June 25 Photo Brief: An albino blackbird, military summer camp in Gaza, San Juan’s festival, Taiwan’s parliament gets physical
An albino blackbird, military summer camp in Gaza, San Juan’s festival, Taiwan’s parliament gets physical and more in today’s daily brief. | Warning: Visual coverage of death and/or injury may be depicted.
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- A rescued albino blackbird is pictured at the animal rescue station in Bartosovice, Moravia. There are maximum several dozens of albino blackbirds in Europe. In nature, most of them do not survive because others attack them. This first in Czech Republic albino blackbird is one month old and was found in a park. (Radek Mica/Getty Images)
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- A horse rears in a crowd during the traditional San Juan’s (Saint John) festival in the town of Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca, Spain on June 24, 2013, on the eve of Saint John day. (Jaime Reina/Getty Images)
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- A paddle board surfer rides a large wave at a place known by locals as ‘Winkie Pop’, located near Manly Beach in Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for southern Sydney, with a large low pressure system continuing to bring rainy and windy conditions, along with high seas and dangerous surf conditions. (David Gray/Reuters)
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- A security guard tackles to the ground a Femen activist as she tried along with two other feminist activists to stop the car of Tunisian Prime Minister from leaving the EU commission building after his working session with European Commission President at the EU headquarters in Brussels. The European Commission urged Tunisia to reform criminal laws from its previous authoritarian regime as three topless feminist activists staged a protest by jumping on visiting Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh’s car. Larayedh was visiting Brussels on the eve of an appeals hearing for three European activists from the feminist group Femen who were sentenced to four months in prison this month for baring their breasts in Tunis in a pro-Amina protest. (Georges Gobet/Getty Images)
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- Legislators from Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang party and opposition try to seize the parliament’s podium. Fighting broke out in Taiwan’s parliament as legislators scuffled and threw coffee during a debate on whether a controversial capital gains tax on share trading should be revised less than a year after it was brought in. (Getty Images)
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- Palestinian boy Mahmoud Haniyeh, 13, crawls during a military-style exercise at a summer camp organized by the Hamas movement in Gaza City. Tens of thousands of children from the Gaza Strip spend at least part of their holidays in special summer camps, arranged around a wide array of activities. Some, organized by the United Nations, offer sports, art and dance classes. Others, laid on by Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas, include fun and games, while seeking to reinforce religious values and awareness of the conflict with Israel. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
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- Abu al-Taib, the leader of Ahbab Al-Mustafa Battalion, demonstrates to female members as he holds a gun during a military training in a mosque in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood in Aleppo. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)
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- A lightning bolt strikes the Pacific Ocean on Panama Bay. (Rodrigo Arangua/Getty Images)
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- An Israeli army Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) maneuvers during a military exercise near the northern border with Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. (Jack Guez/Getty Images)
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- A member of the Afghan security force stands guard as a ambulance arrive near entrance gate of the Presidential palace in Kabul. All the Taliban militants, who targeted the presidential palace and the CIA office in central Kabul, died in the attack, Afghan police said. Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi told reporters at the scene that all three or four militants had died. (Shah Marai/Getty Images)
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- A rocket and bullet riddled building is seen behind the Bilal bin Rabah mosque in the Abra district of the southern city of Sidon after troops seized control of the headquarters of a radical Sunni sheikh whose supporters battled the army for two days, killing 16 soldiers. (Joseph Eid/Getty Images)
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- U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (C) is escorted from the courtroom after a day of his court martial trial at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
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- A man struggles with an upturned umbrellas as gusts of wind blow during monsoon season in Mumbai. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)
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- Kashmiri men fish from the weed-covered Dal Lake in Srinagar. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- A plane is seen taxiing below the new air traffic control tower shows Manchester Airport, northwest England during a media preview of the 20 million British pound (31 million US dollars) facility which will be operational in the coming days. (Paul Ellis/Getty Images)
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- Air traffic controllers Pete Robinson (L) and Steve Bowden test systems in the new control tower at Manchester Airport, northern England. The 16 million pound Sterling (24.7 million US dollars), 60 metre (197 feet) tall tower goes live on June 27. (Phil Noble/Reuters)
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- Indonesian Muslim women take part in mass prayers asking for rain at a square covered by thick haze in Dumai. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has apologized to Singapore and Malaysia over fires that have cloaked the countries in thick haze, as thousands more emergency workers were deployed on June 25 to tackle the blazes. (Getty Images)
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- An Indian boy sits on a sea wall as waves lash the retaining wall of the iconic Gateway of India off the Arabian sea in Mumbai. The monsoon season, which runs from June to September, accounts for about 80 percent of India’s annual rainfall, vital for a farm economy which lacks adequate irrigation facilities. However, the monsoon arrived early this year, catching many by surprise and exposing a lack of preparedness. (Indranil Mukherjee/Getty Images)
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- US businessman Chip Starnes stands behind the bars of his office window after being held hostage for five days over a wage dispute at his Specialty Medical Supplies factory in Huairou, Beijing. Starnes, who had come from the US-based company to lay off 30 employees, said the remaining 100 then barred him from leaving until they reached a resolution. (Mark Ralston/Getty Images)
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- Wang Jing (C), HKND Group chairman, arrives for a news conference in Beijing. The Hong Kong-based company, HKND Group, that won a concession to design, build and manage a $40 billion canal in Nicaragua to rival Panama’s says it has been lured by an energy renaissance in the United States and its belief that world trade could double by 2030. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
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