Our world in photos: October 11
Brooklyn Eagle Staff
October 11, 2024
Our world in photos: September 6
- September 6, 2024
- Brooklyn Eagle Staff
INDIA — The long road that is education sometimes requires strong rope: Students hold on to a rope as they cross a street flooded after heavy rains on their way home in Ajmer, India, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. The torrential rains that are normally part of the monsoon season also flooded Ajmer last year, according to several news reports.
Last year, the hospital was flooded. A month ago, a young girl died, and two houses that are within the UNESCO World Heritage Site caved in.
JAKARTA — Fans of the Pope carry, well, fans of the Pope: Devotees carrying hand fans printed with portraits of Pope Francis wait outside the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference Headquarters to welcome the Pope before his arrival for a meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. Meeting there with beneficiaries of charitable organizations, the Pope saluted one young man named Andrew, who had participated in the Paralympic Games. He also sent his wishes to a bedridden mother who could not attend but who was marking her 87th birthday, according to the transcript of a speech from the Vatican.
Earlier in the day, Pope Francis visited the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, remarking that 20th-century Indonesian architect Friedrich Silaban (1912-1984), who designed that center of worship, was a Christian, and he used a synonym to enter the contest that awarded him the opportunity. He also designed other mosques in Indonesia.
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GEORGIA — The story of a tragedy continues to unfold: Colin Gray, 54, the father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, 14, enters the Barrow County courthouse for his first appearance on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, GA. The elder Gray, who was arrested for allowing his son to have a weapon, remains in custody after their lawyers decided not to seek bail. Colt Gray has been charged with four counts of murder and is accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two fellow students and two teachers. Colin Gray, the father, faces related charges as prosecutors are starting to hold parents responsible for their children’s actions in school shootings.
The maximum sentence that Colt, as a juvenile, could receive would be life imprisonment without parole. A judge who originally said Colt could receive the death penalty had to call the defendant back into his courtroom to issue a statement correcting that.
PORT-AU-PRINCE — A capital ravaged in debris: People walk down a street covered with trash in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. Gang violence and the dislocation of people have for years plagued the Caribbean island that Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic.
UN officials have said that Haiti suffers the largest number of displacements worldwide.
BOLIVIA — The joy of making sports a family affair: Bolivia fans wait for the start of a FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying soccer match against Venezuela at the Municipal de Villa Ingenio stadium in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. However, much of the FIFA World Cup will be played in North America, reports the Associated Press, and are working with field experts to create an expanded turf in what is being called “an ambitious plan.”
Many are hoping it will be an improvement over the surface field problems experienced at the Copa America earlier this year. In that case, a grassy field had replaced artificial turf. The replacement proved to be unstable.
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PARIS — Head in the game, eyes on the ball: Norway’s Aida Husic Dahlen competes against Germany’s Juliane Wolf in the Women’s Singles – WS8 – Semifinal at the 2024 Paralympics, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. Born in Bosnia-Herzegovina before the start of the 1992 Bosnian war, Husic Dahlen was adopted by a Norwegian family when she was six. She was born without a left forearm and had to undergo an under-knee amputation of her left leg. Encouraged as a youth to play table tennis, Dahlen became a two-time Paralympic bronze medallist, two-time World Championships silver and bronze medallist, and four-time European champion.
Dahlen won the Women’s Singles Class 8 semifinal match on Friday 3-0, with sets of 11-2, 11-8 and 11-8.
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BELGRADE — Hands up to say ‘It wasn’t me,’ but a foul nonetheless: Spain’s Dani Carvajal, left, fouls Serbia’s Strahinja Pavlovic during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Serbia and Spain at the Rajko Mitic Stadium, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. Their game ended in a draw.
League A contains 16 teams, which are assigned to four groups of four teams each. Teams are playing all their group opponents home and away through November. Where they rank at the conclusion determines whether they qualify for the quarter-finals. Losing teams are reassigned to League B.
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FLUSHING MEADOWS — The look of hitting it with your best shot: Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, returns a shot to Emma Navarro of the United States during the women’s singles semifinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in New York. Sabalenka won that match, 6-3, and will play against Jessica Pegula of the United States in Saturday’s final.
Sabalenka, now 26, is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles by the Women’s Tennis Association. Pegula’s career-high singles rankings include world No. 3, which she achieved in October 2022, and in doubles of world No. 1, achieved in September 2023. Pegula turned 30 in February.
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