On patrol in Ukraine, Blue Angels over Chicago, India Independence Day |August 14
Today in photos around the world.
- Sean Tucker pilots his plane along with two members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels in preparation for the 56th Annual Chicago Air and Water Show in Chicago, Illinois, August 14, 2014. (Jim Young/Reuters)
- Ukrainian servicemen ride on a truck as they patrol an area in the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhlehirsk August 14, 2014. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
- Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, take shelter in Mount Sinjar August 13, 2014. A U.S. mission to evacuate Iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain by Sunni militant fighters is far less likely after a U.S. assessment team sent there on Wednesday found the humanitarian situation not as grave as expected, the Pentagon said. Picture taken August 13, 2014. (Rodi Said/Reuters)
- Shi’ite volunteers, from Abbas Unit who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), parade down a street in Kerbala, southwest of Baghdad August 14, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the Islamist militant siege of Iraq’s Mount Sinjar had been broken and most of the U.S. military personnel sent to assess the situation would be pulled out of Iraq in the coming days. (Mushtaq Muhammed/Reuters)
- A boy waits for customers as he sells paper flags and other decorative items painted in the colours of the Indian national flag on the eve of India’s Independence Day celebrations in the old quarters of Delhi August 14, 2014. India commemorates its Independence Day on Friday. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)
- A woman stands at a pharmacy next to a poster displaying a government message against Ebola, at a maternity hospital in Abidjan August 14, 2014. The world’s worst outbreak of Ebola has claimed the lives of 1,069 people and there are 1,975 probable and suspected cases, the vast majority in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to new figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Ivory Coast has recorded no cases of Ebola. (Luc Gnago/Reuters)
- Gamal Siam, a Cairo University professor, talks during an interview with Reuters next to a picture of his deceased his son Sherif in Cairo August 10, 2014. One year since Egyptian security forces stormed two Cairo camps, killing hundreds of protesters demanding the reinstatement of elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, Egyptians remain deeply divided over the future of their country. Egyptian police arrested 29-year-old Sherif Siam while clearing a Cairo protest camp one year ago. Four days later, he and 36 others suffocated in a packed police van on the way to jail. Picture taken August 10, 2014. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)
- Protesters, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, are seen behind burning tires during a protest in the Matariya area in Cairo, August 14, 2014. Security was tightened on Thursday, which was the one-year anniversary of the clearing of the Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya, where at least 817 protesters were killed when security forces stormed two protest. (Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper/Reuters)
- A giant flower carpet is seen at Brussels’ Grand Place, August 14, 2014. This year’s theme for the flower carpet is Turkey and around 750,000 begonias were needed to create the 1,800 square meter flower carpet design, according to the event organisers. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
- A giant flower carpet is seen at Brussels’ Grand Place, August 14, 2014. This year’s theme for the flower carpet is Turkey and around 750,000 begonias were needed to create the 1,800 square meter flower carpet design, according to the event organisers. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
- Barbora Spotakova of Czech Republic competes in the women’s javelin throw final during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich August 14, 2014. (Phil Noble/Reuters)
- Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France crosses the finish line with his vest in his hand, to win the men’s 3000 metres steeplechase final during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich August 14, 2014. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)
- Fabrizio Donato of Italy competes in the men’s triple jump final during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich August 14, 2014. (Phil Noble/Reuters)
- A man is silhouetted as he looks at his phone while walking in Buenos Aires’ financial district, August 14, 2014. The hedge funds suing Argentina over its 2002 debt default are an “international mafia” out to wreck the country’s finances, the government said on Thursday, pumping up the rhetoric in a battle that is squeezing the struggling Argentine economy. (Marcos Brindicci /Reuters)