News in pictures on Tuesday 20.04.2010

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Apr 20, 2010
News in pictures on Tuesday

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A poultry trader sleeps in a hammock over ducks at her stall in a market in the suburbs of Hanoi. Health and agricultural experts and officials from nearly 80 countries and territories are gathering in Hanoi for the 3-day 'International Ministerial Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza' from April 19-21. -- PHOTO: AFP

Paraguayan Maka Indians dance during the celebration of the American Indian Day in Puente Remanso, on the outskirts of Asuncion. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Local residents ferry children from a school along a flooded street in the village of Radul, some 200 km north of Kiev, April 19, 2010. Melting snow has caused flooding in parts of Ukraine, local media reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Elvis impersonators dive into the 59F (15C) Lewis and Clark Lake for the second annual 'Polar Plunge' for Special Olympics west of Yankton, S.D. The event drew 49 teams consisting of 108 plungers who jumped from the East Midway boat ramp. The event raised more than $24,000 from the plungers and sponsors alone. -- PHOTO: AP

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva poses with indigenous people during a celebration for Indigenous Day at Raposa Serra do Sol reserve in Uiramuta, Roraima state, in northern Brazil April 19, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

War protesters demonstrate outside a fundraiser where President Barack Obama is scheduled to appear to benefit the Democratic National Committee and the re-election campaign for Senator Barbara Boxer on April 19, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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People take part in a parade for the opening ceremony of the annual 'Festival Internacional de Cine Pobre' (low budget films) in the coastal town of Gibara in eastern Cuba April 19, 2010. The festival, Cuba's answer to the Sundance festival in the US, gathers hundreds of intellectuals, artists and filmmakers in the colonial village of Gibara. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Paramilitary police stand next to religious figurines excavated from a destroyed temple in the earthquake-hit Gyegu town in Yushu County, Qinghai province April 19, 2010.The official death toll from an earthquake on China's remote Tibetan plateau has climbed to 2,039, state media said on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

The 'Boeoegg' burns on the Sechselaeuten meadow in Zurich, Switzerland. The Sechselaeuten (ringing of the six o'clock bells) is a traditional end of winter festival with a parade of guilds in historical uniforms on horsebacks and the burning of the Boeoegg, a symbolic snowman, at 6pm. The faster the Boeoegg explodes, the hotter the summer will be according to traditional weather rules. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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An armoured vehicle from the Centurion Company, 2-1 Infantry Battalion, 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team is framed by a bolt of lightning during a storm at Combat Outpost Terminator in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Two Sukhoi Su-30 planes from the Venezuelan Air Force take part in a military parade to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's independence in Caracas. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Chinese students gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the earthquake in Qinghai that has killed over 2,000 people, in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province. China on April 20 declared a national day of mourning for victims of the earthquake as rescuers worked around the clock under the threat of fast-approaching icy weather. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Lighting seen amid the lava and ash erupting from the vent of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in central Iceland early morning as it continues to vent into the skies over Europe. Low-energy lightning is sometimes active during eruptions, arcing between particles as they exit the volcanic vent at around 100 metres per second. -- PHOTO: AP

A street vendor selling tea walks with a stool on her head in Sudan's capital Khartoum. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Children fly kites, at sunset in Amman, Jordan. -- PHOTO: AP

Jaza Syed does his best to curl up on two chairs outside a gate at Logan International Airport in Boston, while waiting for his flight on Tuesday back to London Heathrow Airport. -- PHOTO: AP