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 raging wildfire in Canada, a display of Russian military might in Moscow, and a visit by American reality TV star Kim Kardashian to Cuba.
This gallery contains photos published April 30-May 6, 2016.
Police officers direct traffic under a cloud of smoke from a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada on Friday, May 6, 2016. Tens of thousands have been forced from their homes, and the fires are expected to burn for weeks. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
A woman cries beside the coffin of Teresa Perez, who died in the October 2015 Cambray neighborhood mudslide, at the Santa Catarina Pinula cemetery on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Forensic authorities handed over the remains of at least 12 victims, seven months after more than 280 were killed. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Russian military helicopters fly past the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Kremlin complex in Moscow on Thursday, May 5, 2016 during a rehearsal for the May 9 Victory Day military parade at Red Square to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the victory in WWII. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
American reality show star Kim Kardashian West, left, sits in a classic convertible car with her husband, Kanye West, and her sister Kourtney Mary Kardashian, right, in Havana, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
A man holding his belongings stops in front of a map of Europe at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees in Idomeni, Greece, Tuesday, May 3, 2016. Thousands of migrants remain at the Greek border with Macedonia, hoping that the border crossing will reopen, allowing them to move north into central Europe. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A homeless man rests under a pedestrian bridge in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Protesters, mostly workers, clash with riot police as they try to force their way closer to the gates of the U.S. embassy in Manila, Philippines to mark International Labor Day on Sunday, May 1, 2016. Among the demands are, better wages and salaries, an end to contractual labor, better working conditions and retirement benefits, less taxes, public and not privatized social services, and the assertion of national sovereignty against foreign domination and control. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
In this photo made with a long exposure, Orthodox worshippers walk with candles during Easter midnight Mass at a church in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service stands guard as pyres of ivory are set on fire in Nairobi National Park, Kenya, Saturday, April 30, 2016. Kenya’s president set fire to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever destroyed, in a dramatic statement against the trade in ivory and products from endangered species. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A sumo wrestlers play with a child during a Sumo challenge event in Tokyo, Sunday, May 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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