Tuesday September 26, Our World in Pictures

September 26, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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INDONESIA — Residents and Tourists Wait for Eruption: A Balinese man watches Mount Agung volcano almost covered with clouds as he stands at a temple in Karangasem on Tuesday. An increasing frequency of tremors from the volcano indicates magma is continuing to move toward the surface and an eruption is possible, a disaster agency official said Tuesday. Tourists are cutting short their stay to the island, where an eruption would force the airport to close and strand thousands.

SWITZERLAND — Breeder Herds Animals: Llama and alpaca breeder Arnold Luginbuehl herds 131 lamas and alpacas from the Gorneren and Griesalp back into the valley in Kiental on Tuesday.

KENYA — Presidential Elections Spark Demonstrations: A protester sits in the back of a police truck after being arrested at a demonstration in Nairobi on Tuesday. Kenya police lobbed tear gas to disperse protesters in front of the electoral commission offices as controversy erupted over who should conduct the new presidential elections.

CALIFORNIA — Sun Sets: Alan Larson stands on a picnic table as he takes a picture of the sunset along Mission Beach on Monday in San Diego.

CHINA — Global Trade Improves: A woman walks by bicycles from a bike-sharing company parked along a wall displaying a government propaganda poster promoting the “China Dream” in Beijing on Tuesday. The Asian Development Bank raised its growth forecast for Asia’s developing economies because global trade and conditions in the world’s biggest economies are improving more than expected.

BANGLADESH — Waiting for Customers: In this Friday photo, local coconut vendors wait for customers near Cox’s Bazar Beach, the longest unbroken sea beach in the world.

MEXICO — Rescuers Search for Survivors: In this Friday photo, Veronica Aguilar Naranjo embraces her 11-year-old daughter Veronica Villanueva as they look at a collapsed building where people search for earthquake survivors. Aguilar said she brought her daughter to show her the importance of helping however possible in the face of tragedy. Aguilar was in a supermarket when the quake struck on Sept. 19 and went rushing home to her child. “The first few days, I didn’t leave my house out of fear. But I decided to leave so my daughter could see what is happening, to make her aware. So she sees that when you can help, you should. Among Mexicans, there is a lot of love. When something bad happens, we know that everyone chips in.”

ITALY — Collection Debuts: Models wear designs during the Daizy Shely women’s Spring-Summer 2018 fashion show, which was presented in Milan on Monday.

GERMANY – Time for a Change: Workers replace an election poster of the Christian Democrats with a photo of German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Monday after Sunday’s parliament elections. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was embarking Monday on a complicated quest to form a new government for Europe’s biggest economy and find answers to the rise of a nationalist, anti-migrant party.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Health Care Opposition: An activist opposed to the GOP’s Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill is removed by U.S. Capitol Police after disrupting a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the last-ditch Republican push to overhaul the nation’s health care system, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday.

CALIFORNIA – Media Day: Los Angeles Clippers’ Marshall Plumlee signs his autographs during an NBA basketball media day Monday in Los Angeles.

NEW YORK – Sentenced: Former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) leaves federal court following his sentencing, Monday in New York. Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in a sexting case that rocked the presidential race.

MEXICO – Cleaning Debris: Workers shovel debris off the top of a building that collapsed in last week’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake, at the corner of Gabriel Mancera and Escocia streets in the Del Valle neighborhood of Mexico City, Monday. Search teams were still digging through dangerous piles of rubble Monday, hoping against the odds to find survivors after the Sept. 19 quake.