Apr 11, 2014

India’s elections are underway, Angela Merkel is conducting a visit to a paired-down Greece, and sovereignty questions are disrupting lifestyles at borders from Rafah to Rubizhne. Those are some of the stories in Friday’s daily photo brief.

: Visitors look at “Tete de Marie-Therese” by Pablo Picasso during a photo call in central London on April 11, ahead of the forthcoming New York auctions of contemporary, impressionist and modern art.
|| ANDREW COWIE – AFP/Getty Images

: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) followed by the Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras (R) arrives for a meeting with young Greek businessmen in a hotel in Athens on April 11. Merkel visits Greece on Friday to applaud reform efforts, a day after the eurozone laggard made a triumphant return to bond markets. In her second visit to Athens in two years, Merkel is expected to discuss Germany’s contribution to a 500-million-euro ($690-million) investment fund to help the Greek economy shake off a six-year recession.
|| CREDIT: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Activists of the Partido Africano da Independencia da Guine e Cabo Verde (PAIGC, African party for the independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) sit in a street of Bissau on April 11, 2014, two days before the April 13 general election that will field 13 candidates for the presidency and 15 parties at the legislatives. Guinea-Bissau goes to the polls in search of a new president and parliament who can return stability to a country plagued by drugs and upended in a military coup two years ago.
|| CREDIT: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: TOPSHOTS A woman lies in a coffin at a funeral fair in the Grand Generation’s Collection 2014 produced by Japanese retailer Aeon in Makuhari on April 11, 2014. The three-day collection will be held until April 13.
|| CREDIT: KAZUHIRO NOGI – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: A worker pulls out a roll of cloth to be made into flags for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, while it is kept out to dry at a flag manufacturing factory in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad April 11. Around 815 million people have registered to vote in the world’s biggest election – a number exceeding the population of Europe and a world record – and results of the mammoth exercise, which concludes on May 12, are due on May 16.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: AMIT DAVE – REUTERS

: Indian climber and independent political candidate, Gaurav Sharma, (L) wearing a ‘spiderman’ costume, greets residents while climbing up a residential building as he campaigns for the Lok Sabha elections in Mumbai on April 11. Sharma, a former martial arts trainer for the Mumbai city police, has been nicknamed “The Indian Spiderman” for his penchant for scaling almost all the tall buildings in the city. India’s marathon nine-phase election kicked off April 7 and will end on May 12 when hundreds of millions will have cast their ballots.
|| CREDIT: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: The Sempre team trains on the cobblestones of the Aremberg de Wallers section on April 11 for the “Paris-Roubaix” race.
|| CREDIT: FRANCOIS LO PRESTI – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: A Syrian refugee child receives a vaccination against Polio on April 11, 2014 at a refugee camp near the Lebanese village of Zahle in the Bekaa valley. According to UNICEF, Lebanon joined the regional polio vaccination campaign launched the past week in Iraq, Syria and Egypt after health officials found a suspected case of the virus in a young boy near Baghdad.
|| CREDIT: AFP/Getty Images

: Models presents creations by We Couture during Shanghai Fashion Week April 11, 2014.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: CARLOS BARRIA – REUTERS

: A demonstrator holds up a symbolic hangman’s noose during a protest in Istanbul April 11, 2014. Hundreds of pro-Islamist demonstrators gathered at the courtyard of a mosque in support of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and to protest against the death sentence of 529 members of the Islamist group in Egypt.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: STRINGER – REUTERS

: Men carry the body of a victim of an explosion on a stretcher at the Skochinsky mine outside Donetsk April 11. Seven people were killed on Friday when an explosion caused by leaking gas tore through a coal mine near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, local authorities said. Altogether 52 miners were working at a depth of 1,300 metres when the accident occurred at the Skochinsky mine. Apart from the seven killed, an eighth miner was taken to hospital with injuries.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: MAKS LEVIN – REUTERS

: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on April 11. Putin responded acidly to U.S. comments about a proposal he sent to European leaders seeking talks about Ukraine’s gas debt and supplies, saying “it is not good to read other people’s letters”.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: MIKHAIL KLIMETYEV/RIA NOVOSTI/KREMLIN – REUTERS

: Palestinian protesters hold their national flag shouting slogans in front of Israeli security forces during a weekly protest against the confiscation of land by Israel on April 11, 2014 in the northern West Bank village of Salem, east of Nablus.
|| CREDIT: JAAFAR ASHTIYEH – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: African migrants sit next to stacked wooden reels outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert April 11, 2014. Israel opened Holot as part of its bid to rid itself of some of the 50,000 African migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritreans who have since around 2007 entered territory claimed by the country.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: AMIR COHEN – REUTERS

: A pro-independence Catalan flag flies from the roof of a residential building in Girona, Spain, on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Spain’s recession deepened more than economists forecast in the fourth quarter as the government’s struggle to rein in the euro region’s second-largest budget deficit weighed on domestic demand.
|| Photographer: David Ramos/Bloomberg

: Matt Jones of Australia hits a shot from the fourth tee box during the second round of the 2014 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 11 in Augusta, Georgia.
|| Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images

: A man looks at mosaics representing portraits of Popes (from left) Francis, Benedict XVI, John Paul II, John Paul I, Paul VI and John XXIII on April 10 at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (San Paolo Basilica). The Vatican prepares to celebrate on April 27 at St Peter’s Basilica its first-ever canonisation of two popes at the same time, John XXIII and John Paul II. Rome city authorities are deploying thousands of police officers and setting up four giant screens in the city centre so pilgrims can follow the canonisation mass. Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, who last year became the first pontiff to resign since the Middle Ages, could also attend, meaning two living and two deceased popes would be present at the historic ceremony.
|| CREDIT: ANDREAS SOLARO – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: A Sotheby’s employees look at “Blau” 1988, by artist Gerhard Richter, during a photo call in central London on April 11, ahead of the forthcoming New York auctions of contemporary, impressionist and modern art.
|| AFP PHOTO/ANDREW COWIE

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