Apr 28, 2014

Taiwanese demonstrators are met with police water cannons, a giant a snowman is set ablaze in Zurich, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine let children pose with their assault weapons, and more in today’s daily brief.

: A pro-Russian armed man lends his weapon to a boy posing for a picture for his father in front of the seized town administration building in Kostyantynivka April 28, 2014. Armed pro-Russian separatists who took control of the police headquarters in the east Ukrainian town of Kostyantynivka have also seized the town administration building, a spokesman for the regional government said. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

: A pro-Russian armed man in military fatigues poses for a photograph with a child as he stands guard outside a regional administration building seized in the night by pro-Russian separatists, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, on April 28, 2014. The United States moved to impose fresh sanctions against Russia today over the crisis in Ukraine, as pro-Kremlin gunmen seized another town in the east, further escalating tensions. (Vasily Maximov/AFP/Getty Images)

: A protester against the Government’s proposed high-speed rail link (HS2) moves an inflatable white elephant during a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament on April 28, 2014 in London, England. The House of Commons will vote later today on the HS2 bill’s second reading with 30 Conservative MPs threatening to vote against the Government’s pro-HS2 stance. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

: Protesters burn a US President Barack Obama effigy during an anti-US protest near Malacanang palace in Manila on April 28, 2014. Acitivists welcome Obama with huge protest. Obama landed in the Philippines on April 28 to cement new defence ties on the last leg of an Asian tour conducted against a backdrop of territorial tensions between US allies and China. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

: Pro-Russian protesters walk down a street during a pro-Ukraine rally in the eastern city of Donetsk April 28, 2014. Several people were wounded when pro-Russian separatists attacked a rally in support of Ukrainian unity in the separatist-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday, a Reuters reporter said. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

: People march and rally in front of the White House to demonstrate against President Barack Obama’s immigration and deportation actions April 28, 2014 in Washington, DC. Chanting, ‘With the stroke of a pen you can stop deportations, we demand you take action now!’ 12 protesters were arrested by U.S. Park Police after refusing orders to move away from the north side of the White House during the rally, which was organized by th National Peoples Action, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the White House Hunger Strike for Not1More and Sunflower Community Action. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

: A child wearing a bandage around his head sits as a vehicle loaded with people and goods, part of a convoy of vehicles carrying Muslims from the PK12 district, outside of Bangui, gets ready to leave the city on April 27, 2014. About 1,300 Muslims who were hiding on the outskirts of Bangui, and were frequently attacked by predominantly Christian militias, left Bangui on Sunday in an impressive convoy escorted by the Misca African force, to relocate north of the country. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)

: Villagers and supporters listen to a speech by BJP leader Narendra Modi at a rally on April 27, 2014 in Sidhuali near Lucknow, India. India is in the midst of a nine phase election that began on April 7 and ends May 12. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

: A police officer sprays a fire extinguisher over cooking oil covering the road outside Taipei Railway Station after anti-nuclear demonstrators were removed from the area in Taipei on April 28, 2014. Taiwan police used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of overnight sit-in demonstrators, demanding the scrapping of a nearly completed nuclear power plant, one of the most controversial issues to have gripped the island for 30 years. (Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)

: Taiwan police fire water cannon at protesters squatting on the ground outside Taipei Railway Station during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Taipei on April 28, 2014. Police used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of activists on April 28 occupying a busy street overnight in protest against a controversial nuclear power plant, after the government said it would halt the project. Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)

: Police remove a protester (C) from outside Taipei Railway Station during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Taipei on April 28, 2014. Police used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of activists on April 28 occupying a busy street overnight in protest against a controversial nuclear power plant, after the government said it would halt the project. (Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)

: The Boeoegg, a snowman made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, burns atop a bonfire in the Sechselaeuten square in Zurich April 28, 2014. As the bells of St. Peter’s church chime six o’clock, the bonfire below the “Boeoegg” is set alight and mounted guildsmen gallop around the pyre to the tune of the Sechselaeuten March. The faster the head of the “Boeoegg”, the symbol of winter, catches fire and explodes, the warmer and more beautiful the summer will be. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)

: An Indian man carries a container of water on his head as he walks in a dry pond in a hot afternoon on the outskirts of eastern Bhubaneswar on April 28, 2014. Many Indian cities face severe water scarcity especially in the summer season as summer temperatures soar above the 40 degrees celsius. (Asit Kumar/AFP/Getty Images)

: Indian children cool off as water water flows from a water supply pipeline to beat the heat on a hot afternoon on the outskirts of eastern Bhubaneswar on April 28, 2014. Many Indian cities face severe water scarcity especially in the summer season as summer temperatures soar above the 40 degrees celsius. (Asit Kumar/AFP/Getty Images)

: Orthodox Jewish men enjoy a natural swimming pool near the West Bank Palestinian village of Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem, on April 28, 2014. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Muslim woman prays after a night on the road, before departing towards Chad’s border escorted by African Union peacekeepers, about 20 km (12 miles) from Sibut, April 28, 2014. All the remaining Muslims that have sheltered from sectarian violence in the neighbourhood of PK 12 in Bangui have been evacuated towards the northern town of Kabo and Sido on the border with Chad . (Siegfried Modola/Reuters)

: Palestinian fishermen pull their net at the beach of Gaza City April 28, 2014. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

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