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 boys playing with a soccer ball in a destroyed building in Gaza City, anti-government demonstrators running from tear gas in Caracas, and May Day commemorations from around the world.

This gallery contains photos from the week of April 27-May 3, 2019.

Vehicles are strewn on the property of McCourt & Sons Equipment Inc. after a tornado tore through the area in La Grange, Texas, on Friday May 3, 2019. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Attorney Jodi Goodwin, right, holds Cristi Abigail Ruiz Guzman, from Honduras, as she talks to asylum seekers near the international bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Goodwin explained to them what would happen to them when they entered U.S. custody. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A boy plays football next to a mural painted by Palestinian artist Ali Al-Jabali in the remains of a building that was damaged during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Anti-government protesters, one carrying a homemade mortar, take cover as security forces fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for Venezuelans to fill streets around the country Wednesday to demand President Nicolás Maduro's ouster. Maduro is also calling for his supporters to rally. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Maria Dolores Cambon travels in the subway on her way to the dentist in Caracas, Venezuela, early Friday morning, May 3, 2019. "The country is a disaster, the government's broke the country, I'm going to Spain to live. I had hoped for a political change but after the last protests I think we are even worse off, the government is still in power." she says. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A left-wing demonstrator takes part in the traditional May Day demonstration in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Smoke rises from a smudge pot as dancers with CeAtl Tonalli, a traditional Aztec Dance group, pause while taking part in a march for immigrant and workers rights, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on May Day in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

An outdoor screen displays Emperor Akihito leaving a ritual to report his abdication to the throne, shown in a news program in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. The 85-year-old Akihito ended his three-decade reign on Tuesday relinquishing the throne to his son Crown Prince Naruhito. (Junko Ozaki/Kyodo News via AP)

Children sit on benches in a hall after receiving food and drinking water at a temporary shelter for children in Pemba city, on the northeastern coast of Mozambique, Thursday May 2, 2019. More than 1 million children have been affected by a pair of cyclones that ripped into Mozambique in less than two months, the United Nations children's agency says, and now many of the children are without shelter or food. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Attorney General William Barr appears during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on the Mueller Report. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Dark clouds from a thunderstorm pass over Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. On Friday, the India Meteorological Department said the "extremely severe" cyclone Fani in the Bay of Bengal hit the coastal state of Odisha around 8 a.m., with weather impacted across the Asian subcontinent. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Investigators search for bodies with a special camera in a man-made lake near the village of Mitsero outside of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, April 27, 2019. Cyprus police are intensifying a search for the remains of more victims at locations where an army officer, who authorities say admitted to killing five women and two girls had dumped their bodies. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A grandmother sits in the grass with her grandson on a hill overlooking the Euphrates River as families picnic on May Day, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, in Ein Diwar, Derik, Syria. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.