July 15 Photo Brief: Fiery protest, street gang truce, Tour de Cheer
Protesting for social justice with fire in Israel, a truce among rival gangs in El Salvador cuts violence in half, riders on the Tour de France get support from cheerleaders and Santa Claus and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A gang member looks into a broken piece of mirror while getting a haircut by a fellow inmate at a prison in Quezaltepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador June 2, 2012. The relentless tit-for-tat murders between El Salvador’s two largest street gangs – “Calle 18” and “Mara Salvatrucha” – made the country the most murderous in the world last year after neighboring Honduras, also ravaged by gang violence. That was until Garcia, from the Calle 18 (“18th Street”) gang, along with elders from the Mara Salvatrucha, declared an unprecedented truce that authorities say has cut the homicide rate in half in just four months. (Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters)
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- The pack of riders cycles past cheerleaders during the 14th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Limoux and Foix. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)
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- Athletes race into the waters of Lake Zurich for the start of the swimming leg of the Ironman Switzerland Triathlon in Zurich. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)
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- A labourer, his face covered in sawdust, pauses, as he is photographed during a break, during the overhauling of a wooden cargo ship in Karachi’s Fish Harbour. The process of overhauling a boat takes about a week, in which the boat is brought to dry land and its wooden panels and paint serviced by a team of 20 carpenters and labourers, before it is set back to sea. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
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- A boy stands as a goal keeper as children play soccer on a road in Yangon. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)
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- Kanwarias or devotees of Hindu god Shiva fill their pots with the water from the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Hundreds of the Kanwarias carry holy water from the Ganges to their hometowns to be offered to Shivling (a symbol of Lord Shiva). (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
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- Protesters try to extinguish flames from a protester after he set himself on fire during a demonstration calling for social justice in Tel Aviv July 14, 2012. Some thousands of Israelis gathered in cities throughout the country to mark one year since the start of social protests demanding for more social welfare, local media reported. The protester, who is critically injured, is receiving medical attention after he poured gasoline on his body and set himself on fire. In a letter he left behind, he wrote “The state of Israel robbed me,” according to news reports. (Ben Kelmer/Reuters)
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- Pakistani Islamists travel towards Chaman in Killa Abdullah district in the north west of Balochistan province. About 5,000 Pakistani Islamists who oppose the anti-terrorism alliance with Washington began a march to the border in protest over the reopening of NATO supply routes into Afghanistan. (Banaras Khan/AFP/GettyI mages)
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- Dancers perform a routine in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square as part of the ‘One Extraordinary Day’ performances in London, England. The dancers are part of American choreographer Elizabeth Streb’s ‘Extreem Action’ dance group which will perform around London for one day only and form part of the Cultural Olympiad. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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- Young men and women hold torches as they participate in the wedding procession a night before the ceremony “Galicnik wedding” in the western Macedonian village Galicnik, some 150 km southwest of Skopje late on July 14, 2012. Every year, around the Christian Orthodox holiday Petrovden (st. Peters day), Macedonians originating from Galicnik gather in this almost deserted mountainous village and a couple gets married according to the old traditions of this region. (Robert Atanasovski/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Contestants take part in the Boy and Girl Fitness Sao Paulo 2012 contest in Sao Paulo July 14, 2012. The annual contest received more than 2 million entries, according to the organizers. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)
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- A fan, disguised as a Christmas Father, waits for riders in a field with bales of straw during the the 191 km and fourteenth stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Limoux and finishing in Foix, southern France. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
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