border with Russia at the Vartius border crossing in Kuhmo, Finland, on June 24, 2025. Finland on June 24 unveiled a new segment of the 124-mile fence it is building along its eastern border with Russia, aimed at preventing Moscow from conducting what Helsinki calls “instrumentalized migration.” Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP via Getty Images
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A kite surfer during a hot day at the lake Ammersee in Herrsching, Germany, on June 24, 2025. Michaela Stache/AFP via Getty Images
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Devotees of the small farming village of Bibiclat celebrate the Feast of Saint John the Baptist while covered in banana leaves and mud in Aliaga, the Philippines, on June 24, 2025. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
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Serbia's Adriana Vilagos competes in the Women's Javelin Throw 600g event at the 64th Golden Spike athletics meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on June 24, 2025. Michal Cizek/AFP via Getty Images
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks during his weekly press conference at the Capitol in Washington on June 24, 2025. Johnson spoke on the current situation in the Middle East with Israel and Iran, as well as the hopeful passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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Colombian citizens wait to board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at the Albrook Gelabert Airport in Panama City, Panama, on June 24, 2025. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem observed the repatriation flight as part of her travels to several Central American countries where she will meet with political leaders and learn about immigration programs and facilities backed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the region. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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A cat sits at the window of a house, in the early morning in Venice, on June 24, 2025. Celebrities in superyachts sail into the city of canals this week for the three-day wedding party of Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty Images