Sept. 19 Photo Brief: Caroline Kennedy on Capitol Hill, giant rubber duck in Taiwan and Olympic medals unveiled in Russia
Caroline Kennedy testified at her nomination hearing for U.S. Ambassador to Japan, a giant rubber duck by a Dutch artist floats into Taiwan as it goes on display, Russia unveils it 2014 Winter Olympic Medals for the Sochi games and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A female member of the “Mother Aisha” battalion receives instruction as she holds a rifle during military training in Aleppo’s Salaheddine district. (Loubna Mrie/Reuters photo)
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- Children watch Bolivian dancers perform during a parade to mark the traditional “Day of America” festival, in central Oviedo, northern Spain. The Asturian capital is celebrating its traditional day of America. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters photo
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- A riot policeman hits a protester with his shield during a peaceful anti-fascist rally following the killing of a 35-year-old anti-racism rapper by a man who sympathizes with the far-right Golden Dawn group in an Athens suburb.The Greek government asked judges to move against Golden Dawn, saying it had evidence the far-right party was a criminal organisation and a threat to public safety. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters photo)
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- A passenger aircraft, with the full “Harvest Moon” seen behind, makes its final approach to landing at Heathrow Airport in west London. The Harvest Moon is a traditional name for the full moon that is closest to the autumn equinox, and at a traditional period where farmers would be harvesting crops. The moon’s rise time and angle of path give the illusion that the Harvest Moon is both closer, larger and brighter; though actually it is not. (Toby Melville/Reuters photo)
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- A man takes a picture of the “Rubber Duck” by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman while it is on display at Kaohsiung Harbor, southern Taiwan. The giant rubber duck, which is 18 m (60 ft) high and weighs 1,000 kg (2,200 pounds), made its first public appearance in Taiwan. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters photo)
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- Members of the Egyptian security forces attempt to help the Police Chief General Nabil Farag (C), who was killed after unidentified militants opened fire on security forces deployed early morning, in Kerdasa, a town 14 km (9 miles), from Cairo. (Stringer/Reuters photo)
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- Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, arrives to testify at her U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on her nomination as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Supporting her nomination are U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). (Jason Reed/Reuters photo)
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- Palestinian children light candles during a protest against power cuts and the blockade on the Gaza Strip, in Gaza. Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza in 2007 after its enemy, Islamist group Hamas, seized control of the territory in a brief civil war with Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters photo)
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- A worker tightens a rope to raise a four-meter-high (13 ft) statue of horses at a new housing complex at Parung village in Bogor, Indonesia’s West Java province. (Beawiharta/Reuters photo)
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- Local residents wade through a flooded street in Acapulco, state of Guerrero, Mexico as heavy rains hit the country. Mexican authorities scrambled to launch an air lift to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists stranded amid floods in the resort of Acapulco following a pair of deadly storms. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Getty images)
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- Guests are seated for dinner at Bryant Park during the annual Diner en Blanc, the worlds only viral culinary event, a chic secret pop-up style picnic imported from France. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the outdoor site — always a landmark location — is revealed at the last-minute. Guests are asked to dress entirely in elegant white, bring a picnic basket of food, fine china and silverware, white tablecloths, table and chairs. (Timothy Clary/Getty Images)
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- Evacuees unload food boxes from a Mexican Navy helicopter in an area of Acapulco, state of Guerrero, Mexico as heavy rains hit the country. (Claudio Vargas/Getty images)
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- A model presents a creation for fashion house Just Cavalli as part of the spring/summer 2014 ready-to-wear collections during the fashion week in Milan. (Giuseppe Cacace/Getty images)
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- People take a picture in front of an election campaign poster showing German Chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) Angela Merkel in Berlin. German voters will take to the polls in a general election on September 22. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters photo)
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- A staff member puts finishing touches to a wax figure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel before its presentation at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin. The new wax figure of Merkel, which is the second in Madame Tussauds collection, has been modeled on photographs from this year’s campaign events for the upcoming general election, a spokeswoman of the museum said. (Thomas Peter /Reuters photo)
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- An antiques seller waits by a lantern for customers in his shop during a blackout in Sanaa. Large parts of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, have been left without electricity after Yemeni tribesmen attacked power lines a Yemeni official said. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters photo)
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- An employee holds a gold medal for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games during a presentation for the public at a jewellery shop in St. Petersburg. The gold, silver and bronze medals for the Sochi Olympics weigh 531g, 525g and 460g, respectively. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters photo)
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- A passenger cries as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip with hopes of crossing into Egypt. Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on a week after it was closed in response to a deadly attack on an Egyptian military headquarters near the frontier. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters photo)
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- A North Korean soldier looks at a window as she stands along the bank of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. (Jacky Chen/Reuters photo)
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- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd R), wearing protective suit and mask, is briefed about tanks containing radioactive water by Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono (2nd L), as they stand near a tank (C, with railings painted red and blue) which is being dismantled after leaking contaminated water, during his inspection tour to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo/Reuters)
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- A protestor raises his fist as anti-fascist demonstrators clash with riot police in Athens after a leftist musician was murdered by a suspected neo-Nazi. Pavlos Fyssas, a 34-year-old left-wing hip hop singer, was stabbed to death early today morning outside a Keratsini cafeteria.(Aris Messinis/Getty images)
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- A boy sits on an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, after it was immersed in the waters of Hussain Sagar lake to mark the end of 10-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. (Krishnendu Halder/Reuters photo)
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