World Cup fever heats up, Taxi drivers stop traffic across Europe, protest in Chile and Yemen | June 11
World Cup fever heats up, Taxi drivers stop traffic across Europe, protest in Chile and Yemen and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A Yemeni boy kicks the ball in the air during a football match among friends and neighbors in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. (Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images)
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- Leila de Matos holds her cat, Yandu, as it wears a Brazlian flag hat as they visit Copacabana beach while waiting for the start of the World Cup tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazil continues to prepare to host the World Cup which starts on June 12th and runs through July 13th. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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- A player controls the official Brazuca ball during a training session at the Santa Cruz Stadium in Ribeirao Prato a few days prior to the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. (Franck Fife/Getty Images)
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- England flags adorn a house in a street in the Knowle West area of Bristol in Bristol, England. The football World Cup, which kicks off in Sao Paulo on June 12, 2014 with Brazil versus Croatia, has been beset by construction delays, protests and strikes. However, despite the problems and the fact that it is being hosted 1000s of miles away in Brazil the tournament is being widely anticipated throughout the UK with many homes, business and cars beginning to display England flags and other football paraphernalia. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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- Peruvian shamans perform a ritual of predictions for the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 in front of the National Stadium of Peru, in Lima. (Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images)
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- England flags fly in a street in the Knowle West area of Bristol in Bristol, England. The football World Cup, which kicks off in Sao Paulo on June 12, 2014 with Brazil versus Croatia, has been beset by construction delays, protests and strikes. However, despite the problems and the fact that it is being hosted 1000s of miles away in Brazil the tournament is being widely anticipated throughout the UK with many homes, business and cars beginning to display England flags and other football paraphernalia. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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- A man and two dogs walk on the beach ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Natal. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
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- Students clash with riot police during a protest against the Government’s education reform in Santiago. (Claudio Reyes/Getty Images)
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- T-shirts, displaying images of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, are on sale at GUM department store in central Moscow. Creators of the new collection, which went on sale on Wednesday, produced T-shirts with images of Putin as they were inspired by triumphs of Russian sportsmen at the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the men’s ice hockey World Championship 2014 and Russia’s annexation of Crimea, according to local media. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
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- French Thomas Voeckler rides during the fourth stage (Montelimar – Gap) of the 66th Dauphine Criterium cycling race in Gap. (Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images)
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- Ultra-orthodox Jews take part in celebrations after the wedding ceremony of Esther Rokeach and Avraham Safrin (not pictured) in Jerusalem. Thousands gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the wedding between Safrin and Rokeach, the granddaughter of the spiritual leader of the Belz Hasidim, which is one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
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- Ultra-orthodox Jews sit together as they watch the wedding ceremony of Esther Rokeach and Avraham Safrin (not pictured) during their wedding ceremony in Jerusalem. Thousands gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the wedding between Safrin and Rokeach, the granddaughter of the spiritual leader of the Belz Hasidim, which is one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
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- Protesters demonstrating against Yemen’s fuel shortages shout slogans in Sanaa. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
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- Natividad Badiana, 45, rides a small boat to collect recyclable plastic bottles floating on the murky water in Navotas City, north of Manila. Badiana sells the bottles for 5 pesos ($0.11) per kilogram. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
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- Supporters attend a candlelight vigil after a shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon. A gunman walked into the Oregon high school gym with a rifle and shot a student to death on Tuesday before he was found dead in a bathroom stall, in the third outbreak of gun violence to shake a U.S. high school or college campus in less than three weeks. (Steve Dipaola/Reuters)
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- The Egyptian desert meets the Red Sea on a cloudless afternoon in this photo tweeted by first-time astronaut Reid Wiseman. Wiseman is one of six men living aboard the International Space Station. Wiseman is sharing his observations and pictures with a growing following on Twitter. (Reid Wiseman/NASA)
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- Taxi drivers block the road in Whitehall in central London. Taxi drivers sowed traffic chaos in Europe’s top cities on Wednesday by mounting one of the biggest ever protests against Uber, a U.S. car service which allows people to summon rides at the touch of a button. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
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- Taxis drivers block highway outside Paris, near Roissy as they take part in a demonstration to protest against the growing number of minicabs, known in France as Voitures de Tourisme avec Chauffeurs (VTC). Taxi drivers in London, Paris and other European capitals plan to bring chaos to the streets Wednesday in protest against unlicensed mobile car-hailing services such as Uber which have shaken up the industry. (Fred Dufour/Getty Images)
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- A taxi driver listens to speeches by his colleagues, during an Europe-wide protest of licensed taxi drivers against taxi hailing apps that are feared to flush unregulated private drivers into the market, in front of the Olympic stadium in Berlin. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
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- Performers walk towards the stage at the start of a dress rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” at the foothill of Masada, an ancient Jewish mountaintop fortress near the Dead Sea in southeast Israel. The opera will be performed during the fourth annual Israeli Opera Festival from June 12 until June 17. The festival is Israel’s largest cultural production, with a cast of 700 performers and musicians, and 50 000 people are expected to visit the show, according to the Israeli tourism ministry. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
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- A female member of the honor guard reacts as another one helps to adjust her cap ahead of an official welcoming ceremony for Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
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- Rescuers try to move a car trapped on a flooded street in Qinzhou, southwest China’s Guangxi province. Strong storms hit areas of the Guangxi region, leaving Qinzhou municipality heavily flooded, local media reported. (Getty Images)
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- A Seleka fighter walks in a village, close to the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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- A Seleka fighter stands in a village close to the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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- A supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah leaves after the last day of election campaigns in Kabul. The second round of Afghanistan’s presidential election will take place on June 14. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)
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- Supporters of Indonesian presidential hopefuls Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his running mate Jusuf Kalla, let off a flare during a campaign rally attended by Kalla in Makassar, South Sulawesi. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)
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- A Palestinian girl peeps through the gate of ther home in Beit Lahia, in the northern of Gaza Strip. Some 1.6 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, of whom almost 1.0 million are UN-registered refugees who were driven from or left their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. (Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
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