Jun 13, 2012

June 13 Photo Brief: Fleeing Myanmar, Olympic torch relay, coal miners protest

Tall ships, burning paper, refugees, protests and more in today’s daily brief.

: Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf. Bangladesh on Wednesday refused three more boatloads of Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar, officials said, despite growing calls for the border to be opened. Bangladeshi guards have turned back 16 boats carrying more than 660 Rohingya people, most of them women and children, since June 11 as they tried to enter from neighboring Myanmar across the river Naf. (Munir uz Zaman/GettyImages)

: A resident rides her bicycle past burned houses amid ongoing violence in Sittwe, capital of Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine. Dozens of people have been killed in a surge in sectarian violence in Myanmar, an official said on June 12, as international pressure grew for an end to the bloodshed. A state of emergency has been declared in western Rakhine state, which has been rocked by a wave of rioting and arson, posing a major test for the reformist government which took power last year. (GettyImages)

: A Bangladeshi Border Guard keeps watch on a jetty on the Naf river in Teknaf. Bangladesh on Wednesday refused three more boatloads of Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar, officials said, despite growing calls for the border to be opened. Bangladeshi guards have turned back 16 boats carrying more than 660 Rohingya people, most of them women and children, since June 11 as they tried to enter from Myanmar. (Munir uz Zaman/GettyImages)

: Children play in the water in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Benghazi. (Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters)

: Indigenous children from the Paresi tribe talk at Kari-Oca village in Rio de Janeiro. Indigenous people from many countries gathered in the village for the “Rio +20″ United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held from June 20 to 22. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

: Sailors stand in the rigging of the ARM Cuauhtemoc, a training vessel for the Mexican Navy, as it heads to the Inner Harbor as part of the Star-Spangled Sailabration. The event marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun)

: A Mexican Federal Police instructor jumpds on the plastic shields of a riot squad forming a barrier in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico, at an undisclosed temporary base. There are 1000′s of law enforcement officers rolling in to the Los Cabos area for the G-20 Summit to be held June 18-20 with the attendance of the world’s largest country leaders. (Paul J. Richards/GettyImages)

: A Bahraini riot policewoman looks on as she stands behind a protester during an anti-government demonstration in central Manama. Tensions remain high in Bahrain where a month-long Shiite-led uprising was crushed in March 2011 but demonstrations have intensified in recent months as protesters sporadically clash with the police. (Mohammed Al-Shaikh/GettyImages)

: Czech Republic Vaclav Pilar (R) signs autographs after a training session in Wroclaw during Euro 2012 football championships. (Daniel Mihailescu/GettyImages)

: Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, smiles as she meets members of the public in Market Square during a visit to Nottingham, central England with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen accompanied by Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attended several engagements during a visit to the city as the Queen continued her diamond jubilee tour without the Duke of Edinburgh who was convalescing following a bladder infection. (Rui Viera/GettyImages)

: An Indian firefighter extinguishes smoldering stacks of paper at the Khanna Paper Mill in the outskirts of Amritsar. The fire, which broke out June 12 in one of the largest paper mills in the country, incurred losses estimated at 1.5 billion rupees (USD 27 million). (Narinder Nanu/GettyImages)

: Pedestrians walk in front of the parliament in Athens . Greece holds general parliamentary elections on June 17. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters)

: Spanish coal miners demonstrate with their lamps lit through the streets of the city of Leon, northern Spain. Spanish coal miners are staging a nationwide strike action organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions from 300 million euros to 110 million euros. (Cesar Manso/GettyImages)

: A customs officer checks Audi and Volkswagen cars destined for export before they are loaded onto a ship in Emden port in Emden, Germany. Volkswagen announced strong results in June with 2.29 million passenger car deliveries in the first five months of 2012, an increase of 9.4%. Emden is the principal port for all Volkswagen Group exports and handles an average of 5,500 vehicles a day. Germany’s exports, which drive its economy, the biggest in Europe, are remaining strong and unemployment is low despite the ongoing Eurozone debt crisis. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

: Joseph Forrest and children from Madras College, run along West Sands with the Olympic Torch in St Andrews, Scotland. The Olympic Flame is now on day 26 of a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

: A Netherlands’ fan reacts at the end of their Group B Euro 2012 soccer match against Germany at the Metalist stadium in Kharkiv. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)