Pan Am Games, Tokyo anti-war protest, breaking the fast | July 16
The day in photos from around the world.
- Bangladeshi Muslims try to climb on to the roof of an overcrowded train as they head to their homes ahead of Eid al-Fitr at a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, July 16, 2015. Hundreds of thousands of people working in Dhaka plan to leave for their home towns to celebrate with their family the upcoming Eid al-Fitr. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
- Brazil’s Gabrielle Goncalves competes in the women’s 400m individual medley at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
- Athletes compete during the men’s omnium scratch track cycling event at the Pan Am Games in Milton, Ontario, Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
- Dylann Roof appears at a court hearing in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, July 16, 2015. A judge ruled Thursday that Roof, accused of killing nine people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June, will stand trial in July, 2016. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)
- Police officers enter the Armed Forces Career Center through a bullet-riddled door after a gunman opened fire on the building Thursday, July 16, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Authorities say there were multiple casualties including the gunman. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
- Two spectators, one covered with a plastic garbage bag, take cover from the rain under a publicity banner during the twelfth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 195 kilometers (121.2 miles) with start in Lannemezan and finish in Plateau de Beille, France, Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
- Republican presidential candidate, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., speaks to an overflow crowd from the back of a pickup truck outside Joey’s Diner, Thursday, July 16, 2015, in Amherst, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
- A bank employee distributes tags with queue positions to pensioners as they wait outside the main gate of the national bank of Greece to withdraw a maximum of 120 euros ($134) in central Athens, Thursday, July 16, 2015. Greeceís troubled left-wing government is seeking urgent relief from European lenders on Thursday, after it pushed a harsh austerity package thought parliament, triggering a revolt in the ruling party and violent demonstrations in central Athens. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
- Anti-war protesters yell during a rally outside the Parliament building in Tokyo after Japan’s lower house of parliament approved legislation that would expand the role of the nation’s military Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
- A hearse transporting the coffin containing the remains of Mexican ballad singer Joan Sebastian leads his funeral procession through the streets of Cuernavaca, Mexico, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. The Grammy and Latin Grammy award winner died Monday. He was best known for sentimental love songs such as, “Tatuajes” and “Secreto de Amor.” He was 64. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)
- In this Tuesday, June 30, 2015 photo, Muslims offer afternoon prayers at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The effort by Egypt’s president who called on Sunni scholars to reform the very discourse of Islam was given a boost during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, now in its last week, even as a call for violence by the Islamic State group triggered attacks across the Middle East and parts of Africa. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
- Russia-backed separatist APC rides by an Orthodox cross with a sign reading Save and Guard, with a memorial to the victims of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 plane crash, in the back, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2015. A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people, there has been little official word of progress in determining what brought down Flight MH17. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
- Local children holding toy guns stand at the site of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2015. A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people, there has been little official word of progress in determining what brought down Flight MH17. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)