PHOTOS: The day in pictures — December 22, 2017

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An Israeli border guard scuffles with a Palestinian man in the Old City of Jerusalem on Dec. 22, 2017, as protests continue in the region amid anger over the US president's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Frazier Nivens, Florida Keys News Bureau via The Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, notary public John Hauk, left, shows wedding vows written on an underwater tablet to British Army Sergeant Thomas Mould, center, and Sandra Hyde, right, off Key Largo, Fla., in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. The couple met in the Keys in 2013 and after a four-year courtship decided to wed there. (Frazier Nivens/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

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Pakistani Christians light candles for the victims of suicide attack on a Church, in Quetta on Dec. 22, 2017. A suicide bomb attack on a Pakistan church claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least eight people and wounded 30 during a service on December 17, just over a week before Christmas.

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The Humber bridge near Hull in north east England is obscured by low cloud on Dec. 22, 2017

Dieu Nalio Chery, The Associated Press

Girls wait back stage while they participate in a Christmas event in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday Dec. 22, 2017.

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Lots of notes with wishes hang from the branch of a "Peace Olive Tree" during the Catalan regional election day, in a square of Vic on Dec. 21, 2017. Catalans flooded the polls today in a crucial election that could mark a turning point for their region, just two months after a failed secession bid triggered Spain's worst political crisis in decades.

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Druids, pagans and revellers gather in the centre of Stonehenge, hoping to see the sun rise, as they take part in a winter solstice ceremony at the ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge near Amesbury on Dec. 22, 2017 in Wiltshire, England. Despite a forecast for cloud and rain, a large crowd gathered at the famous historic stone circle, a UNESCO listed ancient monument, to celebrate the sunrise closest to the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. The event is claimed to be more important in the pagan calendar than the summer solstice, because it marks the 're-birth' of the Sun for the New Year.

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A soldier stands by as supporters of the presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, Salvador Nasralla, protest against the reelection of President Juan Orlando Hernandez in elections marred by suspicions of fraud, outside the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa on Dec. 21, 2017. Honduras's leftwing opposition on Wednesday urged days of intensified protests to challenge President Juan Orlando Hernandez's claims that he won a new mandate in a Nov. election marred by suspicions of fraud. It called for a demonstration in front of military command headquarters in the capital Tegucigalpa to decry "murders" which it claimed took place during robust crackdowns by security forces.

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Silhouetted Pakistani look at a sun set on a beach on the shortest day of the year in Karachi on Dec. 22, 2017.

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Greek police experts search for evidence after a bomb blast at the Court of Appeal in Athens on Dec. 22, 2017.

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Palestinian protesters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the border fence east of Gaza City on Dec. 22, 2017.

Juan Karita, The Associated Press

A medical student fires fireworks towards the police during clashes supporting a strike by public doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Striking public doctors are protesting a new penal code promulgated on Dec. 15 that penalizes medical malpractice.