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 severely malnourished Filippino child stares as he waits to be fed with lunch at a depressed area in the west coast of Zamboanga City, southern Philippines July 6, 2005. REUTERS/Stringer
Freaky!
Reef Ray : A Spotted Reef Stingray (Taeniura Lymma), from Dasyatididae species, is seen on the sand in the depths of Ras Mohammed protection area near Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. (AFP/Tarik Tinazay) Tue Jul 5,
Taking position : Israeli soldiers race to take positions after Palestinian gunmen attempted to infiltrate the southern Gaza Strip Gush Katif settlement of Morag. (AFP/David Furst) Wed Jul 6
In this photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Quran is held by a surgical mask to the fence of a cell at Camp Delta in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba on Wednesday, July 6, 2005. U.S. lawmakers from both major parties and even American allies have expressed concern about claims that interrogators have abused and tortured inmates. Critics have also said that allegations that U.S. guards have mishandled the Quran will help terrorists recruit Muslims around the world and fuel anti-American sentiment. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Wed Jul 6
An HIV positive Ethiopian woman shows the free anti-retroviral that she periodically receives in Makaniza, one of the poorest neighborhood in Addis Ababa. Activists in the east African region have pegged their hopes of effectively fighting HIV/AIDS on the G8 summit in Scotland.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia) Wed Jul 6
July 6: Independence Day : Venezuelan special forces take part in the military parade commemorating the 194th anniversary of Venezuela’s independence in Caracas. (AFP/Andrew Alvarez)
July 6: Rainy Berlin : A couple walks under an umbrella in a park as rain battered Berlin. The capital’s high temperatures have given way to stormy weather. (AFP/DDP/Marcus Brandt)
A Filipino girl takes a nap beside her plastic cup after begging at the stairs of an overpass in Manila July 6, 2005. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo
The crowd reacts in Trafalgar Square, central London to the International Olympic Commitee’s announcement that Madrid has been eliminated from hosting the 2012 Olympic Games, Wednesday July 6, 2005. Candidate cities competing for the Olympic bid were London, Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow. (AP Photo/Jane Mingay)
A reveller sleeps on the street on the first day of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain July 6, 2005. A pack of six fighting bulls run through the centre of the town to the bull ring every morning during the week-long festival made famous by US writer Ernest Hemingway. REUTERS/Susana Vera
Indian police officers and a civilian take cover behind a car during an attack on a minister’s car in Srinagar, July 6, 2005. Suspected Muslim rebels opened fire with automatic rifles on a state minister’s car in the capital of Jammu and Kashmir on July 6 but he escaped unhurt, police said. Police nationwide went on alert to prevent violence and rioting a day after unidentified gunmen stormed a disputed temple, claimed both by India’s majority Hindus and its minority Muslims, in the northern town of Ayodhya. Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters
An Australian snubfin dolphin is seen in this undated handout picture released by researchers at James Cook University. Australian researchers have identified a new species of dolphin which was once thought to have been the same as an extremely rare mammal predominantly found in Asian coastal waters and rivers. The Australian Snubfin Dolphin has been declared a separate species to the Irrawaddy dolphins of Southeast Asia, one of the rarest sea mammals on the planet, researchers at James Cook University and the Museum of Tropical Queensland said on July 5, 2005. (Reuters – Handout)
An aerial view of an eruption of an underwater volcano is seen in the Pacific Ocean near the uninhabited Minami Iwojima Island, about 1,400km (870 miles) south of Tokyo July 3, 2005. The Japanese Coast Guard sent a plane to investigate the approximately 1,000-metres (3,280-ft) column of steam after it was spotted on Saturday by a member of Japan’s armed forces stationed on the island of Iwojima. REUTERS/Kyodo
Civilians run for cover as Russian Interior Ministry forces engage in a gunfight with rebels in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala July 6, 2005. Islamist rebels have killed dozens of police and officials in the region this year, frequently using car bombs to attack officers whom human rights groups accuse of kidnapping rebels’ relatives to put pressure on the insurgents. REUTERS/Sergei Rasulov/Stringer
From Bulgaria.
July 6: People walk past overflowing garbage cans in Sofia. Heaps of garbage piled up on the streets of Sofia, threatening to bring on epidemics, while residents around the capital continued to refuse to host a new waste disposal site.(AFP/Valentina Petrova)
Zhang Songxian, 78, whose feet have rotten due an anthrax fungus infection, has his lunch with his wife at their home in Jinhua, east China’s Zhejiang province, July 5, 2005. Zhang is a victim of the germ-warfare launched by Japanese troops during World War II. Starting from October 1940, Japanese troops launched an extensive germ-warfare in China, spreading bacterium of plague, cholera, typhoid fever, anthrax and glanders in Jinhua and Quzhou of Zhejiang, killing more than 60,000 Chinese. Many survivors have been wrecked by the toadstool to this day. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Newsphoto
South Korean shoppers browse at goods for sale at a shopping district in Seoul. South Korea’s consumer confidence fell for a third straight month in June, amid crumbling hopes for a quick turnaround for Asia’s third-largest economy, official data showed.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)
Iraqi police examine their bullet-marked vehicle after gunmen attacked a police patrol in Baghdad July 6, 2005. A double car bomb attack in central Iraq killed at least 11 people and wounded 19 late on July 6, police sources said. The attack at Jbeila, near the mainly Shi’ite city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, struck a road into the town and a car sales lot. The dead were mostly civilians. Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters