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 mourners attending a candlelight vigil in downtown Orlando for the victims of a mass shooting; a man praying inside a church in Santiago, Chile; and Oscar Pistorius, his prosthetics lying on the floor, walking on his amputated legs during a court hearing.
This gallery contains photos published June 10-17, 2016.
Mourners attend a candlelight vigil in front of the Dr. P. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando, Fla., on Monday, June 13, 2016, the day after an attack at the Pulse gay nightclub – the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history. (Loren Elliott/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Krystle Martin cries as she speaks to the media near a makeshift memorial Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando, Fla., one day after a fatal shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
A man prays inside the Santo Domingo Catholic church in Santiago, Chile, Friday, June 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Israeli border police officers stand guard as a Palestinian woman waits to cross the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Friday, June 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
A Pakistani religious student takes a nap in a class during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, June 17, 2016. Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan, when they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
A young girl watches the laying of the wreath ceremony, at the Hector Pieterson Memorial, in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, June 16, 2016, next to a painting based on the iconic photo of 13-year-old Hector Pieterson carried away after being shot by police during the 1976 Soweto uprising. South Africans are commemorating the 40th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the anti-apartheid struggle, a 1976 black student uprising in the Soweto area of Johannesburg that led to a deadly crackdown but launched a new phase of opposition to white minority rule. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Imran, 11, holds a tool as he works at a factory that makes metal utensils in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Sunday, June 12, 2016. The World Day Against Child Labor, which was initiated in 2002 by the International Labor Organization to highlight the plight of child laborers, is observed across the world on June 12. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
Oscar Pistorius’ prosthetics lay on the floor as he walks on his amputated legs during argument in mitigation of sentence by his defense attorney Barry Roux in the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. An appeals court found Pistorius guilty of murder and not a lesser charge of culpable homicide for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (Siphiwe Sibeko via AP, Pool)
Members of the ancient Samaritan community walk during the holiday of Shavuot on Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, early Sunday, June 12, 2016. Samaritans are descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, the remaining 700 Samaritans live in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank and the Israeli seaside town of Holon, south of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
The shadow of a demonstrator waving a flag is cast on a wall as Greek police officers secure the Greek Parliament during a protest in central Athens, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Several thousand anti-government protesters gathered in central Athens Wednesday to demand the resignation Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, accusing his government of breaking promises to end austerity and sinking the country deeper into financial distress. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Iraqi security forces advance their positions during the fight against Islamic State militants in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Fallujah has been locked in a cycle of conflict since 2003, when it emerged as a bastion of the insurgency against the U.S. Militant attacks and bombings were followed by sweeping arrest raids, which further stoked local grievances. In 2004, U.S. troops launched two massive assaults on the city, where they fought their bloodiest battles since Vietnam. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
Opposition supporters stand by burning barricades set up in protest over a pro-government MP whom they allege made offensive remarks about the opposition leader, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, June 14, 2016. The protesters then threw rocks and engaged in running battles with police who fired teargas and chased them through the streets and alleys. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
Passengers wait to catch a train at Atocha train station during a 24-hour partial strike by train drivers in Madrid, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. It was called by the Semaf trade union. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A man sails high above the Persian Gulf at Kite Beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday June 13, 2016. As observant Muslims fast during a windy hot day during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, westerners practice kite surfing. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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