US Juneteenth celebrations and wildfires in Brazil: photos of the day – Tuesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Warning: graphic content

Main image: Washington, DC, US Kamala Harris dances with singer Kirk Franklin. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

  • Corumba, Brazil

    Smoke from a fire rises into the air in the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, in Mato Grosso do Sul state
    Trees blowing in the wind with what looks like a cloudy sky, but is actually smoke, in the background

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    Protesters await the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken. Relatives of Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip and their supporters gathered outside Blinken’s hotel, calling for a ceasefire
    Protestors outside a building holding placards and one in the foreground holding a US flag and shouting into a megaphone

  • Jerusalem

    Relatives grieve during the funeral of Israeli soldier Almog Shalom in Mount of Hetzel Military Cemetery the day after he was killed with three other soldiers in the Gaza Strip
    Man and woman sat comforting each other with man crying into his hand

  • Gaza Strip

    Palestinian brothers Abdulkerim Muhanna and Omar Muhanna, who were in the house targeted in an Israeli airstrike on Sheikh Ridwan neighbourhood, receive treatment at Kamal Adwan hospital, the last hospital operating in the northern Gaza Strip. The brothers were pulled out from the rubble of a house that collapsed as a result of the attack, suffering severe wounds and burns
    Young boy laying on a hospital bed with his foot being treated by a doctor

  • Berlin, Germany

    A sniper soldier is visible in the roof of the presidential Bellevue Palace before the Ukrainian president is welcomed by the German president for talks
    Close up of a sniper out of a skylight window in the roof

  • Berlin, Germany

    Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska (L), and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, embrace under the eyes of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy (top L), and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, at the beginning of the Ukraine recovery conference
    Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska on the left and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen embrace and kiss while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy looks down at them smiling

  • Paris, France

    An electoral poster of the French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) with portraits of the party president, Jordan Bardella, and the president of its parliamentary group, Marine Le Pen, is defaced in Paris
    Poster with Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella with parts of their faces ripped off and defaced

  • Washington, DC, US

    The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, dances with the singer Kirk Franklin during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House
    Kamala Harris dances being spun around by singer Kirk Franklin

  • Towcester, England

    The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and his wife, Akshata Murty, arrive for the Conservative party’s manifesto launch at Silverstone
    Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty walking along a path

  • Barnsley, England

    People demonstrate as the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, makes a speech on the party’s campaign bus in South Yorkshire, while on the general election campaign trail
    Dozens of people protesting holding a signs and placards, one reading F**k Farage and another reading immigrants are welcome

  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    A muslim pilgrim rests at Mount al-Noor in the holy city of Mecca
    Man laying on the ground with a man sitting to the left of him with mountains in the background

  • New York, US

    Blake Lively carries a Chanel bag as she arrives for the Tribeca festival artists’ dinner
    Zoomed in photo of the waist of Blake Lively holding a clutch and wearing a bright Chanel two piece

  • Makati, Philippines

    Fishers and activists wear boat costumes to protest against alleged Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea as they stage a rally in front of the Chinese consulate ahead of Independence Day
    Man wearing face masks sat in small handmade boats that are attached by a rope over their shoulders

  • Hanoi, Vietnam

    A dog walks the streets of Hanoi. The city’s authorities have issued a directive on tightening the dog and cat meat trade amid a recent rabies surge across the country. There have been more than 100 rabies outbreaks in 29 provinces and cities which have caused human fatalities
    Small white dog with a tail dyed pink walking on the pavement

  • Dalian, China

    A humanoid robot awaits completion at the office of developer Ex-Robots in Liaoning province
    Realistic robot that looks like an elderly man with the back of his head exposed and wires coming out

  • Van, Turkey

    Bathers visit an artificial waterfall at the end of the channel used for water discharge at Zernek Dam where the water level has reached 100% due to recent rains
    Man made waterfall embedded in rocks with people sitting on lad surrounded by trees and foliage

  • Nanjing, China

    People cool off at a water park in eastern China’s Jiangsu province
    A swimming pool packed with people in inflatable rings in green, yellow and purple

  • New York, US

    Pedestrians cross a street at sunset in Manhattan
    Silhouettes of people crossing the street with the sun peeking out in the background between two buildings as it sets
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