NATO summit, Ka’apor Indian warriors, A Lost Village Utopia | Sept. 4
The day in photos around the world.
- Ka’apor Indian warriors use sticks to hit loggers during a jungle expedition to search for and expel the loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme municipality in the northeast of Maranhao state in the Amazon basin, August 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka’apor Indians, who along with four other tribes are the legal inhabitants and caretakers of the territory, have sent their warriors out to expel all loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited. Picture taken August 7, 2014. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
- Ka’apor Indian warriors tie up and remove the pants of a logger during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme municipality in the northeast of Maranhao state in the Amazon basin, August 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka’apor Indians, who along with four other tribes are the legal inhabitants and caretakers of the territory, have sent their warriors out to expel all loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited. Picture taken August 7, 2014. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
- A Ka’apor Indian warrior stands near a burning logging truck during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme municipality in the northeast of Maranhao state in the Amazon basin, August 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka’apor Indians, who along with four other tribes are the legal inhabitants and caretakers of the territory, have sent their warriors out to expel all loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited. Picture taken August 7, 2014. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
- Vehicles carrying followers of the Shi’ite Houthi movement drive on a road leading to the movement’s camp in southern Sanaa September 4, 2014. Yemen will partially restore a fuel subsidy from Thursday in an attempt to calm anti-government protests in the capital that have threatened to destabilize the impoverished Arab state, according to the cabinet. The plan to ease petrol prices by about 30 percent has however failed to mollify the Shi’ite Houthi rebel group, which also rejected a proposal – still on the table – by president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Wednesday to form a unity government. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
- A security guard walks inside a building at the former headquarters of the Soviet army in Wuensdorf, south of Berlin, September 2, 2014. Twenty years ago the last Soviet soldier left Germany after one of the biggest peacetime military manoeuvres in history, a triumph of organisation that ended the Soviet’s almost 50-year Cold War presence in the former East Germany. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
- Protesters wave Chilean flags as they march during a demonstration in downtown Santiago, September 4, 2014. Chilean workers marched through the streets as they demanding for labour reform projects. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)
- A man runs past a burnt truck belonging to Ukrainian forces near the village of Berezove, southwest from Donetsk, September 4, 2014. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
- Devices produced by U.S. manufacturer of computer networking equipment Netgear are displayed on a web during the IFA Electronics show in Berlin September 4, 2014. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
- Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha (front row, C) and his cabinet pose during a photo session at Government House after an audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok September 4, 2014. Thailand’s new military-stacked cabinet met King Bhumibol in Bangkok on Thursday, marking the formal start of an administration that will spend at least a year overhauling the political system before calling an election. (Chaiwat subprasom/Reuters)
- The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire look at a piece by Chinese artist Xu Bing (R) entitled “Tao Hua Yuan: A Lost Village Utopia” during the Beyond Limits selling exhibition at Chatsworth House in central England, September 4, 2014. (Darren Staples/Reuters)
- The Turanor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, travels on the Venetian Lagoon in Venice September 4, 2014. The vessel is a catamaran powered exclusively by solar energy. (Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)
- Kurdish peshmerga fighters seek cover while under attack from Islamic State (IS) during front line clashes at Buyuk Yeniga village September 4, 2014. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)
- An Israeli worker repairs a fence damaged by a tank in Kibbutz Nahal Oz , just outside the northern Gaza Strip, September 3, 2014. Israelis living on the Gaza border have warily returned home after fleeing constant mortar and rocket fire during a seven-week war, feeling it is just a matter of time before their villages are targeted again. Picture taken September 3, 2014. (Amir Cohen /Reuters)
- Leaders watch their flags as they participate in a NATO Summit Session One: Meeting on Afghanistan and ISAF at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales September 4, 2014. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
- Demonstrators protest against the NATO summit being held at the Celtic Manor resort, near Newport, in Wales September 4, 2014. The resort is the venue for the two day NATO summit which started today. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)
- The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire look at a piece by Chinese artist Xu Bing (L) entitled “Tao Hua Yuan: A Lost Village Utopia” during the Beyond Limits selling exhibition at Chatsworth House in central England September 4, 2014. (Darren Staples/Reuters)
- A man walks amidst tents set up on the floor of a gymnasium for parents of freshmen students at Tianjin University in Tianjin municipality, September 3, 2014. The university set up at least 270 tents in the gymnasium for the parents to stay overnight for free, local media reported. Picture taken September 3, 2014. (Stringer/Reuters)
- Argentina’s Angel Di Maria kicks the ball during the friendly soccer match against Germany in Duesseldorf September 3, 2014. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
- More than 1,000 paramilitary policemen take part in an exercise in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, September 2, 2014. Picture taken September 2, 2014. (China Daily/Reuters)
- Tennis fans watch as the sun sets during the quarter-final match between Kei Nishikori of Japan and Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 3, 2014. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
- Ka’apor Indian warriors hike during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme municipality in the northeast of Maranhao state in the Amazon basin, August 7, 2014. Tired of what they say is a lack of sufficient government assistance in keeping loggers off their land, the Ka’apor Indians, who along with four other tribes are the legal inhabitants and caretakers of the territory, have sent their warriors out to expel all loggers they find and set up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited. Picture taken August 7, 2014. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
- A man looks at an electronic board displaying stock prices, including Japan’s Nikkei average (top C), as passers-by walk past outside a brokerage in Tokyo September 4, 2014. Japanese stocks fell on Thursday, snapping a three-day winning streak as most investors took profits from the recent gains after they quickly priced in the Bank of Japan’s decision to maintain its massive monetary stimulus and its upbeat view on the economy. Picture taken with a long exposure. (Issei Kato/Reuters)
- Members of the Afghan security force keep watch at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Ghazni Province September 4, 2014. Taliban insurgents detonated two powerful truck bombs outside the office of Afghanistan’s spy agency and a police compound in the central town of Ghazni on Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding around 150, the provincial governor said. (Mustafa Andaleb/Reuters)
- Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda reacts to a reporter’s question during a news conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo September 4, 2014. The Bank of Japan maintained its massive monetary stimulus and suggested the sales tax should rise again to help government finances, despite market doubts over the strength of the economy and the central bank’s ability to hits its inflation target. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
- A Chinese honor guard holds a red flag during an official welcoming ceremony for Malaysia’s King Abdul Halim at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, September 4, 2014. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)