May 29, 2012

May 29 Photo Brief: Olympic torch reaches summit of Mount Snowdon, earthquake in Italy, protests continue in Egypt

Stokely Baksh 1 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Ai Weiwei, Al-Shabaab, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chris Bonington, Colombia, cricket, Cusco, East Java, Egypt, India, Kankaria Lake, Lusi, monsoon season, Mount Snowdon, Nevado del Ruiz volcano, Peru, Somalia, The Kueka, Tiergarten park, Tintaya, United Kingdom, volcano, Yemen

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The Olympic torch reaches the summit of Wales’s highest mountain Mount Snowdon, protests continue in Egypt after first round of presidential elections, earthquake strikes northern Italy and more in today’s daily brief.

: Sir Chris Bonington holds the Olympic torch on the summit of Mount Snowdon on May 29, 2012 in Llanberis, United Kingdom. Legendary mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, aged 77, was given the honour of carrying the torch to the summit of Wales’s highest mountain, the place his climbing career began 61 years ago. The Olympic Flame is now on day 11 of a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

: A man cycles past a damaged old church is seen in Mirandola near Modena May 29, 2012. An earthquake struck northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, damaging buildings and spreading panic among thousands of residents still living in tents after a tremor shook the region just over a week ago, destroying their homes. (Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters)

: A protester shouts during a protest against the results of the first round of presidential elections at Tahrir Square in Cairo May 29, 2012. An attack on the offices of one of the two finalists in Egypt’s presidential race has sounded a warning that the last round of voting might spark more violence in a nation polarised by the choice between an Islamist and an ex-general from Hosni Mubarak’s era. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

: A protester shouts slogans during a protest march marking an attack by security forces on an anti-government protest camp in the southern city of Taiz last year, in Sanaa May 29, 2012. The words on the protester’s chest reads as “The Taiz Holocaust.” Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

: Indian children cool off in the Yamuna river in New Delhi on May 29, 2012. Heat wave conditions prevailed in the city and the northern state of India with the mercury registering a record high for the month of May of 44.4 degrees celsius. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images)

: Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei listens to a question during an interview at his studio in Beijing May 29, 2012. Ai said on Tuesday that the escape and exit to the U.S. of blind activist Chen Guangcheng will embolden other Chinese to stand up to official injustices and encouraged them to refuse to live in fear of the authorities. In his most extensive comments on the case of Chen Guangcheng, whose escape caused a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington, Ai said that the authorities’ programme of “stability maintenance” will only grow worse with time. (David Gray/Reuters)

: Somali government soldiers drive a convoy of tanks towards Elasha town May 29, 2012. Somalia’s al Shabaab rebels ambushed an armoured convoy carrying the President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed during a rare overland trip outside the capital on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said. President Ahmed was unharmed in the attack which occurred on the outskirts of Elasha town, located between Mogadishu and the former rebel stronghold of Afgoye, about 18 miles northwest of the city. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)

: A victim of the Lapindo mud volcano takes part in a theatrical performance on a retaining dike in Sidoarjo, East Java on May 29, 2012. Six years after it erupted from the well of a gas company linked to one of Indonesia’s richest men, the mud volcano known as “Lusi” is still spewing its toxic sludge over Java’s countryside. All attempts to plug the geyser have failed and new spouts are opening up, threatening to destroy more villages, homes and livelihoods in the East Java district of Sidoarjo. (Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images)

: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks on while walking down a ramp prior to her departure to Thailand from the Yangon International Airport on May 29, 2012. Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Thailand May 29 for her first trip abroad in more than two decades, ending an era of isolation and cementing her arrival on the global stage. (Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images)

: People sunbath next to “The Kueka,” a red sandstone boulder weighing 77,000 pounds from Venezuela in Berlin’s Tiergarten park on May 29, 2012. Brought to Berlin over a decade ago by 78-year-old German artist Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld, the rock is an integral part of the “Worldwide Peace Project.” (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Afghan youth watches a regional cricket tournament for disabled players in Kabul on May 29, 2012. Four regional teams are taking part in the tournament for the disabled, where players will be selected for the national cricket team for forthcoming matches in Pakistan. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Indian soldier floats using an improvised flotation belt made out of used oil cans during a water rescue training program at Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad on May 29, 2012. Some 75 soldiers are participating in the weeklong training program ahead of the monsoon season, where floods affect millions of Indians annually. The annual rains, which sweep across the subcontinent from June to September, are key to prosperity in rural areas where two-thirds of India’s 1.2 billion population live. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

: People using homemade weapons clash with police officers during a protest in Espinar, Cusco, May 28, 2012. Two people were killed and 50 were injured in protests against Xstrata’s Peruvian copper mine Tintaya on Monday, prompting the government to suspend freedom of assembly in a bid to break roadblocks isolating the mine. (Sebastian Castaneda/El Comercio/Reuters)

: Handout photo released by the Colombian Geological and Mining Institute Ingeominas showing a plume of smoke bollowing on May 29, 2012 from the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, located on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, some 130 km west of Bogota. Colombian authorities have elevated the alert status in the area to orange due to an increase in the volcano’s activity. (Ingeominas/AFP/Getty Images)

Related Reading:
New deadly quake shakes northern Italy
Stephen Jewkes/Reuters

CAVEZZO, Italy (Reuters) – An earthquake killed at least 15 people in northern Italy on Tuesday, damaging buildings and spreading fear among thousands of residents living in tents after a similarly strong tremor in the same region flattened their homes nine days ago.

Officials said 200 people had been injured and seven were missing, trapped under the rubble of houses and warehouses in the Emilia-Romagna region, where several building sites had just reopened after the previous quake on May 20.

May 29 Photo Brief: Olympic torch reaches summit of Mount Snowdon, earthquake in Italy, protests continue in Egypt

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