Jun 26, 2012

June 26 Photo Brief: President Obama hits the campaign trail, International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, pelicans in the port of Sidon

Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Bill Gates, China, crocodiles, East Timor, fire, International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Lebanon, Mumbai, Paraguay, pelicans, President Obama, Russia, Sen. John McCain, Siberian Tiger, Sidon, Uganda, waltz, Yemen

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President Barack Obama hits the campaign trail, scenes from International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, pelicans in the port of Sidon, and more in today’s daily brief.

: U.S. President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 26, 2012. Obama hit the campaign trail, shadowed by a week of fateful events at home and abroad weighing heavily on his knife-edge hopes of reelection. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

: Drug addicts watch a performance to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking at a drug addiction rehabilitation centre in Taiyuan, Shanxi province June 26, 2012. (Stringer/Reuters)

: A Pakistani official uses a steamroller to crush bottles of liquor during a ceremony to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Karachi on June 26, 2012. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued an annual report declaring Pakistan a poppy free country but said it is used as a route for smuggling of drugs worth 30 billion USD from Afghanistan. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)

: A pelican is seen at the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, June 26, 2012. A small number of pelicans, one of whom was injured a few years ago, live in the port of Sidon where fishermen feed and take care of them. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)

: Paraguay’s ousted President Fernando Lugo speaks during an interview with Reuters in Asuncion, June 26, 2012. Lugo branded the country’s new government illegitimate on Sunday and called for a return to democratic rule following his sudden impeachment on Friday. Lugo, a leftist former Roman Catholic bishop, said his removal from office was “a parliamentary coup against the will of the people” and said he would back any peaceful effort to restore democracy in the soy-exporting South American nation. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)

: Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal for the musical West Side Story at the German Oper (Deutsche Oper) which premieres in Berlin, Germany, on June 26, 2012. The West Side Story is an American musical and was inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. (Carsten Koall/AFP/Getty Images)

: A worker shows a newly-hatched baby crocodile during a hatching inside a crocodile farm in Pasay city, metro Manila June 26, 2012. At least 10 baby crocodile eggs were hatched on Tuesday, according to farm officials. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

: Skeletal remains are seen at a mass grave at the compound of the government palace in Dili on June 26, 2012. Police in East Timor have uncovered a mass grave of 52 people at the government palace with initial examinations suggesting the bodies are not Timorese, an official said on June 26. (Valentino De Sousa/AFP/Getty Images)

: U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) (L), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) (3nd L), and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) (R) participate in a news conference June 26, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Republican senators discussed their accusations of national security leaks from the Obama Administration. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

: Military police troopers gather near a checkpoint on a road linking the Yemeni capital Sanaa with the oil-producing province of Marib June 26, 2012. The road was opened for the first time in more than a year this week, after the army and tribal fighters agreed to withdraw from positions along the route. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

: Doreen Mylin, owner of the Magic Manatee Marina, pauses to inspect the damage as the water associated with Tropical Storm Debby rises and floods her business in Homosassa, Florida, June 26, 2012. (Brian Blanco/Reuters)

: Three Siberian tigers born at circus Renaissance, which is now located in Leiden, are pictured on June 26, 2012. The tigers where born on June 24, 2012 and in good health. The circus has now a total of twelve Siberian tigers. (Anp Koen Van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)

: Relatives arrive at the scene of a landslide in Nalenda village in Bududa district 154 miles east of Uganda’s capital Kampala, June 26, 2012. At least 18 people were killed in eastern Uganda on Monday after a landslide buried several settlements in a coffee-growing area on the slopes of Mount Elgon straddling the Kenyan border, the Uganda Red Cross said. (James Akena/Reuters)

: Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks to the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities June 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. The APLU is holding a national convocation in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Morrill Act, which established land-grant universities. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

: Afghan girls sit on a destroyed armoured vehicle on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul June 26, 2012. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)

: A couple dances the waltz during a ceremony to congratulate Russian secondary school graduates, who finished their studies with gold and silver medals, on a square in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 26, 2012. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: An Israeli firefighting plane extinguishes a forest fire on the western edge of Jerusalem on June 26, 2012. The fire was blazing at the entrance of the holy city which saw at least 36 firefighting crews working for two hours with the help of six planes to control the flames. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)