Photos of the day

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

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Guatemala Fire

People accompany the burial of 14-year-old Madelyn Patricia Hernandez Hernandez, a girl who died in a fire at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home, at the Guatemala City's cemetery, Friday, March 10, 2017. Families began burying some of the 36 girls killed in a fire at an overcrowded government-run youth shelter in Guatemala as authorities worked to determine exactly what happened. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Guatemala Fire

Marta Lidia Garcia, center, cries during the wake of her 17-year-old daughter Siona Hernandez, who died in a youth shelter fire, in Ciudad Peronia, Guatemala, Friday, March 10, 2017. Guatemala's president called for a restructuring of his country's youth shelter system following the fire that killed at least 36 girls at an overcrowded government facility for children. Relatives and officials said Wednesday's blaze began when youths set fire to mattresses to protest abuses at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe House. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

India Kashmir Gunbattle

Kashmiri Muslim women watch the funeral procession of a local rebel Mushtaq Ahmed in Malangam 75 Kilometers north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, March 10, 2017. Three rebels and a 15-year-old boy were killed Thursday in two separate gun battles between the rebels and Indian security forces, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

China Politics

Hospitality staff jump as they pose for a photograph on Tiananmen Square during the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, March 10, 2017. China's top leadership as well as thousands of delegates from around the country are gathered at the Chinese capital for the annual legislative meetings. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Russia Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, tour the Kremlin after talks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 10, 2017. President Vladimir Putin hosted his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Friday for talks focusing on Syria, where Russia and Turkey have launched mediation efforts and coordinated military action. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Egypt

A boy rides his his bicycle past a recently discovered statue in a Cairo slum that may be of pharaoh Ramses II, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 10, 2017. Archeologists in Egypt have discovered a massive statue that may be of pharaoh Ramses II, one of the country's most famous ancient rulers. The colossus, whose head was pulled from mud and groundwater by a bulldozer on Thursday, is around eight meters (yards) tall and was discovered by a German-Egyptian team. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Israel Purim

A man pushes his child in a wheelchair with a costume of an F-35 aircraft during a street party to mark the Jewish festival of Purim in Tel Aviv, Friday, March. 10, 2017. The Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel Purim

Israelis dressed up in costumes participate in a street party to mark the Jewish festival of Purim in Tel Aviv, Friday, March. 10, 2017. The Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Pennsylvania Daily Life

A woman walks the street in the snow in Pottsville, Pa., on Friday, March 10, 2017. (Jacqueline Dormer/Republican-Herald via AP)

South Korea Politics

People wearing electronic lights attached to their clothing perform during a rally calling for impeached President Park Geun-hye's arrest in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 10, 2017. South Korea's Constitutional Court removed impeached President Park Geun-hye from office in a unanimous ruling Friday over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into political turmoil and worsened an already-serious national divide. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Belarus Daily Life

People walk next to the monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin as a rainbow is seen over buildings in the town of Maladzyechna, 75 kilometers (45 miles) north of the capital Minsk, Friday, March 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

India Holi Festival

A Hindu priest, left, leaves after pouring colored water on devotees inside Banke Bihari temple during Holi festival celebrations in Vrindavan, India, Friday, March 10, 2017. The temple, dedicated to Lord Krishna, hosts weeklong Holi celebrations and during these days, idol of Krishna is dressed up in white colored clothes and it is brought closer to his devotees to play Holi with colored water and gulal, a form of color made using organic substances and flowers. Holi also known as the festival of colors is celebrated across India marks the arrival of spring. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India Holi Festival

A Hindu priest throws colored powder on devotees inside Banke Bihari temple during Holi festival celebrations in Vrindavan, India, Friday, March 10, 2017. The temple, dedicated to Lord Krishna, hosts weeklong Holi celebrations and during these days, idol of Krishna is dressed up in white colored clothes and it is brought closer to his devotees to play Holi with colored water and gulal, a form of color made using organic substances and flowers. Holi also known as the festival of colors is celebrated across India marks the arrival of spring. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Virginia Daily Life

Katrina Herbst, 28, a third-year medical student at VCU, took some time Friday, March 10, 2017, to relax and read a book in a hammock she put between two trees on Brown's Island in Richmond, Va. Katrina is from Tempe, Az., and said that she uses the hammock for camping out in addition to relaxing on a nice day. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

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