Sept. 13 Photo Brief: Anti-government protests in Turkey, Ganesha Chaturthi festival, scenes from Palestinian refugee camp
Turkish police fire tear gas at demonstrators, the Ganesha Chaturthi festival in India celebrates the birthday of Ganesh, war continues in Syria, and more in today’s brief.
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- An Indian Hindu devotee carries an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha for immersion inside an environmentally friendly artificial water tank on the fifth day of the ten-day long festival Ganesh Chaturthi, in Mumbai on September 13, 2013. Hindu devotees bring home idols of Lord Ganesha in order to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity. The ten day Ganesh Festival sees millions of Hindus gathering along the western city’s coast to immerse the elephant-god idols in the Arabian sea. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a position as he aims his weapon at the Justice Palace, which is controlled by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo September 13, 2013. (Hamid Khatib/Reuters)
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- Solu Bolon Royal boat athletes compete as part of Lake Toba Festival 2013 on September 13, 2013 in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)
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- A worker is covered by pieces of fur as he trims raccoon dog fur outside a store at a fur market in Chongfu township, Zhejiang province on September 13, 2013. The 100-square-meter Chongfu township, which houses over 100,000 residents in Eastern China’s Zhejiang province, is known as the biggest fur designing, researching, producing and exporting center in China. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- Indonesian anti-terror troops take part in a hostage situation during the closing of Counter Terrorism Exercise at Indonesia Peace and Security Center (IPSC) in Sentul, Bogor-West Java, on September 13, 2013. (Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans against the military and interior ministry as they burn a flag reading, “Egypt’s Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a traitor” during a protest near Rabaa al-Adawiya square, at Cairo’s Nasr City district, September 13, 2013. Thousands of pro-Mursi protesters marched after Friday prayers in several areas of Cairo after authorities boosted security in sites where crowds had gathered in the past. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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- Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi raise up posters with the four finger symbol during a demonstration against the military backed government in the Egyptian capital Cairo, on September 13, 2013. Thousands of Morsi supporters rallied in Cairo after Friday prayers chanting angry slogans against the military, with clashes reported elsewhere in Egypt. The four finger symbol, known as “Rabaa”, meaning four in Arabic, is used to remember those killed in the crackdown on the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo earlier in the year. (Mahmoud Khaled/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Models present creations by Ailanto during the 2014 Spring/Summer Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain on September 13, 2013. (Dani Pozo/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A woman reacts before crossing the street during a demonstration by peasants dancing in their underwear to demand an audience with the Federal District authorities in Mexico City, September 12, 2013. The protesters belong to a group called the “400 villages,” who are demanding for land that they claim was unjustly taken away from them in Tabasco. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)
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- A protester chants a slogan at Kadikoy in Istanbul. Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic bullets at thousands of people who gathered in Istanbul to protest the death of a 22-year-old demonstrator the previous day in the southeastern city of Antakya. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Turkish riot police are targeted with fireworks during a protest against a government project, the first ever cultural center containing an Alevi cemevi and a Sunni mosque side by side, in the Tuzlucayir neighborhood of Ankara, Turkey on September 12, 2013. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Stand-off between Philippine government troops and Muslim rebels
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- Palestinian children play in the wreckage of an old car in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on September 13, 2013. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Palestinian children play in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on September 13, 2013. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Boats carrying slum dwellers pass photographs of garment workers taken by students of the Counter Foto photography department, by the waterfront of Korail slum at Gulshan area in Dhaka, Bangladesh on September 13, 2013. The photographs are a celebration of hardworking Bengali women, in support of their struggle for socioeconomic justice, and are part of the “Dignity in Industry” project by French artist J.R. and Inside Out Project, organizers said. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
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- The mother of one of the four men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in Delhi cries upon hearing the news of the death sentence as she sits in a cot inside her house at a slum in New Delhi, September 13, 2013. All four men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in Delhi were sentenced to death on Friday, nine months after a crime whose savagery triggered furious protests across India and rare national debate about violence against women. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)
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- An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man performs the Kaparot ritual in the coastal Israeli city of Ashdod early on September 13, 2013 in line with the Jewish tradition of transferring the sins of the past year to the chicken before the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur. (David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images)
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