Photos of the day

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

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EU Libya Migrants

Refugees from Mali sleep at the deck of the Golfo Azzurro vessel after being rescued from the Mediterranean sea, about 20 miles north of Ra's Tajura, Libya, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. About 300 migrants were rescued Tuesday from three dinghies by members of Proactiva Open Arms Spanish NGO and Italian coast guards before transferring them to the Italian coast. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)

Obama Biden

President Barack Obama presents Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Serbia Europe Migrants Weather

A migrant disturbs pigeons as he passes through a crumbling warehouse that has served as a make-shift shelter for some hundreds of men wishing to reach Western Europe, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Migrants have been exposed to freezing temperatures and snow as extreme winter weather gripped Serbia and other parts of Europe last week. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Greece Migrants Daily Life

Migrant Petram Mehdi, 2, from Tehran, Iran, stands by the window of his family's shelter at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. The European Commission said conditions for refugees on islands and other camps where they are housed in tents despite severe cold weather, is "untenable." (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Albania Weather

The snow-covered isolated village of Ternove, about 125 kilometers (80 miles) north of Tirana, is seen from an army helicopter on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Snow continued to cut off communities in southern Albania where the death toll since the cold snap began stood at ten, most of them homeless people. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

South Korea Politics

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, center, waves upon his arrival at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Ban said Thursday he'll soon announce whether to run for South Korea's top job as he returned home and strongly hinted at his political ambitions before hundreds of cheering supporters. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

China Daily Life

A woman walks up the steps decorated ahead of the Chinese New Year festival in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. The Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important holiday for Chinese and hundreds of millions are expected to return to their hometown to spend the new year with their family and relatives. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Palestinians Gaza Electricity Lament

A Palestinian chants slogans during a demonstration against the chronic power cuts in Jabaliya refugee camp, Northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Thousands of people took to the streets on Thursday to protest chronic power cuts in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, in one of the largest unauthorized protests in the territory since the Islamic militant group took power a decade ago. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

India Madame Tussauds

A Televsion journalist pretends to interview a wax statue of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan during a press conference ahead of the opening of the Madame Tussauds in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. The Delhi edition of the wax museum is set to be launched in early summer of 2017, a press release said. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Japan Daily Life

A man walks past an open design feature of a building at Shinjuku district in Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Shinjuku is one of Tokyo's major commercial centers that houses Tokyo's Metropolitan Government building and the National Stadium that will be the main venue for the 2020 Summer Olympic games. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Spain Panda

The nearly five-month-old female Panda bear named Chulina is reflected on a window at her enclosure at the Madrid Zoo in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Madrid's zoo has named its latest baby panda bear Chulina (Cutey), in homage to Chulin, the first panda born at the zoo 34 years ago. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Czech Republic Weather

A man climbs up an artificial ice wall in Liberec, Czech Republic, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Central Europe has been hit by unusually freezing weather in recent days. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Argentina Dakar Rally

Driver Stephane Peterhansel and co-driver Jean Paul Cottret, of France, race their Peugeot during the 10th stage of the Dakar Rally, between the Chilecito in and San Juan, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (Franck Fife/Pool photo via AP)

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