June 11 Photo Brief: A soldier faints, zebras blend, a child goes splash and the world seems angry, protests in Turkey, Britain, Kenya, Russia and Brazil
A soldier faints, zebras blend, a child goes splash and the world seems angry, protests in Turkey, Britain, Kenya, Russia and Brazil and more in today’s daily brief.
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- People run away as Turkish riot policemen fire tear gas on Taksim square. Turkish police fired massive volleys of tear gas and jets of water to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on June 11, after earlier apparently retreating, an AFP reporter saw. The gas sent the crowd scrambling, raising tensions on a 12th day of violence after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he had “no more tolerance” for the mass demonstrations. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)
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- Zebras are pictured in the zoo in Frankfurt/Main western Germany. (Frank Rumpenhorst/Getty Images)
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- French Army soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of dragons help a fellow soldier who fainted during a tribute ceremony to late former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in the courtyard of the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. Mauroy, who was premier between 1981 and 1984 under France’s first Socialist president Francois Mitterrand, died on June 7 at the age of 84. (Charles Platiau/Getty Images)
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- A boy jumps into a step well built inside the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya on a hot day in New Delhi. Temperatures in Delhi on Tuesday reached 41.6 degrees Celsius (106.88 degrees Fahrenheit), according to India’s meteorological department. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)
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- A child plays soccer near former South African President Nelson Mandela’s house in Qunu. (Rogan Ward/Reuters)
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- Fans pose for a picture in front of riot police before the start of the international friendly soccer match between China and the Netherlands at the Workers Stadium in Beijing. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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- German armed forces Bundeswehr soldiers evacuate residents from the village of Schoenhausen, flooded by the river Elbe, with an armed personel carrier Fuchs to Hohengoehren, north of Magdeburg. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and there have been at least a dozen deaths as a result of floods that have hit Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic over the past week. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
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- A display dummy floats in a flooded car dealership in Fischerdorf, a suburb of the eastern Bavarian city of Deggendorf, after the floods of the nearby Danube river subsided. Floods have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes over the past week in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. At least a dozen people have died because of the deluge. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
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- Munduruku Indians from the Amazon Basin demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy by lying on the street to symbolize the dead, in Brasilia. The Indians are demonstrating against violations of indigenous rights and are calling for the suspension of the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingu, Teles Pires and Tapajos rivers, a huge project aimed at feeding Brazil’s fast-growing demand for electricity. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
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- Munduruku Indians stand guard at the offices of the Brazil’s Indian affairs bureau (FUNAI) headquarters after storming the building in Brasilia. The Indians from the Amazon Basin are demonstrating against violations of indigenous rights and calling for the suspension of the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingu, Teles Pires and Tapajos rivers, a huge project aimed at feeding Brazil’s fast-growing demand for electricity. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
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- A Turkish flag flies as smoke billows from burning vehicles on Taksim square in Istanbul. Riot police re-entered Istanbul’s protest square today, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would meet with protest leaders. (Angelos Tzortzinis/Getty Images)
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- A protester holding a shield attempts to block a jet of water from a police water cannon during clashes in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)
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- A protester holding a flag bearing an image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, falls as he is hit by a jet of water from a police water cannon during clashes in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)
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- A demonstrator helps another protester during clashes with riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim square. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on June 11 said he had “no more tolerance” for the mass anti-government demonstrations that have engulfed the country, as police clashed with demonstrators in Istanbul on a 12th day of unrest. (Angelos Tzortzinis/Getty Images)
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- A demonstrator’s clothes are set on fire during clashes with riot police in Taksim square. Riot police stormed Istanbul’s protest square, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would meet with protest leaders. (Oren Ziv/Getty Images)
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- Police officers form a cordon after raiding a building used as a base for demonstrators protesting against the upcoming G8 summit in central London June 11, 2013. Police in riot gear moved in on a building in London’s Soho district where activists had planned an anti-G8 protest through the British capital on Tuesday, before next week’s summit of world leaders in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
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- A protester demonstrating against the upcoming G8 summit tries to evade a police officer in central London. Police in riot gear moved in on a building in London’s Soho district where activists had planned an anti-G8 protest through the British capital on Tuesday, before next week’s summit of world leaders in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (Luke Macgregor/Reuters)
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- A radical Orthodox believer (C) crushes an egg on a gay rights activist during a protest against a proposed new law termed by the State Duma as “against advocating the rejection of traditional family values” in central Moscow. Russian police detained more than 20 gay rights activists involved in a “kissing protest” on Tuesday outside parliament where lawmakers were preparing to pass a bill banning homosexual “propaganda”. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
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- Protestors chant while cover a sculpture of a pig with rotten animal blood during a demonstration outside the parliament after lawmakers voted themselves hefty salary increases in Nairobi. The protestors had intended to occupy the parliament but were not allowed in by anti-riot police. (Tony Karumba/Getty Images)
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- A protester lies in animal blood as he participates in a demonstration against lawmakers’ demands for a pay rise, outside parliament buildings in Nairobi. Refusing to accept a cut imposed by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission in May, members of parliament voted to increase their salaries to 130 times the minimum wage, which according to them, are needed to deter bribery and provide charitable support for constituents. Protesters have deemed the proposed salary raise a violation of the constitution, according to news reports. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
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- China’s Shenzhou-10 rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan space centre in the Gobi Desert in Jiuquan, northwest China’s Gansu. China began its longest manned space mission yet on June 11 with the launch of the Shenzhou-10, state television showed, as the country steps up an ambitious exploration programme symbolising its growing power. (Getty Images)
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- NASA Glenn’s Propulsion System Laboratory (PSL) lead technician John Wargo inspects an inlet ducting, upstream of a Honeywell ALF 502 engine that was recently used for the NASA Engine Icing Validation test, in Cleveland, Ohio. The test allows engine manufacturers to simulate flying through the upper atmosphere, where large amounts of icing particles can be ingested and cause flame outs or a loss of engine power on aircrafts. (NASA via Reuters)
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- A Free Syrian Army fighter shoots his weapon near Kindi hospital, which is under the control of forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad, as both sides fight to take control of the hospital in Aleppo. (Hamid Khatib/Reuters)
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- Indian women use umbrellas to shield themselves from rain as they walk next to a large field of tea shrubs at a tea garden near Binnaguri in the north eastern Indian state of Assam. Tea is indigenous to India which is the second largest producer in the world behind China. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
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- Piotr Uklanski’s Untitled (Open Wide), 2012, at Unlimited, Art Basel is displayed in Basel, Switzerland. Unlimited, Art Basel runs from the 13th of June until the 16th of June 2013. (Getty Images)
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- Visitors walks past artwork by German artist Carsten Hoeller, entitled “Snake”, during a preview day for the Art Basel 2013, the world’s premiere modern and contemporary art fair, which will take place from June 13 to 16 in Basel. More than 60,000 art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and art lovers are expected to attend the annual meeting. (Fabrice Coffrin/Getty Images)
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