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 gallery contains photos published between Oct. 1 - Oct. 7, 2016. 

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Oil fields in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, burn on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, nearly a month after fleeing Islamic State militants set the site alight. Slow efforts to contain the fires have failed to dampen the smoke and toxic fumes polluting the air in and around Qayyarah. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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Pope Francis prays in front of the rubble of destroyed buildings, with a standing bell tower in the background, in the quake-damaged town of Amatrice, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Francis had made clear his intentions to visit the area in central Italy hit by tremors in August, but without announcing a date, indicating that he wanted to go alone "to be close to the people." (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool via AP)

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Tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebels hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters into battlefronts in several Yemeni cities, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Yemen, the Arab world's poorest nation, has been embroiled in fighting that pits the Iran-backed Houthis and forces loyal to a former president against the Saudi-backed and internationally recognized government. The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes against the rebels and their allies since March 2015, fearful of Iranian influence spreading across the Arabian Peninsula. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Girls hold hands as they help each other wade through a flooded street after the passing of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Authorities and aid workers fear the storm is the country's biggest disaster in years (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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Thousands hold umbrellas in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, during a nationwide "Black Monday" strike to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion, in downtown Castle Square. Massive protests were held across the largely Catholic nation led by a conservative government. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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Children watch as arrested drug suspects, not shown, wait outside an alleged drug den following a raid where two suspects were killed and about 90 people arrested during operations as part of the continuing "War on Drugs" campaign of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte near the Payatas slum in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Pakistan army soldiers take positions at a forward area Bagsar post on the Line of Control (LOC), that divides Kashmir between Pakistan and India, in Bhimber, some 166 kilometers (103 miles) from Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. The latest tensions were sparked by a militant attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir that killed 18 Indian soldiers. Both countries claim the Himalayan territory Kashmir, which is split between Indian and Pakistani-controlled zones. Pakistani officials said two of their soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded in the latest exchanges at five different places along the disputed border. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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South Korean Special Warfare Command soldiers parachute to the ground during the 68th anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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A protestor with a painted face participates in a march commemorating the anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre, in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Every year Mexico marks the anniversary of the 1968 massacre where students and civilians were killed by the military and police. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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A man looks at the work "Not to be Reproduced" by Rene Magritte at the Kunsthalle art gallery in Hamburg, Germany on Oct. 5, 2016. The exhibition, which runs from Oct. 7, 2016 until Jan. 22, 2017, features more than 150 masterpieces of surrealism from four of the most significant European private collections of the 20th century. (Daniel Reinhardt/dpa via AP)

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A woman drives past a bride posing for a photo in front of a classic car in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia, on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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