AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week
Posted February 13, 2016 6:00 am
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 a wild elephant walking through the streets of Siliguri, India; the North Side Skull & Bone Gang parade during Mardi Gras in New Orleans; and a health worker fumigating the Martires 19 de Julio cemetery to stave off mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus in Lima, Peru.
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This gallery contains photos published Feb. 6-Feb. 12, 2016.
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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.
The North Side Skull & Bone Gang parade down the streets during the wake up call for Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Their costumes are intended to represent the dead and they bring a serious message, reminding people of their mortality and the need to live a productive and good life. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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A health worker fumigates the Martires 19 de Julio cemetery to help prevent mosquitoes which can carry Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika viruses, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. The Aedes aegypti mosquito lives and breeds in people's homes and yards, making it tough to reach with sprays, often requiring labor-intensive door-to-door interventions. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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A Palestinian demonstrator throws back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration a calling for the release of Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeq, outside Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Al-Qeq has refused food for over 70 days to protest his six-month imprisonment without trial or charges, an Israeli practice known as administrative detention. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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A camel stands in an open field as rainbow appears in a cloudy sky over the southern Israeli Beduoin village of Rahat, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A resident watches a "Careta" parading through the streets of Triunfo, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. The traditional festivity dates back almost a century; residents say it was created in this small town by two men who weren't allowed to take part in a folk celebration because they were drunk. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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A child navigates through rubble and barbed wire in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Fighting around Syria's largest city has brought government forces closer to the Turkish border than at any point in recent years, routing rebels from key areas and creating a humanitarian disaster as tens of thousands of people flee. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)
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A young child lies in a bucket to be weighed by nurses in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Feb. 11, 2016. The U.N. World Food Program estimates that nearly half the country - 2.5 million people - are facing hunger as more than two years of violence has severely disrupted the countryâs agriculture and health care sectors. Two former prime ministers, Touadera and Anicet Georges Dologuele, are running neck-and-neck in the second round of presidential elections Sunday Feb. 14 to end years of violence pitting Muslims against Christians in the Central African Republic. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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A man walks past birds perched in a tree on a foggy morning in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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People watch a fireworks display from Kim Il Sung Square as they gather to celebrate a satellite launch in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. World leaders said the launch violated a U.N. ban on Pyongyang's use of ballistic missile technology. North Korea says the launch of a new Earth observation satellite, the Kwangmyongsong 4, or Shining Star 4, is part of a peaceful space program. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
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