Photos of the day

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

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Hong Kong Protest Leaders

Officers try to clear the way for a prison bus carrying Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong at the high court after sentencing in Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. The court on Thursday overturned sentences that the prosecution said were too light and sent Wong and two other student leaders of huge pro-democracy protests in 2014 to prison. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong Protest Leaders

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong is taken away in a prison bus leaving the high court after his sentencing in Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. The court on Thursday overturned sentences that the prosecution said were too light and sent Wong and two other student leaders of huge pro-democracy protests in 2014 to prison. (AP Photo)

Sierra Leone Mudslides

Volunteers handle a coffin during a mass funeral for victims of heavy flooding and mudslides in Regent at a cemetery in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. The government has begun burying the hundreds of people killed earlier this week in mudslides in Sierra Leone's capital, and it warned Thursday of new danger from a large crack that has opened on a mountainside where residents were told to evacuate. (AP Photo/Manika Kamara)

Spain Barcelona

People flee the scene in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 after a white van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people, police said. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Spain Barcelona

Injured people are treated in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 after a white van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people, police said. (AP Photo/Oriol Duran)

Spain Barcelona

A person is carried in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 after a white van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people, police said. (AP Photo/Oriol Duran)

Portugal Wildfires

A man holding a garden hose shouts to someone as flames from a wildfire reach the backyard of a house in the town of Macao, central Portugal, Thursday, Aug. 17 2017. Portugal's government is taking the rare step of decreeing a state of public calamity ahead of a forecast rise in temperatures that authorities fear will worsen a spate of wildfires. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Australia Burqa Stunt

Sen. Pauline Hanson, bottom left, wears a burqa during question time in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black head-to-ankle garment for more than 10 minutes before taking it off as she rose to explain that she wanted such outfits banned on national security grounds. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Chile Argentina Missing Activist

In this Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 photo, a man is detained by national police outside the Argentina consulate during a protest demanding information on the whereabouts of missing activist Santiago Maldonado, in Santiago, Chile. Maldonado's family says he went missing Aug. 1, when he was taking part in a protest supporting the land claims by the indigenous Mapuche community. They say border police detained him when he was blocking a road with other protesters in Chubut province, about 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) southeast of Argentina's capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Indonesia Independence Day

Participants assist each other in greased-pole climbing competition held as a part of independence day celebration at Ancol Beach in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug 17, 2017. Contestants race up to grab items ranging from buckets to bicycles hanging from the top of the poles as prize. Indonesia is celebrating its 72th anniversary of independence from the Netherlands. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

China US Dunford

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, second from left, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad, left, meets with China's State Counselor Yang Jiechi, second from right, at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Immigrant Sanctuary

New Sanctuary Coalition volunteer Alice Strum Sutter, center, holds a sign as she watches a news conference for Amanda Morales at the Holyrood Church, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Morales who is originally from Guatemala and has lived without authorization in the U.S. since 2004 has taken sanctuary at the church. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Confederate Monuments

A monument inscribed "To the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy" is seen on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 on the grounds of the old State Capitol in Raleigh, N.C. The 7-foot-tall monument of a woman and young boy is made of bronze and granite, and it was dedicated in 1914. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew)

Confederate Flag Mississippi

A Jackson, Miss., deli customer passes one of several suggested replacement Mississippi state flags, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is the lone state that has not removed the Confederate battle flag emblem from its official state flag. White supremacists waved the Confederate battle flag amid weekend violence in Virginia, prompting critics to say Mississippi should remove the symbol from its state banner. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Romania Church Sex Scandal

A tourist takes pictures backdropped by a painted wall of the Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. The Holy Synod of Romania's Orthodox Church is meeting behind closed doors to discuss what action to take against the Bishop of Husi, Corneliu Barladeanu, who was seen on video engaging in sexual acts with a male student, the first time in its 92-year history that the synod gathered to decide on action to take in a sex scandal. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Germany Daily Life

A bird sits on the back of an grazing Iceland horse in a paddock near Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Malaysia SEA Games

Phillipine Aaliyah Isabel Pacheco performs during the women's solo free routine synchronized swimming final during South East Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Reds Cubs Baseball

Chicago Cubs catcher Alex Avila (13) misses the tag on Cincinnati Reds' Scooter Gennett (4) at home plate as Gennett misses stepping on home plate during the second inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Chicago. Avila tagged out Gennett moments later. (AP Photo/David Banks)

Cincinnati Tennis

Spectators watch the sunset as they wait for a rain delay to end at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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