Pictures of the week

Here's your look at 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 includes Meghan McCain mourning her father, Sen. John McCain; protests in Germany and North Carolina; and a costumed participant at a baroque festival in Germany. 

This gallery contains photos from the week of Aug. 25-31, 2018.

A police officer grabs a man holding a Confederate flag during a rally for the recently vandalized Confederate monument known as "Silent Sam" at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Vincent Street polishes the casket of legendary singer Aretha Franklin at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. Franklin died Aug. 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., cries at the casket of her father during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)

A woman dressed in traditional clothing takes part in the picnic near the Friedenstein Castle, during the Baroque Festival in Gotha, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. For the past fifteen years, the city transforms into an 18th Century city for the annual festival. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Passers-by look at fish swimming in a large tank in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A woman carrying a child is reflected in a wall as she walks through the subway system in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Protesters burn tires near the fence of the Gaza Strip border with Israel, during a protest east of Gaza City, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli gunfire wounded about 80 Palestinians at the weekly protest along the border with Israel. Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya has said the weekly protests would only stop when Israel lifts its siege on Gaza. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Demonstrators shout during a far-right protest in Chemnitz, Germany, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 after a man died and two others were injured in an altercation between several people of "various nationalities" in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

A woman holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle during the Spasskaya Tower international military music festival in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A man plays with his son outside the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.