Apr 18, 2014

Christians worldwide gather on Good Friday, the South Korean island of Jindo mourns, and Toronto’s embattled mayor tries to win again. Those events are among the stories in today’s photo brief.

: An Algerian man from the Kabyle ethnic group clashes with security forces in Raffour, some 130 km South East of the capital Algiers, during a protest against the presidential elections on April 17. The clashes that erupted in Algeria’s restive Kabylie region between security forces and youths left around 40 people wounded, local sources said.
|| CREDIT: FAROUK BATICHE – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Pilgrims attend the annual Good Friday “Stations of the Cross” procession at the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris April 18. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: BENOIT TESSIER – REUTERS

: Actors of the Wintershall Players perform ‘The Passion of Jesus’ on Good Friday to crowds in Trafalgar Square in London, England. The Wintershall Players are based on the Wintershall Estate in Surrey and perform several biblical theatrical productions per year. Their production of ‘The Passion of Jesus’ includes a cast of 80 actors, horses, a donkey and authentic costumes of Roman soldiers in the 12th Legion of the Roman Army.
|| (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

: Penitent Danilo Ramos grimaces in pain as he is nailed to a wooden cross during the reenactment of the death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday in San Fernando, Pampanga in northern Philippines. Penitents are nailed to wooden crosses on Good Friday which is the most extreme display of religious devotion in the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic country.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ERIK DE CASTRO – REUTERS

: An Afghan woman walks in the courtyard of Hazrat-e Ali shrine, or ‘Blue Mosque’ in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif on April 17. The mosque, whose origins date back to the 12th century BC, includes gardens with places for residents to sit or walk around.
|| CREDIT: FARSHAD USYAN – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Artists work on a statue of the Goddess of Democracy at Hong Kong’s first permanent museum dedicated to the brutal crackdown on China’s Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, at the Foo Hoo Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui April 18. The planned museum has run into a legal challenge in Hong Kong that some say is motivated by pro-China interests ahead of the 25th anniversary of the bloodshed.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: TYRONE SIU – REUTERS

: A member of the militarized National Police runs away from fire after anti-government protesters threw a Molotov cocktail at them during clashes in Caracas on April 17. Protests have rattled Venezuela since February, leaving at least 41 people dead and more than 600 injured, with opposing sides trading blame for the violence. The government of President Nicolas Maduro and opposition reported progress Tuesday in a new round of talks aimed at ending two months of deadly protests that have rocked the oil-rich nation.
|| CREDIT: JUAN BARRETO – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe gives his official address during celebrations held to mark the country’s 34th independence anniversary on April 18, in Harare, Zimbabwe.
|| CREDIT: JEKESAI NJIKIZANA – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: An alpaca looks out from a car on a busy street in Changchun, Jilin province April 16, 2014. According to local media, a newly-opened bar in Changchun rented the 5-year-old male alpaca from Australia hoping to attract more customers. Picture taken April 16.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: CHINA DAILY – REUTERS

: Fog sourrounds a farm in the mountains in Goncalves, in the state of Minas Gerais in southwestern Brazil, April 18.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: PAULO WHITAKER – REUTERS

: A woman carries her baby as she walks through a wheat field on her way to a polling station to cast her vote in Shabazpur Dor village, in Amroha district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh April 17. India kicked off the biggest day of its mammoth general election on Thursday, with a quarter of its 815 million voters set to head to the polls during a week of fresh blows for the ruling Congress party and gains for the Hindu nationalist opposition.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ADNAN ABIDI – REUTERS

: Students from different classes attend an outdoor joint lesson outside a school building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province April 18.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ALEX LEE – REUTERS

: Members from the South Korean Navy’s Ship Salvage Unit (SSU) operate at the site of the capsized passenger ship “Sewol”, in the sea off Jindo April 18. The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized two days ago rushed back to the bridge after it started listing severely and tried in vain to right the vessel, one of the helmsmen on the ship said on Friday.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: KIM HONG-JI – REUTERS

: The family member of a missing passenger from South Korean ferry “Sewol”, which sank in the sea off Jindo, cries as she waits for news from the rescue team, at a gym in Jindo April 18. A junior officer was at the helm of the South Korean ferry when it capsized and the captain may have been away from the bridge, investigators said on Friday as the search of the stricken vessel resumed and hopes faded for hundreds of people believed trapped inside.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: KIM KYUNG-HOON – REUTERS

: Visitors watch Russian President Vladimir Putin’s live broadcast of a nationwide phone-in at a regional youth library in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk April 17. Putin said on Thursday that Russia would not seek to cut itself off from the outside world with a Soviet-style Iron Curtain.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ILYA NAYMUSHIN – REUTERS

: An armed man, who is wearing black and orange ribbons of St. George – a symbol widely associated with pro-Russian protests in Ukraine, stands guard in front of barricades outside the mayor’s office in Slaviansk April 18, 2014. The self-declared leader of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin, on Friday said that he did not consider his men to be bound by an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to disarm and vacate occupied buildings.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: GLEB GARANICH – REUTERS

: Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives during the first practice session of the Chinese F1 Grand Prix at the Shanghai International circuit, April 18.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: CARLOS BARRIA – REUTERS

: A boy carries a girl after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr April 18.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: STRINGER – REUTERS

: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford addresses supporters on the podium during his campaign launch party in Toronto, April 17. Ford is seeking re-election in the Toronto municipal election, set for October 27.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: MARK BLINCH – REUTERS

: A gaucho is unseated by a wild horse during the annual celebration of Criolla Week in Montevideo, April 17. Throughout Easter Week, “gauchos”, the Latin American equivalent of the North American cowboy, from all over Uruguay and neighboring Argentina and Brazil will visit Montevideo to participate in the Criolla Week to win the best rider award. The competition is held from April 13 to April 20 this year.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ANDRES STAPFF – REUTERS

Religious commemoration, sunken ferry response, another try by Rob Ford | April 18

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