Tuesday August 29, Our World in Pictures

August 29, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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BANGLADESH — Families are Stranded at Border: Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority women and children take shelter in a forested area prior to moving to a makeshift camp on the Bangladeshi side of the border in Ghumdhum on Monday. Several hundred Rohingya who were trying to flee Myanmar are stuck in a “no man’s land” at the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.

SOUTH KOREA — Supporters Stand Behind Former President: In this Saturday photo, a supporter of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye wears a photo of the former leader on a headband during a rally to call for her release in Seoul. A small but growing army of often elderly men and women regularly swing South Korean banners and scream outrage at the jailing of a woman they consider their spiritual mother. Pro-Park demonstrations remain tiny compared to earlier protests in which millions demanded her removal from office. Her supporters refuse to accept the possibility that Park may not be the selfless daughter of South Korea she has always portrayed herself to be.

TEXAS — Friend Offers Comfort: Genice Gipson comforts lifelong friend Loretta Capistran outside of Capistran’s apartment complex in Refugio on Monday. “We got to be strong, baby,” Gipson told Capistran.

VENEZUELA — Food Prices Continue to Rise: In this Aug. 23 photo, vegetable vendors wait for customers behind their tables set up on the sidewalk in front of a mosaic in Caracas. Shoppers have been scared off by prices that double every few weeks as wages in the crisis-wracked nation remain stagnant.

UKRAINE —Woman Remembers Victims: A woman cries at a memorial wall covered with photos of servicemen killed in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east in Kiev on Monday. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said about 10,000 people, both servicemen and civilians, have been killed in the Donetsk region since 2014.

ITALY — Aiding Refugees: In this Tuesday photo, a Syrian refugee family arrives at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci International Airport from Lebanon as part of a project by the Community of Sant’ Egidio and the Federation of the Evangelical Churches of Italy. The organization aims to establish humanitarian corridors for those fleeing war by providing legal passage and proper humanitarian visa approvals from the hosting European country. Some 900 people have arrived in Italy from Syria via humanitarian corridors since February 2016.

MEXICO — Imitator Honors Music Icon: A Juan Gabriel imitator performs by a statue of the superstar where his fans gather on the one year anniversary of his death in Mexico City’s Garibaldi Plaza on Monday. The Latin music icon, whose real name was Alberto Aguilera Valadez, died one year ago today.

GEORGIA — Statue is Unveiled: Yolanda King, 9, left, the granddaughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., holds the hand of her mother Arndrea Waters King during a ceremony unveiling a statue paying tribute to the civil rights leader on the state Capitol grounds in Atlanta on Monday. The statue’s unveiling Monday came more than three years after Georgia lawmakers endorsed the project. A replica of the nation’s Liberty Bell tolled three times before the 8-foot bronze statue was unveiled on the 54th anniversary of King’s “I have a dream” speech at the march on Washington.

TEXAS – Broken Power Poles: Power poles blown by Hurricane Harvey lean over a road in Refugio, Texas, Monday.

TEXAS – Rescue Boats: Rescue boats fill a flooded street as flood victims are evacuated from waters of Tropical Storm Harvey Monday in Houston.

TENNESSEE – Victorious Sessions: Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledges applause at the Fraternal Order of Police convention Monday in Nashville, Tenn. Sessions said President Donald Trump will revive a program that provides local police departments with surplus military equipment such as high-caliber weapons and grenade launchers.

GUATEMALA – Anti-Corruption Protest: Activist Andrea Ixchiu holds an effigy of Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales and shouts slogans in support of Ivan Velasquez, chief of a U.N. anti-corruption commission, in the middle of an altar honoring dozens of girls who died in a fire at a children’s home this year, in the Central Plaza of Guatemala City, Monday. Morales ordered Velasquez to leave the country after he and Guatemala’s attorney general called for the removal of the president’s immunity from prosecution, so they can pursue an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Peeking Trump: President Donald Trump watches the door open of Finnish President Sauli Niinisto’s vehicle as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Monday.