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Our world in photos: April 27

April 27, 2021 By Michaela Keil
AUSTRALIA — Supermoon: The moon rose over the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Tuesday. It was a supermoon, meaning it appeared larger than an average full moon because it was nearer to Earth. Photo: Mark Baker/AP
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NORTH CAROLINA — Protest: Hundreds of demonstrators, including Rev. Raymond Johnson, took to the streets in Elizabeth City on Monday to protest the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. by North Carolina sheriff’s deputies and to demand the full body camera footage be released.
Photo: Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot via AP

 

MEXICO — Zapatista: Members of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN, shouted a farewell to a delegation that will leave for Europe on May 3, in the community of Morelia, Chiapas state, on Monday. The rebels said they are planning to take canoes on a trip to ‘invade’ Spain in May and June, the anniversary of the 1519-1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico.
Photo: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

 

FLORIDA — Algae: An alligator floated in an algae bloom in Lake Okeechobee near the Pahokee Marina, on Monday. Similar algae blooms in the lake in 2016 and 2018 led to red tides on both Florida coasts when the water was released from the lake in anticipation of hurricane season.
Photo: Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP

 

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PAKISTAN — Wheat: A villager harvested wheat in a suburb of Peshawar on Tuesday.
Photo: Muhammad Sajjad/AP

 

TURKEY — Lockdown: People walked in central Istanbul on Monday. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the country’s strictest pandemic restrictions so far, closing businesses and schools and limiting travel for nearly three weeks starting Thursday to fight a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths.
Photo: Emrah Gurel/AP

 

IRAQ — Hospital fire: The intensive care unit at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital was damaged following a fire that broke out last Saturday evening killing over 80 people and injuring over 100, in Baghdad, on Tuesday. Medical staff who witnessed the first moments of the fire described horrific scenes: deafening screams, a patient who jumped to his death to escape the inferno and relatives who died because they refused to abandon coronavirus patients tethered to ventilators.
Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP

 

BRITAIN — Wall of remembrance: Nurses from the nearby St Thomas’ hospital sat atop the National Covid Memorial Wall in London on Tuesday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied a press report which quoted him as allegedly saying he would rather see “bodies pile high in their thousands” than impose a third national lockdown on the country. Media reports have claimed that Johnson made the comment in the fall of 2020, when his government imposed a second lockdown to combat a surge in coronavirus cases.
Photo: Frank Augstein/AP

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