July 20 Photo Brief: Ramadan begins, violence in Syria continues
Holy month of Ramadan for Muslims begins, violence continues in Syria as some 30,000 Syrian refugees may have fled to Lebanon, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Muslims attend a mass prayer session “Tarawih” marking the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in a mosque in Surabaya, East Java province July 20, 2012. (Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters)
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- Muslims attend Friday prayers on the first day of Ramadan at the East London Mosque in London July 20, 2012. (Chris Helgren/Reuters)
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- Muslims attend Friday prayers on the first day of Ramadan, at the courtyard of a housing estate next to a small BBC community centre and mosque in east London July 20, 2012. (Chris Helgren/Reuters)
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- Mohammed Fanas, 65, demonstrates on July 19, 2012 how he walks through the streets of the Old City in Sidon to wake the sleeping for the “sohour” meal — the last meal before fasting for the coming day during the holy month of Ramadan. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Palestinian men pray in front the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan July 20, 2012. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
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- A injured Syrian man, who said his injuries were inflicted by Syrian security forces during the violence in his country, reads the Koran on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan at a shelter in Amman July 20, 2012. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)
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- Mourners gather around a car carrying the coffin of the late Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajha during his funeral in Damascus July 20, 2012. Rajha was killed by a bomb, which exploded during a meeting of ministers and security officials at a national security building in Damascus two days ago. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters)
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- Syrian refugees walk with their belongings on the Lebanese-Syrian border, in al-Masnaa July 20, 2012. Up to 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the past 48 hours to escape fighting in their country, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)
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- A picture taken on July 20, 2012 shows burnt-out lorries at the Bab al-Hawa border post. Some 150 armed rebel fighters took control of the post, which lies opposite Turkey’s Cilvegozu border crossing in the southern province of Hatay. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People react outside Gateway High School, just a few blocks from the scene of the Century 16 Theatre shootings in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. A gunman in a gas mask and bullet-proof vest killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of the new Batman movie. (Evan Semon/Reuters)
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- A woman dressed in religious attire walks by the church of Our Lady of the Rosary on July 18, 2012 at Nueva Jerusalen community in Michoacan, Mexico. Nueva Jerusalen was founded 1973 after peasant woman Gabina Romero said that Our Lady of the Rosary had materialized before her with the message to found a community of penitents to save the world. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A monument, displaying a Soviet-made retro tractor, is seen near a highway outside the village of Zlatorunovsk on July 19, 2012. The sign reads “The Lenin’s Order State Breeding Factory.” (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- Students cheer at a summer military camp in Ansan, south of Seoul July 20, 2012. Over one thousand students and civilians will attend boot camp training courses from July till August at the Blue Dragon Camp run by retired marines. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)
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- Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) march during their passing-out parade in Lethpora, south of Srinagar, July 20, 2012. Authorities said that 937 young Kashmiri men of various religious backgrounds were formally inducted into the police force after nine months of rigorous training. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- Messages from mourners are seen outside Harlem restaurant Sylvia’s after famed restaurateur and founder Sylvia Woods died yesterday on July 20, 2012 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. The Harlem soul food restaurant is a cultural icon and has been visited by dignitaries including U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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- Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei talks on his mobile phone near his cat as his lawyer (not seen) gives a statement to journalists after the verdict hearing, at the courtyard of his studio in Beijing, July 20, 2012. A Chinese court on Friday upheld a $2 million fine for tax evasion against the country’s most famous dissident, Ai Weiwei, after baring him from attending the hearing, in a case that critics accuse Beijing of using to muzzle the outspoken artist. Petar Kujundzic/Reuters)
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- Children play in rain water pouring from an overflowing roof gutter in Manila on July 20, 2012. Classes were suspended in some parts of Metro Manila due to heavy rains caused by an area of low-pressure. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A woman practices on a trapeze shortly after sunset at the Trapeze School in New York. At the school, students learn trapeze maneuvers with the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan as a backdrop. Picture taken July 1, 2012. (Lee Celano/Reuters)
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- Members of a Thai bomb squad unit inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Thailand’s southern Narathiwat province on July 20, 2012. Two civilians were killed and four wounded in bomb and shooting attacks in southern Thailand, a military spokesman said. (Madaree Tohlalama/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Street artist James Cochran, also known as Jimmy C, puts the finishing touches to a piece of work depicting the face of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on July 20, 2012 in London. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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- A Gentoo penguin looks into the camera while diving in his pool at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany, on July 18, 2012. (Jonas Guettler/AFP/Getty Images)
Syrian forces stretched, spy chief fourth bomb victim
Oliver Holmes
Reuters
2:04 p.m. EDT, July 20, 2012
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian troops fought on the corpse-strewn streets of the capital and at far-flung border posts on Friday to reverse gains by rebels, who have advanced relentlessly in the 48 hours since much of President Bashar al-Assad’s entourage was assassinated.
Assad’s intelligence chief died on Friday of wounds sustained in Wednesday’s bomb attack, becoming the fourth member of his narrow circle of kin and lieutenants to be killed by a blast that has transformed the 16-month conflict.
Since then, rebels have pushed deep into the heart of the capital and seized control of other towns. On Thursday, they captured three border crossings with Iraq and Turkey, the first time they have held sway over Syria’s frontiers.
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