Today in Photos (Jan 6)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Jan. 6, 2015.

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Tue., Jan. 6, 2015

Journalists surround the car carrying Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, after he was arrested reportedly for arson and vandalism, among other charges, from the National Press Club, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. Clashes between police and opposition activists and a separate attack by unidentified gunmen left at least four people dead in Bangladesh on Monday amid heightened tensions on the anniversary of elections boycotted by the major opposition alliance last year. The Jan. 5 elections last year were boycotted by a major opposition alliance led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. Tensions heated up recently after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party said it would hold rallies to celebrate the anniversary, while Zia, her archrival, announced that anti-government protests would take place.

A.M. Ahad Associated Press
Bahraini anti-government protesters clash with riot police firing tear gas during clashes in Bilad Al Qadeem, Bahrain, a suburb of Manama, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. Escalated clashes have continued for more than a week because of the detention of Bahraini Shiite opposition leader Sheik Ali Salman.

Hasan Jamali Associated Press
Huge waves crash on the sea defense wall of a restaurant, at the Beirut corniche, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. Lebanon is under the effects of a blustery storm, dropped torrential rain and snow and pushed temperatures below freezing in northern Lebanon and some areas of the Bekaa Valley, which is dotted with informal Syrian refugee settlements.

Bilal Hussein Associated Press
A dragon is carried during the traditional Roman Catholic Epiphany procession in the streets of Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.

Czarek Sokolowski Associated Press
Police stand guard, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the area where police and suspects exchanged gunfire the night before, in the Bronx borough of New York. A manhunt was under way Tuesday for at least two suspects who shot and wounded two New York City plainclothes police officers responding to a robbery late Monday.

Bebeto Matthews Associated Press
With St. Isaak's Cathedral in the background, a bus crosses the Troitsky bridge which spans the Neva river, St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.

Dmitry Lovetsky Associated Press