August 30 Photo Brief: Asian protests, the Paralympics and national celebrations
The aftermath of a Syrian street fight, a local swimmer’s Paralympics effort, a Lebanese sit-in and more in today’s daily brief.
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Michael Gold 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Italy, Lebanon, Maldives, protest, Syria
The aftermath of a Syrian street fight, a local swimmer’s Paralympics effort, a Lebanese sit-in and more in today’s daily brief.
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Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Brahmin, Buddhists, Cuba, Diana Nyad, Ecuador, Eid al-Fitr, Florida, India, Japan, Onam harvest festival, sea turtles, South Carolina, Spain, swimming, Thailand, tracer bullets, Tungurahua volcano, wildfire
Wildfires continue to sweep across Spain, U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad abandons her fourth attempt to swim from Florida to Cuba, loggerhead turtle hatchlings begin their trip to the ocean, and more in today’s daily brief.
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Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Amazon River, Bahrain, Brussels, Burmese python, Cuba, elephant, England, Everglades, Fidel Castro, flooding, Florida, Israel, Olympics, Pakistan, panda, Philippines, Pussy Riot, Russia, snake, The Netherlands, Vienna, whale
A 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python weighing 164 pounds and carrying 87 eggs is caught, killed and studied in Florida, a 60-foot female fin whale perishes on the English shore, the first artificially inseminated elephant continues to thrive in utero and more in today’s daily brief.
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Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Bangalore, Copenhagen, decathlon, Endinburgh, fashion, Fireworks, flooding, Germany, gymnastics, Hindu, India, Karachi, Khost Province, Krishna, Kuala Lumpur, London, Manila, Muslim, Olympics, orangutan, Pakistan, Philippines, Royal Mile, Scotland, scrap metal, Singapore, soldier, US Army, Wembley Arena
A fancy dress competition by Hindu devotees, Singapore celebrates 47 years of independence, heavy flooding continues in Manila and more in today’s daily brief.
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Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Hong Kong, London, Michael Phelps, Olympics, Pakistan, Tropical Storm Ernesto
Michael Phelps ends Olympic career with 22 medals (Gold – 18; Silver – 2; Bronze – 2), Olympics Day 9, Tropical Storm Ernesto and more in today’s daily brief.
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Jon Sham 1 Comment Sports, The Baltimore Sun, Video Afghanistan, denali challenge, disabled sports usa, Iraq, kirk bauer, mt. mckinley, veterans, warfighter sports
Army Sgt. Kirk Bauer lost most of his left leg in a firefight in Vietnam, but that hasn’t stopped him from tackling some the world’s greatest challenges with Disabled Sports USA – Warfighter Sports. He’s been with the organization for 42 years, and is now its executive director. Their goal is to help wounded veterans returning from war realize that they can still achieve great feats.
In June 2012, Bauer led four Iraq and Afghanistan veterans — two double-leg amputees, one single-leg amputee and one with muscle damage – up North America’s tallest mountain, Mt. McKinley in Alaska.
Their tagline: Five wounded warriors, four good legs, three wars, two generations, one mountain.
Disabled Sports USA – Warfighter Sports gave us some of the photos and video clips from the climb for a story Catonsville Times reporter Brian Conlin wrote this week about Kirk Bauer.
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Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, AIDS, AIDS Quilt, batman, Cambodia, China, Colorado, D.C., fire, flood, France, graves, HIV, James Eagan Holmes, Jerry Sandusky, Olympics, Penn State, Philippines, Ramadan, Spain, Syria, Washington
James Eagan Holmes, accused Colorado movie theater shooter makes first court appearance, Penn State receives harsh penalties from the NCAA — including a $60 million fine and four-year bowl ban in aftermath of Jerry Sandusky scandal, and more in today’s daily brief.
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Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Bangladesh, British Open, China, divers, England, golf, India, John Daly, London, Michelle Obama, Nepal, Olympics, orangutan, pants, President Obama, protest, rainbow, Royal Lytham, shooting, soldier, Syria, tiger suit, Tiger Woods, Toronto
An Orangutan gets a birthday kiss, a deadly shooting in Toronto kills two, strange Tiger golf fans in Britain and more in today’s daily brief.
Stokely Baksh 2 Comments Nation Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Camp David, football, Rolling Thunder, Same-sex marriage, White House
Here’s a look at President Obama in the month of May via the White House Flickr stream.
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Stokely Baksh 0 Comment World Afghanistan, Bay Ismoyo, Johannes Eisele, Massoud Hossaini, Omar Sobhani, Parwiz, Sabawoon Amarkhil, security, security forces, Shah Marai, Taliban, war
The Los Angeles Times published controversial photos today showing U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of dead Afghan insurgents. The images were given to The Times by an American soldier, who provided a series of 18 photos on condition of anonymity.
On Sunday, Kabul was rocked by intense gunfire and explosions as part of a “spring offensive” claimed by the Taliban that lasted into Monday. According to reports, the attacks were focused on targets including the parliament building, the NATO force’s headquarters, and Western embassies.
Below are photos and reporting from war photographers in Kabul: Sabawoon Amarkhil, Johannes Eisele, Bay Ismoyo, Massoud Hossaini, Shah Marai, all of AFP/Getty Images, and Parwiz and Omar Sobhani of Reuters.