A selection of AP photos taken over the past 24 hours.
China Daily Life
A team of window washers descend on ropes as they clean an office building in the central business district in Beijing, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. According to official figures released last month China's economic growth ticked up to a 6.9 percent annual pace in the first three months of the year, lifted by government stimulus and a property boom. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Iraq mosul
Mosul residents reach out for freshly baked cookies at a food distribution point inside western Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Thousands of people still live in the western part of the city where food is getting scarce due to fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
India Pakistan
Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Indian soldier Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh, from 22 Sikh unit, at Vein Poin village, 42 km (26 miles) south Amritsar, India, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Two Indian soldiers were killed and their bodies mutilated Monday in an ambush by Pakistani soldiers along the highly militarized de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir between the nuclear-armed rivals, the Indian army said. But Pakistan denied any such attack, calling the Indian claims false. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)
Venezuela Political Crisis
A woman rests on a tire at a roadblock set up by residents outside her home in El Hatillo's municipality near Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Residents blocked streets with trash bags, broken concrete and twisted metal Tuesday to protest the president's bid to rewrite the constitution amid a deepening political crisis. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Spain Soccer Champions League
Real Madrid supporters gather around the stadium before the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
South Korea Koreas Tension Smart Cookie
A TV screen shows images of the U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. South Koreans are bewildered by President Donald Trump’s recent use of the term “smart cookie” to refer to current leader Kim Jong Un, and by Trump’s assertion that he’d be “honored” by a possible meeting. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Argentina Daily Life
A man drinks mate at a butcher shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Mate is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink, that is consumed particularly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Bolivian Chaco, Southern Chile and Southern Brazil. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Police Shooting Louisiana
Damon Brumfield, a student at Southern University of Baton Rouge, poses while his friends take photos, in front of a mural honoring Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Russia Germany
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after their talks at Putin's residence in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin expected to focus on the unresolved conflict in Ukraine and the civil war in Syria. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)
France Election
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a conference on Africa-France relationships, in Paris, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Le Pen lifted verbatim parts of a speech by a former rival in what her critics called plagiarism and she said was a deliberate "wink" to him to woo his conservative voters in France's presidential runoff Sunday. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
France Election
A supporter of French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron puts up a campaign poster, in Lille, northern France, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. France votes Sunday May 7 for the second round of the presidential election. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
Trump
President Donald Trump walks from the Rose Garden back to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, following a presentation ceremony of the Commander-in-Chief trophy to the Air Force Academy football team. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Congress Passenger Removed
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, before a House Transportation Committee oversight hearing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Brazil Violence
A police officer aims his weapon at people looting a truck allegedly set on fire by drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Several public buses and cargo trucks were torched in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday in what Brazilian military police said was likely gang retaliation for a large anti-drug operation. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Germany Exhibition Magic City
A woman takes pictures of a work by Mexican artist Juandres Vera at the Magic City 'The Art of the Street exhibition' in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The exhibition is presenting murals, graffiti, 3D works and installations by 66 artists from 22 nations. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Israel 69th Independence Day
Israeli children play on an army tank displayed by the Israeli military as part of Independence Day celebrations, in Givatayim, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Israel is celebrating 69 years since the modern Jewish state was formed. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Germany Daily Life
A father and his son run along a rape field in Frankfurt, Germany, late Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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