World News Photos of the Week

[TomSea]

17 The First Flight aerobatic team flying Yak-52 and Yak-54 aircraft performs during the MAKS-2019 International Aviation and Space Salon outside Moscow on September 1. (epq-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)


19 Entertainers on stilts stand above crowds in downtown Bucharest. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)

See more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/top-shots-photos-week-36-2019/30144768.html

Starting off on a lighter note, sometimes, these pictures become a part of history, sometimes, they show human sadness and tragedy. I got this idea by visiting that ROK site with their "picture of the day".

I think this might make a nice running thread.

[TomSea]

Homes flattened by Hurricane Dorian are seen in Abaco, Bahamas, Sept. 5, 2019.
AP Photo/Gonzalo Gaudenzi


The annual Tribute in Light, marking the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center is tested as lightning illuminates the sky over lower Manhattan in New York City, Sept 4, 2019.
FOX News/Gary Hershorn


People gather around a torii gate as they watch the sunrise from the summit of Mount Fuji in Japan, Aug. 3, 2019.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

More at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/the-week-in-pictures-aug-31-sept-6

[TomSea]

A B-2 Stealth Bomber lands at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, Sept. 11, 2019.


A U.S. flag hanging from a steel girder, damaged in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, blows in the breeze at a memorial in Jersey City, New Jersey, Sept. 11, 2019.
AP Photo/J. David Ake


Police and fire personnel look on as workers remove a single-engine plane after it crashed into the terminal building shortly after takeoff at the Ak-Chin Regional Airport in Maricopa, Arizona, Sept. 10, 2019.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin


World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks sports a lipstick kiss on his cheek, planted by a member of the singing group Victory Belles, as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Sept. 12, 2019.
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

More at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/the-week-in-pictures-sept-6-sept-13

Capt. Jung Hee-kyung of the ROK Army, the first female chief of a 39th Infantry Division coastal border unit, inspects a fence in Goseong, Gangwon Province. The ROK Army announced her appointment Sept. 8. ROK Army via Yonhap
https://www.rokdrop.net/2019/09/173727/

[TomSea]

Anti-government protesters gather at Lion Rock, in Hong Kong on Sept. 13, 2019. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/hong-kong-protesters-plan-shopping-mall-sit-ins-after-hill-top-human-chains_3081560.html

I saw the live footage of this, this is in the last 24 hours, keeper.


https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3027211/hong-kong-protesters-take-high-ground-human-chains-form

Check this out, lots of exciting video:

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[TomSea]

Some again from Radio Free Europe:


1 A jockey races a pair of bulls on paddy fields during the annual Kalapoottu bull-running festival near Palakkad in southern India. (AFP/Arun Sankar)


3 A man performs on a quadricycle during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, on September 13. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)


5 The Tribute in Light shines in downtown Manhattan to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York City. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)


8 UNICEF assembled 3,758 school backpacks as an installation on the North Lawn of United Nations headquarters to resemble gravestones as a reminder of the large number of children who were killed or injured in conflict zones. (epa-EFE/Justin Lane)

More at: https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-week-37-top-shots-2019/30154919.html

Saturday, Saudi Arabia:

From RT

[TomSea]

The marble and granite monument is one of the United States' most recognizable landmarks. When it opened in 1888, it was the tallest structure in the world -- a distinction it held for about a year before it was surpassed by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

More: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/Photos/Washington-Monument-reopens-after-renovations/12192/ph1/

Many more pictures at link, including Melania and the re-opening of the Washington Monument, the next photo says it received earthquake damage in 2011 (maybe the elevator, not sure as to what the extent was).

[TomSea]

From Fox Photos of the week, Sept. 14-20

Four sunflowers stand above the rest of a field at Grinter Farms in Lawrence, Kansas, Sept. 13, 2019.


People enter and exit the Alien Research Center as preparations continue for "Storm Area 51" in Hiko, Nevada, Sept. 18, 2019.


Remains of what was described as a misfired cruise missile used in an attack that targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry is displayed during a press conference by Saudi military in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 18, 2019.
AP Photo/Amr Nabil

See more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/the-week-in-pictures-sept-14-sept-20

From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty week 38 photos of last week:

1 Kazakh law enforcement officers detain a woman during a protest rally by opposition supporters in Nur-Sultan on September 21. (RFE/RL / Orken Zhoyamergen)


18 People ride their bikes past Red Square at a bicycle festival in central Moscow. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov)


19 Anti-LGBT protesters attack a participant at the Kharkiv Pride march. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

See more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-week-38-top-shots-2019/30166808.html

[TomSea]

News

Global climate strike in pictures

Rome:


Switzerland:


More: https://www.dw.com/en/global-climate-strike-in-pictures/g-50609514

The Rome picture is impressive, the others "meh"....

[TomSea]

People attend a rally against approval of the so-called Steinmeier Formula in Kyiv on October 2.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-live-blog-radio-free-europe-zelenskiy/30114684.html

Top Shots
October 02, 2019 04:47 GMT
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 40th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.

1 A demonstrator runs between burning tires during a curfew in Baghdad, after nationwide anti-government protests turned violent. (Reuters/Wissm al-Okili)


6 Riot police detain an anti-government protester during a demonstration on China's National Day in Hong Kong on October 1. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)


16 People wait to say a final farewell to former French President Jacques Chirac at the Saint-Louis-des-Invalides cathedral at the Invalides memorial complex in central Paris on September 29. (AFP/Philippe Lopez)

https://www.rferl.org/a/top-shots-photos-week-40/30193050.html

Photos Of The Week #39
September 29, 2019 11:21 GMT
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 39th week of 2019. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.


2 An attendant at a public toilet in central Kyiv feeds the pigeons as she waits for customers. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)


8 A man carrying an umbrella is seen through a window covered with rain drops during a wet day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte)


9 Orthodox Jews stand on the bank of the Vltava River as they tour around the Czech capital, Prague. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)


14 Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) march during the annual Sacred Defense Week, which marks the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. (AFP)

See article: https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-week-39-top-shots-2019/30179232.html

[TomSea]

Fox News:

The week in pictures, Sept. 21 - Sept. 27

Here's a selection of the most amazing images captured around the world in the past seven days. Enjoy!


A photographer lines up her shot at the National Mall reflecting pool as the sun begins to rise behind the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, Sept. 21, 2019.
AP Photo/J. David Ake


Chinese military planes fly in formation over a trail of colored smoke in Beijing, Sept. 22, 2019.
AP Photo/Andy Wong


Members of the South Korean Taekwondo demonstration team perform during a visit by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 25, 2019.
AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

See more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/the-week-in-pictures-sept-21-sept-27

Yes, that last photo is really something, anyway, a few recent photos in these two posts. Seems like a fast week.

[TomSea]

Big protests in South Korea, one of their cities at least, I heard about. Huge too, is everyone having big protests but us? And even when we protest, the numbers are nothing like these?! BLM? Nothing hardly compared to this.... we have probably had a few big protests.

Latest
Picture of the Day: Huge Anti-Government Rally at Gwanghwamun
GIKorea | October 4, 2019

Protesting against gov’tProtesters hold an anti-government rally at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul on Oct. 3, 2019. (Yonhap)

Oct. 2nd:

Picture of the Day: President Moon Has Lunch With ROK Military Personnel
GIKorea | October 2, 2019


...   attending a ceremony to mark the 71st Armed Forces Day there on Oct. 1, 2019.

Picture of the Day: Chosin Reservoir Battle Remembered
GIKorea | September 30, 2019

Marking Korean War battle Foreign veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War salute during a ceremony to mark the 1950 Jangjin Lake battle, also known as the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul on Sept. 27, 2019. The campaign eventually enabled 100,000 civilians to evacuate from the North Korean port of Hungnam to South Korea. (Yonhap)

https://www.rokdrop.net/2019/09/picture-of-the-day-chosin-reservoir-battle-remembered/

 

And a lot more at :    https://www.rokdrop.net

Nice photos!

I'm adding this in, over there in London, protesters got a "fire truck" and put red dye into the water and sprayed some bank with the red water (or red whatever)..... it's a climate protest.



More here: https://www.dw.com/en/climate-activists-spray-british-treasury-with-fake-blood/a-50690410

I think in one of these articles, I read... you know how if you aren't holding a hose, it can go all snakey and wobble everywhere?? I think it did that to them too, if one is interested, look it up.  They caused some damage apparently.

[mystery-ak]

Great pics Tom...make sure not to post anything from Getty...

[TomSea]

 Okay, I went through all the photos, I saw none from Getty but I will be on the look out for that name and then, not post it.

And I think I will just post one photo per gallery,  people can go look. Also, I'm a bit unsure about the Korean news agency, Yonhap,  per at least one photo, I will delete it.

[TomSea]

This was difficult to keep up; but a few photos of this past week:

Radio Free Europe:

2 A sculpture of boxers stands at an abandoned Soviet youth camp in the village of Chernoluchye in Russia's Omsk region. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)

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8 A worker scales a skyscraper to install Christmas and New Year's lights in Bangkok. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)

See more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-week-50-top-shots/30316485.html

Fox News:

Zookeepers holds 'Meng Yuan' and 'Meng Xiang' during a name-giving event for the young panda twins at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 9, 2019.
AP Photo/Michael Sohn

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Members of the NYPD counterterrorism unit stand in the rain before sunrise in Times Square in New York City, Dec. 11, 2019.
FOX News/Gary Hershorn

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/the-week-in-pictures-dec-7-dec-13

So, just a sample. It's still interesting to see what they offer.

Picture of the Day: North Korean Propaganda Workers Make Propaganda Pilgrimage to Mt. Paekdu
GIKorea | December 14, 2019 | Picture of the Day

https://www.rokdrop.net/2019/12/picture-of-the-day-north-korean-propaganda-workers-make-propaganda-pilgrimage-to-mt-paekdu/

Summing up here, this is a pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of the Kims in North Korea. Apparently, the Kim ancestors holed out and fought the Japanese from here.

[TomSea]

Here is South Korea again:

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party and its conservative supporters protest in front of the National Assembly on Monday to criticize the ruling Democratic Party and its legislative allies for attempting to pass several contentious bills aimed at introducing a new election system and weakening the prosecution’s powers
https://www.rokdrop.net/2019/12/protesters-storm-the-korean-national-assembly-to-stop-voting-on-bills/

The US, Senate, Senators or administration itself, needs to heed the calls of those protestors evoking American images.  Here, this isn't even Hong Kong, this is South Korea, our ally.

Looks like again, the people really got out there to protest.

Voice of America, next photo, India:

An Indian paramilitary trooper carries an umbrella as he walks through a park during snowfall in Srinagar.


U.S. Army paratroopers jump out of an aircraft at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (U.S. Air Force/Justin Connaher) [/img]

More at: https://www.voanews.com/day-photos
https://www.voanews.com/gallery/december-15-2019
https://www.voanews.com/gallery/december-13-2019

I am missing sky in the above.

An effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is surrounded by police officers during an anti-North Korea protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea.

Source, VOA, I'm glad they are protesting Kim though,  it doesn't look much like him imho.

[TomSea]

Starlings sit on the backs of fallow deer in Moenchbruch near Frankfurt, Germany, Dec.8. 2019.
https://www.voanews.com/gallery/december-9-2019

People participate in a rally in Yangon, in support of Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, as she prepares to defend Myanmar at the International Court of Justice at The Hague against accusations of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
https://www.voanews.com/gallery/december-10-2019

Well, that one of the deer, what can you say? More like wildlife photography but beautiful.

[mountaineer]

An Indian paramilitary trooper carries an umbrella as he walks through a park during snowfall in Srinagar.

 

[TomSea]

Runners take part in the 4th annual Advent Run in Zagreb, Croatia, on December 8. More than 3,000 runners from 34 countries took part in the event, raising money for the fight against melanoma cancer and to support the work of the association for the prevention of tumours and other skin diseases. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANTONIO BAT

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Smoke rises from the chimneys of the Sofia Thermal Power Plant during thick fog over the Bulgarian capital on December 10. A yellow code for fog and heavily polluted air with particulate matter has been announced in 13 areas of the country. Foto: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV

Read more at: Balkan Insight

[TomSea]

VOA December 25, 2019:


A police commando stands guard outside a church during Christmas Mass in Lahore, Pakistan.

VOA December 23, 2019:

A member of Korean Federation for Environmental Movement in a Santa Claus outfit attaches dumped cigarette butts at a cigarette butt Christmas tree in front of Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation office in Seoul, South Korea.

The cigarette butt tree has received a lot of attention.  I guess, it's perhaps effective...

[sneakypete]

I think this might make a nice running thread.

@TomSea

I do,too. Thank you!

[TomSea]

From Meduza


A security guard helps evacuates the “Dusit” hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, during a terrorist attack on January 15, 2019.
Baz Ratner / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA


An oil tanker attacked in the Gulf of Oman in waters between Iran and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. June 13, 2019.
ISNA / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

Much more at:  https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/27/2019-in-photos-meduza-s-picks

[TomSea]

A few from Voice of America - December 26, 2019:

A woman comforts her daughter, buried up to her neck in sand during a solar eclipse, along Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan. Many Pakistanis believe that burying people with disabilities in sand during solar eclipse would bring healing to their bodies.


Armando Martin, 11, of California, plays a guitar to honor GYSGT George Figone Jr. in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 25, 2019.


One of the thematic lantern sets is showcased at the so-called "The Great Lanterns of China" festival at northern Lithuania’s Pakruojis Manor, Dec. 25, 2019.

Much more at link.

[TomSea]

So, now I see, that region where Australia is, is among the first to welcome in the new year, from Infobae (Spanish-Argentina):

https://www.infobae.com/america/fotos/2019/12/31/galeria-de-fotos-asi-se-celebra-la-llegada-del-2020-alrededor-del-mundo/


Sidney (Sydney)


Nepal

See link for more, they are all good and from that area of the world currently.  I'm sure the photos will expand as they go throughout the world.

[mountaineer]

Many Pakistanis believe that burying people with disabilities in sand during solar eclipse would bring healing to their bodies.

Well, that's a shame.

[sneakypete]

Well, that's a shame.

@mountaineer

It is if the tide is coming in.