A selection of some of the top AP photos taken over the past 24 hours.
An activist places flowers among 5,000 flowers on the West Front of the Capitol that they said are to memorialize 5,000 children killed by Saudi bombings in Yemen, Monday, March 19, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
French consulate worker Romain Franck, a French employee of France's Consulate in Jerusalem, covers his face during a hearing at the district court in in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, Monday, March 19, 2018. Franck has been arrested on charges of smuggling dozens of guns from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Israel's internal security agency said Franck smuggled more than 70 guns on five occasions in his consular vehicle, which was subjected to more lenient security checks than other vehicles. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
An election campaign banner for Egyptian presidential candidate President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi lies in the street after falling off a light pole in Giza, in Egypt, Monday, March 19, 2018. The election will be held March 26-28. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
A staff member looks out from a curtain before a press conference following a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 19, 2018. China on Monday appointed a former missile force commander as its new defense minister amid lingering concerns over the goals of its rapid military modernization. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A relative of a victim of last week's plane crash in Nepal, reads a holy book as relatives wait for the bodies of their dear ones at the Army Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, March 19, 2018. Forty-nine people died when a US-Bangla Airlines plane carrying 67 passengers and four crewmembers crashed in Kathmandu on March 12. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
A police officer walks as a coca farmer runs away from tear gas during a protest by coca leaf farmers, in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, March 19, 2018. Two rival groups farmers from a region north of La Paz known as Los Yungas, were dispersed by police. One of the groups that distanced itself from the government of Evo Morales came from the countryside to retake by force the market where that leaf is sold and which is kept occupied by a rival group since March 12. Police maintains control of the disputed market to avoid confrontations. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Monuments called 'fallas' burn in a fire during the traditional Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, Monday, March 19, 2018. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph that ends in the midnight of March 19, burning many characters and large paper mache satirical figures displayed around the streets of the city. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
A woman looks at a mannequin advertising a clothing shop's spring collection in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, March 19, 2017. Romania is experiencing a colder than usual weather for the month of March with snow and freezing rain causing air, road and railway traffic disruptions.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Youths paddle their handmade rafts in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Shati Refugee Camp, in Gaza City, Monday, March 19, 2018. The rafts are crafted from empty plastic water bottles held together in a cloth bag. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
A fisherman paddles a canoe as the rising sun mirrors on the surface of calm water at a lake in Balapitiya, south of Colombo Sri Lanka, Monday, March 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Duke celebrates after getting a win during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Athens, Ga., Monday, March 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Joshua L. Jones)
Two lion cubs look up as they are released into a large enclosure in Johannesburg Zoo, South Africa, Monday, March 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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