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Picture of the Day: Cairo, Egypt. A boy looks out the window of a building papered with posters for presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh. Credit: Suhaib Salem/Reuters. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Cairo, Egypt. A boy looks out the window of a building papered with posters for presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh.

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Picture of the Day: Beirut, Lebanon. Protesters burn tires and boxes in a demonstration against the kidnapping by the Syrian rebels of a dozen or more Lebanese Shi’a pilgrims in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Further: Lebanese foreign minister Adnan Mansour has voiced optimism for the pilgrims’ release and indicated that the negotiations were ongoing, but he couldn’t elaborate more. They have been taken captive by Syrian rebels in hopes of leverage in a prisoner exchange for those in Syrian government custody Credit: Wael Hamzeh/EPA. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Beirut, Lebanon. Protesters burn tires and boxes in a demonstration against the kidnapping by the Syrian rebels of a dozen or more Lebanese Shi’a pilgrims in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Further: Lebanese foreign minister Adnan Mansour has voiced optimism for the pilgrims’ release and indicated that the negotiations were ongoing, but he couldn’t elaborate more. They have been taken captive by Syrian rebels in hopes of leverage in a prisoner exchange for those in Syrian government custody

Credit: Wael Hamzeh/EPA. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Karachi, Pakistan. After a rally organized by the smaller Awami Tehrik Party, but backed by several other parties, eleven people were killed and more than thirty injured in gunfire. Above, a young man, visibly wounded by a gunshot, flees the shooting.  Those responsible for opening fire are not yet known. More from Dawn and AFP. Credit: Faysal Mujeeb/Whitestar. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Karachi, Pakistan. After a rally organized by the smaller Awami Tehrik Party, but backed by several other parties, eleven people were killed and more than thirty injured in gunfire. Above, a young man, visibly wounded by a gunshot, flees the shooting.  Those responsible for opening fire are not yet known. More from Dawn and AFP.

Credit: Faysal Mujeeb/Whitestar. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Chicago. Joshua Lott, a freelance photographer for Getty, is arrested while covering demonstrations against the NATO summit on it’s first day. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Chicago. Joshua Lott, a freelance photographer for Getty, is arrested while covering demonstrations against the NATO summit on it’s first day.

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Picture of the Day: Port Harcourt, Nigeria. An aerial shot of an illegal oil refinery along Awoba Creek north of Port Harcourt, an oil hub city. The illegal oil industry in Nigeria is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. Will you look at that oil sheen on the water.. Fun fact: Over the last five years, Shell Oil has dealt with an average of 172 spills a year. 63 of them last year were “operational,” or over 100kg. Shell has announced that it paid $1.1 million in reparations to affected communities last year.  Bonus: Read this report on environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria. Credit: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Port Harcourt, Nigeria. An aerial shot of an illegal oil refinery along Awoba Creek north of Port Harcourt, an oil hub city. The illegal oil industry in Nigeria is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. Will you look at that oil sheen on the water..

Fun fact: Over the last five years, Shell Oil has dealt with an average of 172 spills a year. 63 of them last year were “operational,” or over 100kg. Shell has announced that it paid $1.1 million in reparations to affected communities last year. 

Bonus: Read this report on environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria.

Credit: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. During a helicopter transport, a US Army medic attends to an Afghan National Army soldier injured with a gunshot wound. Semi-related (geographically) longread of the day: A piece in yesterday’s New York Times by Rob Nordland about the first bowling alley in Afghanistan opening in Kabul: “Behind the black door in downtown Kabul is a place unlike any other in this city, even in the whole country.” Credit: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. During a helicopter transport, a US Army medic attends to an Afghan National Army soldier injured with a gunshot wound.

Semi-related (geographically) longread of the day: A piece in yesterday’s New York Times by Rob Nordland about the first bowling alley in Afghanistan opening in Kabul: “Behind the black door in downtown Kabul is a place unlike any other in this city, even in the whole country.”

Credit: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Karachi, Pakistan. Tankers usually used to truck NATO fuel supplies through Pakistan and into Afghanistan stay parked and unused near oil terminals in Pakistan’s main port city and economic hub. News: Pakistan today hinted at the possibility of reopening the shuttered NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said at a presser, “Pakistan has made a point, and now we can move on.” This hint was enough to officially earn Pakistan an invitation to the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago. Credit: Asif Hassani/AFP/Getty. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Karachi, Pakistan. Tankers usually used to truck NATO fuel supplies through Pakistan and into Afghanistan stay parked and unused near oil terminals in Pakistan’s main port city and economic hub.

News: Pakistan today hinted at the possibility of reopening the shuttered NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said at a presser, “Pakistan has made a point, and now we can move on.” This hint was enough to officially earn Pakistan an invitation to the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.

Credit: Asif Hassani/AFP/Getty. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Tripoli, Lebanon. A young boy sits on his father’s lap. His father is a gunman, currently involved in clashes that have spilled over from Syria into Lebanon. Read: ”Trouble in Tripoli: Syrian Crisis Shifts the Stage” at Al-Akhbar; the AP report by Bassem Mroue; and “Lebanon’s Tripoli fears escalation of Syria spillover” from AFP. Credit: Horst Faas/AP. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Tripoli, Lebanon. A young boy sits on his father’s lap. His father is a gunman, currently involved in clashes that have spilled over from Syria into Lebanon.

Read: ”Trouble in Tripoli: Syrian Crisis Shifts the Stage” at Al-Akhbar; the AP report by Bassem Mroue; and “Lebanon’s Tripoli fears escalation of Syria spillover” from AFP.

Credit: Horst Faas/AP. Via.

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Picture of the Day: 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam. Close to the Cambodian border. March 1965. Hovering choppers fire on the tree line ahead of advancing South Vietnamese soldiers to provide cover in an attack on a Viet Cong camp.  In Memoriam: Horst Faas, the AP photojournalist who took this photograph, along with many other powerful ones from Vietnam, died Thursday at age 79. He spent nearly half a century with the Associated Press. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work, along with a number of other awards. He photographed a number of places and events, but Faas is best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War, where he won his first Pulitzer and was severely wounded. View more of his work and biography at the Guardian and the New York Times’ Lens Blog. Credit: Horst Faas/AP. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam. Close to the Cambodian border. March 1965. Hovering choppers fire on the tree line ahead of advancing South Vietnamese soldiers to provide cover in an attack on a Viet Cong camp. 

In Memoriam: Horst Faas, the AP photojournalist who took this photograph, along with many other powerful ones from Vietnam, died Thursday at age 79. He spent nearly half a century with the Associated Press. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work, along with a number of other awards. He photographed a number of places and events, but Faas is best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War, where he won his first Pulitzer and was severely wounded. View more of his work and biography at the Guardian and the New York Times’ Lens Blog.

Credit: Horst Faas/AP. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Banks of the Bagmati River, Katmandu, Nepal. A young boy stands amidst the wreckage of his slum home, which was demolished along with many others, leaving many poor slum-dwellers homeless. Credit: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Banks of the Bagmati River, Katmandu, Nepal. A young boy stands amidst the wreckage of his slum home, which was demolished along with many others, leaving many poor slum-dwellers homeless.

Credit: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Srinigar, India. Protesting government employees were hit with water cannons and dozens were detained by police in the southern capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Srinigar, India. Protesting government employees were hit with water cannons and dozens were detained by police in the southern capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Tehran, Iran. 35-year-old shop owner Ari Mesgaran in his newly-opened sandwich shop. He says that he feels the shop is the place where he can control his own destiny. His generation of Iranians, the 70 percent of the country 35 and under, call themselves the “burned generation” because how much they feel they’ve lost or been denied. Accompanying Story: Thomas Erdbrink for the New York TImes: ”Pinched Aspirations of Iran’s Young Multitudes.” Credit: Newsha Tavakolian/NYT. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Tehran, Iran. 35-year-old shop owner Ari Mesgaran in his newly-opened sandwich shop. He says that he feels the shop is the place where he can control his own destiny. His generation of Iranians, the 70 percent of the country 35 and under, call themselves the “burned generation” because how much they feel they’ve lost or been denied.

Accompanying Story: Thomas Erdbrink for the New York TImes: ”Pinched Aspirations of Iran’s Young Multitudes.”

Credit: Newsha Tavakolian/NYT. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Moscow, Russia. Police attempt to disperse anti-Putin protesters. News: After a stint as prime minister under Medvedev, Putin has once again been sworn in as president. He has nominated Medvedev as his prime minister. That’s not an endless revolving door or anything…. His inauguration was met with lots of protesting, and police rounded up anyone wearing the opposition’s symbolic white ribbon, arresting roughly 700 protesters as of Monday evening, and referring many of the young male detainees to the draft office. Read: Julia Ioffe for the New Yorker’s News Desk: “Putin’s Inauguration: Satire and Violence” and Regina Smyth for the Monkey Cage: “Russia’s Growing Opposition.” Watch: Video of riot police cracking down on anti-Putin protests. Credit: Sergey Ponomarev/AP. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Moscow, Russia. Police attempt to disperse anti-Putin protesters.

News: After a stint as prime minister under Medvedev, Putin has once again been sworn in as president. He has nominated Medvedev as his prime minister. That’s not an endless revolving door or anything…. His inauguration was met with lots of protesting, and police rounded up anyone wearing the opposition’s symbolic white ribbon, arresting roughly 700 protesters as of Monday evening, and referring many of the young male detainees to the draft office.

Read: Julia Ioffe for the New Yorker’s News Desk: “Putin’s Inauguration: Satire and Violence” and Regina Smyth for the Monkey Cage: “Russia’s Growing Opposition.”

Watch: Video of riot police cracking down on anti-Putin protests.

Credit: Sergey Ponomarev/AP. Via.

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Picture of the Day: Yida refugee camp, South Sudan. A woman from the Nuba Mountains holds her child at the refugee camp registration center, having escaped the airstrikes from Sudan.  Credit: Ohanesian/AFP/Getty. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Yida refugee camp, South Sudan. A woman from the Nuba Mountains holds her child at the refugee camp registration center, having escaped the airstrikes from Sudan. 

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Picture of the Day: Sana’a, Yemen. A protester with a flower tucked behind his ear chants slogans calling for Saleh loyalists to be removed from positions of power and authority in Yemen’s new government.  Credit: Yahya Arhab/EPA. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

Picture of the Day: Sana’a, Yemen. A protester with a flower tucked behind his ear chants slogans calling for Saleh loyalists to be removed from positions of power and authority in Yemen’s new government. 

Credit: Yahya Arhab/EPA. Via.

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