SPAIN GOVERNMENT PARLIAMENT
epa09134322 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech during a plenary session at the Lower House in Madrid, Spain, 14 April 2021. Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, is to defend his Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan for the economy to face the current crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic at Parliament. EPA/Chema Moya
GREECE LIBYA DIPLOMACY
epa09134327 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis waits for the arrival of the head of Libya's Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi (not pictured), in Athens, Greece, 14 April 2021. EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU
MALAYSIA TRIAL NAJIB RAZAK APPEAL
epa09134325 Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak (C) arrives at the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya, Malaysia, 14 April 2021. Malaysia's Court of Appeal continues the hearing on the former prime ministerâs bid to set aside his conviction on corruption charges in a case linked to a multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). EPA/AHMAD YUSNI
BENINCOTONOUPRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONPROVISIONAL RESULTS
(210414) -- COTONOU, April 14, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Officials of the Autonomous National Electoral Commission (ANEC) announce the provisional results of the presidential election at the ANEC headquarters in Cotonou, Benin, April 13, 2021.\r\n The incumbent president of Benin, Patrice Talon, and his running mate Mariam Chabi Talata, won the presidential election held on Sunday with 86.36 percent of the votes, according to the provisional results published Tuesday by the ANEC. (Photo by Seraphin Zounyekpe/Xinhua)
USWASHINGTON DCGUN VIOLENCESILK FLOWERS
(210414) -- WASHINGTON, April 14, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on April 13, 2021 shows 40,000 white silk flowers installed on the National Mall to honor the nearly 40,000 Americans who die every year from gun violence in Washington, D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
CHINAGUIZHOUBAMBOO HATWORKSHOP CN
(210414) -- SANSUI, April 14, 2021 (Xinhua) -- A villager makes a bamboo hat at a bamboo hat workshop in Shangjie Village of Sansui County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 11, 2021. With over 400-year of bamboo hat making history, Sansui County has taken the development of bamboo hat industry to enrich the people living there. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
SPAIN PARLIAMENT
epa09134320 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (C) arrives to a plenary session at the Lower House in Madrid, Spain, 14 April 2021. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was expected to deliver a speech to defend his Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, set in motion to face the crisis brought by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. EPA/Chema Moya
EPA OUTLOOK
epa09134318 We expect to move pictures on the following news, entertainment and sports items on the epa network Wednesday 14 April 2021:\r\n\r\nNEWS\r\n\r\nHONG KONG: Hong Kong electoral reform\r\nSEOUL: Protest against Japan's radioactive water discharge\r\nMANDALAY: Protest against Myanmar military coup\r\nBANGKOK: Covid-19 nasal swab test amid surge of infections\r\nMEDAN: Ramadan breakfasting at a mosque\r\nJAKARTA: Grab prepares to list shares in the US\r\nBANDA ACEH: Covid-19 vaccination drive\r\nJAKARTA: Food donation distributions for Ramadan\r\nDILI: Aid supplies donated by Australian government ariive \r\nREIMS: President Macron visit hospital \r\nBERLIN: Question time of German government at parliament\r\nSARAJEVO: Croatian FM Gordan Grlic Radman visits\r\nVIENNA: Wiener Zeitung, one of the oldest still published newspapers in the world in times of online media\r\nBRUSSELS: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visits NATO\r\nBRUSSELS: National security committee on Corona\r\nVATICAN: General audience\r\nATHENS: Head of Libya's Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi visits\r\nJERUSALEM: Memorial Day for the victims of the Israeli military\r\nISTANBUL: Greek FM Nikos Dendias visits \r\nBEIRUT: US Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Hale visits\r\nJOHANNESBURG: Portrait of Nwabisa Makunga\r\nWASHINGTON: White House coverage\r\n\r\nARTS, CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT\r\n\r\nSITTWE/NAYPYITAW: Thingyan water festival\r\nHARIDWAR: Kumbh Mela pilgrimage \r\nPHNOM PENH: Khmer New Year celebrations amid pandemic\r\nBANGKOK: Live funeral rite ceremony\r\nKASHMIR: Prayers during the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan\r\nGRONINGEN: Concert in Groningen as test event \r\n\r\nSPORTS\r\n\r\nTOKYO: Event Marking 100 days to Olympic Games Tokyo 2020\r\nDORTMUND: Soccer UEFA Champions League quarter final Dortmund vs Manchester City\r\nLIVERPOOL: Soccer UEFA Champions League quarter final Liverpool vs Real Madrid\r\nROQUEBRUNE CAP MA.: Tennis Monte-Carlo Masters\r\nMOSCOW: Basketball Euroleague CSKA Moscow vs Panathinaikos Athens\r\nBRUSSLES: Cycling De Brabantse Pijl - La Fleche Brabanconne\r\nM
SPACE MARS NASA PERSEVERANCE
epa09134317 A handout photo made available by NASA shows the landscape surrounding NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on Sol 52, 13 April 2021 (issued 14 April 2021). NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam). Having landed on Mars on 18 February, Perseverance's main mission on Mars is astrobiology and the search for signs of ancient microbial life, according to NASA. EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
INDONESIA PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS COVID19 VACCINE
epa09134308 A health care worker injects a dose of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine into a patient during a vaccination drive during Ramadan in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 14 April 2021. The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued a fatwa allowing the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination program during Ramadan. EPA/HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK
