May 7, 2012

May 7 Photo Brief: Cat cafe, Protest in Moscow, Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike

Stokely Baksh 1 Comment Daily Brief Aghanistan, Austria, cat cafe, England, Mascots, May Day, opium, Palestinian prisoners, Russia, Stalin, Syria, Vladimir Putin, Yeme

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Some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike throughout Israeli jails, first cat cafe opens in Austria, opium in Afghanistan and more in today’s daily brief.

: France’s Socialist Party (PS) newly elected president Francois Hollande waves from his balcony on May 7, 2012 in Paris, one day after the announcement of the first official results of the French presidential second round. Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades on May 6, 2012 dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (C) enters St.Andrew’s Hall at the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow on May 7, 2012, during his inauguration ceremony. (Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images)

: Riot police carry an anti-Putin protester, who was detained in central Moscow, on May 7, 2012. Vladimir Putin began toady a historic third term as Russian president today. (Natalia Kolesniovana/AFP/Getty Images)

: Owner Takako Ishimitsu holds cat Moritz in Vienna’s first cat cafe May 7, 2012. After three years of negotiations with city officials over hygiene issues, Austria opened its first cat cafe last Friday. ‘Cafe Neko’, “Neko” meaning cat in Japanese, was opened by Vienna resident Ishimitsu, 47, from Japan. Customers can stroke and interact with their five feline hosts, named Sonja, Thomas, Moritz, Luca and Momo, who all came from an animal shelter and now freely roam about the cafe and take naps. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)

: A Palestinian uses a sling to lob a stone during clashes with Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer Prison, following a march in support of Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike on May 7, 2012. Israel’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by two Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike for 69 days in protest at being held without charge, their lawyer told AFP. There are some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike throughout Israeli jails. (Abbas Monai/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Palestinian protester holds a portrait of a jailed relative in Gaza City during a demonstration in support of more than a thousand prisoners who are on an open-ended hunger strike in Israeli jails on May 7, 2012. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

: Priston Jubilee Morris Men dance outside the village pub and hall at the May Day village celebrations on May 7, 2012 in Priston, Somerset, England. The origins of the traditional May Day fetes and fairs often featuring a maypole and which still remain a focus for dancing and festivities across England, are said to have started in Roman Britain aronund 2,000 years ago when Roman soldiers celebrated the arrival of spring by dancing around decorated trees thanking their goddess Flora. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in Sanaa May 7, 2012. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

: A zookeeper feeds a newly-born white Bengal tiger cub in a private zoo in Yalta, May 7, 2012. Tigrulia, presented to a local zoo in 2009 by then prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, gave birth to four cubs on Sunday. (Stringer/Reuters)

: People look at the “Pissing Stalin Golden Monument” created by activists of Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda in Kiev on May 7, 2012 as art-provocation before V-day celebration. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

: A giant billboard with a picture of a man with his face painted in the colors of the Serbian flag is seen on the side of an old building in Belgrade May 7, 2012. The Socialist Party of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic held the key to power in Serbia on Monday after an inconclusive election in which voters punished the ruling Democratic Party for their economic woes. The Democrats, part of a reformist bloc that ousted Milosevic in 2000 and tilted Serbia westwards, saw their support crumble to some 23 percent from 38 percent in 2008, hurt by a downturn that has left a quarter of the workforce jobless. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

: Mascots representing a variety of sports club and associations participate in the Mascot Grand National 2012 for Have a Heart Charity at Kempton Park race course in Sunbury on Thames, southern England May 7, 2012. (Luke MacGrego/Reuters)

: Afghan children stand on a hill overlooking part of the Kabul city May 7, 2012. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

: Competitors take part in the finals of the men’s 3000m Steeplechase during the BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in London May 7, 2012. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)

: Afghan men harvest and collect opium sap from the bulb of the plant in Mamoond Spin Ghar area in Nangarhar province on May 6, 2012. Opium poppy-crop cultivation in Afghanistan reached 131,000 hectares in 2011, seven per cent higher than in 2010 due to insecurity and high prices, said the summary findings of the 2011 Afghan Opium Survey released by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)