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 visitors playing on tidal mudflats in Japan, Iraqis returning to liberated Mosul and protesters marching in Caracas, Venezuela.

This gallery contains photos published April 23-28, 2017.

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Visitors play in the tidal mudflats of Tideland on the Ariake sea in Kashima, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan Friday, May 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

People pose for a selfie photo in front of Tiananmen Gate during the May Day holiday in Beijing, Monday, May 1, 2017. Millions are taking advantage of the holidays to visit popular tourist sites. Around the world, some workers and activists marked May Day with rallies and marches for better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Police officers disperse people participating in a May Day rally in downtown Portland, Ore., Monday, May 1, 2017. Over 100 police officers clad in body armor and gas masks shut down a march they said had become a riot late Monday and arrested people on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to arson and assault. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)

A boy shoots a World War II-era machine gun armed with blanks at a weapon exhibition during a military show in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, April 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

A child cries onboard a ferry to cross the Tigris River, Friday, May 5, 2017. Mosul residents are returning from the west to the liberated eastern part of the city. The government fight against Islamic State fighters for Mosul's west has been slow and deadly to Iraqi forces and civilians caught in the crossfire. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

A boy plays outside his house as a man walks down the alleyway in the Medina of Chefchaouen, a town famous for its blue-painted houses and alleyways, in northern Morocco on Saturday, April 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Bolivarian National Guards stand on a highway overlooking an anti-government march trying to make its way to the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Driving the latest outrage is a decree by President Nicolas Maduro to begin the process of rewriting Venezuela's constitution, which was pushed through in 1999 by his predecessor and mentor, the late President Hugo Chavez. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., walks to the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017. Thursday's 217-213 House passage of a new health care measure— with 20 Republican defections — was preceded by several near-death experiences for the legislation, even though repealing Obamacare helped guide Donald Trump's presidential run and multitudes of GOP congressional campaigns. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

A police officer aims his weapon at people looting a truck, allegedly set on fire by drug traffickers, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Several public buses and cargo trucks were torched in Rio in what Brazilian military police said was likely gang retaliation for a large anti-drug operation. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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

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