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A Sadhu or a Hindu holy man walks down a staircase at an ashram...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:56:00 +0300

A Sadhu or a Hindu holy man walks down a staircase at an ashram in New Delhi on June 19, 2013.

[Credit : Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters]

North Korean men and women dance in front of the Monument to...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:53:00 +0300

North Korean men and women dance in front of the Monument to Party Founding in Pyongyang on June 19, 2013.
A man carries his bicycle while women dressed in traditional costumes, rest and enjoy popsicles on the stairs of an underpass after they took part in a folk dancing in Pyongyang on June 19, 2013. The dancing performance is held to celebrate the day the late North Korean leader Kim Jung Il began his work at the central committee of the communist nation’s ruling Workers’ Party in 1964.

(Photos by Alexander F. Yuan/AP)

A boy sits on a ladder next to his flooded house with the rising...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:47:19 +0300

A boy sits on a ladder next to his flooded house with the rising water level of river Yamuna after heavy monsoon rains in New Delhi on June 19, 2013.

[Credit : Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters]

globalsnapthoughts: West Africa, as Seen From Its Barber...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:53 +0300

globalsnapthoughts:

West Africa, as Seen From Its Barber Shops

“The barbershop is an intimate space where people come to discuss what they cannot speak about in their homes or in public, including politics and even their lovers,” said Andrew Esiebo, who has photographed scores of West African barbershops. “It’s one of the few spaces where people from different walks of life, from different classes, mix….” Inside the barbershops, he found “religious imagery, hip-hop artists, posters of soccer teams and icons of global black culture.” He also discovered that the hairstyles customers chose were often inspired by black American music idols and reflected the “tensions between their African and global blackness.” In Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal, he realized, the shops and the hairstyles were much the same. Arbitrary colonial borders did not mask the commonalities in what the barbers and their businesses represented.

(James Estrin, NY Times Lens Blog)

Photos by Andrew Esiebo

natgeofound: To get ready for Easter festivities, some men have...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:17:31 +0300

natgeofound:

To get ready for Easter festivities, some men have their hair trimmed on Karpathos Island in Greece, April 1982.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic

stevemccurrystudios: Today’s black and white photo was taken in...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:16:46 +0300

stevemccurrystudios:

Today’s black and white photo was taken in Rajasthan, India.

Istanbul June 18, 2013 : ‘standing man’ protests 1. People stand...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:30:55 +0300

Istanbul June 18, 2013 : ‘standing man’ protests

1. People stand on the flashpoint Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 18, 2013 during a wave of new alternative protests. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

2. People stand on the flashpoint Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 18, 2013 during a wave of new alternative protests. In Istanbul, dozens of demonstrators switched to silent protests, standing still in quiet defiance in the main Taksim Square located next to the Gezi Park. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

3. Anti-goverment protestors stands on Taksim square after Turkish choreographer Erdem Gunduz’ (not in picture) lone protest on June 18, 2013 in Istanbul. Gunduz stood for several hours unnoticed before his presence on the flashpoint square went viral on the social network Twitter. He was then joined by hundreds of others who in solidarity decided to join his protest by standing for hours on end. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)

4. People stand on the flashpoint Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 18, 2013 during a wave of new alternative protests. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)

Brazil June 18, 2013 1. Demonstrators gather in the Praca da Se...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:05:23 +0300

Brazil June 18, 2013

1. Demonstrators gather in the Praca da Se as part of protests against poor public services, police violence and government corruption, in Sao Paulo June 18, 2013. The sign in the middle reads, “Take back the streets. Against the repression.” (Alex Almeida/Reuters)

2. Protesters gather in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 18, 2013. (Nelson Antoine/AP)

3. Riot police take positions during a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 18, 2013. (Daniel Guimaraens/AFP/Getty Images)

4. A municipal worker sweeps the streets by two cars destroyed the previous night by demonstrators in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 18, 2013. (Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)

5. A person hangs a sign reading, “We want peace, health and education”, outside her window in Rio de Janeiro June 18, 2013. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

6. Demonstrators run past burning garbage and objects during protests against poor public services, police violence and government corruption in Sao Paulo June 18, 2013. (Alex Almeida/Reuters)

A woman selects tea leaves in Enshi City, central China’s Hubei...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:37:41 +0300

A woman selects tea leaves in Enshi City, central China’s Hubei Province on June 18, 2013.

[Credit : Yang Shunpi/Xinhua/Zuma Press]

A boy calls out to his friends in Qunu, South Africa on June 18,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:34:18 +0300

A boy calls out to his friends in Qunu, South Africa on June 18, 2013.

[Credit : Rogan Ward/Reuters]

A woman carries her son as she walks in a ferry terminal on the...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:28 +0300

A woman carries her son as she walks in a ferry terminal on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 18, 2013.

[Credit : Kevin Frayer/AP]

Shanty town torn down by Spanish authorities A handful of...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:10:18 +0300

Shanty town torn down by Spanish authorities

A handful of shacks were torn down Tuesday morning under the orders of Madrid’s town planning board, who considers them to be illegal dwellings. Several hundred Roma people live in precarious conditions, without running water or sewage services, in “El Gallinero”, just 15 km away from Madrid’s centre. The inhabitants live in ramshackle huts made out of cardboard and zinc in an area prone to flooding.

(Photos by Susana Vera/Reuters)

1. Giorgi Placintario caresses his nephew’s puppy “Leo” as he sits next to the few belongings he was able to salvage before his shack was demolished in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013. Placintario moved to “El Gallinero” in 2002 and it’s the second time his home has been torn down.

2. Leon removes belongings from his family’s roof before their home is torn down in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013.

3. A member of a Roma community sits next to an excavator demolishing a neighbour’s shack in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013.

4. A boy reacts as he stands next riot policemen while an excavator demolishes a relative’s shack in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013.

5. Riot policemen prevent residents from entering their home as it is targeted for demolition in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013.

6. A girl plays next to her teddy bear as a neighbour peeps through a window in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013.

7. Children stand next to empty water containers in a supermarket cart in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013.

8. Ceracela Vaduva sits next to her family’s belongings after their home was demolished in the shanty town settlement of “El Gallinero”, in the outskirts of Madrid June 18, 2013. The Vaduva family, like most in the settlement, started to rebuild their torn down shacks as soon as the policemen left.

Hot air balloons fly across Qiongzhou Strait in Haikou, south...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:48:46 +0300

Hot air balloons fly across Qiongzhou Strait in Haikou, south China‘s Hainan province, as part of the H1 Hot Air Balloon Challenge on June 18, 2013.

[Credit : Stringer/AFP/Getty Images]

Commuters ride on a subway train at Yonggwang station, or...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:24 +0300

Commuters ride on a subway train at Yonggwang station, or “glory station,” in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 18, 2013.

[Credit : Alexander F. Yuan/AP]

stevemccurrystudios: Indian man during the Holi Festival.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:41:17 +0300

stevemccurrystudios:

Indian man during the Holi Festival.

A woman washes dishes in the fading winter sunlight in Qunu on...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:56:31 +0300

A woman washes dishes in the fading winter sunlight in Qunu on June 17, 2013.

[Credit : Rogan Ward/Reuters]

Anti-G8 protesters break through the security fence surrounding...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:52:02 +0300

Anti-G8 protesters break through the security fence surrounding the G8 Summit in the Lough Erne Golf Resort in County Fermanagh on June 17, 2013.

[Credit : Cathal McNaughton/Reuters]

A farmer holds rice saplings as she walks in the rice paddy...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:48:10 +0300

A farmer holds rice saplings as she walks in the rice paddy field in Khokana, Lalitpur on June 17, 2013.

[Credit : Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]

Peru protesters push to stop $5 billion Newmont mine...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:58:58 +0300

Peru protesters push to stop $5 billion Newmont mine project

Thousands of opponents of a $5 billion gold project of Newmont Mining circled a lake high in the Andes on Monday, vowing to stop the company from eventually draining it to make way for Peru’s most expensive mine. Lake Perol is one of several lakes that would eventually be displaced to mine ore from the Conga project. Water from the lakes would be transferred to four reservoirs that the U.S. company and its Peruvian partner, Buenaventura, are building or planning to build.

The companies say the reservoirs would end seasonal shortages and guarantee year-round water supplies to towns and farmers in the area, but many residents fear they would lose control of the water or that the mine would cause pollution.

“Why would we want a reservoir controlled by the company when we already have lakes that naturally provide us water?” asked Angel Mendoza, a member of a peasant patrol group from the town of Pampa Verde.

(Photos by Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)

Captions :

1. An Andean woman sits on a horse as she takes a break during a march against Newmont Mining’s Conga project in Peru’s Cajamarca region June 17, 2013.

2. Andean people protest against Newmont Mining’s Conga project during a march along the Perol lake in Peru’s region of Cajamarca June 17, 2013.

3. Andean people march during a protest along the Perol lake in Peru’s region of Cajamarca June 17, 2013.

4. Andean people march during a protest along the Perol lake in Peru’s region of Cajamarca June 17, 2013.

5. An Andean woman drinks water from the Perol lake using her hat during a protest against Newmont Mining’s Conga project at Peru’s Cajamarca region June 17, 2013.

6. An Andean man smokes a cigarette while resting along Perol lake in Peru’s Cajamarca region June 17, 2013.

7. Andean people remove rocks from the border of a reservoir, built by Newmont Mining’s Conga project next to the Perol lake, during a protest in Peru’s region of Cajamarca June 17, 2013.

8. Jose Rojas, an Andean man, flavours coca leaves with lime as he chews on the leaves while resting during a march against Newmont Mining’s Conga project, along the Perol lake in Peru’s Cajamarca region June 17, 2013.

9. Anti-riot police officers stand guard as Andean people vandalize parts of a dam during a protest in Peru’s region of Cajamarca June 17, 2013.

10. Andean people set fire to areas surrounding a dam during a protest in Peru’s region of Cajamarca June 17, 2013.

Brazil June 17, 2013 1. A military police officer pepper sprays...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:04:29 +0300

Brazil June 17, 2013

1. A military police officer pepper sprays a protester during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, June 17, 2013. (Victor R. Caivano/AP)

2. Protestors are reflected on the glass of a building, left, as they march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. Protests in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, set off by a 10-cent hike in public transport fares, have clearly moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in Brazil about a heavy tax burden, politicians widely viewed as corrupt and woeful public education, health and transport systems and come as the nation hosts the Confederations Cup soccer tournament and prepares for next month’s papal visit. (Felipe Dana/AP)

3. Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro downtown on June 17, 2013, against higher public transportation fares and the use of public funds to disrupt international football tournaments. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images)

4. Demonstrators face riot police during one of the many protests around Brazil’s major cities in Belo Horizonte June 17, 2013. (Pedro Vilela/Reuters)

5. Demonstrators shout anti-government slogans behind a banner during one of many protests around Brazil’s major cities in Sao Paulo June 17, 2013. (Alex Almeida/Reuters)

6. A demonstrator shouts at police during a protests in front of the Brazilian National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. (Eraldo Peres/AP)

7. Policemen arrest students during a protest at the National Congress, on June 17, 2013 in Brasilia. (Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images)

8. A demonstrator argues with police during a protest against the Confederation’s Cup and the government of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia June 17, 2013. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

9. Protestors march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 17, 2013. (Felipe Dana/AP)

10. A demonstrator waves a Brazilian flag by a burning a car in downtown Rio de Janeiro June 17, 2013. (Sergio Moraes/Reuters)