Our world in photos: December 6
Brooklyn Eagle Staff
December 6, 2024
FRANCE — Speed and grace on the ice: Amber Elaine Glenn of the United States competes in the women’s short program segment at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Angers, France. She dominated the short program in a near-perfect performance that drew 78.14 points, beating out her nearest competitor by more than seven points. She told reporters that she drew her inspiration from pop singer Janet Jackson, according to the Olympics website.
Amber Glenn, who just turned 25 on Oct. 28, is the 2024 U.S. national champion, a two-time ISU Grand Prix bronze medalist, and a three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist who has finished in the top ten at three ISU Championships.
VALENCIA — Nature’s revenge — extreme flooding created piles of cars in many locations: A civil guard searches for survivors in cars piled up on the outskirts of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, after flooding. Authorities told the Associated Press on Friday that they have recovered 205 bodies — 202 of them in the eastern Valencia region, two in Castilla La Mancha, and one in Andalusia. The search continued on Friday for an unknown number of missing people. Climate scientists and meteorologists have attributed the immediate cause of the flooding to a cut-off lower-pressure storm system that migrated from an unusually wavy and stalled jet stream, which parked itself over the region, dumping rain.
Parked storm systems have become such a common occurrence in Spain, especially because of higher-than-normal water temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea, that it has earned the Spanish-language acronym DANA.
MISSOURI — This is what you get when early voting comes so close to Halloween: Mark Reynolds, center, votes early beside his wife Jennifer, left, at the St. Charles County Election Authority in St. Charles, Mo. on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. Among the ballot measures in St. Charles County are a proposal that would remove Missouri’s ban on abortion and allow its residents a constitutional right to make their own reproductive health decisions without government interference and an amendment to the state constitution to allow sports betting, but with the restriction that gamblers must be at least age 21. This is according to the website for Missouri Secretary of State John (Jay) R. Ashcroft, son of the former U.S. Attorney General.
Traditionally a red state, Missouri requires voters to present identification to cast their ballots.
BEIRUT — This statue should be reproduced in every schoolyard: Hussein and Zahraa, 3, displaced Lebanese twins who fled with their parents from their village of Mais al-Jabal in south Lebanon amid the ongoing Hezbollah-Israel war, play on a gun with a twisted barrel statue, symbolizing anti-violence, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. This statue is a replica of the original Knotted Gun and is part of the international Non-Violence Movement active on five continents. The statue’s designer, Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (1934-2016), ”created it shortly after the 1980 assassination of his friend, John Lennon. The former Beatle had, with his wife Yoko Ono, become a peace activist.
The Knotted Gun has become a widely recognized symbol of peace and non-violence globally.
BOLIVIA — Old-fashioned weaponry in a protest involving an even more old-fashioned violation: Protesters practice using slings as they block a road in support of former President Evo Morales in the face of an investigation opened against him for the alleged abuse of a minor while in office, in Parotani, Bolivia, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. Bolivians have been violently divided over Morales, with protesters and counter-protesters throwing stones, firecrackers and other homemade explosives over the past six weeks. Thousands of Bolivians, particularly Indigenous folk who still support Morales, were taking part in a 100-plus mile march in September to the Andean nation’s capital, La Paz when the violence escalated, the Associated Press reported. Ahead of next year’s elections, Bolivia is deeply divided over whether Morales can return to the presidency. While in his third term, he was forced out amid charges of fraud as well as sexual molestation. However, he staged a dramatic comeback and is now a fierce opponent of Bolivia’s current president, Luis Arce.
Last Sunday, Oct. 27, Morales claimed that his car was shot at in what he called an assassination attempt.
NEW JERSEY — Dramatic one-handed retrieval — 6 points! New York Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson (5) catches a pass for a touchdown as Houston Texans cornerback Kamari Lassiter (4) defends during the second half of an NFL football game Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in East Rutherford, NJ. The Jets won 21-13, scoring a touchdown and field goal in the third quarter and two touchdowns and field goal in the fourth quarter, with the second touchdown happening with fewer than three minutes left in the game.
Originally founded 65 years ago in 1959 as the Titans of New York, the team joined the then-American Football League and, in 1963, was renamed the Jets. The Jets won Super Bowl III against the Baltimore Colts in 1969.
BEIRUT — The anger and agony of war-torn zones: A man shouts slogans as he holds a picture depicting Imam Ali at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. As this edition went to press Friday evening, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that 30 people were killed and 103 others were wounded within the last 24 hours when the Israeli army’s airstrikes hit various areas across the country; most of these concentrated in the Nabatiyeh region and southern Lebanon, according to the Associated Press. Israel has appeared to disregard pleas from its key ally, the United States, and the wider international community to negotiate a ceasefire and has instead intensified and expanded its offensives as it fights on two fronts: Lebanon and Gaza.
Just before reaching the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon one month ago, on Oct. 1, 2024.
SALT LAKE CITY — A new dimension for a game on a polished floor — covering the court on your back: Utah Jazz forward Brice Sensabaugh (28) goes for a loose ball along with San Antonio Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan (10), during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Salt Lake City, UT. San Antonio won 106-88. The Jazz needs to boost its current record of zero wins and five losses.
The team from Texas was originally founded in 1967 as the Dallas Chaparrals. In 1973, a group of San Antonio businessmen bought the team, moved it to that city in south-central Texas, and renamed it the Spurs.
