Our world in photos: September 17

September 17, 2024
Brooklyn Eagle Staff

LAHORE — Rally riders: Supporters of a religious group Dawat-e-Islami with their children in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, participate in a rally for Mawlid al-Nabi holiday celebrating the birthday of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, born in the year 570. The organization Dawat-e-Islamic identifies as a Sunni Islamic organization based in Pakistan, which runs Islamic educational institutions worldwide. A charitable organization as well, Dawat-e-Islami offers online courses in Islamic studies and runs a television station.

Typical Mawlid celebrations include festivals, prayer services, recitations of poetry and litanies, and religious gatherings.

An aerial view of a flooded neighbourhood in Bohumin, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Photo: Darko Bandic/AP

Residents paddle through a flooded street in Bohumin, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Photo: Darko Bandic/AP

HUNGARY — Nature’s revenge — floods that are too close for comfort: An aerial picture taken with a drone shows the flooded resort village of Venek and the swollen Danube River near Gyor, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. The Associated Press reports that soldiers and firefighters had to deliver food and potable water to the people cut off by the flooding. Twenty fatalities have been reported thus far.

Officials in Hungary’s capital city, Budapest, and other central and Eastern European cities have placed sandbags to bolster the Danube’s embankments. The Danube flows in a southeasterly direction through several countries, including Austria, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Bulgaria, before flowing into the Black Sea.

TEXAS — Pipeline fire erupts; the scorch is wide-reaching: A pipeline with a giant plume of fire burns Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in La Porte, Texas, near suburban Houston. The fire, which erupted on Monday, ignited several homes, and first responders had to evacuate the neighborhoods with almost a thousand homes that were closest to the blaze. Officials told the AP that the fire was set off when a driver plunged through a fence, striking an above-ground valve.

The police and local FBI agents are calling this an “isolated incident” and have found no evidence of a coordinated attack.

MYANMAR — Nature’s revenge — floods that break structures: Local residents wade through flooded water at a broken bridge, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. As of Tuesday, Sept. 17, authorities told the AP that 226 people have died, and 77 are missing in the floods and landslides that resulted from the synergistic effect of last week’s Typhoon Yagi and the seasonal monsoon rains in this southeastern Asian nation formerly called Burma. The total casualties in Southeast Asia from the storm and flooding have topped 500.

Myanmar, which shares its western border with Bangladesh, shares a peninsula with Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Bordering the entire peninsula are the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea and the South China Sea.

An idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha is taken for immersion on the final day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Devotees prepare to immerse a giant idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha in the Arabian Sea, marking the end of the 10-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

MUMBAI — The ‘Hindu God of Beginnings’ makes an appearance at the end: An idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha is taken for immersion on the final day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. This rite of bidding farewell to Ganesha is often called Uttar Puja. The immersion symbolizes Ganesha’s return to Mount Kailash, a peak in the Himalayas where his parents, Shiva (the God of Transformation) and his wife, Parvati, are said to reside.

Ganesha is also the deity to whom adherents pray for the removal of obstacles in their lives, as well as for the start of new endeavors, such as business enterprises.

SEOUL — Getting the right angle for the gram: Shithi Tabassum, right, and Naher Tanzila, left, from Bangladesh, dressed in South Korean traditional “Hanbok” attire, pose for their souvenir photos at the Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea’s well-known landmarks, during the Chuseok holidays, the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.

Also called Hangawi, the festival marks the mid-autumn in Korea and is observed on the 14th-16th day of the lunar month; in 2024, Chuseok runs through Sept. 18. The holidays also mark the harvest and are often observed by visiting one’s hometown and paying respect to ancestors.

The traditional food for Chuseok is songpyeon, a Korean traditional rice cake made with sesame seeds, black beans, mung beans, cinnamon, pine nut, walnut, chestnut, jujube, and honey that custom dictates must be steamed over a layer of pine needles.

BOLIVIA — Ritual preceding protest: Former President Evo Morales participates in an offering to Mother Earth before leading a march to Bolivia’s capital, as part of a political dispute with current President Luis Arce and to protest his handling of the economy, in Caracollo, Oruro, Bolivia, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Morales made his appeal to the country’s farmers and peasants just hours after Arce accused his former mentor Morales on national TV of trying to overthrow him.

Morales, who served as Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, has remained popular even after being forced to resign during a military coup.

PHILADELPHIA — Touchdown turned him upside down: Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Darnell Mooney (1) scores a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Philadelphia. The Falcons scored an upset, come-from-behind win when quarterback Kirk Cousins led a touchdown drive in the last 36 seconds of the game.

Cousins finished the game completing 20 of 29 passes for 241 yards and two scores, reports NBC Sports.