Major global news moments of April, in AP photos

From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery features compelling images from around the world published by The Associated Press in April.

U.S. Secret Service agents respond near President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump during the White House Correspondents Dinner, in Washington, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trader Justin Flinn works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The sun rises behind a tanker anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati)

U.S. Vice President JD Vance, center, walks up a flight of stairs to meet with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in Islamabad, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper gun while speaking with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Barber Mohammad Mehdi tends to his client Ayman Al Zein inside his shop that was damaged in an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Lebanon, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Motorists queue up outside a fuel pump during an energy crisis related to the Iran War, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Pope Leo XIV is cheered by faithful during a visit to a nursing home in Saurimo, Angola, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Michael Brennan sends mud and water flying as he tries to hit his ball out of floating debris on the 18th hole, only to have it land back in the water, during the first round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana, in Avondale, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Relatives of victims embrace in front of a bus hit by an explosive device on the Pan-American Highway in Cajibio, Colombia, April 25, 2026, after an attack blamed by authorities on dissident groups of the former FARC rebels killed at least a dozen people. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Mourners pray over the six coffins of members of the Al-Jalib family, who were killed in Israeli strikes in Beirut, during their funeral in the al-Sour, Deir al-Zour province, northeastern Syria, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Manchester City's Erling Haaland heads the ball during the English Premier League soccer match against Arsenal, in Manchester, England, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)

Anne Hathaway, from left, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep pose for photographers upon their arrival at the 'A Night With Runway: The Devil Wears Prada 2' photo call in London, April 22, 2026. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

People wave Hezbollah flags and an image of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Zefta, Lebanon, April 17, 2026, as displaced residents drive back to their villages following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Rashiqa Alqadi holds her 11-year-old granddaughter Anfal Aljozoor at the family home in Qoz Nafisa, Sudan, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Britain's King Charles III listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a State Visit arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Former President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani sing "Wheels on the Bus" to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K in the Bronx in New York, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

A humanoid robot competes in a half-marathon race for robots on the outskirts of Beijing, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

People celebrate after hearing partial results of the parliamentary election, in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

A woman member of the Basij paramilitary, affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, holds her gun during a state-organized rally in support of the supreme leader marking National Girl's Day in Tehran, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Palestinians mourn over Naya Al-Tanani, killed in an Israeli strike, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Yousef Alzanoun)

Mercedes Lopez Rey stands in her one-room apartment in Old Havana, Cuba, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A woman reacts at the site of a damaged residential building after it was struck by a projectile fired from Lebanon, in Nahariya, Israel, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A gunman fires his gun as men carry the coffins with the remains of Pierre Mouawad, an official with the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces party, and his wife, during their funeral in Yahshush, Lebanon, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Lead photo:Secret service agents respond when a man, who authorities say, tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives, in Washington, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)