Wednesday, 20 August 2014

2011: The Year In Pictures, The New York Times

    Tunisians from the country’s south joined protests on Jan. 23 in Tunis. Demonstrators                 criticized the interim government’s continued dominance by officials from the old ruling party.

    Protesters clashed with those who supported President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt on Feb. 3.       Both sides battled for control of Tahrir Square in Cairo, the center of continuing protests.

    Volunteers began to clean up Tahrir Square on Feb. 12, a day after President Mubarak               announced his resignation.


    A man comforted his daughter in Benghazi, Libya, as he put her on an evacuation ship to           Tunisia on Feb. 26. Thousands fled the city where mass protests against the government led      to a takeover by Libyan opposition groups.

    A girl stands in front of a damaged home on the eastern outskirts of Tripoli on March 25.             Libyan government officials said the scene was evidence of Western airstrikes targeting             civilian areas, a claim that was not verified.


    On Oct. 30, two youths observed a house destroyed by government shelling in Taiz, Yemen.


    A woman took care of a wounded relative on Oct. 15 inside a mosque being used as a               hospital by antigovernment demonstrators in Sana, Yemen.


    Israelis slept in a tent encampment in central Tel Aviv in July in an effort to bring attention to         the cost of housing, food and other basic goods.

    An encampment of tarps and tents in Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street protesters           lived for two months.


    Will Harris, a resident of Toronto, played the guitar in City Hall Park in October as Occupy           Los Angeles moved into its 17th day on Oct. 17.


   A police officer used pepper spray on an Occupy Portland protester in Oregon in November.      Pepper spray, used as a crowd control measure, has become a topic of national debate.

    A tsunami’s wave crashed over a seawall and onto the street in Miyako in northeastern               Japan after a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the area on March 11.


    Yoshikatsu Hiratsuka grieved in front of his collapsed home in Onagawa, northern Japan,           where the body of his mother was buried in the rubble from the quake.

    In July, six weeks after a tornado killed 158 people in Joplin, Mo., the city continued to work         its way toward physical and psychological recovery.


    A cloud of ash billowed from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile. The June eruption,     its first in decades, prompted the evacuation of 3,500 people.


    A woman caring for her malnourished child in July in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya,           where Somalis fled to escape drought.


    A young boy in Cincinnati greeted President Obama after the president gave a speech on        the American Jobs Act.


    Julie Holzhauer stood among her family’s possessions after they were evicted from their             home in Centennial, Colo., on Sept. 15 after falling behind on the rent. Her husband, John           Holzhauer, a home building contractor, said he had lost up to 40 percent of his business             because of the weak economy.


    Crowds rehearsed in Juba in preparation for South Sudan’s independence ceremonies.             After decades of guerrilla struggles and two million lives lost, the Republic of South Sudan         officially split from the north on July 9 and became Africa’s 54th country.

    nytimes.com
  

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