Photos of the day

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

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China Palestinians

Members of a Chinese honor guard wipe sweat off of their faces before a welcome ceremony for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Pakistan Apartment Collapse

Pakistani volunteers try to rescue a trapped resident in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. A dilapidated, three-story building in a poorer neighborhood of Pakistan's sprawling port city of Karachi collapsed as the residents slept. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Special Session Texas

Protesters gather in the Texas Capitol Rotunda as State lawmakers begin a special legislative session called by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Immigrant rights groups plan to increase protests of the new law that allows police to inquire about peoples' immigration status, while LGBT activists bitterly oppose "bathroom bill" proposals. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Trump

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, pauses after speaking to members of the media during a lunch with services members in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Congress Health Overhaul Protest

A U.S. Capitol Police officer gives the warning speaking through a bullhorn to a group of Black minister gathered to protest on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, demanding Congress to "reject both the immoral budget proposed by the Trump Administration and the equally unjust health care bill that the Senate may have a procedural vote on in the coming weeks." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Congress Health Overhaul

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. jumps the tracks of the Senate subway on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, to get around a large gathering of reporters as he arrives on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Iraq Prisoners

Suspected Islamic State members sit inside a small room in a prison south of Mosul, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Hundreds of suspected Islamic State members swept up by Iraqi forces in Mosul are being held in a cramped and stifling prison just outside the city. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Jordan

A pile of tires is seen burning on a road leading to the southern Jordanian town of al-Jafr on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Hundreds of people in al-Jafr staged protests Tuesday following the conviction of a local soldier a day earlier in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers. The U.S. troops were killed in November at the gate to the al-Jafr air base when their convoy came under fire. (AP Photo/Reem Saad)

Russia Air Show

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches an aerobatics team performance at the opening ceremony of the MAKS-2017 (the International Aviation and Space Show) in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia, Russia, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (Alexei Nikolsky, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

India Kashmir Voilence

Kashmiri villagers watch funeral of Showkat Ahmed Lohar, a local militant in Arwani, about 55 kilometesr (35 miles) south of Srinagar, India,Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Indian soldiers and police killed three suspected rebels during a brief gun battle Monday in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, officials said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Argentina Protest

A clown marches with a balloon with text written in Spanish that reads "Macri, take it easy," in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Demonstrators marched against the recent closing of a PepsiCo plant that left many unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Nepal Daily Life

A Nepalese woman separates chaff from wheat in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Bhaktapur was one of the worst hit in the April 25, 2015 earthquake, with many lives lost and hundreds of houses and Cultural heritage sites destroyed. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

North Korea Daily Life

North Korean school girls stop at a kiosk selling flowers on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Cincinnati Police Shooting

A protestor prays outside the offices of Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters following a news conference Tuesday, July 18, 2017, where Deters announced his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing on murder charges for the death of motorist Sam DuBose, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

France Cycling Tour de France

The pack rides during the Tour de France cycling race over 165 kilometers (102.5 miles) with start in Le Puy-en-Velay and finish in Romans-sur-Isere, France, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

New York Daily Life

Children cool off at the Hamilton Fish pool, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. The temperature is expected to reach into the mid 80's in the New York metro area. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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