Filipinos continue to protest Obama, new Star Wars cast, World Team Table Tennis Championships | April 29
Filipinos continue to protest Obama’s new defense agreement with the Philippines, the cast for ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ is announced, Tokyo hosts the World Team Table Tennis Championships, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Police use a water cannon on “Bayan Muna” (My Country First) activists who tried to march to the U.S. embassy to protest after a state visit by U.S. President Barack Obama in Manila April 29, 2014. Hundreds of activists gathered near the U.S. embassy in Manila on Tuesday, protesting a new defence agreement which they say underscores unequal relations between the Philippines and the United States. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- Activists from “Bayan Muna” (My Country First) use their mobile phones in front of a mock U.S. flag before the start of a march to the U.S. embassy to protest against a state visit by U.S. President Barack Obama in Manila April 29, 2014. Hundreds of activists gathered near the U.S. embassy in Manila on Tuesday, protesting a new defence agreement which they say underscores unequal relations between the Philippines and the United States. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- Model who uses the name V. Stiviano walks outside her home in Los Angeles, California April 28, 2014. Los Angeles Clippers players staged a protest at a playoff game on Sunday against racist comments allegedly made by team owner Donald Sterling, turning their warm-up jerseys inside-out to hide the team name before a loss to the Golden State Warriors. The silent demonstration came as Sterling faced a firestorm of criticism over a 10-minute recording obtained by celebrity news website TMZ in which a man reported to be the NBA owner tells Stiviano not to post photographs of herself with black people online and not to bring African-Americans to Clippers games. “Mr Sterling is emphatic that what is reflected on that recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect his views, beliefs or feelings. It is the antithesis of who he is, what he believes and how he has lived his life,” Clippers President Andy Roeser said in a statement. (Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters)
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- Writer/Director/Producer J.J. Abrams (top center in glasses) conducts a cast reading for “Star Wars: Episode VII” at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire in this publicity photo taken and released to Reuters April 29, 2014. Clockwise from Abrams are Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Producer Bryan Burk, Lucasfilm President and Producer Kathleen Kennedy, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Adam Driver and writer Lawrence Kasdan. (David James/Copyright (c) Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved/The Walt Disney Company/Reuters Handout)
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- Commuters board an underground train at King’s Cross station in London April 29, 2014. Millions of commuters faced transport chaos on Tuesday after eleventh-hour talks failed to avert a two-day strike on the London Underground train network over plans to cut jobs and close ticket offices. (Neil Hall/Reuters)
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- Pro-Russian activists attack the regional administration building in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, April 29, 2014. Hundreds of pro-Russian separatists stormed the regional government headquarters on Tuesday, gaining access by breaking windows and facing no resistance from police. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
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- A Palestinian man holds damaged loudspeakers belonging to a mosque after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers in Khirbet Al-Taweel village near the West Bank City of Nablus April 29, 2014. Israeli forces demolished several structures, including a mosque, in a Palestinian village on Tuesday, the day a deadline for a deal in now-frozen peace talks expired.A Reuters correspondent witnessed several hundred soldiers deployed in Khirbet al-Taweel, in the occupied West Bank, around daybreak. They guarded six bulldozers that reduced to rubble buildings that were constructed without Israeli permits. Palestinians say such documents are nearly impossible to obtain. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)
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- A woman carrying an umbrella is silhouetted from behind a window covered with rain drops during wet weather in Colombo April 29,2014. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
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- A visitor stands in front of QR-codes information panels during a ceremony to open an information showroom dedicated to the Zaryadye park project in central Moscow April 29, 2014. The showroom, shaped as a dome which houses exhibition halls covered with QR-codes information panels and displaying digital illustration of the project, was opened by Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Tuesday on the site of the future park in a few minutes walk distance from Red Square and the Kremlin, according to organizers. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
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- China’s Ding Ning eyes the ball as she serves to Slovakia’s Eva Odorova during the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo April 29, 2014. (Yuya Shino/Reuters)
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- Jets perform during Saudi security forces’ Abdullah’s Sword military drill in Hafar Al-Batin, near the border with Kuwait April 29, 2014. (Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters)
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- Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos (2nd L) celebrates his first goal against Bayern Munich in front of teammates Pepe (L), Karim Benzema (R) and Gareth Bale during their Champions League semi-final second leg soccer match in Munich April 29, 2014. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
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- Police detain a driver suspected of deliberately ramming his vehicle into pedestrains in Fuzhou, Fujian province, April 28, 2014. Seven people, including three children, were killed in the incident near a primary school on Monday morning, according to Xinhua News Agency. Picture taken April 28, 2014. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- A pupil looks at floral tributes at Corpus Christi Catholic College where teacher Anne Maguire was fatally stabbed in Leeds, northern England April 29, 2014. British police have arrested a 15-year-old schoolboy after a female teacher was fatally stabbed at a school in northern England on Monday. (Darren Staples/Reuters)
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- International and Australian air crews involved in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370, prepare for an official photograph on the tarmac at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Pearce Base in Bullsbrook, near Perth April 29, 2014. The chance of finding floating debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has become highly unlikely, and a new phase of the search would focus on a far larger area of the Indian Ocean floor, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday. The international search effort for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, has so far failed to turn up any trace of wreckage from the plane. Given the amount of time that has elapsed, Abbott said that efforts would now shift away from the visual searches conducted by planes and ships and towards underwater equipment capable of scouring the ocean floor with sophisticated sensors. (Richard Polden/Reuters)
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- An employee poses with “The Blue” diamond at Christie’s auction house in London April 29, 2014. Christie’s London is displaying the largest flawless fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction. The diamond is pegged at $21 million to $25 million and is the highlight of an upcoming Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
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- Men use boards as paddles as they search though the debris of what is left of homes in a lake after a tornado hit the town of Vilonia, Arkansas April 28, 2014. Workers searched for survivors on Monday in the rubble left by a wave of tornadoes that ripped through the south-central United States a day earlier, killing at least 18 people in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
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- President Abdelaziz Bouteflika looks on during a swearing-in ceremony in Algiers April 28, 2014. Bouteflika was sworn in for a fourth term on Monday after easily winning an election opponents dismissed as fraudulent to re-appoint the ailing independence veteran after 15 years in power. (Louafi Larbi/Reuters)
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