Nov 26, 2013

Nov. 26 Daily Brief: No-confidence debate Bangkok parlaiment, Lady Gaga in Tokyo, car bomb explodes in Syria

Brazilian Miss Pole Dance South America competition, war-torn Afghanistan still facing poverty and unemployment and more in today’s daily brief.

: Men search for salvageable materials among destroyed houses in Tacloban, Leyte province, on November 26, 2013. The swift US humanitarian response to the devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan highlights the need to expand America’s military presence in the Philippines, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Monday. He said a proposed agreement to strengthen the US military presence, which was being negotiated as the storm struck on November 8, would allow for the easier delivery of relief aid by US forces in the future. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)

: Thai riot police stand guard outside the parliament as a no-confidence debate takes place inside the chamber in Bangkok on November 26, 2013. Thailand’s premier appealed for an end to “mob rule” as she prepared to face a no-confidence debate in parliament after protesters occupied key ministries in a bid to topple her government. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images)

: Buses are parked at an inter-district bus terminal during a blockade organised by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists and its Islamist allies in Dhaka on November 26, 2013. Bangladesh opposition supporters went on the rampage, blocking roads and ripping up railway tracks after rejecting plans for a January 5 election, plunging the nation into fresh political turmoil. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Thai opposition protester stands by a gate of the Interior Ministry where security forces (background) were deployed as demonstrators surround it in Bangkok on November 26, 2013. Thai opposition protesters besieged several more ministries in Bangkok on November 26 in a bid to topple the government, as Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra faced a no-confidence motion in parliament and warned against “mob rule.” (Christophe ArchambaultAFP/Getty Images)

: Yemeni mourners stand next to a poster of late Yemeni parliament member Abdul Karim Jadban during his funeral in Sanaa on November 26, 2013. The MP, who represented Zaidi Shiite rebels known as Huthis at a national dialogue, was assassinated on November 22 in the Yemeni capital. The murder comes as Huthi rebels have fought deadly clashes against hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists in the town of Dammaj in northern Yemen, where Shiites make up a majority in the mainly Sunni country. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

: A handout picture taken during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay on November 25, 2013, and released by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee shows a torchbearer skiing with his torch at a ski resort near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, some 3500 km (2174 miles) east of Moscow. Russian torchbearers has started in October the history’s longest Olympic torch relay ahead of Winter Games in Sochi, which will take the flame across the country through all 83 of its regions, including extreme locales such as Chukotka, the remote region in Russia’s Far East, the turbulent North Caucasus, and even Russia’s European exclave Kaliningrad. (Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinian workers of the Gaza City municipality use a donkey cart to collect rubbish from the Yarmuk waste dump area, in Gaza City, on November 26, 2013. The Hamas-run Gaza City municipality announced it was stopping working its waste cars due to a fuel shortage. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

: Protesters shout slogans on November 26, 2013 during a demonstration of pro-European activists in front of the Ukrainian government headquarters in Kiev. Pro-European Ukrainians staged the biggest protest rally in Kiev since the 2004 Orange Revolution, demanding that the government sign a key pact with the European Union. The opposition called the rally after President Viktor Yanukovych’s government reversed a plan to sign a historic deal deepening ties with the European Union, in a U-turn critics said was forced by the Kremlin. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)

: Typhoon survivors queue up for relief goods in Palo, Leyte province on November 26, 2013. The swift US humanitarian response to the devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan highlights the need to expand America’s military presence in the Philippines, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said. He said a proposed agreement to strengthen the US military presence, which was being negotiated as the storm struck on November 8, would allow for the easier delivery of relief aid by US forces in the future. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Afghan child plays with a tyre in Mazar-i Sharif on November 25, 2013. The war-torn country still faces poverty, unemployment and lack of infrastructure. (Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ekaterina Malykhina and Tallyta Torres of Brazil perform during the doubles category at the Miss Pole Dance South America 2013 competition in Buenos Aires November 25, 2013. (Agustin Marcarian/REUTERS)

: Nasima cries after her mother Monowara Begum, 55, was injured by a crude bomb, in Dhaka Medical College Hospital November 26, 2013. Bangladeshi opposition supporters detonated scores of homemade bombs and removed railway tracks to disrupt train services on Tuesday as a planned nationwide protest against upcoming elections turned violent, witnesses and police said. (Andrew Biraj/REUTERS)

: Manuela Mitre is helped by midwives Cristina Balzano (bottom R) and Maira (bottom L) as she gives birth to her second child Gael while lying in a pool of water, as her husband Andre (top, 2nd R) and daughter Alice watch, at their home in Sao Paulo November 6, 2013. The couple decided to have their child born in warm water, which creates an environment similar to that inside the womb, according to the midwives. Picture taken November 6, 2013. (Nacho Doce/REUTERS)

: Former Austrian Interior Minister and Member of the European Parliament Ernst Strasser waits for his trial at Austria’s supreme court in Vienna November 26, 2013. The court overturned Strasser’s conviction in a cash-for-laws case and sent it back on Tuesday to the lower court for retrial. (Heinz-Peter Bader/REUTERS)

: Singer Lady Gaga arrives at Narita international airport, east of Tokyo November 26, 2013. (Yuya Shino/REUTERS)

: People gather around wreckage after a car bomb at a bus station in Soumariya, near Damascus November 26, 2013, in this handout picture released by Syria’s national news agency SANA. Fifteen people were killed and more than 30 were wounded in a suicide bomb attack at a bus station in a suburb west of Damascus, state media said on Tuesday. (Sana/Handout via Reuters)