Migrants in Greece, Lebanon trash crisis, Subway pitchman to plead guilty to child pornography | August 19
The day in photos around the world.
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- Migrants arrive on the shore of Kos island on a small dinghy on August 19, 2015. Authorities on the island of Kos have been so overwhelmed that the government sent a ferry to serve as a temporary centre to issue travel documents to Syrian refugees — among some 7,000 migrants stranded on the island of about 30,000 people. The UN refugee agency said in the last week alone, 20,843 migrants — virtually all of them fleeing war and persecution in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq — arrived in Greece, which has seen around 160,000 migrants land on its shores since January, according to the UN refugee agency. (AFP Photo/Angelos Tzortzinis)
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- Lebanese activists are sprayed by riot police using water cannons, during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in front of the government house, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Lebanon’s health minister says the country is on the brink of a “major health disaster” unless an immediate solution is found for its mounting trash problem. Garbage has been collecting on the streets in Lebanon for the past month amid government paralysis and inability to agree on a solution after Beirut’s main landfill was closed down. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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- Buddhist monks hold a prayer at the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. The central Bangkok shrine reopened Wednesday to the public after Monday’s bomb blast as authorities searched for a man seen in a grainy security video who they say was the prime suspect in an attack authorities called the worst in the country’s history. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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- Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle leaves the Federal Courthouse in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 following a hearing on child-pornography charges. Fogle agreed to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child pornography in a case that destroyed his career at the sandwich-shop chain and could send him to prison for more than a decade. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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- Indian schoolgirls take part in a snake-awareness programme marking the Nag Panchami snake festival in Mumbai on August 18, 2015. The Hindu festival of Nag Panchami is observed during the monsoon with prayers and tributes to snakes. (AFP Photo/Punit Paranjpepunit)
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- Pope Francis exchanges caps during his weekly general audience at the Paul VI hall on August 19, 2015 at the Vatican. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)
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- Firefighters hose down the debris field from the collapsed east side of the Bremerton Motel 6, Wednesday morning, Aug. 19, 2015. A gas explosion leveled the building Tuesday evening. The blast critically injured a gas company worker minutes after the acting hotel manager had evacuated the building due to a gas leak. (Larry Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP)
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- Employees prepare spacesuits at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on August 19, 2015. Members of the main crew of the 45/46 expedition to the International Space Station, Kazakhstan’s cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Denmark’s astronaut Andreas Mogensen from the European Space Agency are scheduled to blast off to the ISS on September 2, 2015. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
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- A Greek plain clothed policeman chases away Pakistani migrants as they started shouting while waiting to be registered near a police station at the southeastern island of Kos, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. More than 130,000 migrants have reached Greece so far in 2015, straining the country’s resources. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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- Philadelphia Eagles’ Brad Jones (52) defends as Maxx Williams (87) catches a pass during a joint practice at the Eagle’s NFL football training camp, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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- A man prepares to throw an burning tire as farmers protest in front of the prefecture early on August 19, 2015 in Saint-Lo, northwestern France. (AFP Photo/Charly Triballeau)
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- Migrants rush to board a train that would take them towards Serbia, at the railway station in the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Record numbers of migrants from countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan use the so-called Balkan route that passes trough Macedonia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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- Fighters loyal to Yemen’s exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi stand on top of the Al-Qahira Castle, located on the highest mountain in Yemen’s third city Taez, after they seized it from rebel fighters on August 18, 2015. Pro-government and rebel forces have for months fought over Taez, seen as crucial gateway to the rebel-held capital Sanaa. (AFP Photo/STRSTR)
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- A Ukrainian serviceman checks for mines near the position of Ukrainian forces near Seversk, in the Donetsk region, on August 18, 2015. Ukraine’s pro-Western leadership and Russia traded blame for a sharp escalation in violence that threatened to see all-out warfare return to the former Soviet nation’s separatist east. Kiev and the insurgents on August 17 reported the death of at least 10 soldiers and civilians – a dramatic escalation that sparked international condemnation and marked the worst bloodshed in more than a month. (AFP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniakoleksandr)
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- A Syrian refugee child sleeps on the ground outside his family’s tent to escape the heat trapped inside at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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- Syrian refugee girl Zahra Mahmoud, 4, sits in front of her family’s makeshift tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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- Lebanese activists, right, remove barriers as they try to cross to the government house, as riot police spray them with water cannons during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Lebanon’s health minister says the country is on the brink of a “major health disaster” unless an immediate solution is found for its mounting trash problem. Garbage has been collecting on the streets in Lebanon for the past month amid government paralysis and inability to agree on a solution after Beirut’s main landfill was closed down. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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- Columbian tall ship ARC Gloria is escorted by small boats as it arrives to participate in SAIL Amsterdam 2015, a five-yearly festival celebrating the Dutch capital’s maritime history that is expected to draw some 2 million visitors, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. The 9th edition of the nautical event runs until Sunday, Aug. 23 on and around the IJ river. (AP Photo/Cris Toala Olivares)
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- People from a nomad tribe play snooker in their neighborhood in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. These nomadic families earn their living collecting recyclable scrap to sell. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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- A woman lights incense sticks before offering prayers at the reopened Erawan shrine in Bangkok on August 19, 2015. Thai monks led prayers on August 19 for the reopening of Bangkok shrine where a blast killed 20 people, as police hunted a man shown on security footage calmly planting what is believed to be the bomb. (AFP Photo/Christophe Archambault)
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- A Pakistani mother holds her child as a health worker gives him a polio vaccine in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Polio remains endemic in Pakistan after the Taliban banned vaccinations, attacks targeted medical staffers and suspicions lingered about the inoculations. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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