April 3 Photo Brief: Chuck Hagel, controversial kangaroo cull, International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
Chuck Hagel on challenges facing the Department of Defense, controversial kangaroo cull, International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action falls on April 4 and more in today’s daily brief. Warning: Photos may depict death or injury.
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- U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair April 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. Hagel spoke on “the strategic and fiscal challenges facing the Department of Defense.” (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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- Israeli soldiers walk toward a cloud of tear gas during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers at the al-Arub refugee camp North of the West Bank city of Hebron on April 3, 2013. Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon warned that Israel would respond to any attacks on its territory and not allow its people to come under fire “in any form”. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Kashmiri labourers carry fodder for cattle as they walk on the edge of Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar on April 3, 2013. Tourists arrivals are picking up after a sharp fall in the wake of protests over the hanging of Kashmiri activist Afzal Guru in February, for an attack on India’s parliament in 2001. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Suleiman Fatul Saim, a 10-year-old boy from Dar Al Salam, North Darfur, poses for photos in El Fasher April 2, 2013 in this picture provided by the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). Suleiman Fatul Saim suffered burns to more than 90 percent of his body when his brother detonated a device, which killed one of their friends and injured them in November 2006, according to UNAMID. Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs) still pose a risk of detonation, presenting a risk for civilians. The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action falls on April 4. (Albert Gonzalez Farran/UNAMID via Reuters)
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- A F-16 fighter jet belonging to the U.S. Air Force comes in for a landing at a U.S. air force base in Osan, south of Seoul April 3, 2013. The U.S. has positioned a warship off the Korean coast as a shield against ballistic missile attack, and also deployed radar-evading F-22 Raptors on Sunday to take part in the annual joint military drills it carries out with South Korea. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)
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- A local journalist records a joint press conference of Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr (L) and Defense Minister Stephen Smith (3L) with Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (2L) and Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro (4L) in Jakarta on April 3, 2013 following their bilateral meeting. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Kangaroo shooter Steven O’Donnell rests his .223 calibre rifle on the roof of his truck as he aims at a group of kangaroos on a property located on the outskirts of Australia’s capital city Canberra March 23, 2013. O’Donnell, a professional plumber, shoots kangaroos on local farmer’s properties around three times a week as part of the annual cull, running from March until the end of July, which involves the legal shooting and tagging of thousands of eastern grey kangaroos per year in the Australian Capital Territory. Picture taken March 23, 2013. (David Gray/Reuters)
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- Joggers run before the sunrise underneath leafless trees along the banks of Alster Lake in Hamburg, Germany, on April 3, 2013. (Christian Charisius/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This NASA handout image captured by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station (ISS) on April 2, 2013, shows the inactive volcano in the Fogo National Park on Fogo, Cape Verde. (NASA HO – Chris Hadfield/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man takes a picture of fog covered mountain summits, from Germany’s highest mountain the 9,718 feet Zugspitze, on a sunny Spring day in the Bavarian village of Grainau April 3, 2012. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)
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- Stone-throwing Palestinian protesters push a burning tyre during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron April 3, 2013. The death of Maysara Abu Hamdeya, a prisoner serving a life sentence over an attempt to bomb an Israeli cafe, from cancer on Tuesday, touched a nerve among Palestinians, who regard their brethren in Israeli jails as heroes in the fight for statehood. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
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- A stone-throwing Palestinian protester runs away from rubber bullets fired by Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron April 3, 2013. Confrontations spread on Wednesday to the occupied West Bank where Israeli forces clashed with dozens of Palestinian protesters in Hebron, site of a funeral planned on Thursday for deceased 64-year-old Maysara Abu Hamdeya, a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel who died of cancer on Tuesday. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
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- Flames and smoke rise at an oil pipeline after an explosion, 18 km (11 miles) south of the city of Ajdabiyah April 3, 2013. Libya is investigating the cause of the explosion late on Tuesday on oil and condensate pipelines to the eastern port of Zueitina, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said. It quoted acting NOC Chairman Abdulkasir Shengir as saying there were no casualties. (Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters)
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- An Indian protester self immolates at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation premises in Rajkot, some 210 kms from Ahmedabad on April 3, 2013. Five people set themselves on fire in western India, leaving one dead as they protested official plans to raze their home in a drive to remove illegal structures, police said. The five people, including three women, belonged to the same family and turned up at a city government office in the western state of Gujarat around noon, with kerosene-filled containers in tow, local police said. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Stock prices displayed on an electronic board are reflected on raindrops on the window of the board outside a brokerage in Tokyo April 3, 2013. Japan’s Nikkei share average climbed 1.7 percent on Wednesday as investors bought beaten-down shares after two days of losses amid expectations of further monetary easing by the central bank’s new leadership team this week. The Nikkei gained 204.03 points to 12,207.46 by the midday break. The benchmark shed more than 3 percent in the last two days. (Yuya Shino/Reuters)
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- A man enters the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City April 3, 2013. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
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- Prince Albert II of Monaco’s Carabiniers are seen in the courtyard of Monaco palace during a visit of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon April 3, 2013. The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Monaco for a two-day visit to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Monaco’s membership of the UN. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
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- A multi-storey building, which is part of the Grozny-City complex, is seen on fire in the Chechen capital Grozny, April 3, 2013. No casualties were reported. (Yelena Fitkulina/Reuters)
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- A member of the Free Syrian Army holds his weapon as he sits on a sofa in the middle of a street in Deir al-Zor April 2, 2013. Picture taken April 2, 2013. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)
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- A bust of late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, father of the current president Bashar al-Assad, is seen hung at a broken window of a building in Deir al-Zor April 2, 2013. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)
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- Journalists shoot the arrival of four sheep for the launching of an ‘eco-grazing’ experiment with a group of Ouessant sheep in a 2000m’ green space owned by the French capitalís archives service, in the 19th district in Paris April 3, 2013. The goal of the experiment is for sheep to graze at intervals until autumn on the parcel of land and to maintain it without weed-killers. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)
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- Vultures stand on football goals on Botafogo beach, with the Sugar Loaf landmark on the background in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 3, 2013. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images)
Pentagon sends missile defenses to Guam over North Korea threat
Reuters, 2:59 p.m. EDT, April 3, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Wednesday it was sending an advanced ballistic missile defense system to Guam in the coming weeks, as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel cited a “real and clear” danger from North Korea.
North Korea has singled out U.S. military bases in Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, and Hawaii among its potential targets in threats in recent weeks that have put the Korean peninsula on edge and triggered a change in the U.S. defense posture and missile defense planning.
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