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World
Mar 18, 2010

News in pictures on Thursday

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Members of the Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, are removed from the street by security agents during a protest in Havana on Wednesday. Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented Ladies in White from marching on the outskirts of the capital to demand release of their jailed husbands and sons, physically removing them when they lay down in the street in protest. -- PHOTO: AP

Animal rights activist, with "banderillas" stuck with tape to his back, protest against bull fighting in front of the Congress in Bogota. "Banderillas," literally meaning small flags, are barbed sticks that are stuck on a bull's flank to weaken him during a bullfight. -- PHOTO: AP

A Haitian teacher works with children traumatized by the January 12 earthquke, under a tent in Petion-ville, Haiti. Haiti has unveiled the first draft of its grand reconstruction plan, saying US$11.5 billion would be needed to help the country rebuild after January's devastating earthquake. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Commuters look on as volunteers from The Art of Living Foundation clean the ghats of polluted Yamuna river during a cleansing drive in New Delhi on Thursday. Considered one of the holiest rivers in India, the Yamuna River has been dying a slow death from pollution for decades despite the investment of millions of dollars to preserve its ecosystem. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) which monitors the water quality of the Yamuna in Delhi, seventy percent of the pollution in the river is from untreated sewage while the remaining thirty percent is from industrial sources, agricultural run-off and domestic garbage. -- PHOTO: AFP

Visitors ride the "Battlestar Galactica" dueling roller coaster at the Universal Studios theme park in Singapore on Thursday. The park features a variety of attractions including roller coasters and pyrotechnic shows. It is part of the Resorts World Sentosa development, which includes a casino and four hotels in addition to the theme park on Singapore's Sentosa Island. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Children watch an Olive Ridley turtle returning to the Bay of Bengal sea after laying eggs on the Gokhurkuda beach, in Ganjam District, about 140 kilometers (88 miles) from Bhubaneshwar, India, on Thursday. Olive Ridley turtles nest their eggs in parts of the Bay of Bengal Sea's Orissa coast. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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Greepeace activists dressed as orangutans stage a protest at the entrance of the Nestle offices in Croydon, London, to denounce Nestle over the use of palm oil in their products, which comes from Indonesia's biggest producer Sinar Mas. Sinar Mas rejected claims of environmental vandalism on Thursday, after Nestle, the world's biggest food company, dropped it as a supplier, linking the company's signature Kit Kat confectionary to the destruction of orangutan habitats through deforestation casused by Indonesia's palm oil production. -- PHOTO: AFP

A Cambodian man collects water for domestic use during the dry season, from a river in Kandal province on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Thursday. Severe drought has hit Southeast Asian countries, parching the region's major river, Mekong, whose water level has dropped to only 33 centimeters, the lowest in 50 years. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

One of 22 hot air balloons flies over at the start of the Putrajaya Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Twenty two balloons from ten countries participated in the annual event. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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Revellers from Downpatrick walks along with the St. Patrick Day parade in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. The traditional feast day of Ireland patron's saint has become one of the world's most recognised national holidays and Irish ministers are jetting around the globe to promote trade, tourism and investment. -- PHOTO: AFP

An unidentified rider jumps during a training session ahead of the Snowboard World Cup in La Molina. -- PHOTO: AFP

Horses and jockeys jump over a fence during the National Hunt Steeple Chase Cup at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England. The four-day race began yesterday and culminates on Friday with the Cheltenham Gold Cup. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Visitors pass by a giant picture at the Rolex's stand at the Baselworld 2010 watch and jewellery show in Basel. Luxury watchmakers are going back to basics with classic designs, as industry players at the world's biggest watch fair warned on Wednesday that the 'years of extravagance' were over. -- PHOTO: AFP

Michael Brugger of Switzerland competes in the Men's Standing Giant Slalom during Day 6 of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, Canada. -- PHOTO: AFP

An Afghan man prays near a canal at sundown as US Marine of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, patrol nearby in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Thousands of US Marines, Nato and Afghan soldiers have massed in the Marjah region of the Helmand River valley ahead of a planned operation to eradicate Taleban militants who along with drug traffickers hold sway there. -- PHOTO: AFP

A Tarbosaurus dinosaur skeleton is displayed during an exhibition 'Dinosaurs, treasures of Gobi desert' at CosmoCaixa in Alcobendas, near Madrid. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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World
Mar 19, 2010

News in pictures on Friday

Visitors take a close look at blooming "Ookanzakura" cherry blossoms at Shinjuku park in Tokyo on Thursday. This season, Japan's national obsession with the timing of the flowering of the delicate, pale pink blooms, called "sakura" in Japanese, will depend on private weather companies and their volunteer recruits, after the Meteorological Agency decided to end its official forecasts that began in 1955. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Photo shows riot policemen standing guard beside emptied containers lying in a pool of blood after red-shirted supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra spilled blood at Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's Democrat party offices in Bangkok. Thai tourism is taking a battering as the latest gruesome protests in Bangkok have frightened off visitors to the kingdom, better known for its white sands and smiles. -- PHOTO: AFP

Mouneera Basheer, 14, left, is seen working along with her sister Amila, 15, center, and other girls in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. At least 10 million children are believed to be working in Pakistan, though the actual number is unknown. They toil at a variety of jobs, including some of the hardest and most poorly paid. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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Mouneera Basheer, 14, left, is seen working along with her sister Amila, 15, center, and other girls in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. At least 10 million children are believed to be working in Pakistan, though the actual number is unknown. They toil at a variety of jobs, including some of the hardest and most poorly paid. -- PHOTO: AP

People lay flowers near the home of Milly Boele, 12 years old, in Dordrecht on Thursday after her murdered body was found buried in a neighbour's garden. The suspected killer had allegedly handed himself in to the police on March 16. -- PHOTO: AFP

Demonstrators take part in a protest march toward the presidential palace as they rally against planned tax increases, in Panama City on Thursday. Panama's Congress approved a plan to raise taxes on March 12 that could help the Central American country win a coveted investment-grade rating on its debt. The bill would raise the sales tax rate to 7 percent from 5 percent and Panama's economy ministry said the changes would take effect July 1 if President Ricardo Martinelli signs the bill into law, which he is expected to do. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev is carried in a chair to the medical tent shortly after he and Commander Jeff Williams landed in their Soyuz TMA-16 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Thursday. Nasa Astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 21 and 22 crews. -- PHOTO: AFP

Filipino activists stage a die-in while chanting slogans as they display a poster of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, during a rally by the Free Burma Coalition group outside the Myanmar embassy in Manila's Makati financial district on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Former North Korean defectors, wearing hoods to cover their identities, and their South Korean supporters shout slogans in a rally held against Russian government's policy on North Korean defectors in front of the Russian Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday. A South Korean activist said a North Korean asylum seeker has been arrested by Russian security officials in an eastern Russian city. The letters read " Stop Repatriation to North Korea." -- PHOTO: AP

 

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A worker has her lunch at during a break from sorting plastic cups to be recycled at a collection point in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday. -- PHOTO: AP

A fish dealer walks past a tuna at his stall inside Tsukiji Wholesale Market in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday. Japanese fish dealers welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna while urging that existing quotas be more strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing. -- PHOTO: AP

A Sudanese youth dances at a hip-hop concert in Khartoum, on Feb 25. Unimaginable twenty years ago, a new hip-hop scene is sweeping Sudan, but remains marginal in an Islamic society. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Bulls wrestle during the opening day of the bull fighting festival in Cheongdo on Wednesday. A total of 132 bulls fight each other during the five-day festival from March 17-21. Centuries after the tradition began, Korean bullfighting still draws frenzied crowds who don't seem to miss the bloodshed of the Spanish version. -- PHOTO: AFP

In this photo taken on Thursday, college students fill in resume forms in a job fair booth in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. -- PHOTO: AP

In this photo taken on Thursday, a man works at a construction site in Taiyuan, in north China's Shanxi province. The World Bank raised its China growth forecast this year to 9.5 per cent from 9 per cent on Wednesday but said Beijing needs to cool inflation and possible bubbles in real estate prices. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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The official US Census form, pictured on Thursday in Washington, DC, is required to be filled out and returned to the US Government by April 1. The all-important US tally determines everything from the number of seats a district is entitled in the US Congress, to the amount of dollars jurisdictions are given for federal projects. -- PHOTO: AFP

Samantha Stosur, of Australia, poses with an Australian flag after advancing to the top 10 on the WTA tour with her win against Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, of Spain, at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, Calif., on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AP

An elderly woman rests in her wheelchair in a provisional camp in Port-au-Prince on Thursday. International donors are ready to provide US$3.8 billion over 18 months to help Haiti rebuild after its devastating Jan 12 earthquake, experts and officials preparing a high-level donors conference said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Saul Linares rests after arriving at a church in Baltimore, on Thursday, after walking the past six days from Hempstead, NY Linares, a factory work, will join other immigrants, most of them undocumented Hispanics, in Washington, DC, for a Sunday march to dramatise their pleas for immigration reform. -- PHOTO: AP

A visitor looks at Asian art pieces during a preview of Christie's Asian Art sales in New York, on Thursday. Christie's Asian art auctions are set to take place March 23-24, 2010 in New York. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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