Photos of the day - March 7, 2015

Members of the Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite fighters fire a rocket, during clashes with Islamic State militants in the town of Tal Ksaiba, near the town of al-Alam, Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama (4th L) participates in a march with civil rights movement veterans across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Israeli border police officers use pepper spray to disperse a rally by Palestinians ahead of International Woman's Day, at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah and a police officer hugs a participant while holding dancing pom poms in the 2015 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade in Australia are some of the photos of the day. (Reuters)

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