Apr 14, 2014

Chileans cope with the aftermath of a massive fire in Valparaiso, penitents prepare for Easter with prayer and destruction of leaven, Chinese ethnic Dais ring in the year 1376 and more in today’s daily brief.

: Penitents walk on their way to a church before taking part in the procession of San Gonzalo brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 14, 2014. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leavened items in a final preparation before the start at sundown of the Jewish Pesach (Passover) holiday, on April 14, 2014 in Jerusalem. Religious Jews worldwide eat matzoth during the eight-day Pesach holiday that commemorates the Israelis’ exodus from Egypt some 3,500 years ago and their ancestors’ plight by refraining from eating leavened food products. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)

: People look at a rabbit jumping over an obstacle at the traditional Easter market at the Old Town Square in Prague April 14, 2014. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter. (David W Cerny/Reuters)

: A man reacts as he sees that his house was devastated by a huge fire in Valparaiso, Chile, on April 14, 2014. Emergency responders struggled Monday with outbreaks from a deadly blaze that tore through parts of an historic Chilean port city, as authorities hoped to have control of the flames in two to three days. The Valparaiso fire, still burning amid strong winds, has killed 12 people and is being battled with the help of 11 helicopters, six planes and 2,000 police and military troops. (Felipe Gamboa/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man looks at the destruction caused by a huge fire in Valparaiso, Chile, on April 14, 2014. Emergency responders struggled Monday with outbreaks from a deadly blaze that tore through parts of an historic Chilean port city, as authorities hoped to have control of the flames in two to three days. The Valparaiso fire, still burning amid strong winds, has killed 12 people and is being battled with the help of 11 helicopters, six planes and 2,000 police and military troops. (Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)

: People try to salvage things, near a burnt car in Valparaiso, Chile, on April 14, 2014 after a huge fire devastated the area. Emergency responders struggled Monday with outbreaks from a deadly blaze that tore through parts of an historic Chilean port city, as authorities hoped to have control of the flames in two to three days. The Valparaiso fire, still burning amid strong winds, has killed 12 people and is being battled with the help of 11 helicopters, six planes and 2,000 police and military troops. (Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)

: Volunteers help after a huge fire devastated an area of Valparaiso, Chile, on April 14, 2014. Firefighters backed by police and soldiers Monday battled for a third day a massive blaze that killed 12 people and ravaged a huge swath of Chile’s historic port city of Valparaiso. It could yet be another two or three days before they succeed in extinguishing the fire, officials warned, the worst to hit the city, consuming 2,000 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee for their lives. Some people who refused to leave their homes were killed when the inferno swept it. (Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)

: A boy watches TV on a street in Managua on April 14, 2014, as tremors have not stopped in Nicaragua since April 10 when a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s Pacific region. The quakes that struck Nicaragua in the past days killed one person, left 40 injured and damaged more than two thousand homes, according to official sources. (Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images)

: Children sleep on a mattress in the open sky in Managua on April 14, 2014, as tremors have not stopped in Nicaragua since April 10 when a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s Pacific region. The quakes that struck Nicaragua in the past days killed one person, left 40 injured and damaged more than two thousand homes, according to official sources. (Into Ocon/AFP/Getty Images)

: Children walk during rain in front of Saint Michel Catholic church in the town of Boda April 14, 2014. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A Palestinian woman scuffles with an Israeli soldier as she tries to open a gate leading to the entrance of Nabi Saleh village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah April 14, 2014. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)

: In this photograph taken on April 13, 2014, scavengers on boats salvage plastic waste for recycling on the Citarum river choked with garbage in Cihampelas district in West Java province. This immense aquatic rubbish bin winds 297 kilometres (185 miles) across the island of Java, cutting through the sprawling Indonesian capital Jakarta. Labelled “the most-polluted in the world” by a local commission of government agencies and NGOs charged with its clean-up, the river is the only source of water for 15 million Indonesians who live on its banks, despite the risks to health and crops. (Timur Matahari/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman touches the names of her family in front of a memorial for Republicans killed during and after the 1936-1939 Spanish civil war, in Oviedo, northern Spain April 14, 2014. Spain celebrates today the 83rd anniversary of the proclamation of the 2nd Spanish Republic, which was overthrown by dictator Francisco Franco in a three-year civil war that claimed half a million lives. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

: People gather to observe the “Sindoor Jatra” vermillion powder festival at Thimi, near Kathmandu April 14, 2014. The festival is celebrated by singing, dancing, playing traditional instruments, carrying chariots of various deities around the town, offering prayers and throwing vermilion powder over each other to mark the Nepalese New Year and the beginning of spring season in Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

: Young women look out from a hut in an agricultural area south of Iraq’s central Shiite Muslim Shrine city of Najaf on April 14, 2014.(Haidar Hamdani/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman takes part in a parade to celebrate the Dai ethnic group new year in Jinghong, southwest China’s Yunnan province on April 14, 2014. A series of celebrations kick off on April 13 to welcome the coming year of 1376 in the Dai ethnic group calendar, with people dancing and parading on the streets of Jinghong municipality in China’s Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. (AFP/Getty Images)

: Participants stand next to lit candles in a bid to set a new world record for largest flaming image in Iloilo City, central Philippines on April 14, 2014. Hundreds of people lined up in a dark, muddy field to form a giant map of the Philippines in a bid on April 14 to set a new world’s record for largest flaming image. The 56,000 candles appeared to have topped the old record of 35,478 candles forming a company logo in Pakistan in December, 2009. (Tara Yap/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Iraqi boy jumps in the water near cows south of Iraq’s central Shiite Muslim Shrine city of Najaf on April 14, 2014. (Haidar Hamdani/AFP/Getty Images)

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