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 protester in Venezuela, Ramadan in Gaza and a fallen Kashmiri rebel leader.

This gallery contains photos published May 27-June 2, 2017.

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A protester walks between two water canons sprayed by security forces to block an opposition march from reaching the Ombudsman's Office, as the opposition protests President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday, May 29, 2017. Protests against Maduro's government have left dozens dead in the past two months. The opposition wants immediate presidential elections and the freeing of political prisoners. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

The rescue ship VOS Prudence run by the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is moored at the Naples harbor, Italy, as migrants wait to be disembarked Sunday, May 28, 2017. On Thursday the VOS Prudence rescued 1,449 people in 12 different operations. MSF also reported a very difficult situation onboard because they had to wait for 2 days as it was not allowed to dock in any Sicilian port due to the G7 summit. (Cesare Abbate/ANSA via AP)

Kashmiris carry the body of rebel leader Sabzar Ahmed Bhat towards his home after displaying it to villagers in the Tral area, 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on Saturday, May 27, 2017. Police said Bhat and a fellow militant were killed after troops cordoned off the southern Tral area overnight following a tip that rebels were hiding there. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Pope Francis is greeted by youths during an audience for middle schools belonging to the "Cavalieri" group, which promotes Christian life for youth, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Friday, June 2, 2017. (L' Osservatore Romano via AP, Pool)

Party militants working at a campaign rally for Delfina Gomez, Mexico State gubernatorial candidate for the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), walk past street art in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico state, on Sunday, May 28, 2017. MORENA is attempting to unseat the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the state's June 4 gubernatorial elections. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Protesters throw stones at police during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, June 2, 2017. Hundreds of demonstrators demanded better security in the Afghan capital in the wake of a powerful truck bomb attack that killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

A military helicopter hovering by a mosque is seen through shattered glass after fighting between government troops and Muslim militants who continue to hold their ground in some areas of Marawi city for almost a week Monday, May 29, 2017 in the southern Philippines. Philippine forces control most of the city where militants linked to the Islamic State group launched a bloody siege nearly a week earlier, authorities said Monday, as the army launched airstrikes and went house-to-house to search for resistance. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A boy sits outside the front of his house in the village of Kyanukuzi, near Masaka, Uganda, on Thursday, June 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

A boy plays with fireworks as he celebrates the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Ramadan is traditionally a time of reflection and prayer, and during daylight hours Muslims are expected to abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex to focus on spirituality, good deeds and charity. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who spent a half-year aboard the International Space Station, descends by parachute to land in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool via AP)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.

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

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