May 23, 2014

The day in photos around the world.

: Police stand guard as anti-eviction activists of the PAH (the Platform of People Affected by Mortgage) shout during a protest held outside a hotel druing a meeting attended by Popular Party leader of the Catalonia region Alicia Sanchez Camacho and Popular Party’s candidate for the European elections Miguel Arias Canete in Barcelona on May 23, 2014. The PAH wants the government to change Spain’s laws to end evictions, allow insolvent homeowners to write off their debts by surrendering their homes and transform repossessed flats owned by banks into social housing.
|| CREDIT: JOSEP LAGO – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: A supporter gives the thumb-up for UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage as the latter prepares to leaves Thurrock in Essex, on May 23. Britain’s UK Independence Party surged to its best ever performance in local council elections, according to results announced, giving the anti-EU and anti-immigration group hope for a similar breakthrough in European parliament polls.
|| CREDIT: CARL COURT – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Farmers set up an organic street market on May 23 in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris prior to the launch of ” the Green night ”, an event on biodiversity and agriculture, on May 23, 2014.
STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN – AFP/Getty Images

: A man waves a giant national flag at Democracy Monument as the site of months of anti-government protests is cleaned up a day after the Thai army seized power in Bangkok. Thailand’s new military junta summoned the kingdom’s ousted government leaders on May 23 and banned them from leaving the country, following a coup that has provoked an international outcry.
|| CREDIT: CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Students from a local secondary school eat loaves of kalach, once a popular style of bread, during a April 29 tour and demonstration at the Kalach Museum in Kolomna, Russia. The museum is one of three affiliated entities that teach visitors about Russian history by re-creating traditional settings, foods and amenities.
Photo by Brendan Hoffman for The Washington Post

: A man catches fish on the low waters of Dambovita river as a graffiti on the bench reads “All the political parties steal by rotation, cancel your vote on May 25” in Bucharest on May 23. Romania will vote on May 25 for the European Parliament elections.
DANIEL MIHAILESCU- AFP/Getty Images

: A Palestinian girl plays with threshed wheat as a boy sits on a donley watching in a filed during harvest in Beit Hanun, close to the border with Israel in the northern of Gaza Strip, on May 23, 2014.
MOHAMMED ABED – AFP/GETTY PHOTO

: A Palestinian activist covered in Palestinian flags joins a protest outside the Israeli run Ayalon prison in Ramle, near Tel Aviv, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners, on May 23, 2014, as they express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike over the issue of Israeli administrative detentions. In administrative detentions, people are jailed for indefinite periods without charges.
|| CREDIT: AHMAD GHARABLI – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Children look at dolphins in the dolphinarium in Nuremberg on May 22.
DANIEL KARMANN – AFP/Getty Images

: A firefighter works to put out a fire at the Glasgow School of Art Charles Rennie Mackintosh Building from the building’s roof on May 23, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. The fire is said to have started in the basement after a projector exploded. The school has stated that all students and staff were evacuated safely.
(Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

: Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of a man killed the previous day in a suicide attack in the west Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansur, during his funeral in the central city of Najaf on May 23. A series of bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims, including by a suicide attacker disguised as a woman, killed 16 people in Baghdad on May 22 despite heavy security across the capital.
|| CREDIT: HAIDER HAMDANI – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: An Indian Sikh devotee takes a dip in the sarover (water tank) at the Sikh Shrine Golden temple in Amritsar on May 23, 2014, on the occasion of the 535th birth anniversary of Guru Amardas, the third master of the Sikhs. Guru Amardas lived from May 5, 1479 to September 1, 1574, was the third of the 10 Gurus of Sikhism and was given the title of Sikh Guru on March 26, 1552.
|| CREDIT: NARINDER NANU – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Members of social movements and students take part in a demonstration called “World Cup Without the People, I’m in the Street Again” against the upcoming FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014, in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 22, 2014. As the FIFA World Cup clock ticks down, Brazil is facing a new flare-up of protests against the more than $11 billion being spent on the tournament, which demonstrators say would have been better used on education, health care and transport.
|| CREDIT: NELSON ALMEIDA – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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