Photos of the day - December 22, 2013

The best news photos of the day for December 22, 2013.

A layer of ice coats the leaves of a Japanese maple tree after an ice storm in Toronto, an African Union soldier from Burundi holds a position in front of a closed shop in Bangui, Central African Republic and a boy walks near a damaged site after heavy shelling in Damascus are some of the photos of the day. (AP/Reuters)

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