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 a man shielding his eyes from windblown sand as Hurricane Florence approaches South Carolina; students carrying torches during a march in North Korea; and a couple watching the Sept. 11 light tribute from across the river in New Jersey.

This gallery contains photos from the week of Sept. 8-14, 2018.

North Korean students take part in a torch light march held in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day celebrations in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Palestinian boy scouts march during a protest on the beach near the border with Israel in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians gathered on the beach Monday in a Hamas-led protest to demand end of an 11-year Israeli-Egyptian blockade. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Boys walk past smoke from fumigation being carried out to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. More than 200 million people live in impoverished Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. Thousands of people suffer from encephalitis, malaria, typhoid and other mosquito-borne diseases each year during the summer monsoon. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Sri Lankan coast guard personnel in protective clothes work to remove oil from a beach following an oil spill in Uswetakeiyawa, a coastal town north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Sept. 10, 2019. Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of coast guard and navy personnel on Monday to clean oil slicks on a coastal stretch near the capital following a spill caused by a pipeline leak. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Russ Lewis covers his eyes from a gust of wind and a blast of sand as Hurricane Florence approaches Myrtle Beach, S.C., Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

People use their phones to take pictures of the annual Virgin of Charity procession in Havana, Cuba, late Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. Cuba's patron saint is also recognized as a powerful deity in the African-influenced religion of Santeria, which refers to her as "Ochun." (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Candelaria Cabrera plays with a soccer ball in Chabas, Argentina on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. "Cande," as she is known by friends and family, is the only girl playing in a children's soccer league in the southern part of Argentina's Santa Fe province, birthplace of stars including Lionel Messi, Gabriel Batistuta and Jorge Valdano. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Commuters walk past the Berlaymont building, the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. Every weekday hundreds of European officials and staff commute to the EU's main institutions in the European quarter of the Belgian capital. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A couple hugs across the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J., as the "Tribute in Light" is projected in the sky above the lower Manhattan area of New York, on the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.