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Saturday 19 November 2016

Red Water

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SYRIA - Doctors operate on leg of a man at make-shift hospital in Ghouta as regime aircraft pound rebel-held areas. By @ameralmohibany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016



SYRIA - Search for victims as fire spreads following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma. By @AbdDoumany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016




SYRIA - Search for victims as fire spreads following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma. By @AbdDoumany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016


SYRIA - Fire spreads following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 18 November 2016


SYRIA - Fire spreads following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 18 November 2016


SYRIA - Search for victims as fire spreads following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma. By @AbdDoumany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016


A member of @SYRedCrescent following a reported gvt. airstrike on Douma, eastern outskirts of Damascus Nov 17, 2016. @AbdDoumany @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant Paris-Match @instantmatch, 18 November 2016



#Syria Walking at night amid destroyed buildings following a reported government airstrike on Douma #Damascus #AFP Photo by @SameerAlDoumy: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 November 2016


A civil defense volunteer walks through Douma, a rebel-held neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, that had been damaged in government airstrikes. Witnesses reported a bombing with napalm, which injured 25 people.: photo by  Mohammed Badra/European Pressphoto Agency, 11 November 2016

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A civil defense volunteer walks through Douma, a rebel-held neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, that had been damaged in government airstrikes. Witnesses reported a bombing with napalm, which injured 25 people.: photo by  Mohammed Badra/European Pressphoto Agency, 11 November 2016


An injured man sits amid the damage at a site hit yesterday by airstrikes in the rebel held #Douma, #Syria #Reuters / @BassamKhabieh
: image via Hassan Taqulden @HassanTaqulden, 18 November 2016

 

A child plays with a balloon in the rebel-held neighborhood of Douma, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, in a rare moment of peace in the worn-torn country: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 13 November 2016

 
 
A child plays with a balloon in the rebel-held neighborhood of Douma, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, in a rare moment of peace in the worn-torn country: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 13 November 2016


#Iraq An Iraqi Special Forces 2nd division fighting vehicle is seen moving in the Samah neighbourhood of #Mosul #AFP Photo by @odd_andersen: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 17 November 2016


IRAQ - People fleeing fighting walk past a convoy of Iraqi Special Forces driving through Arbagiah area in Mosul #MosulOps @odd_andersen: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016


Hassan, a resident of Mosul, weeps as his 18-month-old son, Jassem, is treated for head wounds after they were both hit by shrapnel: photo by Odd Andersen/Agence France-Press, 17 November 2016 



Hassan, a resident of Mosul, weeps as his 18-month-old son, Jassem, is treated for head wounds after they were both hit by shrapnel: photo by Odd Andersen/Agence France-Press, 17 November 2016


Real cost of Mosul image by @odd_andersen @AFP
: image via Megan Townsend @mmtowns, 17 November 2016




Children in the streets to greet soldiers from the Iraqi Special Forces during a lull in fighting, in Aden near Mosul. Photo #@odd_andersen @AFPphoto: image via Uta Tochtermann @utatoc, 17 November 2016




Children in the streets to greet soldiers from the Iraqi Special Forces during a lull in fighting, in Aden near Mosul. Photo #@odd_andersen @AFPphoto: image via Uta Tochtermann @utatoc, 17 November 2016




Children in the streets to greet soldiers from the Iraqi Special Forces during a lull in fighting, in Aden near Mosul. Photo #@odd_andersen @AFPphoto: image via Uta Tochtermann @utatoc, 17 November 2016



Children in the streets to greet soldiers from the Iraqi Special Forces during a lull in fighting, in Aden near Mosul. Photo #@odd_andersen @AFPphoto: image via Uta Tochtermann @utatoc, 17 November 2016



 #Iraq People hold white flags as soldiers from Iraqi Special Forces check identity in Karkukli #mosul #AFP Photo by @odd_andersen
: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 November 2016




 #Iraq People hold white flags as soldiers from Iraqi Special Forces check identity in Karkukli #mosul #AFP Photo by @odd_andersen
: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 November 2016




 #Iraq People hold white flags as soldiers from Iraqi Special Forces check identity in Karkukli #mosul #AFP Photo by @odd_andersen
: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 November 2016



 #Iraq People hold white flags as soldiers from Iraqi Special Forces check identity in Karkukli #mosul #AFP Photo by @odd_andersen: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 18 November 2016


IRAQ - People fleeing are being transported by Iraqi Special Forces out of combat zone in the Samah neighbourhood of Mosul. By @odd_andersen
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016



SYRIA - Fighters from Kurdish-Arab alliance hold a position in Tall as Samn near front line north of IS group bastion. By @Delilsouleman
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016




SYRIA - Fighters from Kurdish-Arab alliance hold a position in Tall as Samn near front line north of IS group bastion. By @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016

Men being screened by #Iraq special forces #CTS in #Mosul's Karkukli neighbourhood today @AFPphoto By @odd_andersen #ISIS #MosulOps: image via Jean-marc Mojon @mojobaghdad 18 November 2016
 
Police use water cannon to disperse activists of the youth wing of India's main opposition Congress party during a protest in New Delhi

Police use water cannon to disperse activists of the youth wing of India’s main opposition Congress party during a protest against the government’s decision to withdraw 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknotes from circulation, according to a media release, in New Delhi, India: photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters, 18 November 2016

Police use water cannon to disperse activists of the youth wing of India's main opposition Congress party during a protest in New Delhi

Police use water cannon to disperse activists of the youth wing of India’s main opposition Congress party during a protest against the government’s decision to withdraw 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknotes from circulation, according to a media release, in New Delhi, India: photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters, 18 November 2016

The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying the crew of Whitson of the U.S., Novitskiy of Russia and Pesquet of France blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying the crew of Peggy Whitson of the U.S., Oleg Novitskiy of Russia and Thomas Pesquet of France blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: photo by Shamil Zhumatov, 18 November 2016

The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying the crew of Whitson of the U.S., Novitskiy of Russia and Pesquet of France blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying the crew of Peggy Whitson of the U.S., Oleg Novitskiy of Russia and Thomas Pesquet of France blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: photo by Shamil Zhumatov, 18 November 2016

Relatives and friends watch a rescue operation for miners who were trapped at a copper mine after it was hit by a landslide near the southeastern city of Siirt

Relatives and friends watch a rescue operation for miners who were trapped at a copper mine after it was hit by a landslide near the southeastern city of Siirt, Turkey: photo by Sertac Kayar/Reuters, 18 November 2016

Relatives and friends watch a rescue operation for miners who were trapped at a copper mine after it was hit by a landslide near the southeastern city of Siirt 

Relatives and friends watch a rescue operation for miners who were trapped at a copper mine after it was hit by a landslide near the southeastern city of Siirt, Turkey: photo by Sertac Kayar/Reuters, 18 November 2016


TURKEY - Relatives of miners wait while rescue workers search for trapped miners at the accident site in Siirt province. By @pironic2121: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016


 #Turkey A woman waits as rescue workers searching for trapped miners at the accident site in Siirt. #AFP Photo by @pironic2121: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 November 2016 

A man looks at a contaminated river in Cangnan county of Wenzhou

A man looks at a contaminated river in Cangnan county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China: photo by Reuters, 18 November 2016

 A man looks at a contaminated river in Cangnan county of Wenzhou

A man looks at a contaminated river in Cangnan county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China: photo by Reuters, 18 November 2016


A woman talks to her relatives across a fence in Tijuana, separating Mexico and the United States, on Saturday. Many Mexicans are unsure what will happen to family members in he United States when Donald J. Trump is sworn in as president.: photo by Jorge Duenes/Reuters, 18 November 2016


A woman talks to her relatives across a fence in Tijuana, separating Mexico and the United States, on Saturday. Many Mexicans are unsure what will happen to family members in he United States when Donald J. Trump is sworn in as president.: photo by Jorge Duenes/Reuters, 18 November 2016


The police in Rio de Janeiro move on people taking part in a nationwide demonstration against Brazil’s government, which the protesters assert is corrupt: photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/Agence France-Presse, 11 November 2016



The police in Rio de Janeiro move on people taking part in a nationwide demonstration against Brazil’s government, which the protesters assert is corrupt: photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/Agence France-Presse, 11 November 2016

 

#Brazil Protest against austerity measures in front of the Rio de Janeiro state Assembly #AFP Photo by @YasuyoshiChiba: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 17 November 2016
  

#Brazil Protest against austerity measures in front of the Rio de Janeiro state Assembly #AFP Photo by @YasuyoshiChiba: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 17 November 2016



#Brazil Protest against austerity measures in front of the Rio de Janeiro state Assembly #AFP Photo by @YasuyoshiChiba: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 17 November 2016
 

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is vice chairman of Mr. Trump’s transition team, speaks to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, at a gathering of chief executive officers on Monday in Washington. Mr. Giuliani's business ties may hurt his possible nomination as secretary of state.: photo by Al Drago/The New York Times, 14 November 2016
 


Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is vice chairman of Mr. Trump’s transition team, speaks to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, at a gathering of chief executive officers on Monday in Washington. Mr. Giuliani's business ties may hurt his possible nomination as secretary of state.: photo by Al Drago/The New York Times, 14 November 2016 


A man enjoys a stroll in the autumn beauty of Srinagar, in the disputed Kashmir region of northern India: photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters, 18 November 2016


A man enjoys a stroll in the autumn beauty of Srinagar, in the disputed Kashmir region of northern India: photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters, 18 November 2016

Indian Kashmiris walk next to maple tree  
Indian Kashmiris walk next to maple trees in autumn in Srinagar. Trees are changing colours while the days become shorter as winter approaches in the Kashmiri summer capital of Srinagar.: photo by AFP, 18 November 2016

Indian Kashmiris walk next to maple tree

Indian Kashmiris walk next to maple trees in autumn in Srinagar. Trees are changing colours while the days become shorter as winter approaches in the Kashmiri summer capital of Srinagar.: photo by AFP, 18 November 2016

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