Missing plane said to have crashed in Indian Ocean, Washington landslide kills at least 8, Ukraine evacuates Crimea | March 24
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the missing Malaysian airliner ended its journey in the southern Indian Ocean, a landslide killed at least eight people in northwestern Washington state, Ukraine orders the evacuation of its troops and their families from Crimea, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak (C) makes an announcement on the latest development on the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane at Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur March 24, 2014. Prime Minister Najib has told families of passengers of a missing Malaysian airliner that the plane ended its journey in the southern Indian Ocean, he said on Monday. Seen on right is Malaysia’s acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and on left is Department of Civil Aviation’s Director General Azharuddin Abdul Rahman. (Edgar Su/Reuters)
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- A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 cries as she is surrounded by journalists after watching a television broadcast of a news conference, at the Lido hotel in Beijing, March 24, 2014. Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight reacted with hysteria on Monday after the Malaysian prime minister announced the jet ended its journey in the remote Southern Indian Ocean. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
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- A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 shouts at journalists after watching a television broadcast of a news conference, at the Lido hotel in Beijing, March 24, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared over two weeks ago crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
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- A landslide and structural debris blocks Highway 530 near Oso, Washington March 23, 2014. Eighteen people remain unaccounted for in a landslide that killed three and injured at least eight more in northwestern Washington state, officials said Sunday. (Lindsey Wasson/Pool/Reuters)
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- Ukrainian marines say farewell before departing Crimea outside a Ukrainian military base in the Crimean port city of Feodosia March 24, 2014. Ukraine announced the evacuation of its troops and their families from Crimea on Monday, effectively acknowledging defeat in the face of Russian forces, who stormed one of the last remaining Ukrainian bases on the peninsula. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
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- First Lady Michelle Obama with her daughters Malia Obama and Sasha Obama, mother Marian Robinson visit the Xi’an City Wall on March 24, 2014 in Xi’an, China. Michelle Obama’s one-week-long visit in China will be focused on educational and cultural exchanges. Michelle Obama’s one-week-long visit in China will be focused on educational and cultural exchanges. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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- Relatives and friends mourn as the bodies of people killed after a boat carrying mostly Congolese refugees capsized at the shores of Lake Albert are brought to the landing zone in Ntoroko district in Western Uganda, March 24, 2014. One hundred and seven people have died after a boat capsized in a lake along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan police said on Monday after recovering more bodies. The boat carrying mostly Congolese refugees tipped over early on Saturday in Lake Albert. Police say the boat was overloaded, a common factor in similar tragedies in the east African country. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
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- Ruben Hidalgo, 25, a contestant, looks at his reflection in the mirror at a bathroom before taking part in a body paint pageant during Expobelleza Andalucia (Expobeauty Andalusia) in the Andalusian capital of Seville March 24, 2014. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)
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- President of European Union Council Herman Van Rompuy, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, France’s President Francois Hollande, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barosso (L-R, clockwise) meet during the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague March 24, 2014. (Jerry Lampen/Pool/Reuters)
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- An elephant stretches its trunk towards the photographer’s lens during a photo call at the Circus Charles Knie in Hanover, central Germany, on March 24, 2014. The circus with 110 animals and 100 employees gives guest performances in Hanover until April 6, 2014. (Julian Stratenschulte/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A member of the pro-government “red shirt” movement attacks a Buddhist monk outside the National Anti-Corruption Commission office in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok March 24, 2014. Members of the movement attacked the monk after he shouted complaints to the group blocking a road near the National Anti-Corruption Commission. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
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- Police use water cannons to disperse demonstrators as they protest against a trade pact with mainland China, near Taiwan’s government headquarters in Taipei, early morning March 24, 2014. Hundreds of demonstrators occupied part of the headquarters on Sunday night in protest against the controversial trade pact with mainland China. President Ma Ying-jeou says the pact with Taiwan’s main export market is essential for the island’s prosperity. However, the main opposition party says it could hurt small service companies, and many others are reluctant to let China expand its influence over a fiercely independent and democratic territory that China still sees as a renegade province. (Cheng Ko/Reuters)
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- A woman stands at the site of a house that was burned down during an attack by rebels in Mellit town in North Darfur March 24, 2014. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)
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- This picture released on March 24, 2014 shows supporters of Turkey’s Prime Minister cheering and waving Turkish and AK Party (AKP) flags during an election rally in Istanbul on March 23, 2014. Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday, dismissing accusations of intolerance by Western and domestic critics. “I don’t care who it is. I’m not listening,” he said to cheers. (Turkish Prime Minister Press Office/Kayhan Ozer/AFP Photo)
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- Relatives of Spain’s former Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez walk behind his coffin during his wake at the Spanish parliament in Madrid March 24, 2014. Suarez, who died on Sunday, steered Spain through one of the most turbulent periods in its political history and built bridges between the “two Spains” after fascist dictator General Francisco Franco died in 1975. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
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- Rabbis of the Rabbinical Center of Europe pray at an Holocaust memorial, as Hungary marks the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust, in Budapest March 24, 2014. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
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- People lay down in a pedestrian zone as part of an art project in remembrance of the 528 victims of the “Katzbach” Nazi concentration camp, in Frankfurt, March 24, 2014. The inmates of the Katzbach concentration camp, a part of the former Adler industrial factory, were forced into a death march to the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau on March 24th 1945. Some 528 victims of Katzbach are buried at Frankfurt’s central cemetery. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
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