A selection of AP photos taken over the past 24 hours.
Syria
Syrian displaced people who fled the battle between U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State militants from Raqqa city, walk in the dust at a refugee camp, in Ain Issa town, northeast Syria, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The U.S. military is supporting local Syrian forces in a campaign to drive IS from Raqqa.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Jerusalem Holy Site
Palestinians run away from stun grenades thrown by Israeli border police officers during a protest against the metal detectors placed at the entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. A dispute over metal detectors has escalated into a new showdown between Israel and the Muslim world over a contested Jerusalem shrine that has been at the center of violent confrontations in the past. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Hong Kong China Liu Xiaobo
A man pays tribute to late Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo at a downtown park against Victoria Habour in Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. On the seventh day after Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu's death, a day of significance in Chinese mourning rituals, his wife's whereabouts were unknown and her apartment complex remained under a security lockdown, while supporters congregated around the world to mark his passing in their own ways. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Trump
President Donald Trump holds up a Channellock locking plier during a "Made in America," roundtable event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Syria
Syrian displaced youths who fled with their families the battle between U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State militants from Raqqa city, hold their pots as they wait to receive food at the entrance of the main kitchen of a refugee camp, in Ain Issa town, northeast Syria, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The U.S. military is supporting local Syrian forces in a campaign to drive IS from Raqqa. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Syria
A Syrian displaced boy who fled with his family the battle between U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State militants from Raqqa city, carries his cat at a refugee camp, in Ain Issa town, northeast Syria, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The U.S. military is supporting local Syrian forces in a campaign to drive IS from Raqqa. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Western Wildfires
Flames rise behind a vacant house as a firefighter works to halt the Detwiler wildfire near Mariposa, Calif., on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. As wildfires rage throughout the western U.S., one California blaze in the rugged mountains outside of Yosemite National Park forced thousands of nearby residents to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Greece Migrants Protest
Stranded migrants and refugees hold placards as they protest outside the German Embassy in Athens, on Wednesday, July 19, 2917. About a hundred people, most of them from Syria, marched to protest Germany's decision to limit number of family reunification from Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Jerusalem Holy Site
Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian man outside the Lion's Gate, following an appeal from clerics to pray in the streets instead of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. A dispute over metal detectors has escalated into a new showdown between Israel and the Muslim world over the contested Jerusalem shrine that has been at the center of violent confrontations in the past. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Pakistan
People offer funeral prayers of firing victims in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Pakistani police say gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire, killing four members of a Shiite family and their driver in the country's southwest. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Koreas Tensions
A North Korean army soldier walks at the border villages of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Panmunjom is located inside the heavily mined Demilitarized Zone that serves as a border between the Koreas, and the main road to the zone is lined with barb-wired fences and security watchtowers for kilometers (miles). (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
India Daily Life
Indian women carry their children next to the clothes put up to dry on cement blocks soon after it rained, outside their shanties in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. India receives its monsoon rains from June to September. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Cyprus Anniversary Invasion
A woman changes the flowers at the grave of her relative, a soldier killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in the Tymvos Macedonitissas military cemetery, during the 43rd anniversary in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Greek and Cypriot soldiers were killed in 1974 during the Turkish invasion and subsequent occupation of the northern part of the island of Cyprus. Cyprus was split into Greek Cypriot south and Turkish Cypriot north in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by supporters of union with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Special Session Texas
Young women dressed as Quinceaneras walk through the Texas Capitol to visit lawmakers as they protest SB4, an anti-"sanctuary cities" bill, in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, July 19, 2017Texas' special session continues and conservatives in the legislature plan to work on anti-abortion measures, school vouchers and defanging local ordinances in Texas' big and liberal cities. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Uruguay Marijuana
Diego Zas shows two bags of legal marijuana he just bought at the Antartida drugstore in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Marijuana is going on sale at 16 pharmacies in Uruguay, the final step in applying a 2013 law that made the South American nation the first to legalize a pot market covering the entire chain from plants to purchase. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
France Cycling Tour de France
Britain's Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, passes the Union Jack and a French flag as he speeds downhill during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 183 kilometers (113.7 miles) with start in La Mure and finish in Serre-Chevalier, France, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Hungary Swimming Worlds
Alberto Barroso Macarro, right, of Spain is challenged by Dusan Mandic, of Serbia, during a men's water polo Group C second round match of FINA Swimming World Championships 2017 in Hajos Alfred National Swimming Pool in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
Belarus Wildlife
A great crested grebe catches a fish in a pond during a summer day in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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