Nov. 7 Photo Brief: Indonesian volcano eruption, Russian spacecraft launch and water rescue dog training
Bill Cosby, UEFA Champions league football match, a Moscow military parade and more in today’s daily brief.
- Sri Lankan students watch coal being unloaded for Sri lankas only coal-powered electricity generating plant in the north-western town of Norochcholai November 7, 2013. The new Chinese-built power plant has been plagued by several breakdowns, but the authorities are banking on it as a cheaper source of electricity. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images)
- Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits a return during his men’s singles tennis match against Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London November 7, 2013. (Stefan Wermuth/REUTERS)
- A man stands in the sea with his hands on his hips as he watches the sunset in Hikkaduwa November 7, 2013. (Philip Brown/REUTERS)
- Israeli hospital staff wearing protective gear stand near a dummy as they take part in a drill simulating a radioactive incident at a hospital in Holon near Tel Aviv November 7, 2013. (Nir EliasREUTERS)
- A man sleeps under a water pipeline as another stands on it in Mumbai November 7, 2013. (Danish Siddiqui/REUTERS)
- Former employees of the Greek state television ERT comfort each other outside its headquarters at Agia Paraskevi suburb north of Athens November 7 ,2013. Greek riot police stormed the building of former state television ERT on Thursday and evicted dozens of protesters occupying it since June when the government abruptly shut the broadcaster, police officials said. Scuffles broke out between some protesters and riot police, who had cordoned off the area and blocked the entrance to the building. (John Kolesidis/REUTERS)
- A protester stands in front of policemen outside the headquarters of state television ERT at Agia Paraskevi suburb north of Athens November 7, 2013. Riot police stormed the former Greek state television headquarters in Athens on Thursday and evicted dozens of fired journalists, ending a five-month sit-in against the broadcaster’s closure. The government took ERT off air in June to meet a target for public sector job cuts set by foreign lenders, triggering a political crisis that prompted one party to quit the ruling coalition. The sign reads: “Help”. (Yorgos Karahalis/REUTERS)
- Israeli Jewish cafe owner Ze’er Avrahami poses in the window of his Israeli cafe “Sababa” in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin November 7, 2013. “I came to Berlin initially for the same reason everyone comes to Berlin, its cheap and there are many parties. But if you are Jewish there is another layer to Berlin you have to explore. Berlin has to do with death of Jewish people. This is the layer of Jewish life that used to exist here in the past. No body talks about it. There was good life here, very intelligent and cultural life. The right life for a Jewish person doesn’t have to do with a nation. The right life is when you live in the diaspora. This is how Jews are supposed to live. My concern is the continuation of Jewish life in the diaspora. What does it mean to live in the diaspora, as a minority? The thrive to be successful. You have to be successful, intelligently, financially. This is lost in Israel where you have nothing to prove,” Avrahami said. November 9th marks the 75th anniversary of the ‘Kristallnacht’ (‘crystal night’ or also referred to as ‘night of broken glass’) when Nazi thugs conducted a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms on the streets of Berlin and other cities in 1938. (Thomas Peter/REUTERS)
- Pigs are seen at a pig farming in Lamballe, central Brittany, November 5, 2013. France’s aim to shift nearly one billion euros in European subsidies to help struggling livestock farmers could be stymied by a crisis in the meat processing sector faced with a wave of plant closures in Brittany, leaving more room to competitors. France is the European Union’s leader in poultry output and third for pork, with the country’s western part hosting the bulk of farmers and industry players, initially attracted by easy access to ports to import feed and boost exports. France is now losing its pole position as Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium gain market shares, even within France itself, by using more efficient tools and often cheaper labour. Picture taken November 5, 2013. (Stephane Mahe/REUTERS)
- A protester wearing red caps, the symbol of protest in Brittany, holds a stone near a barricade held by French riot police during a demonstration to maintain jobs in Quimper, western France, November 2, 2013. France’s aim to shift nearly one billion euros in European subsidies to help struggling livestock farmers could be stymied by a crisis in the meat processing sector faced with a wave of plant closures in Brittany, leaving more room to competitors. France is the European Union’s leader in poultry output and third for pork, with the country’s western part hosting the bulk of farmers and industry players, initially attracted by easy access to ports to import feed and boost exports. France is now losing its pole position as Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium gain market shares, even within France itself, by using more efficient tools and often cheaper labour. Picture taken November 2, 2013. (Stephane Mahe/REUTERS)
- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford reacts to a video released of him by local media at City Hall in Toronto, November 7, 2013. Ford admitted on Tuesday he has smoked crack cocaine, probably “in one of my drunken stupors,” but insisted he is not an addict and said he would stay in office and run for re-election next year. (Mark Blinch/REUTERS)
- Nasima mourns on the grave of her daughter Akhi after her body was identified at a mass graveyard, where all the unidentified victims of Rana Plaza were buried, in Dhaka November 7, 2013. The National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory announced on Monday that the identities of 157 people, out of 322 unidentified victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse, have been ascertained through DNA tests, local media reported. (Andrew Biraj/REUTERS)
- A rebel fighter is pictured on November 7, 2013, in the northern city of Aleppo. The Syrian conflict has killed more than 120,000 people since it broke out in March 2011, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Karam Al-Maskrikaram/AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman walks past a garbage bin in the center of Madrid on November 7, 2013, on the third day of strike by street-sweepers against layoffs and salary cuts. Public bins overflowed with drinks cans and cigarette ends and central squares such as the Puerta del Sol were strewn with waste paper as the open-ended strike entered its third day. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images)
- Myanmar protesters hold candles and shout slogans as they stage a protest against recent electricity price increases in Yangon on November 7, 2013. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)
- Bill Cosby performs at The New York Comedy Festival And The Bob Woodruff Foundation Present The 7th Annual Stand Up For Heroes Event at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 6, 2013 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for New York Comedy Festival)
- A security guard stands in front of a room where Brazil’s Vice President Michel Temer and China’s President Xi Jinping met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 7, 2013. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/AFP/Getty Images)
- Greek riot police block on November 7, 2013 the headquarters of former public broadcaster ERT in Athens. Greek riot police burst into the headquarters of former public broadcaster ERT early on November 7 and forcibly removed employees who had been occupying the site since its shock shutdown five months ago. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images)
- Wearing the WWII-era Red Army winter camouflage smocks Russian soldiers perform in a stage fighting before a military parade at the Red Square in Moscow, on November 7, 2013. This week Russia marks the 72nd anniversary of the November 7, 1941, parade, when Red Army troops marched past the Kremlin and then went directly to the front line to fight the Nazi Germany troops at the gates of the Russian capital. (Vasily Maximov/AFP/Getty Images)
- Thai riot policemen stand guard as they prevent protesters from getting closer to Government House during an opposition rally against an amnesty bill in Bangkok on November 7, 2013. Thailand’s embattled prime minister appealed on November 7 for an end to escalating street protests against a contentious political amnesty, warning that the unrest would scare off foreign investors and tourists. (Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images)
- A man carries buckets of water on the outskirts of Yangon on November 6 , 2013. Myanmar has the potential to quadruple the value of its economy to 200 billion USD by 2030 if it presses on with reforms, embraces technology and shifts away from agriculture, a study said recently. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)
- A burqa-clad Afghan resident begs on the street as she holds a child in Kabul on November 7, 2013. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor as it attempts to recover from decades of conflict. (Farshad Usyane/AFP/Getty Images)
- Hassan Kasskin, a 44-year-old Palestinian, teaches his dog how to rescue people shipwrecked at sea at the beach in Gaza City, on November 6, 2013. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
- People take photographs as Russia’s Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying an international crew including Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio and an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi aboard blasts off from the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on November 7, 2013. Two Russian astronauts will take the unlit torch on a space walk on November 9 before it returns back to Earth on November 11. (Kirill Kudryavts/AFP/Getty Images)
- Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi waits to shoot a corner during the UEFA Champions league football match FC Barcelona vs AC Milan at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on November 6, 2013. (Josep Lago/AFPGetty Images)
- Russia’s Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying an international crew including Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio and an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi aboard blasts off from the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on November 7, 2013. Two Russian astronauts will take the unlit torch on a space walk on November 9 before it returns back to Earth on November 11. (Kirill Kudrayavts/AFPGetty Images)
- A Sri Lankan fisherman walks along a rock jetty in Colombo on November 7, 2013. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects growth for the current calendar year to be about 6.5 percent, a full percentage point lower than the Sri Lankan central bank’s forecast of 7.5 percent. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)
- Wearing the WWII-era Red Army uniform Russian soldiers march during a military parade at the Red Square in Moscow, on November 7, 2013. This week Russia marks the 72nd anniversary of the November 7, 1941, parade, when Red Army troops marched past the Kremlin and then went directly to the front line to fight the Nazi Germany troops at the gates of the Russian capital. (Vasiliy Maximov/AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman argues with riot police on November 7, 2013 as she tries to pass outside the headquarters of former public broadcaster ERT in Athens. Greek riot police burst into the headquarters of former public broadcaster ERT early on November 7 and forcibly removed employees who had been occupying the site since its shock shutdown five months ago. (Angelos TzortzinisAFP/Getty Images)
- Sinabung volcano erupts and throws hot smoke into the air, in Karo, North Sumatra on November 5, 2013. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated to safer areas as the volcano erupted anew following September eruptions. (Ade Sinuhaji/AFP/Getty Images)