Oct. 23 Photo Brief: Landscape portrait, clown convention, new species of monkey, endangered tiger
Landscape portrait, clown convention, new species of monkey, endangered tiger and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A critically endangered Sumatran tiger is seen in its enclosure at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta. In the Greenpeace report “Licence to Kill” released on October 22, Greenpeace said that Singapore-based Wilmar, the world’s biggest palm oil processor, was sourcing its oil from illegally cleared land and destroying the habitat of critically endangered Sumatran tigers. The palm oil sector is the largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, home to around 10 percent of the world’s tropical forest, where illegal logging is rampant. According to conservationists about 400 Sumatran tigers are living in the wilds. (Romeo Gacad/Getty Images)
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- A group of clowns smile during a family photo for the Latin American Clown Convention in Mexico City. At least 500 clowns from Peru, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica are taking part in the event. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Getty Images)
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- A Syrian refugee rolls his suitcase after he and others are refused entry from northeastern Syria into northern Iraq by the Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) based in northern Iraq. The group of more than 150 Syrians looking for refuge in neighboring Iraq Kurdistan waited an hour but were refused entry and had to return to Syria. This crossing has been closed since the end of May, allowing only humanitarian aid and those who are ill through. (Mauricio Morales/Getty Images)
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- A man waits for taxi in front of Changchun Railway Station as heavy smog engulfs the city on October 22, 2013 in Changchun, China. Expressways, schools and an airport remain closed as heavy smog continues to disrupt northeast China. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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- Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
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- A woman puts out earthen lamps to dry in the sun at her workshop ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. Earthen lamps are sold in large numbers during Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, as people use them to decorate their homes. The Diwali festival will be observed this year on November 3. (Ajay Verma/Reuters)
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- Men paddle a boat across the Ikopa river in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo. Voters in Madagascar’s presidential election on Friday desperately hope for an end to a five-year political crisis that has scared off investors and severely damaged the economy, but there is little optimism they will get their wish. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
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- A girl walks through the forest during a warm autumn day in the village of Mavrovo.(Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters)
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- A piece of land art entitled “Wish” showing the face of an anonymous six-year-old local Belfast girl is seen in this aerial view of the Titanic quarter in Belfast October 23, 2013. The artwork by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada spans 11 acres, is made up from 2,000 tonnes of sand, 2,000 tonnes of soil and some 30,000 wooden pegs. It will remain on view until December 2013. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)
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- A piece of land art entitled “Wish” showing the face of an anonymous six-year-old local Belfast girl is seen in this aerial view of the Titanic quarter in Belfast October 23, 2013. The artwork by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada spans 11 acres, is made up from 2,000 tonnes of sand, 2,000 tonnes of soil and some 30,000 wooden pegs. It will remain on view until December 2013. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)
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- Demonstrators hold up banners as delegates arrive for the first round of coalition talks between Germany’s conservative (CDU/CSU) parties and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) start hammering out compromises on economic, energy and euro policies on Wednesday, the opening day of talks on a coalition government that should be in place by Christmas. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
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- Creations by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier are on display during a press preview of “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From Sidewalk to Catwalk” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The exhibition, which features life-size mannequins with video-animated faces, displays Gaultier’s haute couture garnments throughout is carrier. The exhibition runs October 25, 2013 to February 23, 2014. (Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)
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- A visitor looks at “2 Seated on the Wall with Big Chairs” art works by artist Juan Munoz during the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) at the Grand Palais in Paris. The International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) will run from October 24 to 27 in the French capital. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
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- A salmon fry swims in a ladle as it is released into the Kamenice river near the village of Jetrichovice . Members of Czech Fishing Union and Bohemian Switzerland National Park release salmon every year to Kamenice river as part of the reintroduction programme kicked-off in 1998. The programme is aimed at stabilising the salmon population in the Czech Republic and at reintroducing the fish to rivers after almost 50 years of absence caused by massive industrial pollution during the communist era. (David W Cerny/Reuters)
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- A man picks plants in a river to feed the cattle in ‘La Reunionkely’ area in Antananarivo ahead of the presidential elections on October 25, 2013. Thirty-three candidates are running in a poll that is meant to end a four-year political crisis on the Indian Ocean island sparked when strongman Andry Rajoelina ousted then-president Marc Ravalomanana in a coup. But supporters are divided over new candidates after Rajoelina and Ravalomanana’s wife Lalao, along with a few others, were barred from running under international pressure. After the presidential polls, a parliamentary vote will follow on December 20, along with a second presidential round if the October election does not deliver an outright winner. Madagascar votes on October 25 in long-delayed elections meant to pull the island nation out of a devastating political crisis that plunged millions into misery after the 2009 coup. (Stephane De Sakutin/Getty Images)
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- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II receives flowers from a child actor as she inspects the horse prop from the theatre production ‘War Horse’ at the National Theatre in London during a visit to commemorate the institutions 50th anniversary. (Lefteris Pitarakis/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian man trains a horse in Gaza City. (Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
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- A young woman sits near tents in an illegal campsite of Albanian asylum seekers, situated under the A6 motorway’s Kitchener bridge next to the entrance of the Fourviere tunnel in Lyon, France. A court today ordered the immediate expulsion of the camp of 300 people, including 98 children, who have been camping beneath the highway bridge since July. The interior ministry also said today that it would seek an overhaul of the asylum system. (Alexander Roth-Grisard/Getty Images)
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- Chinese honor guards prepare for the arrivial of India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese premier Li Keqiang outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Manmohan Singh is on a visit to China from October 22 to 24. (Wang Zhao/Getty Images)
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- Kosovo honour guards stand guard during a ceremony for the arrival of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan near the town of Sllatina. Erdogan is on official visit to Kosovo. (Armend Nimani/Getty Images)
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- A model showcases designs by Fenny Mustafa on the runway at the Queen of Scarf show during Jakarta Fashion Week 2014 at Senayan City in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)
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- US singer Lady Gaga arrives at the Ritz Carlton hotel at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. More than 500 fans welcomed the US singer and fashion icon as she arrived in the German capital for a concert on Thursday night. (Odd Andersen/Getty Images)
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- Balinese people pray as they celebrate the religious festival of Galungan at a temple in Denpasar, on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali. Devotees celebrate Galungan Day, or the earth’s celebration, to thank God for the creation of the earth and its content. (Sonny Tumbelaka/Getty Images)
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- A Callicebus caquetensis (Caqueta Titi Monkey). At least 441 new species of animals and plants have been discovered over the past four years in the rainforest in of the Amazon, the WWF announced on October 23, 2013. Among them a flame-patterned lizard, a vegetarian piranha, a thumbnail-sized frog and a monkey that purrs like a cat. (Javier Garcia/Getty Images)
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