Jan. 28 Daily Brief: Celebrations in the Central African Republic, Ukraine PM resigns, State of the Union approaches
Residents of Bangui in the Central African Republic celebrate after rebels were escorted outside the city, Ukraine Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s resignation is followed by repeals of protest restrictions, Obama prepares for the State of the Union address, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Residents of Bangui celebrate after former Seleka rebels were escorted out of Kasai military camp in Bangui to another camp outside the city on January 28, 2014. The UN Security Council will threaten sanctions on January 28 against the ringleaders of deadly turmoil in the Central African Republic and give a mandate to EU troops bolstering international forces there. The French-drafted resolution, expected to be adopted unanimously by the 15-nation council, also steps up pressure on interim President Catherine Samba Panza to restore order. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)
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- U.S. President Barack Obama sits inside the Oval Office as he prepares for Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address to the nation on Capitol Hill, while at the White House in Washington, January 27, 2014. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
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- A medic of the anti-government protest camp (L) poses for a portrait with his security guard at the barricades near the site of clashes with riot police in Kiev January 28, 2014. Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday while deputies loyal to President Viktor Yanukovich, acting to calm violent street protests, back-tracked and overturned anti-protest laws they rammed through parliament 12 days ago. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
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- Paul McCartney (L) and Ringo Starr perform during the taping of “The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles”, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of The Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, in Los Angeles January 27, 2014. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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- Families watch and guard their belongings as workers from a government demolition crew continue dismantling remaining shanties at a slum area in Quezon City, Metro Manila January 28, 2014. Twenty-nine people were hurt while nine were arrested during clashes triggered by the demolition of a squatter settlement for business developments in suburban Quezon city on Monday, a local media reported. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
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- A broken glass of a niche where the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II was located is seen next to a painting of the late Pope in the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L’Aquila January 28, 2014 .Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called “a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone.” (Max Rossi/Reuters)
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- Health officers in full protective gear wait to cross a road near a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong January 28, 2014. Hong Kong began culling 20,000 chickens and suspended imports of fresh poultry from mainland China for 21 days on Tuesday after the discovery of the H7N9 bird flu virus in a batch of live chicken from the southern province of Guangdong (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
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- Ice builds up on the Chicago River as temperatures drop below zero January 27, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. The city is bracing for another round of severe cold as temperatures are expected to drop to -15 to -20 degrees this evening and wind chills are anticipated as low as -25 to -45 degrees through Wednesday morning. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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- A mother holds her child while attempting to take cover as repeated gun shots are heard close to Miskine district during continuing sectarian violence in the capital Bangui January 28, 2014. At least 13 people were killed in Central African Republic on Monday as the top U.N. human rights official warned of escalating reprisals against Muslims and urged foreign governments to do more to stop the country being torn apart. (Siegfried Modola/Reuters)
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- People wait for their trains at Hongqiao train station in Shanghai January 28, 2014. About 3.62 billion trips will be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush which started from January 16, an official said, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
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- A worker jumps the wreckage over a taxi after a dump truck collided with a walkway of pillars on the Linha Amarela expressway in Rio de Janeiro January 28, 2014. According to local media, the accident left at least five dead and four wounded. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)
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- Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is surrounded by cameras during Media Day for Super Bowl XLVIII at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey January 28, 2014. The Seahawks will go to the gridiron for their Super Bowl showdown against the Denver Broncos on February 2. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
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- In this night time long-exposure photograph taken on January 27, 2014 from Karo district, molten lava flow downs from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano during an eruption. Authorities said almost 29,000 people have fled their homes following a series of eruptions and lava flows from Mount Sinabung volcano located in Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra. (Sutanta Aditya /AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man shovels snow in front of his home in Smeeni village about 100 kilometers east of Bucharest on January 28, 2013. A thick blanket of snow covered southern and eastern Romania causing the closure of three highways, cancelling twenty rail links and disruptions in air traffic. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images)
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