Mar 28, 2014

A show of pet fashion in Indonesia, a farmers’ protest in Paris and some far-flung results of Russia’s Ukraine policy are some of the topics in today’s daily brief.

: Canada’s Mandy Marchak (R) is taken down by France’s Pauline Biscarat during the final match of the Hong Kong Sevens rugby women’s invitational cup in Hong Kong March 28.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: TYRONE SIU – REUTERS

: Filipino Muslims cheer outside the presidential palace in Manila after the conclusion of the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro between the Philippine government and the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front on March 27. The agreement effectively ends four decades of deadly fighting between the Philippine government and the largest Muslim insurgency in the troubled southern island of Mindanao which has claimed around 150,000 casualties on both sides and displaced tens of thousands. The historic agreement grants local autonomy and self governance in regional areas the Muslims regard as their ancestral homeland.
|| Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images

: Chinese ambassador to South Korea, Qiu Guohong (L) covers caskets containing the remains of Chinese soldiers with a Chinese national flag during the handing over ceremony of the remains at the Incheon International Airport on March 28. The remains of 437 Chinese soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War were transferred from the temporary columbarium in South Korea to the airport on March 27 to be returned to China.
|| CREDIT: POOL / KIM HONG – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: An Afghan man helps an injured man at the site of an attack by Taliban insurgents in Kabul March, 28, 2014. A group of Afghan Taliban insurgents forced their way into a guesthouse used by foreigners in an upscale residential part of the capital Kabul on Friday, police said.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: OMAR SOBHANI – REUTERS

: Banco Santander’s chief executive officer Javier Marin speaks during the annual shareholders meeting at the Palacio Exposiciones on March 28, in Santander, Spain. As Spain tries to edge out of recession, Banco Santander is looking for more growth as the euro zone’s biggest bank.
|| Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce/Getty Images

: Graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin extending a hand to the Ukrainian people is seen on a wall in the Crimean city of Simferopol March 28. Ukraine won a $27-billion international financial lifeline on Thursday, rushed through in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, while Moscow’s economy minister acknowledged that his country’s growth would slow dramatically as funds flee abroad.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: SHAMIL ZHUMATOV – REUTERS

: Sergei Kiriyenko, head of state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, visits a nuclear waste disposal plant in the town of Fokino in Russia’s far-eastern Primorsky region March 28. Russia’s nuclear industry contracts with other countries could be affected by Western sanctions, the head of state nuclear corporation Rosatom was quoted as saying on Thursday. After hitting Russian officials and lawmakers with visa bans and asset freezes over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, the United States and European Union are threatening measures affecting entire economic sectors if Russia continues to act aggressively.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: YURI MALTSEV – REUTERS

: The remains of decommissioned submarines float at a nuclear waste disposal plant in the town of Fokino in Russia’s far-eastern Primorsky region March 28.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: YURI MALTSEV – REUTERS

: An African migrant is detained by a Spanish civil guard at the border fence near Beni Enzar between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave Melilla while attempting to cross into Spanish territory March 28, 2014. Spain has more than doubled the strength of security forces at Melilla, after about 500 people stormed its fences in the biggest border rush for years earlier this month. Immigrants from all over Africa regularly dare the razor-wire fences of Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, which are surrounded by Moroccan territory and sea. The numbers have multiplied as increased naval patrols discourage attempts to get to Europe by boat.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: JESUS BLASCO DE AVELLANEDA – REUTERS

: Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Infiniti Red Bull Racing drives during practice for the Malaysia Formula One Grand Prix at the Sepang Circuit on March 28 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
|| Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images

: Pedestrians wait to cross an intersection at a shopping street in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday, March 4. Japan’s economic growth is set to surge this quarter as consumers and businesses splurge ahead of the April tax increase. The test for Abenomics and the Bank of Japan will be steering the nation through the aftermath, with the economy set to contract for a quarter and analysts projecting that Bank Of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda will be forced to add to already unprecedented easing.
|| Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

: Tourists take photos as French farmers of the ‘Confederation Paysanne’ (‘Farmers Confederation’) union demonstrate with a flock of sheep outside the Louvre museum on March 28. Around fifty farmers took part in the protest in front of the Louvre saying they did not want farmers to end up “in a museum” and calling upon unions and the government to find constuctive solutions to their ongoing problems during their upcoming debates on April 1 dedicated to the ‘Politique agricole commune’ (PAC) common agricultural policy, which is influenced by European Union regulations.
|| CREDIT: MARTIN BUREAU – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Protesters chants slogans during a demonstration against the upcoming FIFA World Cup and to demand better social health services and education at Central do Brasil metro station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 27.
|| CREDIT: YASUYOSHI CHIBA – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Balinese people attend a Melasti prayer ceremony at Petitenget beach in Kuta on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on March 28. Melasti is a purification festival which is held several days before “Nyepi”, a day of silence, when Hindus on the island of Bali are not allowed to work, travel or take part in any indulgence. The Indonesian holiday island of Bali shuts down for the day of silence to mark the Hindu new year on March 31.
|| CREDIT: SONNY TUMBELAKA – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: An arrested fisherman is seen beside dead carcasses of turtles from aboard a seized fishing vessel docked in the port of Makassar in Sulawesi island on March 28. Indonesian maritime police have seized eight fishing vessels using cyanide and explosives and arrested numbers of crew involved in illegal fishing. Indonesia is a vast archipelago of 17,000 islands rich in maritime resources.
|| CREDIT: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Hannah pet dog Siska models boutique Doggy clothes on March 28 in Cimahi, Bandung, Java, Indonesia.
|| Photo by Nurcholis Anhari Lubis/Getty Images

Dog booties, sheep at the Louvre, decommissioned nuclear submarines | March 28

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