Search and rescue efforts continue after a Russian missile attack hit Ria restaurant in Kramatorsk. Four children were among 11 people killed in the devastating Russian rocket attack on the packed pizza restaurant Photograph: Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency/Getty
Members of the Wagner group prepare to pull out from the headquarters of the southern military district in Rostov-on-Don. Yevgeny Prigozhin left the southern Russian city to a rapturous reception that resembled the departure of a rockstar, with crowds of men gathering around his car. The extraordinary scenes underlined some of the broader support Prigozhin appears to enjoy among sections of the Russian population, despite Vladimir Putin calling him a traitor whom he vowed to ‘liquidate’ Photograph: Roman Romokhov/AFP/Getty
People look at burning tyres blocking a street during riots after the killing of a 17-year-old boy by a police officer’s gunshot after a refusal to comply in a western suburb of Paris. Emmanuel Macron urged parents to keep teenagers at home as France’s government said it was reviewing ‘all options’ to contain escalating violence after three nights of rioting sparked by the fatal police shooting Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty
Members of the Wagner group sit on top of a tank in the city of Rostov-on-Don. Russia averted a descent into civil war after the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said he would order his fighters to end their march on Moscow and return to their bases in southern Russia Photograph: Roman Romokhov/AFP/Getty
A young boy hugs a member of the Wagner group. Vladimir Putin accused Yevgeny Prigozhin of treason after the warlord launched an uprising against Russia’s army, as social media footage showed his mercenaries at the main headquarters of Russia’s southern military command in Rostov-on-Don Photograph: Roman Romokhov/AFP/Getty
Commuters ride on a metro train next to a poster promoting a contract army service reading ‘Join your people!’ Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty
A local resident carries a baby outside a 24-storey building partially destroyed as a result of a missile strike last weekend Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty
Football players set up goal posts along Lumley beach in Freetown, the day after the country’s general and presidential elections. President Julius Maada Bio was announced the winner of the presidential vote, but the opposition has disputed the count Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty
Police fire teargas at a polling station after clashes erupted when electoral authorities delayed opening it due to alleged violations during general elections in San Jose El Golfo on the outskirts of Guatemala City. The election has thrown up a big surprise with the centrist Bernardo Arévalo claiming a spot in the second round amid growing anger over political corruption and the erosion of democracy in Central America’s most populous nation Photograph: Moisés Castillo/AP
A person wearing a UN tent used at the Zaatari camp in Jordan leads a march of children from St Antony’s Catholic primary school to Parliament Square in London to highlight that refugee children could be detained under the proposed illegal migration bill. Court of appeal judges this week ruled it is unlawful to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims processed, in a judgment that could thwart government policy Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA
Incarcerated graduate Gerald Massey hugs his daughter, Grace, as his wife, Jacq’lene, stands next to them after his graduation ceremony at Folsom state prison. Massey earned his bachelor’s degree in communications through the Transforming Outcomes Project at Sacramento State Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP
Prisoner-student Gabriel Bonilla adjusts Michael Love’s cap while waiting for the start of a graduation ceremony at Folsom state prison. After serving more than 35 years in prison, Love is currently enrolled in a Master’s programme at Sacramento State. He is employed by Project Rebound, an organisation that assists and mentors formerly incarcerated people as they further their education. Love has also been hired as a teaching aide and will teach freshmen communications students at the beginning of the new academic year Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP
The daughter of the soldier Oleksandr Lukianovych hands a present to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, while her mother Anna receives the Hero of Ukraine order for her fallen husband at the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters
An overturned car burns during clashes between French police and youths after a memorial march for French teenager Nahel M, shot by police during a traffic control stop several days ago in Nanterre. The 17-year-old boy was a ‘well-liked’ only child raised by a single mother, who had been studying for an electrician’s certificate, according to French media Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/Getty
Ugandan rangers with the 12-tonne ‘snare mountain’ at Murchison Falls national park. The pile was collected over 12 months as part of continuing conservation efforts at the national park. At the bottom are ‘bear traps’, used by poachers to catch elephants, hippos and lions. At the top are wire snares used for smaller animals Photograph: Paul Hilton/Global Conservation/ Uganda Conservation Foundation
A doe and fawn walk through a burned forest in Shelburne. Wildfires raging across Canada, made more intense by global warming, have released more planet-warming carbon dioxide in the first six months of 2023 than in any full year on record, according to the EU’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service Photograph: Nova Scotia Government/AFP/Getty
The drying-up marshes of Chibayish in Iraq’s southern Dhi Qar province. Photograph: Asaad Niazi/AFP/Getty
England’s Jonny Bairstow carries a Just Stop Oil pitch invader during the Test match between England and Australia at Lord’s cricket ground in London. Bairstow ignored the advice of the England and Wales Cricket Board’s security unit by intercepting one of two people who sprinted towards the wicket with bags of what appeared to be orange powder paint, and hoisting him into the air before carrying him beyond the boundary Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty
Indonesian Muslims perform Eid al-Adha prayer at Yogyakarta’s Southern City Square, known as ‘Alun-alun kidul’. Muslims worldwide celebrated Eid Al-Adha to commemorate the Prophet Ibrahim’s readiness to sacrifice his son as a sign of his obedience to God, during which they sacrifice permissible animals: generally goats, sheep, and cows Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty
Elton John performs on the Pyramid stage at the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. ‘I never thought I’d play Glastonbury and here I am,’ John said. ‘It’s a very special and emotional night for me as it may be my last ever show in England, so I better play well and entertain you as you’ve been standing there so long’ Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
