AP Top Photos of the Month August 2024

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers in August 2024.

Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, is welcomed home by family members at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 2, 2024, after she was released from Russia where she was sentenced to 6½ years in prison. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris sits backstage as she listens to running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speak at a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Daniel Wabuyi looks up during his traditional circumcision ritual, known as Imbalu, in Kamu village, Mbale, Eastern Uganda, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

A firefighter uses a drip torch to burn vegetation while trying to stop the Park Fire near Mill Creek in Tehama County, California, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

A youth stands for the Pledge of Allegiance during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Christophe Chavilinga, 90, waits for treatment for mpox at a clinic in Munigi in eastern Congo, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

People cry as the body of a man who was killed during anti-government protests is brought to a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Aug. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)

A Hindu girl dances during the Janmashtami festival that celebrates the birthday of Lord Krishna at a temple in Jammu, India, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Channi Ananad)

Sha'carri Richardson, of the U.S., crosses the finish line to win the women's 4 x 100 meters relay final at the Summer Olympic Games in Saint-Denis, France, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

People attempt to storm Parliament during a protest against changes to election laws in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Migrants disembark at the port of "La Estaca" in Valverde on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, Aug. 26, 2024. Emergency services said the migrants arrived by boat after a 13-day voyage from Senegal. (AP Photo/Maria Ximena)

China's Wang Manyu watches the ball during a women's gold medal team table tennis match against Japan's Miwa Harimoto at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

An elderly Palestinian man in a wheelchair waits with his belongings to flee the Khan Younis area of the Gaza Strip, Aug. 8, 2024, after Israeli military evacuation orders that said its forces would soon operate in the area. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

California delegate Matthew J. Rothschild arrives at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 21, 2024, ahead of general elections. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Actor Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle carrying the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony for the Summer Olympic Games at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, Aug. 11, 2024, ahead of the next Summer Games hosted by the city of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A National Police officer handles a handcuffed detainee during an anti-crime operation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A Fenix team rescue worker places a helmet on Bohdan Scherbyna, 9, as he is evacuated with his mother Maryna Scherbyna and 14-year-old sister Angelina Scherbyna, as locals are moved from Selidove to safe areas in Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Aug. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian presidential regiment soldiers perform during the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

The phrase “Unapologetically Black" decorates the earrings of an attendee at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Guitarist Aaron Dalbec, of hardcore punk band Bane, performs in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The coffins of Roee Munder and his father Avraham Munder lie together before burial at the Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, Aug. 21, 2024. Roee was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and is being reburied alongside his father Avraham who was killed while in Hamas captivity and recovered by the Israeli military in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Faten Mreish holds her son’s body at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Aug. 28, 2024, after he and others were killed in an Israeli bombardment. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A Black Lives Matter sign covers a fence outside a home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Aug. 6, 2024, the day before presidential election campaign events by both the Democratic and Republican parties. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Palestinians bury a loved one at the cemetery in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Aug. 9, 2024. The cemetery is 70 years old, but a quarter of its graves are new after the start of the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Trump supporters hold signs along the route of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris travelling to a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

State assembly candidate Ashok Bhat, right, of the Bharatiya Janata Party, talks to a Kashmiri woman while campaigning door-to-door ahead of elections in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Manjui Indigenous kids entertain themselves with a smartphone in the Abisai community of Mariscal Estigarribia in the region of Paraguay known as the Paraguayan Chaco, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

China’s Yuan Weiyi trains to compete in the Paralympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Revelers lie in a pool of squashed tomatoes during the annual "Tomatina" tomato fight fiesta in Bunol village near Valencia, Spain, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

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Lead photo: France’s climber Bassa Mawem pumps his fist during the men's speed qualification elimination heats for sport climbing at the Summer Olympic Games in Le Bourget, France, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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This collection was curated by Photo Editor Benny Snyder and Deputy Director of Photography/Global Enterprise Enric Marti.