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MYANMAR MILITARY COUP
epa09131981 Police trucks are parked and block the road in front of the City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar, 13 April 2021. Myanmar anti-coup activists have called for people to boycott official Thingyan festivities organized by the military junta. The Thingyan Water Festival, the Burmese traditional New Year, is usually celebrated with family reunions and water-throwing festivities. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), at least 700 people have been killed by Myanmar armed forces since the military seized power on 01 February 2021. Protests continue despite the intensifying crackdown on demonstrators. EPA/STRINGER
MYANMAR RAKHINE WATER FESTIVAL
epa09131974 Rakhine Ethnic people walk during the procession to wash the Buddha statues with scented water during the traditional water festival in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Western Myanmar, 13 April 2021. The annual water festival is celebrated with large groups of people congregating to celebrate by splashing water and throwing powder at each other's faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year to mark the traditional New Year in countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. This year, the Myanmar Thingyan water festival falls on 13 April and ends on 19 April. EPA/STRINGER
JAPAN GERMANY DIPLOMACY DEFENSE
epa09131966 Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (2-R) and Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi (R) attend a video conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (top L, on screen) and Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (top R, on screen) at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, 13 April 2021. The two countries held Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting, '2+2', to strengthen their cooperation. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON / POOL
MYANMAR MILITARY COUP PROTEST
epa09131960 Demonstrators hold pots with flowers to mark the Thingyan Water Festival as they march during an anti-military coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, 13 April 2021. Myanmar anti-coup activists have called for people to boycott official Thingyan festivities organized by the military junta. The Thingyan Water Festival, the Burmese traditional New Year, is usually celebrated with family reunions and water-throwing festivities. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), at least 700 people have been killed by Myanmar armed forces since the military seized power on 01 February 2021. Protests continue despite the intensifying crackdown on demonstrators. EPA/STRINGER
epaselect SOUTH KOREA JAPAN PROTEST
epaselect epa09131858 A member of an environmental group performs while wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga during a protest against the release of radioactive water into the ocean from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant; near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, 13 April 2021. On 13 April, the Japanese government decided to discharge radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. EPA/JEON HEON-KYUN
epaselect INDIA TRADITIONS VAISAKHI FESTIVAL
epaselect epa09131940 Devotees take a holy dip in the sacred pond of the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh places, on the occasion of the Vaisakhi festival in Amritsar, India, 13 April 2021. In 1699 AD, Guru Gobind Singh ji, the tenth Sikh Guru, organized the Sikhs under one order called the Khalsa Panth. Vaisakhi festival also marks the beginning of the Sikh New Year. EPA/RAMINDER PAL SINGH
epaselect USA BASKETBALL NBA
epaselect epa09131873 Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray (L) and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (R) go up for a jump ball during the first half of the NBA basketball game between the Denver Nuggets and Golden State Warriors at Chase Center in San Francisco, California, USA, 12 April 2021. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO SHUTTERSTOCK OUT
epaselect KENYA FLAMINGOS DEATH AT LAKE MAGADI
epaselect epa09131800 Flock of lesser flamingos are seen wading through the Lake Magadi, Great Rift Valley in Kajiado, Kenya, 11 April 2021 (issued 12 April 2021). According to community tourist guides at the lake, power lines supplying power to a chemical factory stationed at the lake has turned to death traps for migratory birds mainly flamingos. Tens of flamingos have been killed in the couple of weeks. They have been advocating for the power lines to be fitted with more bird diverters which are meant to distract the birds from the lines. Lake Magadi has been receiving a huge number of migratory flamingos migrating from lake Nakuru due to the high-water levels and contamination at lake Nakuru where there has been reported increase cases of flamingos deaths from suspected toxins inthe contaminated lake. EPA/Daniel Irungu
epaselect TAIWAN DEFENSE
epaselect epa09131924 Members of Taiwanese honor guard walk during the official launching of Taiwanâs new amphibious transport dock YU SHAN (LPD-1401) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 13 April 2021. The navyâs new 10,600-tonne warship cost 4.635 billion New Taiwan dollars (163 million US dollars) and is designed to meet operational requirements for amphibious assault, personnel and materiel transport, disaster prevention and relief and humanitarian aid, according to the Navy Command Headquarters. EPA/RITCHIE B. TONGO
epaselect USA MINNESOTA POLICE SHOOTING PROTEST
epaselect epa09131913 Katie Wright (C-L), the mother of Daunte Wright, is consoled by friends during a vigil at the site where police attempted to arrest her son in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, USA, 12 April 2021. A Brooklyn Center police officer identified as Kim Potter fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on the afternoon of 11 April 2021. EPA/TIM EVANS ALTERNATE CROP
