Tuesday August 15, Our World in Pictures

August 15, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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KASHMIR — Independence Day Becomes Controversial: A member of the daredevil team of Jammu and Kashmir Police displays skills during an Independence Day parade in Srinagar on Tuesday. Authorities imposed curfew in some parts of the disputed region’s main city in anticipation of anti-India protests as separatists fighting against Indian rule called for a strike to mark the country’s Independence Day as “Black Day.”

INDIA — Children Reenact Story: Youth prepare to form a human pyramid to break the Dahi handi, an earthen pot filled with curd hanging above them, as part of celebrations to mark the Janmashtami festival in Mumbai on Tuesday. The festival marks the birth of Hindu god Krishna and the act seeks to reenact the story of Lord Krishna stealing butter during his childhood.

GERMANY — Baby and Mother Hangout at Zoo: A baby orangutan relaxes near its mother Padana at the zoo in Leipzig on Tuesday. The baby orangutan, whose gender is not yet known, was born on Aug. 5.

MAPLETON — Urban Cemetery Home to Many: The dearly departed rest in eternal peace at Washington Cemetery, seen from the elevated platform of the Bay Parkway F train station.

CHINA — General Takes Tour: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, center right, participates in a welcome ceremony with Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Gen. Fang Fenghui, left, at the Bayi Building in Beijing on Tuesday. Dunford is visiting South Korea, Japan and China after a week in which President Donald Trump declared the U.S. military “locked and loaded” and said he was ready to unleash “fire and fury” if North Korea continued to threaten the U.S.

WILLIAMSBURG — Bicultural Statue: When you stand on the opposite side of this statue by Deborah Kass, it says, “Yo.”

GREECE — Firefighter Saves Bird: A firefighter rescues a bird from a burning tree during a forest fire near Kapandriti on Tuesday. A large wildfire north of Athens is threatening homes as it swept through a pine forest for a third day, uncontained due to high winds.

JAPAN — Man Returns Flag After 73 Years: WWII veteran Marvin Strombo, right, and Tatsuya Yasue, an 89-year-old farmer, hold a Japanese flag with autographed messages that was owned by his brother Sadao Yasue, who was killed in the Pacific during World Work II, during a ceremony in Higashishirakawa on Tuesday. Strombo returned to the fallen soldier’s family the calligraphy-covered flag he took from the man’s body 73 years ago.

ITALY – Colosseum: An aerial view taken from a helicopter of the Italian Carabinieri, paramilitary police, patrolling the sky over Rome, Monday, as the city is emptying on the occasion of the summer vacations.

INDIA – Collecting Biscuit Packets: Flood victims on makeshift banana rafts collect biscuit packets distributed by government officials in Pokoria village, east of Gauhati, north eastern Assam state, India, Monday. Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that killed dozens of people in recent days and displaced millions more across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh.

EGYPT – Feline Wall: A mural adorns the wall of a cemetery that was painted by Polish artist Lukasz Zasadni, in the City of the Dead, a slum where half a million people live among tombs, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday.

CHILE – Cardboard Dog Houses: Cholo, Diana, Karla, Gasparin, Reina and Martha rest inside their makeshift dog houses made of cardboard, placed by a group that calls themselves “Perritos Plaza Maipu” in Santiago, Chile, Sunday. The group provides food, water and shelter to abandoned dogs in the Maipu neighborhood.

PORTUGAL – Fighting Fire: A firefighter works to fight a wildfire on a slope outside the town of Ferreira do Zezere, near Vila de Rei, central Portugal, Monday. Portuguese officials say 112 people have been evacuated from their homes in the central town of Vila de Rei as more than 3,700 firefighters continue to battle dozens of wildfires across the country.