Jun 4, 2012

June 4 Photo Brief: Monsoon season approaches, Vigil in Tiananmen Square, Miners riot in Spain

Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Britain, Diamond Jubilee, economics, England, France, French Open, Germany, Guido Westerwelle, India, Israel, Laurent Fabius, monsoon, Queen Elizabeth ll, Russia, Spain, Tel Aviv, Tiananmen Square, Vata Savitri Purnima, Yemen

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Last days before monsoon season begins in India, Spanish miners frustrated over country’s economy woes, a candlelight vigil held to mark the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and more in today’s daily brief.

: A boy runs as he plays on a beach against the background of pre-monsoon clouds gathered over the Arabian Sea at Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala June 4, 2012. India’s monsoon rains are likely to hit the southern Kerala coast in two days, a top weather official said on Monday. (Sivaram V/Reuters)

: People take part in a a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on June 4, 2012 held to mark the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)

: Olympic Torch bearer Peter Jack carries the torch at the Giants Causeway, Bushmills, Northern Ireland, on June 4, 2012. The Olympic Torch relay started at Land’s End, the southwest tip of England, to begin an 8,000-mile journey around Britain, with a detour to also visit the Irish capital Dublin. (Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman wears a red wig and Union Flag glasses at the Goldsmith Avenue Street Party to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth in Ealing, west London June 4, 2012. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)

: An African migrant rides his bicycle past a mural in Tel Aviv June 4, 2012. Fleeing poverty, fighting and authoritarian rule, some 60,000 Africans have crossed illegally into Israel through the relatively porous desert border with Egypt in recent years. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

: Two miners throw stones during confrontations with the riot Civil Guard after setting an incendiary device to a barricade near highway A-66 in Vega del Rey, June 4, 2012. Spain’s economy contracted for the second time since late 2009 and four years of stagnation and recession have pushed unemployment above 24 percent, the highest rate in the European. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

: An inmate, with a tattoo seen on his hand, creates a carved wooden chess piece at a workshop, located inside a maximum security penal male colony, near Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 4, 2012. Prisoners with special skills and knowledge create carved and wattled wooden gifts for sale in city souvenir shops. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another gallops on the track with exercise rider Jonny Garcia aboard during a morning workout at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, June 4, 2012. I’ll Have Another will attempt to become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win racing’s coveted Triple Crown when he runs in the 2012 Belmont Stakes Saturday June 9 at Belmont Park. (Mike Segar/Reuters)

: Czech Republic’s Klara Zakopalova’s shoes are displayed as she serves to Russia’s Maria Sharapova during their Women’s Singles 4sth Round tennis match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium June 4, 2012 in Paris. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa June 4, 2012. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters)

: Married Hindu women devotees are seen through the sacred threads being tied around a banyan tree (a divine wishing tree) in a ceremony considered to bring good luck during the Hindu religious festival of Vata Savitri Purnima in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad June 4, 2012. (Amit Dave/Reuters)

: Indian Hindu devotees perform rituals in the polluted Sabarmati river at Vautha village on June 4, 2012 on the eve of World Environment Day. Residents claim the water that flows in this section of the Sabarmati, contaminated by chemical effluent from the Narol and Vatva GIDC estates, is so polluted that Hindu devotees refrain from completely submerging themselves in the holy river. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

: Iraqi rescue workers inspect damages after a bomb attack at the Shiite endowment headquarters in central Baghdad on June 4, 2012. A suicide attacker blew up a bomb-packed car at the Shiite religious foundation’s headquarters in Baghdad, killing more than 20 people in the Iraqi capital’s deadliest blast in more than four months.(Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius walk through the garden of the German Foreign Ministry’s Villa Borsig on June 4, 2012 in Berlin. Their talks were expected to focus on European and international topics as well as on the situation in Syria. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

: Professor Ratul Rajkhowa of the Department of Zoology of Cotton College, holds a dead spider that was the alleged species that killed two people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on June 4, 2012. Panicked villagers in a remote Indian state complained of an invasion of giant biting spiders that resemble tarantulas but are unknown to local specialists. (AFP/Getty Images)

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed car outside a Shi’ite Muslim office in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 190 in an attack bearing the hallmarks of Iraq’s al Qaeda affiliate.

The bombing on a Shi’ite religious office comes at a sensitive time, with the country’s fractious Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish blocs locked in a crisis that threatens to unravel their power-sharing deal and spill into sectarian tensions.

June 4 Photo Brief: Monsoon season approaches, Vigil in Tiananmen Square, Miners riot in Spain

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