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 Buddhist monks gathering at the gates of a temple in Thailand; a view from a police helicopter during a raid targeting illegal gold mining in Peru; and security forces during a disruption in the parliament in Kosovo.
This gallery contains photos published Feb. 21-Feb. 27, 2016.
Seen through tree branches, a Romanian Roma woman attends a march marking 160 years since the end of slavery for Roma in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Some 250,000 Roma were enslaved for 500 years until 1856 in regions now part of Romania and forced to work in Orthodox monasteries or for local leaders. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Dejected opposition supporters who work as motorbike taxi drivers hold their heads in their hands shortly after the election results was announced, in downtown Kampala, Uganda, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Long-time Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of the country’s disputed presidential election, but the main opposition party rejected the results as fraudulent and called for an independent audit of the count. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
An ultra-right activist throws a brick at computer equipment inside an Alfa bank office in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Nationalist demonstrators in Ukraine attacked two offices of Russian banks in the capital amid observances of the second anniversary of the protests that brought down the Russia-friendly president. Protesters also vandalized the offices of the holding company of Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A girl stands on a floor of an apartment building in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, which was damaged during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
North Korean children rest on the side of a road in Kaesong, North Korea, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Thai Buddhist monks gather at the gates of the main temple of Wat Dhammakaya to participate in Makha Bucha Day ceremonies in Pathum Thani, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. The religious holiday marks the anniversary of Lord Buddha’s mass sermon to the first 1,250 newly ordained monks 2,559 years ago. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Nick Mobley helps clean up a house owned by a family friend, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, after a storm hit Appomattox County, Va. A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region. (Jill Nance/The News & Advance via AP)
This view from a police helicopter shows a “tolba,” a sluice-like apparatus layered with pieces of carpet to capture gold deposits from water sediment, during a Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 government raid to destroy illegal gold mining operations in the deforested area known as La Pampa in Peru’s Madre de Dios region. This week’s raid was one of the biggest of more than 60 operations the government has launched since 2014 when wildcat mining was outlawed. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Security forces wear gas masks at the Kosovo assembly after a disruption in a parliamentary session in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, Friday Feb. 26, 2016. Kosovo opposition members released tear gas inside the chamber as lawmakers were preparing to vote on whether to elect Hashim Thaci, foreign minister and a former guerrilla leader, as the next president. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Veiled women stand in line at a polling station during the parliamentary and Experts Assembly elections in Qom, Iran, 125 kilometers (78 miles) south of the capital Tehran, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. This was the country’s first election since its landmark nuclear deal with world powers, deciding whether to further empower its moderate president or side with hard-liners long suspicious of the West. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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