Photos of the day

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

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Mexico Gasoline Protests

Police providing security walk in front of street art as thousands marched in anger against the government of Enrique Pena Nieto following a 20 percent rise in gas prices, in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. Demonstrators have been protesting across Mexico since the gasoline price hike took effect on New Year's Day, and the anger has occasionally erupted into violence, including several days of looting last week. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico Gasoline Protests

A dog wears a sign reading "No to gasoline price hikes. My food is going up as well," as thousands marched in anger against the government following a 20 percent rise in gas prices, in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. Demonstrators have been protesting across Mexico since the gasoline price hike took effect on New Year's Day, and the anger has occasionally erupted into violence, including several days of looting last week. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Afghanistan Daily Life

An elderly Afghan vendor waits for customer as he drinks his tea, at a roadside stand, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Japan Coming of Age Day

Kimono-clad women who celebrate turning 20 years old react as they ride a roller coaster following a coming of age ceremony at Toshimaen amusement park on Coming of Age Day national holiday in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. The day is marked by those who turned 20 in the past year after April 1 or will be 20 before March 31 this year. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Iran Rafsanjani

Front pages of the Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, edition of Iranian newspapers, published with pictures of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Newspapers in Iran published front-page photographs of Rafsanjani, while state television aired archival clips of his comments and speeches. Mourners from all walks of life in Iran - from the country's president to passers-by on the street - paid their respects to him. The country is observing three days of mourning. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Airport Shooting Florida

Esteban Santiago is taken from the Broward County main jail as he is transported to the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. Santiago is accused of fatally shooting several people at a crowded Florida airport baggage claim and faces airport violence and firearms charges that could mean the death penalty if he's convicted. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Cyprus Peace Talks

Seen through barrels that block a road, a man works at the abandoned area inside the UN buffer zone in the divided capital Nicosia in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus are meeting in Geneva for a summit aiming to reunify the Mediterranean island, starting off Monday with the thorny issue of property and compensation for people who lost land when it was split decades ago. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

California Storms

Rick Sorenson, owner of the Rio Ramaza Marina, wades in the Sacramento River after securing an old paddlewheel boat on his property as the river makes its way up the levee on Garden Highway in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

Philippines Catholic Procession

Filipino Roman Catholic devotees climb the carriage to kiss and rub with their towels the image of the Black Nazarene to celebrate its feast day Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. The raucous celebration drew tens of thousands of devotees in a barefoot procession that last for several hours around Manila streets and end up with several people injured. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Winter Weather

A lone plow clears a playground in lower Manhattan, photographed from New York's One World Trade Center building, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. As the East Coast waits to thaw out from a weekend icy mess, another storm is bringing rain and the potential of the worst flooding in more than a decade to the West coast. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Greece Migrants Daily Life

An elderly Syrian refugee man walks back to his shelter on a frozen ground at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. Over 62,000 refugees and migrants are stranded in Greece after a series of Balkan border closures and an European Union deal with Turkey to stop migrant flows. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Winter Weather Massachusetts

Ice forms on the whiskers of a horse at the MSPCA at Nevins Farm, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Methuen, Mass. As the East Coast waits to thaw out from a weekend icy mess, another storm is bringing rain and the potential of the worst flooding in more than a decade to the West coast. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Legislature

William Griffey, 3, left, grandson of Rep. Dan Griffey, R-Allyn, waits outside the House chamber Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, on the opening day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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