A french polar bear, trash people, protests in Venezuela, Chilean earthquake and tsunami, pilots strike | April 2
A french polar bear, trash people, protests in Venezuela, Chilean earthquake and tsunami, pilots strike, and more in today’s daily brief.
- A child looks at a polar bear during the opening day of the new polar area at the zoo of Mulhouse. (Sebastien Bozon/Getty Images)
- A polar bear is pictured during the opening day of the new polar area at the zoo of Mulhouse. (Sebastien Bozon/Getty Images)
- A model presents a creation by Pat Pat’s during the 2015 Summer collections of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nelson Almeida/Getty Images
- A supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah attends the final day of election campaigning outside Kabul . The Afghan presidential elections will be held on April 5. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
- A boy looks from his temporary shelter at a Rohingya refugee camp as Myanmar’s government embarks on a national census, in Sittwe. At least 20,000 people in displacement camps around Sittwe will run out of drinking water within 10 days, while food stocks will run out within two weeks, imperiling thousands more. In the absence of nongovernment organizations (NGOs), the United Nations is working with the government to bring emergency supplies to camps, but that is only a short-term solution, said Pierre Peron, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The evacuation of aid workers came as Myanmar prepared to launch its first census since 1983, which sparked controversy because it included questions on religion and ethnicity. Those are sensitive subjects in a country riven by sectarian tensions and especially in Rakhine, which is home to a million mostly stateless Rohingya whom the government refers to as Bengali, implying they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)
- A general view shows sculptures made of waste material titled “Trash People ” by German artist HA Schult in Ariel Sharon Park, in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. Hundreds of human-size figures constructed from 20 tons of recycled material, including iron, glass, computer parts, cans and more, will dominate the sky line of Tel-Aviv city and be placed in the park. (Jack Guez/Getty Images)
- A boy looks at a statue by German artist HA Schult during a preview of the artist’s exhibition at the Ariel Sharon Park near Tel Aviv. Schult’s “Trash People” exhibition, featuring 500 human-sized figures made from recycled materials, has been travelling worldwide for 18 years and opens this weekend near Tel Aviv. (Nir Elias/Reuters)
- Travis Hamonic #3 of the New York Islanders is hit into the glass by Nick Bjugstad #27 of the Florida Panthers during the first period at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on April 1, 2014 in Uniondale, New York. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
- An anti-government activist clashes with riot police during a protest in Caracas. In a direct challenge to President Nicolas Maduro, prominent opposition politician Maria Corina Machado vowed to take her seat in the National Assembly despite her ouster by the Supreme Court. The head of the legislative body had ordered Machado expelled and her parliamentary immunity stripped last week after she tried to speak before the Organization of American States about her country’s crisis. (Federico Parra/Getty Images)
- Fireman help an anti-government demonstrator during a protest in Caracas. In a direct challenge to President Nicolas Maduro, prominent opposition politician Maria Corina Machado vowed to take her seat in the National Assembly despite her ouster by the Supreme Court. The head of the legislative body had ordered Machado expelled and her parliamentary immunity stripped last week after she tried to speak before the Organization of American States about her country’s crisis. (Federico Parra/Getty Images)
- Riot policemen take positions during an anti-government protest in Caracas. In a direct challenge to President Nicolas Maduro, prominent opposition politician Maria Corina Machado vowed to take her seat in the National Assembly despite her ouster by the Supreme Court. The head of the legislative body had ordered Machado expelled and her parliamentary immunity stripped last week after she tried to speak before the Organization of American States about her country’s crisis. (Federico Parra/Getty Images)
- Supporters of Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Maria Corina Machado (C) put a helmet on her head as she leaves an administrative office dependent on the National Assembly, in Caracas. In a direct challenge to President Nicolas Maduro, prominent opposition politician Machado vowed to take her seat in the National Assembly despite her ouster by the Supreme Court. The head of the legislative body had ordered Machado expelled and her parliamentary immunity stripped last week after she tried to speak before the Organization of American States about her country’s crisis. (Juan Barreto/Getty Images)
- Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (L) eyes the ball after executing a free-kick during the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal first leg football match FC Barcelona vs Club Atletico de Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona. (Lluis Gene/Getty Images)
- Sumbanese tribeswomen and children carry betel nut offerings during a procession in Ratenggaro village located in Indonesia’s island of Sumba, a day before the the annual “pasola” festival, a ritual mock battle on horseback. Two teams of tribesmen on horseback charge at each other hurling bamboo spears in a thousand-year-old ritual on the Indonesian island of Sumba aimed at producing a prosperous rice harvest. Spectators, their mouths reddened from chewing betel nut, scream them on from the sidelines of the show in Ratenggaro village, reaching for their machetes when a rider is struck at close range and the referee calls foul play. (Romeo Gacad/Getty Images)
- Sumbanese tribesmen look for sea worms by the shore in Ratenggaro village located in Indonesia’s island of Sumba, a day before the the annual “pasola” festival, a ritual mock battle on horseback. Two teams of tribesmen on horseback charge at each other hurling bamboo spears in a thousand-year-old ritual on the Indonesian island of Sumba aimed at producing a prosperous rice harvest. Spectators, their mouths reddened from chewing betel nut, scream them on from the sidelines of the show in Ratenggaro village, reaching for their machetes when a rider is struck at close range and the referee calls foul play. (Romeo Gacad/Getty Images)
- A general view of the installation “Stools” by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei pictured during a media preview of the ‘Evidence’ exhibition at the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin. The exhibition opens from from April 3 to July 7 in the German capital. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
- Bavarian musicians from Engetried play traditional horns in St. Peter’s square prior to the pope’s weekly general audience at the Vatican. (Gabriel Bouys/Getty Images)
- Young girls eat their lunch beside a pond at the V&A Museum in London. (Adrian Dennis/Getty Images)
- The Comuna 13 shantytown, one of the poorest areas of Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia, is seen ahead of the World Urban Forum 7, which will take place from April 5 to 11. Medellin was chosen by popular vote through the internet as “Innovative City of the Year” in a contest organized by The Wall Street Journal and Citigroup in 2013. The distinction was basically made for its modern transportation system, public library, escalators built in a shantytown and schools that have allowed the integration of society. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)
- Sunken fishing boats are seen at the Riquelme Cove, in Iquique, northern Chile, after a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off Chile’s Pacific coast. An 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit Chile late Tuesday, killing at least six people and generating tsunami waves that might ripple as far as Indonesia. (Aldo Solimano/Getty Images)
- Locals take refuge at the city stadium following a tsunami alert after a powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit off Chile’s Pacific coast, on April 2, 2014 in Iquique. A tsunami warning has been issued for Chile, Peru and Ecuador, US officials said. The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles), 83 kilometers from Iquique on Chile’s northern coast, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. (Aldo Solimano/Getty Images)
- A pair of Parisian dolls belonging to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth (left doll) and her sister Princess Margaret, are seen at Buckingham Palace in London. Toys and childhood outfits belonging to the royal family will form part of an exhibition “Royal Childhood”, during the summer opening of Buckingham Palace July 26 – September 28. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
- Aircraft of German airline Lufthansa are parked on the apron during a strike at Fraport airport in Frankfurt . Lufthansa pilots started a three-day walkout on Wednesday, effectively grounding Germany’s largest airline in one of the biggest strikes ever to hit the company. Lufthansa has cancelled 3,800 flights during the strike, which runs until the end of Friday, and says the strike will cost it tens of millions of euros. The pilots are striking to demand that Lufthansa reinstate an early retirement scheme . (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
- Pilots of German airline Lufthansa take part in a demonstration during strike action at Fraport airport in Frankfurt. Lufthansa pilots started a three-day walkout on Wednesday, effectively grounding Germany’s largest airline in one of the biggest strikes ever to hit the company. Lufthansa has cancelled 3,800 flights during the strike, which runs until the end of Friday, and says the strike will cost it tens of millions of euros. The pilots are striking to demand that Lufthansa reinstate an early retirement scheme . (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
- Chief of India’s ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi is showered with rose petals as she waves to her supporters upon her arrival to file her nomination for the upcoming general election at Rae Bareli in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. India, the world’s largest democracy, will hold its general election in nine stages staggered between April 7 and May 12. (Pawan Kumar/Reuters)
- Men drive a car near a site hit by what activists said was an air strike by government forces in Aleppo’s al-Ansari al-Sharqi neighborhood. (Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)
- A Kenyan police bomb expert clad in a protective ballistic suit approaches the site of a suspected improvised explosive device, IED, in Nairobi’s increasingly restive Somali district of Eastleigh, a day after a prominent hardline Muslim cleric was shot dead in Mombasa. The cleric Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, was a vocal supporter of Osama bin Laden, and was on UN sanctions lists accused of being a “leading facilitator and recruiter of young Kenyan Muslims for violent militant activity in Somalia”, and of having “strong ties” with Shebab leaders. (Tony Karumba/Getty Images)