World in focus - best photos for May 19, 2018

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

Peter Vance, 24, photographs lava erupting in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii. Hawaii residents covered their faces with masks after a volcano menacing the Big Island for weeks exploded, sending a mixture of pulverized rock, glass and crystal into the air in its strongest eruption of sandlike ash in days. Jae C. Hong / AP Photo

Revelers attend the annual 'Lok Ta Pring Ka-Ek' ceremony to pray for fortune and rain on rice fields on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Samrang Pring / Reuters

Muslim boys read the Quran at a madrassa, or religious school, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, on the outskirts of Agartala, India. Jayanta Dey / Reuters

A woman sorts through shrimp that are laid out to dry in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China. Reuters

Demonstrators stand on a monument of three-time world boxing champion Alexis Arguello during a demonstration against President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua. Oswaldo Rivas / Reuters

A tour group wearing matching hats follow their guide as they walk along a street in Beijing. Tour groups are a common sight in China's capital as rising incomes have brought increasing numbers of domestic tourists in China. Mark Schiefelbein / AP Photo

Pigeons fly as an Indian paramilitary man stands guard in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Security forces in Indian Kashmir were put on high alert ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state. Farooq Khan / EPA

Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in a combat training in the Gobi desert in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China. Reuters

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