Feb 24, 2014

Feb. 24 Daily Brief: Pandas take over Taipei theatre in art display, Belarusians’ Defenders of the Fatherland Day and memorial to Kiev protesters

Emma Patti Harris 0 Comment Daily Brief, World Belarus, Kiev, pandas, protests, Ukraine

Pandas take over Taipei theatre in art display, Belarusians’ Defenders of the Fatherland Day, memorial to Kiev protesters and more in today’s daily brief.

: A paper rhacophorus arvalis (carmland green tree frog) of Taiwan (C) is surrounded by paper pandas at an exhibition called “Pandas on Tour” at the National Theater in Taipei on February 24, 2014. Some 1,600 paper made pandas are on display, designed by French artist Paulo Grangeon. (Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinian boys climb a fence to watch a rally marking the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip February 24, 2014. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem)

: A young girl from the Nuer tribe in South Sudan stands on February 21, 2014 outside a makeshift compound demarcated using palm fronds that also serves as their shelter on one of the islands in the Sudd swamplands in Unity state, central South Sudan. Thousands of Nuer tribes people are believed to have fled into the swamplands around Nyal district after around 1,200 soldiers and a small army of young men swarmed, on February 7, Panyijiar county to carry out a killing, looting and razing spree that left 60 dead and 26 wounded. In Panyjiar, an overwhelmingly Nuer area bordered by a Dinka majority, the only place to hide is the swamp, after a power struggle between leaders in the new nation’s capital Juba in mid-December revived old ethnic tensions between South Sudan’s largest Dinka tribe and secondary Nuer tribe. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

: South Sudanese women wait in line for food distribution in Juba on February 24, 2014. Around twenty six-thousand South Sudanese IDP’s from the Nuer ethnic group are sheltered in a temporary camp inside the UNMISS compound. Nuer IDP’s can not leave the camp due to ethnic tensions with the Dinka’s. (Fabio Bucciarelli/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man attends a prayer at Kiev’s Independence Square February 24, 2014. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)

: People add flowers to a huge line of flowers and candles leading to the barricades in central Kiev on February 24, 2014. Ukraine issued an arrest warrant for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych on Monday as the country’s new rulers launched a probe over the “mass murder” of protesters in a week of carnage in Kiev.(Louisa Goulisamaki/AFP/Getty Image)

: Crosses and flowers left by people near a makeshift memorial in homage to anti-government protesters killed in the past weeks’ clashes with riot police on Kiev’s Independence Square on February 24, 2014. kraine issued an arrest warrant Monday for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych over the “mass murder” of protesters and appealed for $35 billion in Western aid to pull the crisis-hit country from the brink of economic collapse. The dramatic announcements by the ex-Soviet nation’s new Western-leaning team — approved by parliament over a chaotic weekend that saw the pro-Russian leader go into hiding — came as a top EU envoy arrived in Kiev to buttress its sudden tilt away from Moscow. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Syrian fruit vendor waits for customers next to a damaged building on February 24, 2014 in the Shaar neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo. More than 140,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Syria’s nearly three-year war, and millions more have been forced to flee their homes. (Mohammed Al Katieb/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Belarus Interior Ministry special forces officer encourages his soldier during a competition to mark the Defenders of the Fatherland Day at their training centre outside Minsk, on February 23, 2014. Belarus alongside Russia and other countries of the former USSR celebrates the Soviet holiday on February 23 each year. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the holiday was given its current name in 2002 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.(Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Belarus Interior Ministry special forces soldier demonstrates his ability to sustain a blow during a competition to mark the Defenders of the Fatherland Day at their training centre outside Minsk, on February 23, 2014. Belarus alongside Russia and other countries of the former USSR celebrates the Soviet holiday on February 23 each year. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the holiday was given its current name in 2002 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)