June 5 Photo Brief: Houston firefighters remembered, World Environment Day, D-Day survivors, protests continue in Turkey, Senator Lautenberg funeral
June 5 Photo Brief: Houston firefighters remembered, World Environment Day, D-Day survivors, protests continue in Turkey, Senator Lautenberg funeral and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Anti-government protesters try to protect themselves from a water cannon as riot police disperse them during a protest in Ankara. Turkish demonstrators demanded the sacking of police chiefs on Wednesday over a fierce crackdown on days of unprecedented protest against what they see as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian rule. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)
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- A man stands on an upper floor at the Senate building in Mexico City . (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
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- Pope Francis gestures as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
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- People see off buses carrying students who are traveling to attend the college entrance examination, or gaokao, at Maotanchang High School in Liu’an, Anhui province. Thousands of people including teachers, relatives and local residents came to bid farewell on Wednesday to more than 11,000 students from the school who are going to attend the exam which falls on June 7 and 8, local media reported. (China Daily)
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- Barbara Perez and David Renaud mourn for Perez’ son Captain Matthew Renaud during a memorial service for four Houston firefighters in Houston, Texas. Four firefighters died and 13 others were injured when the roof collapsed while battling a five-alarm fire at a hotel and restaurant in southwest Houston in June. (David J. Phillip/Reuters)
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- Houston Fire Chief Terry Garrison presents a flag to Jack and Mary Sullivan, parents of fallen firefighter Anne Sullivan during a memorial service for four Houston firefighters in Houston, Texas. Four firefighters died and 13 others were injured when the roof collapsed while battling a five-alarm fire at a hotel and restaurant in southwest Houston in June. (David J. Phillip/Reuters)
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- Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a return to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland during their men’s singles quarter-final match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris . Nadal’s transformation into claycourt machine was complete on Wednesday as the seven-times champion bulldozed into the French Open semi-finals with a 6-2 6-3 6-1 crushing of ninth seed Wawrinka. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
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- Tommy Haas of Germany discusses a line call with an umpire during his men’s singles quarter-final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters)
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- Henryk, 58, who has lived at the Camillian Mission shelter for homeless people for five years, looks out as he eats his meal at the shelter in Warsaw. Food Bank SOS is an organisation that distributes food, including produce that would have otherwise gone to waste, to charities such as the Camillian Mission, which use it to help the needy. Cutting the amount of food that goes to waste is the special theme of this year’s World Environment Day on June 5. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that about a third of all the food produced for human consumption worldwide every year is wasted. Picture taken June 4, 2013. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
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- The casket of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg is carried from the funeral service at the Park Avenue Synagogue, in New York. Scores of dignitaries filled a New York City synagogue on Wednesday for the funeral of Lautenberg, a Democrat from New Jersey, who was elected to five six-year terms in the Senate. He was the Senate’s last surviving World War Two veteran. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
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- A woman pays her respects in front of the gravestone of her son who died for the country, at the national cemetery in Seoul on the eve of South Korea’s Memorial Day to commemorate fallen patriots. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)
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- A fisherman works on Chaohu Lake that is filled with cyanobacteria in Hefei, central China’s Anhui province. As temperature rises, Cyanobacteria begins to spread again in Chaohu Lake, worsening the water quality and sending out strong smells, local media reported. (Getty Images)
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- A boy sits in a wooden boat transporting him across a river to go to school in Jakarta. Local residents say that they are highly dependent on the river due to their lack of shower, washing and toilet facilities. World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5. (Enny Nuraheni/Reuters)
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- A scavenger, surrounded by a flock of Greater Adjutant birds, collects plastic for recycling at a dump site on World Environment Day in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati. (Utpal Baruah/Reuters)
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- Munduruku Indians attend a meeting consisting of nearly 150 Indians, who are campaigning against the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon, in Brasilia. Talks between the Indians and the government were suspended a day after Air Force planes flew 144 Munduruku Indians to Brasilia for talks to end a week-long occupation of the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River, a huge project aimed at feeding Brazil’s fast-growing demand for electricity. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
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- Normandy veterans (L-R) Victor Urch, 88 and Frank Baugh, 89 (who were in the Royal Navy dropping troops and supplies onto Sword Beach) and Derek Whitehead, 88 (who was in the Durham Light Infantry and was on Gold Beach on D-Day) share a joke as they walk along what was the British Sword beach at Colleville Montgomery on June 5, 2013 near Caen, France. Across Normandy several hundred of the surviving veterans of the Normandy campaign are gathering to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the D-Day landings which eventually led to the Allied liberation of France in 1944. Next year, which will mark the 70th anniversary of the landings, is widely expected to be the last time that the veterans will gather in any great number. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan girl stands in the doorway of her house in the old sector of Herat. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. (Aref Karimi/Getty Images)
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- A Kenyan fan is pictured before their 2014 World Cup Qualifying match between Kenya and Nigeria at Kasarani football stadium. (Carl de Souza/Getty Images)
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