This is part of a series that is posted randomly throughout the week. The series is a selection of photos and sometimes editorial cartoons that sum up visually what is going on around the world. Unless otherwise noted, I don’t necessarily endorse the actions or the sentiments portrayed in the photos, and I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the captions. Feel free to add any current events photos or editorial cartoons in the replies. If you want to post a link to this at other sites, please use this link. Thanks.
A UN soldier walks past a dead man in Guitrozon, some 4kms from Douekoue, where inter-ethnic clashes erupted late 1 June. The Security Council will likely vote Friday on a resolution to dispatch a special UN high representative to oversee elections in Ivory Coast this year, French ambassador to the UN Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said(AFP/Kampbel)
Talib Shaab, left, and Moustafa Yousef wait for medics in Baghdad’s Yarmouk hospital Thursday June 2, 2005. The two were wounded when roadside explosive targeting Iraqi military convoy went off in Mahmoudiya, some 40 kilometers ( 25 miles) south of Baghdad. Three people were killed and three wounded in the blast. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
June 1: Cantonese Opera : Cantonese opera performers sporting traditional costumes and make-up in Hong Kong. (AFP/Samantha Sin)
The US embassy in Dar es Salaam. A senior US diplomat in Tanzania will meet this week with irate Muslim youths in a bid to quell rage over the mishandling of the Koran by American soldiers at the Guatanamo Bay detention camp, officials said.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
A handout video grab from footage shown at the Hague war crimes tribunal on June 2, 2005 shows two men before they were untied to carry the bodies of four others who had been shot. The film shows members of a paramilitary group called the Scorpions taking six emaciated young men out of a truck with their hands tied behind their backs. They are led to a clearing where four are seen being shot at close range. Serbia has arrested eight former members of the Serb paramilitary group filmed in the act of murdering six Bosnian Muslim youths near Srebrenica in 1995, officials said on Thursday. The graphic film, shot near the site of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two, was shown by the prosecution during the war crimes trial of former Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague on Wednesday. Photo by Reuters (Handout)
Volunteers desperately try to save whales beached at Dolphin Bay near Busselton, Australia. One of the false killer whales died in the beaching but the massive public turnout managed to save the others, local wildlife officials said.(AFP/Greg Wood)
Brandon Hughey, a 19-year old U.S. soldier who came to Canada in March 2004 to avoid fighting in what he considers an illegal war in Iraq, waits to testify before the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board in Toronto, June 2, 2005. Hughey is one of several U.S. army deserters currently seeking asylum in Canada. REUTERS/Jorge Uzon
Freed Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails wave the Hamas flag as they arrive in a bus and to be welcomed by their relatives in Erez checkpoint north of the Gaza Strip June 2, 2005. Israel freed 400 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called an attempt to boost moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of a Gaza withdrawal. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)
Somewhat older photograph I just found.
A bird flying is silhouetted against the cloudy sunset during the city’s birthday celebration in St. Petersburg May 28, 2005. Russian reformist Tzar Peter the Great founded the city in 1703 on the deserted Baltic seaside and moved the Russian capital from ancient Moscow to the newly built St. Petersburg. Picture taken May 28, 2005. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
Somewhat older photograph I just found.
A Miniature Schnauzer Baks wears a creation by designer Natalia Kasperovich at a dog fashion show in Vitebsk, 260 km (162 miles) northeast of Minsk, May 28, 2005. The collection was shown as part of the annual ‘White Amphora’ fashion show. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
An Iraqi youth looks at a vehicle destroyed by a suicide car bomb attack in the northern town of Tuz Khurmatu, on the highway between Baghdad and the strategic oil city of Kirkuk, June 2, 2005. A suicide bomber ploughed his car into a restaurant where bodyguards of Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shways were eating, police said. Doctors said 12 people were killed and 37 wounded. REUTERS/Slahaldeen Rasheed
Costa Rican Red Cross workers recover the body of an unidentified victim of an airplane crash in the ocean off the Pacific coast 60 miles (96 kms) southwest of San Jose, Costa Rica, Thursday, June 2, 2005. Officials said Thursday they have discovered two bodies from the crash of a small plane that had carried U.S. and Canadian skydivers. At least one other man survived and three people had not been spotted. (AP Photo/Hector Rodriguez/Diario Extra)
There are people heading down there now.
The home of Ernest Hemingway is shown in Havana, Cuba, in this 1975 file photo. Thge home is one of 11 endagered places listed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Finca Viga was Hemingway’s home from 1939 to 1960. Structural instability and damage by the elements have caused the site to deteriorate so severely that experts now call it a preservation emergency. (AP Photo)
Chinese activists chant slogans at a protest in front of the Chinese consulate in Seoul June 3, 2005. About 100 Chinese activists rallied in Seoul to mourn China’s military crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The sign reads, ‘Release immediately democratic personages and political prisoners’. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
June 2: Mahotella : South African singer Mahotella queen performs on the stage of the ‘Musiques metisses’ festival in Angouleme. (AFP/Alberto Bocos Gil)
June 2: Vigil for Kassir : Lebanese women hold candles at the site of the bomb explosion in which opposition journalist Samir Kassir was killed in Beirut. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
Rescued : A rescued Indian child labourer waits for identification papers inside the deputy police commissioner’s office in Mumbai after the city police freed a total of 446 child labourers from chawls in a raid. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
Night raid : Soldiers detain cuffed and blindfolded suspects following a night raid on Ajil Sharqia, 20 Kms south of Baghdad. (AFP/Karim Sahib)
Pow-Wow : Keith Anderson of the Cherokee and Catawba Native American tribes dances in the men’s traditional category at the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe Pow-Wow in King William, Virginia. (AFP/Stan Honda)
June 2: A girl protest with an empty bowl as thousands rally in Niamey to demand the distibution of free rations to stave off a food crisis that already threatens some three million people.(AFP/Str)
A man creates an AIDS awareness ribbon. Malaysia is to distribute free needles and condoms to injecting drug users in a nationwide pilot project to curb the spread of HIV-AIDS, Malaysia’s Health Minister Chua Soi Lek said.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)
An offshore oil platform off Sakhalin island. A starved grey whale cub was found dead in Russia’s Far East region of Primorye, boosting local ecologists’ fears that giant oil projects off the nearby Sakhalin island could make the endangered species extinct(AFP/Ursula Hyzy)
The rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) official Murad Karialan (3rd L) speaks to the press during a congress meeting in the northern Iraqi village of Lijwa. The PKK militants from the region and Europe are bound together by the dream of an independent state.(AFP/Safin Hamed)
Female members of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) listen on during a congress meeting in the northern Iraqi village of Lijwa. Young PKK militants from Iraq and Europe are bound together by the dream of an independent state.(AFP/Safin Hamed)
Traders work in the oil futures pit on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange in this time exposure photo, June 2, 2005. U.S. crude oil for July delivery fell 55 cents to $54.05, well below a session high of $55.40 a barrel, after the latest weekly U.S. government data showed another increase in crude inventories. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen
Bayan Jabr, Iraq’s Interior Minister, wipes his eyes during an interview in Baghdad Thursday June 2, 2005. At least 700 ‘terrorists’ have been captured and 28 killed in the first four days of a major counterinsurgency operation being carried out by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces in Baghdad, the Interior Minister said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A morgue worker covers a victim from a bombing attack in the northern Iraq city of Mosul June 2, 2005. Two motorcycles strapped with explosives blew up outside a coffee shop frequented by police, killing five people and wounding 13, police said. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen
