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Photos: Stunning lipstick art from makeup artist Tutushka features oceans, flowers, and food
This makeup artist is blowing minds with her stunning lip art. The incredible designs are 3D and include seashells, seashores, fruit, chocolate, pizza and even animals.
The artist, Tutushka from Nikolaev, Ukraine, has been a professional makeup artist for 15 years and started her journey into makeup art by winning a lipstick-art contest.
Tutushka has amassed thousands of likes on her pictures and has almost hit 50,000 followers by sharing her creative designs. (Caters News)
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PHOTOS: Animal Shutterbugs
Animals and cameras, it’s always a recipe for hilarity. Here are some of our favorite snaps we have seen recently, including curious lion cubs and a squirrel who wanted to have a go at being an amateur snapper. (Caters News)
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PHOTOS: In monochrome — Venezuelan fishermen among oil ruins
The landscape of Venezuela’s once robust oil industry lies all around fishermen and their families who live in villages clustered on the edge of Lake Maracaibo. Their struggles on a briny bay fouled by petroleum seeps and derelict oil rigs are etched onto their faces and stained into their clothes.
Seeing these people and this place on an earlier reporting trip, veteran Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd knew he had to go back. This time, he set down his lightning-fast digital Canon and spread the tripod of his 19th century-style box camera to make black and white portraits of the fishermen and the industrial decay they call home.
The Argentine-born photographer had turned the lens of his box camera before on subjects in Guatemala, Afghanistan, Mexico and the streets of his home-base of Lima, Peru, documenting a spectrum of life’s emotions, from joy to tragedy. He felt the slower pace and mood of box photography would help capture the poignancy and pain of Cabimas where fisherman live and work among idle, gray machinery.
“In the end, it was a story about the oil industry and people,” Abd said. “It was an industry built 50 years ago, but nowadays is broken, and somehow the black and white photos suggest that.”
At sunrise, the men of Cabimas wade into the lake to harvest shrimp, fish and crabs. Women wait in the shade of shacks where they hand wash shellfish coated in oil. The workday is done when the fishermen unbolt their skiff motors and stow them on the banks for safekeeping.
Having heard their stories and observed their lives once before, Abd knew he would return, this time lugging along his box camera. “I thought it was a good idea to complete what I already had and to see the same story in a different way, in a more poetic way,” he said. (AP)
Photography by Rodrigo Abd/AP
Photos taken July 2019
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PHOTOS: Turkey presses Syrian assault as thousands flee the fighting
Turkish ground forces seized at least one village from Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as they pressed ahead with their assault for a second day Thursday, pounding towns and villages along the border with airstrikes and artillery.
Residents of border areas within Syria scrambled in panic as they tried to escape on foot and in cars, pickup trucks and motorcycle rickshaws piled with mattresses and belongings, and the U.N. refugee agency said tens of thousands of people were on the move. It was wrenchingly familiar for many who only a few years ago had fled the militants of the Islamic State group.
The Turkish invasion was launched three days after U.S. President Donald Trump opened the way by pulling American troops from their positions near the border alongside their Kurdish allies.
At a time when Trump faces an impeachment inquiry, the move drew swift criticism from Republicans and Democrats in Congress, along with many national defense experts, who say it has endangered not only the Kurds and regional stability but U.S. credibility as well.
The Syrian Kurdish militia was the only U.S. ally in the campaign that brought down the Islamic State group in Syria. (AP)
Photo credits: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images, Burak Kara/Getty Images, AP, Rodi Said/Reuters
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PHOTOS: Violent protests in Ecuador over fuel price hike
Protesters in Ecuador threw projectiles at riot police Wednesday in a second day of violent protests over a fuel price hike ordered by the government to secure an IMF loan. The violence broke out as thousands of people representing indigenous groups, farmers and labor unions marched on a square in downtown Quito near the government headquarters.
After clashes broke out in the area Tuesday, the government of President Lenin Moreno posted security forces there to keep the march from reaching the plaza. Protesters on Wednesday broke off from the main procession and hurled rocks at riot police, who fought back with volleys of tear gas.
The protesters are demanding that Moreno reinstate fuel subsidies that were rescinded after $4.2 billion in loans were agreed with the International Monetary Fund. His government has held talks with protest groups but the march proceeded anyway.
On Tuesday, clashes between security forces and protesters broke out near Congress and demonstrators – many of them indigenous men armed with sticks and whips – surged through a security cordon and into the building. They rushed into the meeting room and occupied the podium, but were soon evicted by security forces.
Moreno subsequently ordered an overnight curfew to protect public buildings. He declared a state of emergency over the nationwide protests last week. The demonstrations broke out after increases of up to 120 percent in fuel prices came into force on October 3.
They have so far left one civilian dead and 77 people injured, the majority of them security forces, the government said. A total of 477 people have been detained. (AFP)
Photo credits: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images (2), Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images (2)
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PHOTOS: Portals to history and conflict — the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City
Jews, Muslims and Christians pass daily through the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City on their way to and from prayers or simply to go about their everyday business in one of the most politically sensitive spots on earth.
There are eight gates — seven are open and one is sealed — along the Old City walls that were built in the 16th century by Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.It’s always busy at Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Muslim quarter, and at Jaffa Gate, facing west toward the Mediterranean, where local residents and tourists mix in markets lining stone alleyways.
Lions’ Gate — two pairs of heraldic lions are carved on the archway — is also known as St. Stephen’s Gate. It faces east, toward ancient Jericho. It is often crowded with Muslim worshipers after prayers at Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third-holiest shrine.
Many Jewish worshipers take another route to Judaism’s nearby Western Wall. They pass through the Dung Gate, the closest entrance to the holy place, and Jewish families on their way to celebrate a 13-year-old son’s bar mitzvah can be spotted making their way to the wall.
Security is always tight in this volatile area at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli police patrol and closed-circuit TV cameras monitor the passageways of the Old City.
Israel views all of Jerusalem, including the walled Old City that it captured in the 1967 Middle East war, as its “eternal and indivisible” capital.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem, where the Old City is located, as the capital of a state they seek to establish in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Writing by Jeffrey Heller; editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise/Reuters - Photography by Nir Elias/Reuters
Photos taken in spring and fall of 2019
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PHOTOS: Activists arrested in global warming protests in Europe
Activists with the Extinction Rebellion movement blocked major roads in London, Berlin and Amsterdam on Monday at the beginning of what was billed as a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies.
London Police say some 135 climate activists have been arrested as the Extinction Rebellion group attempts to draw attention to global warming. Demonstrators playing steel drums marched through central London on Monday as they kicked off two weeks of activities designed to disrupt the city.
The arrests come as protesters in cities across Europe blocked roads ahead of what is being described as widespread demonstrations. Extinction Rebellion says protesters were arrested as they blocked Victoria Embankment outside the Ministry of Defense in London.
In Amsterdam, hundreds of demonstrators blocked a major road outside the Rijksmuseum, one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions, and set up tents. The protest went ahead despite a city ban on activists gathering on the road. The protesters ignored police calls for them to move to a nearby square. (AP)
Photo credits: Matt Dunham/AP (2), Paulo Amorim/NurPhoto via Getty Images (2), Alastair Grant/AP (2), Alberto Pezzali/AP
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PHOTOS: Comic Con in full costume in Gotham City
New York Comic Con is the East Coast’s largest pop culture convention and the only one that takes place in the comic book, publishing, media, and licensing capital of the world — Gotham City.
New York Comic Con attracted over 250,000 fans in 2018, easily making it the largest comic book and pop culture gathering in the country.
People dressed up as their favorite superheroes from movies, sci-fi shows, animation, video games and comic books. The most popular character was “The Joker” from the Batman series.
The annual convention runs until October 6. (Yahoo News/New York Comic Con)
Photography by Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News
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PHOTOS: Hong Kong protester shot and dozens arrested as Trump lauds China on National Day
A pro-democracy protester was shot and at least 30 were arrested as violent clashes rocked Hong Kong streets Tuesday while China celebrated the 70th anniversary of communist rule.
Beijing marked National Day and “national rejuvenation” with a military parade and fireworks, but in Hong Kong tens of thousands of demonstrators held a “national grief” march. Some black-clad protesters clashed with police who fired water cannons and tear gas into the crowd.
Fires burned on Hong Kong streets, many subway stations were closed and many shops were shuttered as police warned residents to remain in their homes.
President Donald Trump lauded Chinese President Xi JinPing but made no mention of Hong Kong in a brief tweet Tuesday: “Congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China!”
In Hong Kong, video recorded by a student group appeared to show several protesters hurling objects at pursuing riot police. One officer drew his gun and fired, and a protester collapsed as the others fled.
“The so-called National Day is a day for mourning. We are mourning those who sacrificed for democracy in China,” former lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan told the South China Morning Post. “It’s 70 years of suppression. We mourn that, and we also condemn the fact that the Hong Kong government together with Chinese government denied the people of Hong Kong the right to democracy.”
Police Senior Superintendent Yolanda Yu Hoi-kwan said police were “saddened” that an 18-year-old man was shot near his left shoulder.
“A large group of rioters attacked police officers,” she said. “As an officer felt his life was under serious threat, he fired a round at the assailant to save his own life and his colleagues’ lives.”
She added that protesters have been repeatedly warned to stop breaking the law.
“The police force really did not want to see anyone being injured, so we feel very sad about this,” she said, adding that “We will strictly enforce the law.” (AP)
Photo credits: Felipe Dana/AP, Vincent Thian/AP, Kin Cheung/AP, Vincent Yu/AP
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‘It’s on’: How newspapers around the world covered Pelosi’s launch of impeachment inquiry into Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump dominated the front pages of newspapers in the United States and around the world Wednesday.
While most covers opted for straight headlines stating the news, some used quotes from Pelosi’s announcement — “No one is above the law” — and others characterized it as a showdown between the Democratic speaker and the de facto leader of the Republican Party, President Trump. (Yahoo News)
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PHOTOS: Earthlings descend on Area 51 for aliens, parties
A call to “storm” the secretive U.S. military base in the Nevada desert known as Area 51 attracted several dozen revelers to a heavily guarded entrance early Friday, but most did not attempt to enter the site, long rumored to house secrets about extraterrestrial life.
A festive scene emerged around 3 a.m. PT (1000 GMT) on Friday, the date and time a Facebook user had jokingly invited people to run into the base on foot to “see them aliens.” Among the UFO enthusiasts and curiosity seekers, one man wore an orange space suit and some sported tin foil hats and alien masks. A sign in the gathering read “Free E.T. from the government.”
“A bunch of random people in weird costumes standing outside of a government base, why would you want to miss that?” said a YouTube personality who goes by the name Atozy. “That’s a once in a lifetime experience.”
One young woman ducked under a protective gate and was briefly detained by authorities and released. Others stayed outside the perimeter, according to law enforcement officials keeping watch over the crowd.
“They’re just here to see what’s going on,” said Sergeant Orlando Guerra of the Nevada Department of Public Safety Investigation Division. “They’re here to have fun.”
The U.S. Air Force had issued a stern warning to the public not to trespass into Area 51, which it said is used to test aircraft and train personnel.
Jason Strand, 23, said he traveled from Utah to the rural Nevada site as part of a group of nine friends to take in the scene. He said he was not inclined to dart into Area 51.
“We’re came out here to see the dumb people make a run for it,” he said.
Area 51 had long been shrouded in mystery, stoking conspiracy theories that it housed the remnants of a flying saucer and the bodies of its alien crew from a supposed unidentified flying object crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
The U.S. government did not confirm the base existed until 2013, when it released CIA archives saying the site was used to test top-secret spy planes.
The documents, however, did not end suspicion about space aliens there. Area 51 sits about 12 miles (19 km) from Rachel, Nevada, a tiny outpost north of Las Vegas that is hosting a music festival to entertain any UFO hunters or others heading to the region.
Some residents had urged the public to stay away because they worried the town of 50 year-round residents would be overwhelmed with unruly tourists.As of early Friday, a few hundred campsites had been set up by visitors outside the Little A'Le'Inn, an alien-themed motel and restaurant that is Rachel’s only business.
“I’m relieved it’s here,” said Connie West, co-owner of the inn, who had scrambled to set up a campground, bring in portable toilets and otherwise support the influx of visitors. “It’s happening. There was no stopping it.” (Reuters)
Photography by John Locher/AP and Jim Urquhart/Reuters
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PHOTOS: Tired animals
These hilarious photos show some of nature’s mightiest animals — yawning away!
From a giant basking hippo with its mouth stretched open to a group of sultry sea lions, these images show some of the animal kingdom’s most recognizable characters as you’ve never seen them before.
In one photo, a baboon can be seen leaning up against a rock at the end of a long day, letting loose a huge yawn.
The images were taken by photographers across the world, from the African savannas to the Pacific Ocean. (Caters News)
Photography by Dusica Paripovic/Mercury Press, Mercury Press & Media/Caters News, Shawn Murphy/Caters News
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PHOTOS: Hurricane Dorian bashes the Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian technically diminished to Category 2 storm status Tuesday as it slowly turned to the northwest, but the historic and violent storm was growing in size as it punished the Bahamas and inched toward the U.S.
The latest forecasts put the hurricane farther off Florida’s east coast than previous projections. Still, forecasters said some coastal areas from Florida to North Carolina could see 4 to 10 inches of rain in coming days. Or worse.
“We still have hurricane warnings up because it’s just too close to call,” said Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “Any little wiggle, wobble and it could get really close to the coast.”
In the Bahamas, at least five people have died and thousands of homes are in ruins, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. The U.S. Coast Guard was assisting in rescue operations, he said. Relief and rapid assessment teams were standing by and will be deployed as soon as possible, Minnis added.
The center of the storm, which had completely stalled overnight, was crawling along at about 2 mph Tuesday. The storm was about 45 miles north of Freeport on Grand Bahama Island, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The storm has barely budged since Monday afternoon, triggering severe flooding as parts of the country face the prospects of up to 30 inches of rain. Wind speeds lessened slightly but still roared at 110 mph, with gusts of 140 mph. A storm surge of up to 15 feet was swamping neighborhoods.(AP)
Photo credits: Ramon Espinosa/AP (2), Tim Aylen/AP, U.S. Coast Guard Station Clearwater via AP, NASA/Nick Hague
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PHOTOS: Florida prepares for Hurricane Dorian
Hurricane Dorian began inching northwestward over the Bahamas Tuesday morning after hovering there for hours, and forecasters say the now-Category 3 storm will later move “dangerously close” to Florida’s east coast.
The monstrous storm has been blamed for the deaths of at least five people on the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas, where it touched down Sunday afternoon as a Category 5, the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall on record. Dorian then came to a grinding halt on Monday morning and remained at a virtual standstill over Grand Bahama, the northernmost island of the Bahamas archipelago.
Hurricane Dorian has since been downgraded to a Category 3, with maximum sustained winds near 120 miles per hour. But the storm has grown in size over the past 48 hours while remaining almost stationary.
Tropical storm force winds have expanded away from the center and now stretch as far as 160 miles outside the eye of the storm. As a result, parts of Florida’s Palm Beach County experienced 60 mph wind gusts on Tuesday morning. (AP)
Photo credits: Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP/Getty Images, Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, Mark Wilson/Getty Images, Scott Olson/Getty Images
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PHOTOS: Rescued busts of former U.S. presidents from the closed Presidents Park
Howard Hankins rescued the giant busts of former U.S. presidents from the closed Presidents Park in Colonial Williamsburg when he was commissioned to destroy them.
Hankins had helped construct Presidents Park, and while he wasn’t necessarily in the position to inherit 43 humongous heads, he didn’t have the heart to destroy them, either.
The busts of former presidents — from George Washington to George W. Bush — are 18 to 20 feet, each weighing between 11,000 and 20,000 pounds.
There are two glaring omissions from the array of busts: Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Presidents Park ran out of funding before it could commission a full-sized bust after Obama was elected in 2008, and the park closed in 2010, well before Trump took office.
Photography by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
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PHOTOS: Photographer takes incredible shots of himself in the world’s most beautiful places
A landscape photographer turned the camera on himself to take a set of incredible selfie while visiting some of the world’s most beautiful destinations.
Paul Zizka, 39, from Alberta, Canada, has been a photographer for nine years, and thought that featuring in his own pictures would emphasize the nature surrounding him and create a more unique shot.
The creative snapper has taken pictures of himself while camping on the Greenland ice cap, crossing the Antarctic Circle, standing under the Milky Way in the Gobi Desert and, most recently, at Wapta Falls in Yoho National Park, Canada.
While all are self-portraits, none are traditional selfies taken while holding the camera; he uses the equipment’s self-timer mode before walking into the frame.
Discussing his Wapta Falls selfie, Zizka said: “This is was an image I’d been dreaming about for a long, long time, and it finally all came together in the early hours of the morning of Aug. 6.
"It was definitely a tricky self-portrait that got me soaked in seconds.
"I decided I wanted to put myself in the image, atop of the rocky mound seen in the shot, which required me to set the timer on my camera and put myself in the scene.
"I had to wade through the river at the bottom and scramble up the wet rocks, then hold still long enough for the shot; I was soaked through, but I’m glad I finally managed to see this one come to life.”
Paul is hoping to next visit places like Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Kamchatka and Karakoram to complete his selfie collection.
Using lengthy exposure, he believes the shots create a relationship between the central figure in the image and the nature around him.
He added: “How long each selfie takes to execute completely depends on the shot and how far away I am from the camera.
"Sometimes it’s just a matter of setting the timer and walking a few steps into the frame.
"Other times, I might need to traverse a ridge line while the camera shoots continuously, snapping images as I enter the frame.”
Photography by Paul Zizka/Caters News
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PHOTOS: Amazon rainforest burns
The famous Amazon rainforest, covering much of northwestern Brazil and parts of Colombia, Peru and other South American countries, is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity. While the rainforest is known for various reasons, it has been in news recently for the most worrisome reason. According to a report by the National Institute for Space Research, Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year.
In 2019, between January and August, nearly 73,000 fires were recorded, and many have continued to burn for a number of days, without receiving much attention from the concerned authorities. Recent satellite images have spotted more than 9,500 new forest fires since last week alone, mostly in the Amazon basin. (AP)
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PHOTOS: Adorable twin cats showcase their fascinating eye colors
These adorable cats — which are twins — showcase their contrasting blue and green eyes. The fascinating pair, Iriss and Abyss, live with their owner. Pavel Dyagilev, 34, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Pavel says that most people ask whether the cats eyes are real due to their unusual appearance.
The cats have a condition called heterochromia iridis, which causes each eye to vary in color. Dyagilev said: “When I found an ad on social media that two kittens were seeking a new home, I never imagined that I’d end up with two. But I looked through the pictures of kittens and saw two twins always together on the photos. And my heart melted.” (Caters News)
Photography by@sis.twins/Caters News
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PHOTOS: President faces protests on visit to cities hit by mass shootings
President Trump defended his rhetoric Wednesday as he headed out to offer a message of healing and unity in El Paso and Dayton, where he faced hostility from people who fault his own incendiary words for contributing to last weekend’s mass shootings.
The mayors of both cities called for Trump to change the way he talks about immigrants. Multiple protests were planned, and Democratic presidential candidates continued to criticize him, including former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who will address a counter-rally in his hometown of El Paso during the president’s visit.
Trump denied his rhetoric had anything to do with the violence, claiming instead that he “brings people together. Our country is doing incredibly well.” As he left the White House, Trump strongly criticized those who say he bears some responsibility for the nation’s divisions, returning to political arguing even as he called for unity. (AP)
Photography by Alessio Putzu/Caters News
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