Photos of the day

A selection of AP photos taken over the past 24 hours. 

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Mideast Israel Rabbi Funeral

Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourn around the body of prominent Jewish Rabbi Yochanan Sofer of the Erlau dynasty in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Sofer survived the Holocaust, he represented the Erlau Hasidic dynasty, founded in Hungary. He was 93. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Nigeria Hijacked Ship

Arrested pirates that hijacked the Panama-flagged Maximus vessel are handcuffed in Lagos, Nigeria Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, Nigerian sailors rescued a hijacked oil tanker in a dramatic night-time rescue in which they killed one pirate, the Nigerian navy announced as it escorted the ship into Lagos harbor Monday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Mideast Iran Elections

An Iranian woman inspects a leaflet of a group of conservative candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections during their campaign gathering in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Iranians will vote for their representatives at the 290-seat parliament, as two major camps of conservatives and a coalition of reformists and moderates compete to win the majority of the house. On the same day as the parliamentary elections, polling for the Assembly of Experts, a 88-member clerical body in charge of selecting the country’s supreme leader, will take place. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Kalamazoo Shootings

Jason Dalton, of of Kalamazoo Township, Mich., is arraigned via video before Judge Christopher T. Haenicke, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Kalamazoo, Mich. Dalton is charged with multiple counts of murder in a series of random shootings in western Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Nepal Hindu Festival

Nepalese Hindu devotees offer a prayer on the bank of Hanumante River during during the Swasthani Bratakatha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. During this month-long festival, devotees recite Holy Scriptures dedicated to Hindu goddess Swasthani and Lord Shiva. Unmarried women pray to get a good husband while those married pray for the longevity of their husbands by observing a month-long fast. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Sounders Champions League Soccer

Seattle Sounders defender Dylan Remick, right, stretches with teammates during a soccer training session Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Seattle. The Sounders play Club America in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal round on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Thailand Makha Bucha

Thai Buddhist monks pray and gather at Wat Dhammakaya temple to participate in Makha Bucha Day ceremonies, in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Makha Bucha, a religious holiday that marks the anniversary of Lord Buddha's mass sermon to the first 1,250 newly ordained monks 2,559 years ago. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Uganda Elections

A Ugandan riot policeman blocks the gate of the party headquarters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye, shortly after raiding the premises for the second time in a week, in the capital Kampala, Uganda, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Party officials told a group of visiting European Union observers that the security officials had raided the office and arrested eight party staff, just hours before the EU observers had been scheduled to meet with party officials at the building. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Greece Migrants

Exhausted Afghan refugees rest as they hold a placard demanding the opening the border of Macedonia at the Greek-Macedonian borderline near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Greece's government warned Monday it expected a growing number of stranded migrants and asylum seekers after neighbor Macedonia further restricted border access at the weekend. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Malaysia Terror Warning

Members of the police and army stand guard before the arrival of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak for a joint police-army exercise at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Australia warned Sunday that terrorists may be plotting attacks in and around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Mideast Israel Holocaust

Friends and relatives lay wreaths on the grave of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg during his funeral in Udim, near the costal city of Netanya central Israel, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. The death of Willenberg marks the passing of the last witness to the notorious Nazi death camp of Treblinka, perhaps the most vivid example of the Nazi campaign to destroy European Jewry. Hebrew on the wreaths read: "Udim council and the residents of Udim." (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Greece Migrants

An Afghan refugee jumps the fence as he tries to enter Macedonia at the Greek-Macedonia borderline near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Greece's government warned Monday it expected a growing number of stranded migrants and asylum seekers after neighbor Macedonia further restricted border access at the weekend. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Georgia Guns on Campus

A pedestrian climbs a stairwell to the library at the Georgia State University campus Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Atlanta. Anyone licensed to carry a gun in Georgia could carry concealed handguns on public college campuses under a bill passed Monday by the Georgia House. The bill now goes to the state Senate for review. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

India Kashmir Rebel Attack

An Indian Army soldier guards near the site of gun battle in Pampore, near Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Indian forces on Monday killed the last three militants who had holed up for three days in a building. Loud explosions and fierce exchange of gunfire rattled the building during the 50-hour standoff that was the longest-running attack in five years in the disputed Himalayan region's main city of Srinagar or its outskirts. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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