Dec. 10 Daily Brief: International Human Rights Day, Nelson Mandela’s memorial service and a lot of snow
Groups around the world mark International Human Rights Day, Egyptian students clash with security forces, Nelson Mandela’s memorial service is held in Johannesburg, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A child plays in the snow in the garden of the National Cathedral in Washington December 10, 2013. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters)
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- Three-year old Patrick Coyle gets a stick for his first snowman’s arm from father John in Takoma Park, Maryland December 10, 2013. Fresh winter snow moved into the U.S. mid-Atlantic region on Tuesday, shutting schools and offices in the nation’s capital and elsewhere as the mid-section of the country remained in the grip of Arctic air that showed no signs of easing. From 2 to 8 inches of snow was forecast to fall from northern Virginia, across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and into southern New England, Brian Korty, meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a forecast. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)
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- Light snow falls around the US Capitol, December 10, 2013, in Washington, DC. Snowfall in the northeastern United States caused flight cancellations and airport delays Tuesday while federal government offices and schools closed due to the foul weather. Major delays were reported at airports in Newark, New Jersey, as well as further south in Philadelphia, according to the FlightAware website.Snow and ice were also slowing air traffic at New York’s LaGuardia and John F Kennedy International airports. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Mam Sonando, a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, celebrates his arrival at the Cambodian National Assembly following an extended 10 day march on December 10, 2013 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Various groups of activists, political parties, monks and humanitarian organizations are holding events for International Human Rights Day in the Cambodian capital. Six groups of monks and activists have walked from different parts of the country to deliver petitions collected en route, detailing human rights abuse cases. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)
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- Protesters chained together block the entrance of an immigrant detention center on December 10, 2013 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups marked international Human Rights Day, staging the civil disobedience action at the Elizabeth Detention Center, and eight protesters were arrested by police. Organizers said the event was designed to draw attention to the continued mass deportations of undocumented immigrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as Congress’ inability to pass immigration reform. The Obama administration is on track to have removed 2 million immigrants from the United States, the most of any presidential administration. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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- Cuban security personnel remove protesters during a demonstration on International Human Rights Day, in Havana December 10, 2013. (Enrique de la Osa/Reuters)
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- Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra bids farewell after a news conference at The Army Club in Bangkok December 10, 2013. Yingluck pleaded on Tuesday for anti-government demonstrators to clear the streets and support a snap election, but defiant protest leaders called for her to step down within 24 hours. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
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- A tear gas canister flies towards Cairo University students, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, during a clash with Egyptian security forces in front of the main gate of the university, in Cairo December 10, 2013. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)
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- An Egyptian policeman tries to detain a student of Cairo University who support the Muslim Brotherhood during clashes with riot police in Cairo on December 10, 2013. Thirteen Egyptian and international human rights organizations urged Cairo’s military-installed authorities to probe the mass killing of Islamist protesters in the capital on August 14. (Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People cover their noses as they walk past the morgue of Bangui’s hospital on December 10, 2013. French President Francois Hollande was expected Tuesday in the Central African Republic, on the second day of an operation to disarm rogue rebels that has already killed two French soldiers. As the poverty-stricken country’s former colonial master led the military effort to restore order after a year of chaos, Washington said it was offering to fly in African peacekeepers. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Troops of the multinational African force FOMAC take the control of a street in the Combattant Neighborood of Bangui on December 10, 2013. French President Francois Hollande was expected Tuesday in the Central African Republic, on the second day of an operation to disarm rogue rebels that has already killed two French soldiers. As the poverty-stricken country’s former colonial master led the military effort to restore order after a year of chaos, Washington said it was offering to fly in African peacekeepers. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Pro-EU protesters face riot police in front of the government headquarters in Kiev on December 9, 2013. Hundreds of thousands had the day before, filled Independence Square to bursting point to denounce President Yanukovych’s rejection of an EU pact under Kremlin pressure, in the biggest protests since the 2004 Orange Revolution. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man remains at a looted store in the outskirts of Tucuman, northern Argentina on December 9, 2013. Seven people died overnight in looting in northern Argentina sparked by a police strike, authorities said Tuesday. The total number of fatalities now stands at nine, they said, with hundreds of others injured and dozens arrested. Riots and looting first erupted in the city of Cordoba a week ago after police demanding higher wages refused to go on patrol there. (Walter Monteros/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man waves a South African flag during a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela at the First National Bank (FNB) Stadium, also known as Soccer City, in Johannesburg December 10, 2013. World leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Cuba’s Raul Castro joined thousands of South Africans to honour Mandela on Tuesday in a memorial that will celebrate his gift for uniting enemies across political and racial divides. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
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- US President Barack Obama arrives to deliver a speech during the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg on December 10, 2013. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa’s first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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