Jan. 27 Daily Brief: Holocaust Memorial Day and continued unrest in Ukraine
Holocaust Memorial Day, continued unrest in Ukraine and more in today’s daily brief.
- A survivor puts down a candle during a ceremony in the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on Holocaust Day, January 27, 2014. The ceremony took place 69 years after the liberation of the death camp by Soviet troops, in rememberance of the victims of the Holocaust. (Janek Skarzynski//AFP/Getty Images)
- Former concentration camp prisoners attend a ceremony at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on Holocaust Day, on January 27, 2014. The ceremony took place 69 years after the liberation of the death camp by Soviet troops, in rememberance of the victims of the Holocaust. (Janek Skarzynski//AFP/Getty Images)
- A boy enters the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, which commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II on January 27, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. The international Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked today around the globe. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
- Visitors at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, which commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II on January 27, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. The international Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked today around the globe. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
- The local synagogue is reflected on the black marble wall with the names of the Hungarian holocaust victims at the memorial of Central Europe’s first Holocaust museum in Budapest on January 27, 2014. The International Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Atilla Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)
- A visitor walks past an inscription that reads: “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which means “Work Leads To Freedom,” at a gate at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial on Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, 2014 in Oranienburg, Germany. Sachsenhausen operated from 1933 until 1945 as a concentration camp run by the Nazis where political opponents, Jews and Soviet prisoners of war were imprisoned and many of them murdered. Germany is commemorating the Holocaust today with a variety of events across the country. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
- A survivor huddles in a blanket to stay warm during a ceremony in the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on Holocaust Day, January 27, 2014. The ceremony took place 69 years after the liberation of the death camp by Soviet troops, in rememberance of the victims of the Holocaust. (Janek Skarzynski//AFP/Getty Images)
- Woman watch a film as it is screened at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, which commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II on January 27, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. The international Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked today around the globe. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
- Former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is pictured through a barbed wire fence during ceremonies to mark the 69th anniversary of the liberation and commemorate the victims of the Holocaust in Birkenau January 27, 2014. The world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 to remember those who died during the Nazi organised genocide during World War Two that cost the lives of millions of Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals and opponents to Germany’s fascist regime and its collaborators. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
- Flowers are laid at the sculpture “Trains to Life – Trains to Death” by Frank Meisler and Arie Ovadia at Friedrichstrasse train station in Berlin January 27, 2014. The Kindertransport memorial is one of the four sculptures by Meisler to commemorate the rescue mission which helped to save lives of some 10,000 mostly Jewish children transported to Britain during Nazi era, about nine months before the outbreak of the World War Two, and to remember 1.6 million children murdered in the Holocaust. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
- A visitor reads an exhibit plaque at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial on Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, 2014 in Oranienburg, Germany. Sachsenhausen operated from 1933 until 1945 as a concentration camp run by the Nazis where political opponents, Jews and Soviet prisoners of war were imprisoned and many of them murdered. Germany is commemorating the Holocaust today with a variety of events across the country. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
- A squatter dweller carries his children as they leave their shanty house during the demolition of a squatter colony in Quezon city, Metro Manila January 27, 2014. Dozens were hurt during clashes triggered by the demolition of a squatter settlement for business developments in suburban Quezon city on Monday, local media reported. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
- A policeman detains a squatter dweller during clashes at a squatter district in Quezon city, Metro Manila January 27, 2014. Dozens were hurt during clashes triggered by the demolition of a squatter settlement for business developments in suburban Quezon city on Monday, local media reported. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
- Anti-riot policemen peer from behind a metal shield during the demolition of “informal settlers” houses in Manila on January 27, 2014. Hundreds of “informal settlers” houses were demolished by local government authorities to make way for a commercial development. (ted Aljibeted//AFP/Getty Images )
- A residents throws a stone and at policemen during a demolition operation in a squatters area in Manila on January 27, 2014. The government wants to redevelop the area into a business district in a joint venture with a private firm. (Noel CelisAFP/Getty Images)
- An anti-government protester waves an Ukranian flag behind a road block in Kiev on January 27, 2014. A Ukrainian government minister on January 27 warned protesters that a state of emergency could be imposed to deal with the country’s deadly crisis, after radicals seized the justice ministry in Kiev.(Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
- An anti-government protester mans a barricade in central Kiev on January 27, 2014. Ukraine’s main opposition parties said on January 27 they were ready to continue talks with President Viktor Yanukovych’s government but warned that the patience of protesters in the streets could “snap” at any moment. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
- A young woman stands at a road block in Kiev on January 27, 2014. A Ukrainian government minister on January 27 warned protesters that a state of emergency could be imposed to deal with the country’s deadly crisis, after radicals seized the justice ministry in Kiev. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
- Anti-government protesters read newspaper as they sit by a barricade in Lviv, on January 27, 2014. Ukrainian police have arrested dozens of protesters who were trying to seize regional government headquarters in President Viktor Yanukovych’s eastern heartland, local media reported on January 27. The reports said 37 protesters were arrested in Dnipropetrovsk, 30 in Zaporizhya, 12 in Cherkasy and 11 in Sumy following clashes with security forces that mirrored developments in the protest epicentre in Kiev. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images)
- Policemen guard the building of Donetsk’s regional government headquarters to prevent attacks by anti-government protesters in Donetsk on January 27, 2014. Ukrainian police have arrested dozens of protesters who were trying to seize regional government headquarters in President Viktor Yanukovych’s eastern heartland, local media reported on Monday. (Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images)
- A girl sits at the edge of a stream in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad January 27, 2014. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
- A man tries to fix electrical wires in the Salaheddin neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 27, 2014. Fighting inside Syria has continued unabated as opposition and regime representatives meeting in Geneva discussed ways for aid to reach besieged rebel-held areas, especially in the central city of Homs. (Shaba Press/AFP/Getty Images)
- Bahraini boys cover their nose as they suffer from the effects of tear gas fired by riot police during clashes following the funeral of 20-year-old prisoner Fadel Abbas Musalem in the village of Diraz, west of the capital Manama, on January 26, 2014. The Gulf kingdom’s main Shiite political opposition group said the man died the previous day as a result of torture during his detention. (Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images )
- Syrian refugees look out from an evacuated house on January 27, 2014 in the Kucukpazar district of Istanbul. Syrians fill houses which have been evacuated for urban development projects. Destitute Syrian refugees who have fled the war in Syria and camps in Turkey are fighting for their lives in different parts of Istanbul. Refugees who moved into the houses in Kucukpazar neighbourhood near the historic Suleymaniye mosque, are struggling to live without water and heating. Those who moved into houses which were evacuated due to urban development projects are begging in central districts like Uskudar, Eminonu and Taksim, to be able to pay their rents. Some families have been Istanbul for two days, while others have been here for two years, trying to make a living by begging and working at day jobs. They have high hopes for peace talks in Geneva. (Gurcan Ozturk/AFP/Getty Images )