Wednesday January 24, Our World in Pictures

January 24, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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BANGLADESH — Family Arrives at Refugee Camp: A Rohingya refugee boy clings to his father after arriving at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday. Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar say some of them had returned home several times over past decades, and they’re in no mood to repatriate again. However, Myanmar says it’s ready for a gradual repatriation of Muslim Rohingya refugees chased out by the Buddhist-majority country’s military. More than 680,000 Rohingya Muslims are now living in sprawling and squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.

CALIFORNIA — City Moves to Shut Down Encampment: In this Monday photo, Denise Lindstrom, a 49-year-old homeless woman, sits in a wheelchair with tears in her eyes in front of a moving truck in an homeless encampment on the Santa Ana River trail in Anaheim. The truck was provided by a nonprofit organization to help homeless people recycle to pay for their storage as the city plans to shut down the encampment.

BOLIVIA — Honoring the God of Prosperity: Andean religious leaders carry urns with burning incense in a procession for the deity statue Ekeko, the Bolivian god of prosperity and the central figure of the Alasita miniature fair, in La Paz on Tuesday.

CYPRUS — Kurds Demonstrate: A Kurdish girl, whose face reads “Afrin,” stands in front of a poster of the Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a protest against the Turkish offensive targeting Kurds in Afrin, Syria, outside of the European Union house in central Nicosia on Tuesday. Some 350 Kurds burned images of the presidents of Turkey and Russia as they marched on the U.S. and Russian embassies in the Cypriot capital to protest Turkey’s “invasion” of a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria.

CHINA — Diving In: A man dives into the half-frozen water at the Shichahai Lake in Beijing on Wednesday. According to some of the local residents, swimming in the freezing water has health benefits.

FRANCE — Waiting for the Show to Start: Models wait backstage before the presentation of Franck Sorbier’s Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2018 fashion collection presented in Paris on Wednesday.

SPAIN — Pruning Trees: A man stands on a crane while pruning trees at sunrise during a winter day in Pamplona on Wednesday.

PHILIPPINES — Ash Blankets City: Volcanic ash from Mayon Volcano’s eruption partly covered Guinobatan on Wednesday. Lava fountaining regularly from the country’s most active volcano has flowed from the crater in a dazzling but increasingly dangerous eruption.

INDIA — Rehearsing for Republic Day: Members of Shwet Ashw, the motorcycle display team of the Indian army, perform during rehearsals for Indian Republic Day celebrations in Bangalore. India celebrates Republic Day on Jan 26.

BRAZIL – Batman Protests: A demonstrator dressed as Batman holds a sign that reads in Portuguese “Lula in Prison” during a protest against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday. Brazil’s political future could be decided this week when a court decides whether a rooftop apartment was slated for former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the front runner in polls for October’s elections.

PARIS – French Floods: A flooded street lamp is pictured in Paris, Tuesday. The Seine River has overflowed its banks in Paris, prompting authorities to close several roads and cancel boat cruises. Paris City Hall closed roads along the shores of the Seine from the east of the capital to the area around the Eiffel Tower in the west as water levels rose at least 3.3 meters (nearly 11 feet) above the normal level.

CALIFORNIA – Machines Gain Intelligence: Stanford doctoral student Pranav Rajpurkar, who helped develop the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, poses for photos in an office of The Gates Computer Science Building in Stanford, Calif., Tuesday. Seven years after a computer beat two human quizmasters on a “Jeopardy!” challenge, the tech industry has pumped resources into training its machines to get even better at amassing knowledge and answering questions.

ITALY – Alpine Ski: Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg speeds down the course on her way to win an alpine ski, women’s World Cup giant slalom at the Kronplatz resort, in San Vigilio di Marebbe, Italy, Tuesday.