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 images include Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Mexico; a resident standing on a cooled lava flow in Hawaii; and election workers in Malaysia. 

This gallery contains photos from the week of May 5-11, 2018.

Refugees and migrants are rescued by members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, after leaving Libya trying to reach European soil aboard an overcrowded rubber boat, north of the Libyan coast, on Sunday, May 6, 2018. In total, 105 refugees and migrants from various countries, including Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Marrocos, Gana, Pakistan, Sudan, Libya, Eritrea and Senegal, were rescued from the overcrowded rubber boat. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James (23) goes up for a shot between Toronto Raptors' OG Anunoby, left, and Jonas Valanciunas during the first half of Game 3 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

A man dressed as a revolutionary Zacapoaztla indigenous soldier holds a chicken leg snack in his mouth during a re-enactment of The Battle of Puebla between the Zacapoaztlas and French army as part of the Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Mexico City, Saturday, May 5, 2018. The holiday commemorates the victory of an ill-equipped Mexican army over French troops in Puebla on May 5, 1862. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

Election volunteers look through a window shades as voters cast their ballots for the general elections in Alor Setar, Kedah, northern Malaysia, on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia's seventh premier on Thursday, a day after leading his four-party opposition alliance to a stunning election victory that ousted scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak and ended his coalition's 60-year unbroken grip on power. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Kashmiri men inspect a house, damaged during a gun battle where suspected rebels were holed up, in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Fierce clashes erupted when residents in solidarity with the rebels tried to march to the gunbattle site. A vehicle belonging to Indian troops ran over and killed a man as protesters clashed with government forces, residents said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a service held by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Krill, right, in the Annunciation Cathedral after Putin's inauguration ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 7, 2018. Putin took the oath of office for his fourth term as Russian president and promised to pursue an economic agenda that would boost living standards across the country. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Demonstrators burn a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump during during a protest in front of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in response to Trump's decision to pull out of the international nuclear deal and renew sanctions. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows damage inside a office that was hit by shelling, apparently by Islamic State fighters, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Militants fired three mortar shells on the center of Damascus Wednesday killing several and wounding 14, Syria's state news agency said. (SANA via AP)

Hannique Ruder, a 65-year-old resident living in the Leilani Estates subdivision, stands on a mound of hardened lava near Pahoa, Hawaii on Friday, May 11, 2018. The Kilauea volcano has destroyed more than 35 structures since it began releasing lava from vents about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of the summit crater. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A woman manually separates wheat from the chaff in a field on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. More than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engage in agriculture. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

In this photo made with a long exposure, an old windmill is silhouetted against the night sky with the Big Dipper constellation and trails left by the lights of two aircraft near Walker, Kan., on Friday, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

An Israeli firefighter extinguishes flames in a wheat field of the Nahal Oz kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Residents walk near a road block set up by anti-government protesters in Niquinohomo, Nicaragua, on Monday, May 7, 2018, the morning after anti-government demonstrators clashed with government supporters and police. Protests in which dozens of people were killed amid a harsh crackdown by police and government-allied civilians have weakened Ortega, one of the few leftist leaders remaining in power in Latin America, forcing him to pull back on social security reforms that sparked the unrest and facing a newly emboldened opposition determined to see him leave office. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

People gather in front of the broken banks of the Patel Dam near Solai in Kenya's Rift Valley, Thursday, May 10, 2018. The dam burst killing at dozens and forcing hundreds from their homes, officials said Thursday. At least 20 of the dead were children, police said. It was the deadliest single incident yet in the seasonal rains that have killed more than 170 people in Kenya since March. The floods hit as the East African nation was recovering from a severe drought that affected half of the country. (AP Photo)

A group of horses graze during a spring day in Burguete, northern Spain on Sunday, May 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.