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. WARNING: There may be VERY graphic photos depicting death and violence in each edition of this series.
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A mother carries her malnourished child into a feeding centre run by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers in the town of Maradi in southern Niger July 1, 2005. International donors, including the European Union, ignored urgent calls for food aid for Niger, exposing thousands of children to the risk of dying of hunger, an official at a medical charity said on July 1. The situation in Niger highlights Africa’s plight days ahead of next week’s Group of Eight industrialized nations summit in Scotland, where Britain plans to put fighting poverty on the continent at the top of the agenda. (Finbarr O’reilly/Reuters)
A malnourished child awaits treatment at a feeding center near Kibuye, Rwanda. A World Food Program (WFP) report found that one out of three Africans suffers from malnutrition and a total of 852 million people in the world suffer from hunger.(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)
A dog suckles two three-week old Amur tiger cubs in the municipal zoo ‘Royev Ruchey’ in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 1, 2005. The dog that has a puppy of its own was found through a local newspaper after the mother of the tigers refused to feed its babies. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Intercepted at sea : One of 25 would-be immigrants intercepted at sea by Spanish coast guards rests in the port of Gran Tarajal, Fuerteventura Island in the Canary Islands. (AFP/Samuel Aranda)
Pro-government : Thousands of pro-government people take part in a parade to mark the eighth anniversary since Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule in Hong Kong. (AFP/Mike Clarke)
June 30: Iraqi child at play : An Iraqi child plays with a four-dollar toy gun, the latest model available on the Iraqi market. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Flaring up : A Russian combat jet drops counter-measure flares during the air-show in Saint Petersburg. (AFP/INTERPRESS/Alexander Nikolayev)
Palestinian dancers wearing headbands of the Islamic movement Hamas perform for a crowd gathered for a wedding ceremony for 28 grooms organized by Hamas in the West Bank town of Tulkarem Friday July 1, 2005. Only the men took part in the public ceremony and celebration, while the 28 brides were to take part in private ceremonies. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Police forensics examine the body of Eyup Beyaz, a suspected bomber, after he was shot and killed by security as he was trying to run from the Justice Ministry next to the Prime minister’s office in Ankara on Friday, July 1, 2005.Police cordoned off the area in front of the Justice Ministry and the suspect could be seen on the ground as a member of the bomb squad, wearing protective clothing, removed the man’s shirt and then held up a tan colored cylinder with wires coming out of it. The demolitions expert successfully defused the bomb about 10 minutes later. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Russian destroyer ‘Nastoychivy’ (Persistent) takes part in the International Naval Show in St.Petersburg, July 1, 2005. More than 340 companies and organisations from over 30 countries took part in the show, the organiser said. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
Kenyan-born British national Sanjai Shah walks at Nairobi’s international airport in this December 14, 2004 file photo. Shah, who has lived for more than a year at Nairobi’s international airport to protest being denied entry to Britain, has finally been granted U.K. citizenship and plans to fly there within days. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters)
Inmates of Garcia Moreno Jail are crucified on planks as they protest for improved prison conditions and sentencing reforms in Quito, Ecuador, Friday June 24, 2005. The inmates want better conditions in the country’s overcrowded prisons which lack and electricity and running water in the cells, and are also demanding the reactivation of an early release program that reduced sentences by up to half for good behavior. The lower number on the signs the inmates are holding refers to the number of years they want the justice department to accept as their sentence. The higher number on the signs refers to the years of their actual sentence. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa R.)
July 1: Worshipping in the sun : Iraqi Muslim Shiite worshipers with umbrellas to shield themselves from the scorching sun attend an open air Friday noon prayer in Baghdad’s Sadr City poor neighborhood. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Maize is distrubuted in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe government is importing 1.8 million tonnes of maize — almost all of its needed grain — to offset a deficit the southern African country is facing this year.(AFP/File)
People admire huge balloons flying above the crowd marking the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost city, late Friday, July 1, 2005. Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost city, opened three days of celebrations on Friday to mark its 750th anniversary. President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac were due to attend the celebrations on Sunday. Founded in 1255 by the Teutonic Order of knights, the city was called Koenigsburg and was capital of Germany’s East Prussia until Soviet troops took it over in 1945. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Basheer Yassin Salman, the brother of Iraqi policeman 1st Lt. Anmar Yassin Salman, cries over the coffin during his brother’s funeral in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, July 1, 2005. Salman died while in the custody of Iraqi police after both brothers were arrested on Thursday and accused of collaborating with the insurgency, according to the Ministry of Interior. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
In this picture released by MPL International Ltd, Thursday June 30, 2005, adventurers Bear Grylls, 30 and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal, 34, are the diners enjoying a dinner party suspended from a balloon at a height of nearly 24.262 ft (7395 meters) flying over Somerset, England. The pair were making a successful attempt to break the world record for the highest formal dinner party. The previous record was held by adventurer Henry Shelford, who held his dinner party 22,326ft (6805 meters) up a Tibetan mountain in 2004. (AP Photo/MPL International Ltd/ho)
July 1: Before testing : Taiwanese students make last-minute preparations in a Taipei testing site on the first day of the three-day college entrance examination. (AFP/Patrick Lin)
July 2: A Canadair drops its load over Zilia village in Balagne, Corsica as a fire burns out after destroying 1700 hectares of forest.(AFP/Stephan Agostini)
This Friday, July 1, 2005, family photo shows U.S. Marine Sgt. Peter Boucher watching a Webcast from Al Asad, Iraq, of doctors holding up his daughter Lilian Grace just after she was born at Mount Clemens General Hospital in Mount Clemens, Mich. Boucher’s wife, Stacy, said her husband isn’t expected to return to the United States and see his family in person until Sept. 30. (AP Photo)
Regina Roberts (C), mother of Lance Corporal Holly Charette of the U.S. Marine Corps, is comforted by her husband Edward (L) and son Raymond Anthony Charette as Holly Charette was buried at the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island July 2, 2005. Corporal Charette was killed in Fallujah, Iraq when her convoy was attacked in June 2005. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
The U.S. Navys oldest active war ship, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk arrives in Sydney Harbour, Sunday, July 3, 2005, for a brief port visit that will include a celebration of the United States 229th Independence Day anniversary July 4. The Kitty Hawk has been participating in Exercise Talisman Saber 2005, a joint exercise between U.S. and Australian defense forces. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
I had no idea there were Statue of Liberty impersonators.
Statue of Liberty impersonator Juan Carlos Arias awaits the arrival of tourists from the Circle Line ferries Friday, July 1, 2005 at Battery Park in New York. As the Fourth of July weekend is the busiest of the year, Arias works long hours posing for photographs for the occasional donation that gets dropped in his bucket. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Two sisters from New Zealand who are biking across Canada watch as cowboys trail 200 bronc horses along Highway 56 near Hussar, Canada, June 30, 2005. The bronc horses which are owned by the Calgary Stampede will travel 206 km (128 miles) over six days from their ranch in Hanna to Calgary, where they will compete in rodeo events at the Calgary Stampede. REUTERS/Patrick Price
July 2: The cereal market in the southwestern Niger town of Tahoua. The vast northwest African nation is facing a severe food crisis that threatens one third of its 12 million people.(AFP/Natasha Burley)