Nov. 25 Photo Brief: Displaced Congolese, anniversary of Spanish dictator’s death, supposed Russian spy released, holy month of Muharram
Displaced Congolese, anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death, supposed Russian spy Valentin Danilov released, holy month of Muharram and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A displaced young Congolese boy stands outside his family’s ramshackle shelter during a food aid distribution exercise conducted by humanitarian agencies at a camp for the internally displaced in Mugunga on November 24, 2012. Thousands of people have been displaced due to fighting between M23 rebels and government forces in eastern D.R. Congo’s North Kivu region. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Democratic Republic of Congo government soldiers ride on the back of a truck on November 25, 2012 in Minova. Congolese rebels on Sunday rejected demands by regional governments to pull out of the eastern city of Goma to allow for peace talks aimed at preventing a wider conflict and halting a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Supporters of former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco give fascist salutes during a rally commemorating the 37nd anniversary of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco’s death at Plaza de Oriente on November 25, 2012 in Madrid, Spain. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
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- Russian physicist Valentin Danilov looks out of a window as he sits inside a train carriage at a railway station in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on November 25, 2012. Pale and thin, Danilov has changed more than the country that jailed him in 2004 for selling state secrets to China. The 66-year-old Russian physicist was released on Saturday from a Siberian penal colony on spying charges he says were politically motivated. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- Indian Shiite Muslims participate in a mock fight during a religious procession on the tenth day of Ashura in Allahabad on November 25, 2012. During the Shiite Muslim holy month of Moharram, large processions are formed and the devotees parade the streets holding banners and carrying models of the mausoleum of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his people, who fell at Karbala. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Shi’ite Muslims flagellate themselves as they mourn during an Ashura procession in the northern hill town of Shimla on November 25, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Shiite Muslims gather at the shrine of Imam Hussein early on November 25, 2012 in Karbala during the celebration of Ashura. Millions of pilgrims pour into the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala for the peak of commemorations for Ashura today, the most important day in the Shiite calendar, with security tight following mass-casualty attacks in previous years. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Monkeys eat fruits during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 94 miles north of Bangkok, November 25, 2012. More than 4,000kg of fruits are used during the annual festival to promote tourism. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
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- A group of candidates wait for the National Public Servant Exam in the rain at a university in Hefei, central China’s Anhui province on November 25, 2012. More than 1.5 million people applied to take the exam, over 30 times the number a decade ago, vying for about 20,000 government vacancies, state media reported. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Austria’s Thomas Morgenstern competes during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway on November 25, 2012. Morgenstern places third. (Stian Lysberg Solum/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A teddy bear has the company logo pinned to its ear at the Steiff stuffed toy factory on November 23, 2012 in Giengen an der Brenz, Germany. Founded by seamstress Margarethe Steiff in 1880, Steiff has been making stuffed teddy bears since the early 20th century ever since her nephew Richard Steiff exhibited the first commercially produced teddy bear in Europe in 1903. (Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images)
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- A rider mounts his horse at the Sicab International Horse Show of Spain, on November 25, 2012 in Sevilla. (Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian man emerges from a smuggling tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 25, 2012. Egypt’s closure of scores of cross-border smuggling tunnels has affected the flow of goods into Gaza but has not dealt the knockout blow widely expected by traders and officials. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Italian cardinal Giuseppe Betori (L) and a bishop take a glimpse through a door during the courtesy visit to the cardinals on November 24, 2012 at the Apostolico palace at the Vatican. Six non-European prelates are set to join the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals, a move welcomed by critics concerned that the body which will elect the future pope is too Eurocentric. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People take part in a protest against violence directed at women, in front of a church at the town hall in Oviedo November 25, 2012. The United Nations General Assembly has designated Sunday to be the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters)
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- A sphynx cat is held at the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy’s Supreme Championship Cat Show held in the NEC on November 24, 2012 in Birmingham, England. The one-day Supreme Cat Show is one of the largest cat fancy competitions in Europe with over one thousand cats being exhibited. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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- Russia’s Evgeny Ustyugov competes during the mixed relay competition at the Biathlon World Cup in Oestersund, Sweden on November 25, 2012.(Anders Wiklund/AFP/Getty Images)
Hezbollah says could hit all of Israel in future war
Dominic Evans | Reuters
8:41 a.m. EST, November 25, 2012
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Sunday that thousands of rockets would rain down on Tel Aviv and cities across the Jewish state if it attacked Lebanon.
Speaking four days after the ceasefire which ended a week of conflict between Israel and the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza, Nasrallah said Hezbollah’s response to any attack would dwarf the rocket fire launched from Palestinian territories.
“Israel, which was shaken by a handful of Fajr-5 rockets during eight days – how would it cope with thousands of rockets which would fall on Tel Aviv and other (cities) … if it attacked Lebanon?” Nasrallah said.
The Fajr-5s, with a range of 75 km (45 miles) – able to strike Tel Aviv or Jerusalem – and 175 kg (386 lb) warheads, are the most powerful and long-range rockets to have been fired from Gaza.
But Hezbollah, which fought Israel to a standstill in a 34-day war six years ago, says it has been re-arming since then and has a far deadlier arsenal than Hamas. Nasrallah has said Hezbollah could kill tens of thousands of people and strike anywhere inside Israel if hostilities break out again.
“If the confrontation with the Gaza Strip … had a range of 40 to 70 km, the battle with us will range over the whole of occupied Palestine – from the Lebanese border to the Jordanian border, to the Red Sea,” Nasrallah said.
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