Julia WeeksOctober 23, 2017Comment

Pictures of the week

Julia WeeksOctober 23, 2017Comment

Here’s your look at 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 includes images of visitors silhouetted on the beach in Biarritz, France; doctors treating the injured in Raqqa, Syria; and voters waiting to cast their ballots in Caracas, Venezuela.

A luxury purse is reflected on a woman checking on her smartphone outside a fashion boutique at a popular shopping mall in Beijing, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Pedestrians walk down a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A U.S. F-22 stealth fighter takes off during the press day of the 2017 Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

French troops try to pull parts of a cargo plane onto the shore in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Saturday Oct. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Diomande Ble Blonde)

Rodrigo Diaz Mejia climbs over a crushed car into what was a second-story apartment felled by an earthquake a month earlier in the Portales Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A passerby stumbles to the ground as she and opposition supporters, protesting over the upcoming elections, run for safety amid a cloud of tear gas fired by riot police in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

A newly-setup refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, is seen in an aerial view in Thaingkhali, Bangladesh, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Smoke rises as Iraqi security forces launch explosives as Kurdish security forces withdraw from a checkpoint in Altun Kupri, on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Friday Oct. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Red Crescent doctors treat three children injured in a motorcycle accident as a mother of one child weeps outside, in Raqqa, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim)

Somalis carry the body of a man killed in a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Chinese communists party cadres attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots outside a polling station during regional elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A volunteer uses a water hose to fight a wildfire near houses on the outskirts of Obidos, Portugal, in the early hours of Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)