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 images of a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea; a rally in Brazil; and a festival in Nepal. 

This gallery contains photos published Aug. 26-Sept. 2, 2016.

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A child crawls on the steps of an abandoned hospital wing, used as a makeshift shelter for around 150 Syrian refugees, in Athens, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Over 59,000 people remain stranded in the country, most in army-built camps on the mainland and about 7,800 refugees are receiving hotel vouchers or live in vacant apartments. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Migrants, most from Eritrea, jump into the water from a crowded wooden boat as they are helped by members of an NGO during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Thousands were rescued Monday morning from more than 20 boats by members of the Proactiva Open Arms NGO before transferring them to the Italian cost guard and other NGO vessels operating in the zone. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A man holds onto the side of a boat after jumping into the sea from a crowded wooden boat during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Thousands of migrants and refugees were rescued Monday morning from more than 20 boats by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO before transferring them to the Italian cost guard and other NGO vessels operating in the zone. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A farm tractor and baler sit in a hay field on a misty morning near Cremona, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seen from below, a woman floats in a swimming pool during a summer day in Madrid, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

The sun sets over the Manhattan skyline as seen from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the second round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A disabled man is carried as civilians leave the Moadamiyeh suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. Dozens of Syrians living in a besieged rebel-held suburb of the capital, Damascus, have begun evacuating the area following a deal struck with the government that grants amnesty to gunmen and restores state control. (AP Photo)

An Indian police officer takes cover behind an armored vehicle as Kashmiri protesters throw stones at him during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. Clashes and a curfew continued in parts of Srinagar on Tuesday after anti-India protests and clashes erupted in several neighborhoods, a day after authorities lifted a curfew imposed in most parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir as part of a 52-day security lockdown. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A burned vehicle sits outside a government building after an election protest in Libreville, Gabon, Thursday Sept. 1, 2016. Gabon's newly re-elected president sought to assert authority Thursday as the presidential guard attacked the opposition candidate's party headquarters overnight, killing at least one person and injuring more than a dozen amid fiery protests that have seen hundreds detained and the internet blocked. (AP Photo/Joel Bouopda)

Oil wells on the edge of Qaraya, Iraq burn Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 - days after the town was retaken from the Islamic State group by Iraqi ground forces backed by U.S.-led coalition airpower. The operation is part of a strategy to isolate Mosul. (AP Photo/Susannah George)

A man throws his daughter in the air as they play outside the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Worshipers gather around a statue of the Buddha during the Pancha Dan festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. The festival of five summer gifts is when devotees donate five essential commodities necessary for living, including items such as rice, salt and money. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Revellers throw tomatoes at each other, during the annual "Tomatina" tomato fight in the village of Bunol, Spain, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 160 tons of tomatoes for an estimated 20,000 participants, many from abroad, for the morning festivities. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Police fire tear gas against supporters of Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff during a rally in Sao Paulo, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. On Wednesday, the Senate voted to remove Rousseff for breaking fiscal responsibility laws in her management of the federal budget. Brazil's first female president denies wrongdoing, and has frequently pointed out that previous presidents have used similar accounting measures. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A municipal worker fumigates an alley in an impoverished area to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in New Delhi, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. Scientists trying to predict the future path of Zika say that 2.6 billion people living in parts of Asia and Africa could be at risk of infection, based on a new analysis of travel, climate and mosquito patterns in those regions. Some of the most vulnerable countries include India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to the research. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Jerry Lambert, left, a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and Asa Khalif, a Black Lives Matter supporter, scuffle, after Khalif took Lambert's sign during a protest outside the location where Trump was to meet with African American business and civic leaders in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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