Our world in photos: August 19

August 19, 2024
Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Noemie a Bactrian camel stands on scales to be weighed by keeper Mick Tiley, during the annual Weigh-In at London Zoo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. The Annual Weigh-In is a chance for keepers at the conservation zoo to make sure the information they've recorded on the animals throughout the year is up-to-date and accurate. Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Mother Asiatic Lion Arya feeds one of her three cubs born in March, during the annual Weigh-In at London Zoo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. The Annual Weigh-In is a chance for keepers at the conservation zoo to make sure the information they've recorded on the animals throughout the year is up-to-date and accurate. Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

LONDON — ‘I get weighed, you get weighed, everybody gets weighed!’: Two of three Asiatic Lion cubs born in March investigate a chalkboard during the annual Weigh-In at London Zoo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. The Annual Weigh-In is a chance for keepers at the conservation zoo to ensure the information they’ve recorded on the animals throughout the year is up-to-date and accurate. Resident Asiatic Lion parents Bhanu and Arya gave birth to three cubs, which have become a vital addition to the London Zoo’s conservation breeding program to safeguard a healthy population of the critically endangered species, according to the zoo’s website. Conservationists estimate that only about 600-700 Asiatic lions exist in the wild, their natural habitat being Gir Forest in Gujarat, India, in the western part of the continent bordering the Arabian Sea. The wild population is vulnerable to disease and natural disasters.

Male Asiatic lions are distinguishable from African lions by a relatively short, sparse and darker mane — more prominently revealing his ears — and a longitudinal fold of skin that runs along his belly.

LONDON — Elusive artist weighs in on animal rights: A sign outside the London Zoo explains why a reproduction has replaced a Banksy mural that was removed, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. The London Zoo has removed Banksy’s gorilla mural from its entrance gate. The painting was the final animal-themed work by the street artist that appeared over nine consecutive days in London. Banksy — who has managed to keep his identity secret through a pseudonym (although believed to be male) — has been unveiling stencils and installations depicting animals at different spots around the city every day for the past week, publicizing them via Instagram.

Banksy’s animal-themed painted stencils began appearing quickly after Great Britain experienced a series of far-right riots — considered the worst in a decade — that broke out earlier this month across the United Kingdom.

NEBRASKA — Walz promises to keep finger guns legal: Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, at The Astro in La Vista, NE. The Democratic National Convention has now begun in Chicago, with President Joe Biden as the keynoter for the first evening on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Later this week, Vice President Kamala Harris, who by early August had gained enough delegates, will formally accept the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Meanwhile, protesters demonstrating for Palestinian rights and freedom gathered at Union Park to denounce American politicians across the political spectrum. Declaring that genocide should not be treated as a “fringe issue,” one speaker named Andrew Josefchak said, “We should not have to choose whose lives we value in an election.”

BOLIVIA — Every dog has its day, specifically Aug. 18th: A man dressed as a cake plays with his dog during a costume contest celebrating the feast day of Saint Roch, the patron saint of dogs, in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. Born in 1295 in Montpellier, France, St. Roch renounced his family’s wealth and became a Franciscan. While tending to those who had come down with the plague, Roch himself became ill and isolated himself in the forest to avoid infecting anyone else. He is believed to have become the patron saint of plague victims and dogs, which would lick his sores. He died around 1327.

The Bolivian people celebrate the feast of St. Roch by dressing up their dogs in costumes and bringing them to the local priest for a blessing.

Veterinarian students hold candles and walk in a protest rally against the alleged rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital last week, in Guwahati, India, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Anupam Nath/AP

Allahabad Medical Association (AMA) and Resident doctors of SRN Hospital light candles as they protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital last week, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

INDIA — Who saves the people who save? Veterinarian students light candles as they protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital last week, in Guwahati, India, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. The Associated Press reports that the attack against the trainee happened on Aug. 9, at Kolkata, in West Bengal (about an hour to the west by airplane). Protests and riots broke out in eastern India soon after. The crime was later blamed on a police volunteer. The protesting doctors and other medical staff refused to render all but the most emergency aid and are demanding safer working conditions.

On Monday, hundreds of doctors protested near India’s Health Ministry to demand stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and to seek justice for their colleague.

A woman holds up vote tally sheets during a protest against the official results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, on a public square in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Matias Delacroix/AP

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado waves a Venezuelan national flag during a rally to protest official results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Cristian Hernandez/AP

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, lower right, waves a Venezuelan national flag, during a rally to protest official results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Cristian Hernandez/AP

Venezuelan nationals protest against the official results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, in Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Aurea Del Rosario/AP

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado talks to supporters during a rally to protest official results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Cristian Hernandez/AP

MEXICO CITY — ‘Not my president’ … the resounding, disruptive 21st-century protest: Venezuelan nationals protest against the official results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, in Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Venezuelans around the world responded to a call from their country’s political opposition Saturday and demonstrated to assert the opposition’s claim to victory over President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 disputed presidential election. They charge that Maduro has refused to release the tally sheets so he could stay in power.

Venezuela’s neighbors — Brazil and Colombia — had suggested holding new elections, thus arousing anger from supporters of opposition candidate Edmundo González.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris waving during her arrival at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a campaign event at Hendrick Center for Automotive Excellence on the Scott Northern Wake Campus of Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. Photo: Julia Nikhinson/AP

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters outside Primanti Bros. Restaurant during a campaign stop, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, in Pittsburgh. Photo: Julia Nikhinson/AP

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, speaks with Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on a bus during a campaign tour, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, in Rochester, Pa. Photo: Julia Nikhinson/AP

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris greets supporters at a campaign event at Hendrick Center for Automotive Excellence on the Scott Northern Wake Campus of Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. Photo: Mike Stewart/AP

PENNSYLVANIA — Chipping away at the competition … lucky Doritos: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris holds a bag of Doritos chips as Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz looks on at Sheetz convenience store during a campaign stop, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, in the western Pennsylvania town of Coraopolis. The duo also pep-talked with campaign volunteers and a high school football team.

Aside from the bag of Doritos, Vice President Harris “has recently favored her blue power suit style during this leg of her Democratic presidential nominee campaign,” noted Women’s Wear Daily, a prominent fashion trade newspaper. WWD observed that during her stop in Raleigh, NC, last Friday, the vice president sported “a blue suit with a blazer that featured double pockets and sharp lapels.”

CONGO — With a new strain on the rise, doctors recommend no touching: Christophe Chavilinga, 90, suffering from monkeypox (mpox), waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, with Sweden seeing a variant of the disease that health officials believe an African traveler brought to the Scandinavian nation. However, because of the way mpox is transmitted, medical experts do not believe it will become a pandemic, reports the Associated Press.

Pandemics are usually spread by airborne viruses, including COVID-19, whereas mpox is spread via close skin contact with an infected person.

WASHINGTON D.C. — Remembering the faults of the past without memorializing the malefactors who were responsible: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hugs Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., as President Joe Biden, who is joined by civil rights leaders, community members, and elected officials, puts away his pen after signing a proclamation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 16, to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument. The riots broke out in August 1908, when mobs of white residents tore through Illinois’ capital city under the pretext of meting out judgment against two Black men — one jailed on a sexual assault charge involving a white woman, and the other jailed in the separate murder of a white man. The mob then unleashed its anger on the city in response to law enforcement’s moving the prisoners. They set fire to dozens of homes and businesses in Springfield’s majority-Black neighborhoods.

The riots led to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, with founders intentionally launching the organization on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo: Laurence Kesterson/AP

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP

NEW JERSEY — To be a fly on … Trump’s cheek? A fly lands on the face of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump as he speaks at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. If he doesn’t slap the fly away, insecticides on the golf course will get it.