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 riot police charging toward opposition supporters during a protest in Kenya, a funnel cloud from a tornado, and indigenous supporters of Brazil’s ousted President Dilma Rousseff.
This gallery contains photos published May 7-14, 2016.
Lightning flashes in the sky behind the Gateway Arch, right, and the Old Cathedral, left, as a line of thunderstorms moves through St. Louis, Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Thousands of Ameren Corp. customers in the St. Louis area lost power after the strong thunderstorm hit the region. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il hang in a subway car above commuters in Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday, May 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
A funnel cloud from a tornado that struck Graves County about 2:30 p.m. is shown on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. (Tom Berry/The Messenger via AP)
The transit of Mercury, left, in front of the Sun is seen from St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2016 through a hydrogen-alpha (H-alpha) narrow spectrum solar telescope that shows the sun’s surface activity. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A car maks its way on a winding road through flowering canola fields on the L401 highway near Nienstedt, Germany, Thursday, May 12, 2016. (Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP)
A woman walks with her baby through a field as a group of refugees and migrants leave the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on Tuesday May 10, 2016. About 54,000 refugees and migrants are currently stranded in Greece as 10,000 are camped in Idomeni, after the European Union and Turkey reached a deal designed to stem the flow of refugees into Europe’s prosperous heartland. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Stylists help a model to get ready for a fashion photo shoot for a leading online website that offers conservative fashion items, in Istanbul, Monday, May 9, 2016. Istanbul is hosting Turkey’s first Modest Fashion Week, a two-day event that kicks off on May 13th and brings together designers of conservative wear from around the world. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Members of Israel’s Knesset guards march during a rehearsal of the upcoming ceremony for Israel’s Independence Day in Jerusalem, Monday, May 9, 2016. Israel will celebrate the 68th anniversary of the founding of the state beginning at sundown Wednesday through Thursday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Riot police charge towards opposition supporters during a protest in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, May 9, 2016. Kenyan police have tear-gassed opposition supporters after some pelted police with rocks during a protest demanding the disbandment of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A protestor uses a water gun to spray colored paint on the facade of the Public Revenue Office building behind a police cordon, during an anti-government protest in downtown Skopje, Macedonia, Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Protests continue in the Balkan country almost every evening for nearly a month, after the country’s president pardoned dozens of politicians who were facing criminal proceedings for alleged involvement in a wiretapping scandal. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
Indigenous supporters of Dilma Rousseff march to Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 11, 2016. On Thursday, President Dilma Rousseff was impeached on allegations she violated fiscal laws. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Fisherman Freddy Guenuman stands on a beach covered with shells in Cucao, on Chiloe Island, Chile, Monday, May 9, 2016. The government has declared an emergency zone along Chile’s south as it deals with the algae known as red tide, which kills fish with a toxin that paralyzes the central nervous system, and small-scale fishermen are demanding compensation. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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