Photos of the day

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

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Greece Bailout

A firefighter's helmet stands next to a flare during a protest in central Athens, on Wednesday, Feb. 8 2017. Hundreds of firefighters in uniform have taken to the streets of the Greek capital to protest hiring conditions. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Romania Protest

People gather in front of the government building for a demonstration in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Romania has seen massive anti-government protests in the week since the center-left government passed an emergency decree that would decriminalize some public corruption. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Germany Uruguay

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a joint press conference with the President of Uruguay, Tabare Vazquez Rosas, as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Brazil Security

A municipal guard aims his weapon as two men are searched in Vitoria, Espirito Santo state, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017. More than 1,000 army troops took to the streets of the southeastern Brazilian city of Vitoria amid a crime wave that left at least 70 people dead over two days, authorities said. (AP Photo/Diego Herculano)

Brazil Security

Kailua, center, son of slain civil police officer Mario Marcelo de Albuquerque Espirito, is comforted during his father's funeral, alongside his mother Patricia Albuquerque, right, in Serra, Espirito Santo state, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb 8, 2017. Mario Marcelo de Albuquerque was shot to death when he tried to impede a robbery. (AP Photo/Diego Herculano)

Britain Brexit

A youngster sightseeing with her family performs a gymnastic move on the south bank of the River Thames back dropped by the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Britain's House of Commons is set to approve a bill authorizing the start of exit talks with the European Union ??? a major step on the road to Brexit. The bill sailed through an earlier vote last week 498-114 and is very likely to pass its final Commons test Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Trump

President Donald Trump walks offstage after speaking to the Major County Sheriffs' Association and Major Cities Chiefs Association, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Nazi Stolen Art

FBI agents unwrap "Young Man As Bacchus" by Jan Franse Verzijl before before the start of a ceremony to formally return the painting to representatives of the Max and Iris Stern Foundation, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Federal investigators recovered the 1630 oil painting in a 2015 art fair. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Severe Weather

The moon rises over a destroyed neighborhood in the aftermath of Tuesday's tornado that tore through the New Orleans East section of New Orleans, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

APTOPIX Guatemala Corruption

Supreme Court Justice Blanca Stalling looks out from a cell at a court in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Prosecutors in Guatemala say Stalling has been arrested on a charge of influence peddling for trying to help her son in a corruption case. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

One year before Pyeong Chang Winter Olympic Games

A photo shows the Olympic's five rings emblem lit in the night at a snow festival being held near the venue of opening ceremony for Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics games in Pyeong Chang, South Korea on Feb. 8, 2017, one year ahead of the Olympic games. The snow festival was rescheduled from February 3-13, while the Olympic Games will be set on February 9, in next year. The organizer of the festival will expect visitors to enjoy both the Winter Olympic Games and snow festival.( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

Winter Weather Nebraska

Baldwin, an English bulldog belonging to Billy Coburn of Omaha, leaps over a snowy trench Wednesday, Feb 8, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. (Brendan Sullivan/The World-Herald via AP)

New Jersey Daily Life

The sun sets behind a jogger trotting by the Empty Sky Memorial at Liberty State Park, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. The northern New Jersey region, which experienced temperature in the 60s, is bracing for a snowstorm expected to arrive overnight. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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