A boy plays with a toy plane on the eve of a solar eclipse in La Higuera in the Atacama desert north of Santiago, Chile, on July 1.

A man with a bike walks on hail in Guadalajara, Mexico, on June 30. A hailstorm filled the streets, burying vehicles and damaging homes.

A masked member of the Ethiopian Israeli community gestures in front of policemen as demonstrators block the main entrance to Jerusalem on July 2 to protest the death of Solomon Tekah, a young man of Ethiopian origin who was killed by an off-duty police officer.

An employee stands inside a cooling tower under construction at the Mochovce nuclear power plant in western Slovakia on July 2. The launch of new units at the plant has been a cause for concern in neighboring Austria, which has criticized what it insists are poor safety standards.

A protester shouts in front of police outside the government headquarters after the annual flag-raising ceremony to mark the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China in Hong Kong on July 1.

Protesters attempt to smash windows at the government headquarters in Hong Kong on July 1.

A crowd of protesters gather outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on July 1 before storming the parliament, ransacking the building, and daubing its walls with graffiti.

A demonstrator defaces the Hong Kong emblem after protesters broke into the government headquarters on July 1.

A captured minke whale is lifted by a crane at a port in Kushiro on July 1, as Japan began its first commercial whale hunts in more than three decades.

Activists from Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN)—created to respond to the opioid crisis—and from the French nongovernmental organization Aides hold banners in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris on July 1 during a protest to condemn the museum’s ties with the Sackler family, billionaire donors accused of pushing the sale of a highly addictive painkiller blamed for tens of thousands of deaths.

People crowd Zócalo main square, where Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was due to present his government report, in Mexico City on July 1.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker embraces a Belgian police officer as he arrives for the third straight day of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels on July 2.

People wave Catalan pro-independence flags during a demonstration in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on July 2.

Members of Amnesty International hold up images of Sirawith “Ja New” Seritiwat, a Thai pro-democracy campaigner who was attacked by unknown assailants, during a protest in Bangkok on July 3.

A cosplayer dressed as Batman sits at a cafe during the DC Super Heroes Day to mark the 80th anniversary of Batman in the Genting Highlands resort outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 30.

A boy walks on the top of a Soviet-era monument for Ukrainian and Russian union in Kiev, Ukraine, on July 1.

U.S. player Cori Gauff, a 15-year-old tennis prodigy who grew up idolizing the Williams sisters, reacts after defeating Venus Williams during their women’s singles first round match at Wimbledon on July 1.

Jockey Giovanni Atzeni celebrates after winning the Palio di Siena horse race in Siena, Italy, on July 2. The race is held twice each year with 10 horses and riders, who ride bareback dressed in colors representing 10 of the 17 contrade, or city wards.

The solar eclipse as seen from the Congreso neighborhood in Buenos Aires on July 2.

An Indonesian worker conducts mosquito fogging to minimize dengue fever cases in Banda Aceh on July 3.

Posters and portraits rest in an abandoned building in Pripyat, Ukraine, inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, on July 2.

Indian cycle rickshaw drivers take a nap under a bridge during a hot summer day in Amritsar, India, on July 3.

A French oyster aquaculturist checks the growth of oysters on collector lines at a shellfish farm in Bouzigues, near Montpellier, France, on July 2.

Participants play in foam mixed with chili pepper water during an event to attract tourists to the region, famous for its spicy food, in Ningxiang county in China's central Hunan province on July 2.

The Blue Angels fly overhead as people gather on the National Mall for the Salute to America Fourth of July event with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on July 4.