Thursday September 21, Our World in Pictures
SPAIN – Protester Covers Mouth: A demonstrator protests covering her mouth with a banner next to a Catalan police officer in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday. Catalan pro-independence supporters have scuffled with Spanish Civil Guard officers as they left a building, escorting a government official arrested as part of a crackdown by national authorities on Catalonia’s plans to hold a secession referendum.
KENYA – Stung by Bees: A man with disabilities who was unable to run away when a swarm of bees attacked police and passers-by outside the Supreme Court, has soapy water thrown over him to try and revive him after being severely stung, before an ambulance arrived to take him away alive, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday. In a detailed ruling issued Wednesday Kenya’s Supreme Court said it nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election largely because the electoral commission refused scrutiny of its computerized voting system.