Pictures of the week

Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see. This week's gallery features scenes from a landslide in Sri Lanka; an imam comforting an Egyptian man who lost four relatives in the EgyptAir crash; and performers rehearsing for a tourism conference in Beijing.

This gallery contains photos published May 14-May 20, 2016.

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Soldiers stand in the rain as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II travels in a coach from Buckingham Palace towards the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. The State Opening of Parliament marks the formal start of the parliamentary year and the Queen's Speech sets out the government's agenda for the coming session. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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A riot police officer beats a protester with a stick, breaking the stick, before kicking him as he lies in the street after falling down while trying to flee from them, during a protest for election reforms in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, May 16, 2016. The incident has stirred anger and condemnation across Kenya, and the U.S. and human rights activists have condemned violence by Kenyan police at the demonstration held by supporters of the opposition. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Two survivors hold their sandals as they stand in the mud after a landslide in Elangipitiya village in Aranayaka, Sri Lanka, about 72 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of Colombo, on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Weeklong rains have caused chaos across the island, unleashing deadly landslides and driving tens of thousands from their homes. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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A boater drifts toward a boat ramp in an area that was once underwater at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Las Vegas on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Lake Mead's surface was at its lowest level Wednesday since the reservoir was created. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Riot police officers detain a man during a demonstration against a labor law bill in Paris on Thursday, May 19, 2016. France is facing weeks of strikes and other union actions against the proposal which allows longer workdays and easier layoffs, and which has met fierce resistance in Parliament and in the streets. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

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A man walks on railway tracks at the migrant camp in Idomeni, Greece, Friday, May 20, 2016. Thousands of stranded refugees and migrants have camped in Idomeni for months after the border was closed. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

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Mourners carry the coffin of Isaac Rosenberg outside Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar following his funeral in the Williamsburg neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Rosenberg, a leader of the Satmar Hasidic congregation, died Tuesday during a swimming accident in Miami. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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A member of Cuba's LGBT community wears a costume in a gay pride parade in Havana on Saturday, May 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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In this Wednesday, May 18, 2016 photo, an officer reviews members of the honor guard as they line up before a welcoming ceremony for visiting Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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In this Tuesday, May 17, 2016 photo, performers rehearse for the First World Conference on Tourism for Development in Beijing. State leaders and tourism ministers from various countries are expected to attend the four-day conference with the theme "Tourism for Peace and Development." (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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Monkeys cool off in a fountain pool on a hot summer afternoon at a park in Jammu, India, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Much of India has been suffering from a heat wave for weeks along with a severe drought that has decimated crops, killed livestock and left at least 330 million Indians without enough water for their daily needs. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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The Imam of al Thawrah Mosque, Samir Abdel Bary, embraces Tarek Abu Laban, center, following prayers for the dead in Cairo on Friday, May 20, 2016. Abu Laban lost four relatives in Thursday's EgyptAir plane crash. The Airbus A320 was flying from Paris to Cairo when it disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Model Eva Herzigova poses for photographers as she arrives at the screening of the film "La Fille Inconnue" (The Unkown Girl) at the 69th international film festival in Cannes, France on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

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Women hold crosses during a march in Harare, Zimbabwe on Wednesday, May, 18, 2016, to protest the introduction of what they described as anti-Christian policies in public schools. The ministry of primary and secondary education this month introduced a mandatory national pledge to be recited daily at school assemblies. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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Text from the AP news story, AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week.

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