Today’s top pics: Taliban launch attack amid peace talks and more
APTOPIX Peru Pan Am Games
Athletes compete men's swimming 200m backstroke heat at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
APTOPIX Financial Markets Wall Street
Trader John Bishop works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The market has been roiled the past couple of weeks by growing anxiety as the U.S. and China clash over trade. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
APTOPIX Italy Spanish Steps
A Police officer asks a girl not to sit on the Spanish Steps, in Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Police started the enforcement of a law designed to protect monuments and landmarks and are forbidding people from sitting on the Spanish steps since they are considered a monument. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
APTOPIX Germany Weather
A cleaning machine is seen behind rain drops on a car window is it cleans the Roemerberg square in Frankfurt, Germany, on a rainy Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
APTOPIX Peru Pan Am Games
Adriana Rodríguez of Cuba, left, and Annie Kunz of United States compete in a in the women's heptathlon 100m hurdles heat the athletics at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Rodriguez finished first and Kunz second. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
APTOPIX Romania Weather
Pigeons fly by a woman sleeping on a bench on a hot day in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The national weather authority issued a heat wave warning with temperatures expected to rise above 35 degrees Centigrade (95 Fahrenheit) in the shade in the coming days. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
APTOPIX Immigration Food Plant Raids
A handcuffed woman stares though the chain link fencing at Koch Foods Inc., in Morton, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. U.S. immigration officials raided several Mississippi food processing plants on Wednesday and signaled that the early-morning strikes were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as employees. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
APTOPIX Zimbabwe Daily Life
A woman walks home, in Harare, Wednesday, Aug, 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
APTOPIX Peru Pan Am Games
Argentina's Maria Vargas dives for a ball hit by Mexico's Paola Longoria in the women's racquetball singles final at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
APTOPIX Afghanistan car bomb
Afghans stand near a damaged shop after an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. A suicide car bomber targeted the police headquarters in a minority Shiite neighborhood in western Kabul on Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion that wounded dozens of people, Afghan officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
