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  • 26
    Mar
    2013
    12:11pm, EDT

    The Hindu festival of colors celebrations continue in India

    Vivek Prakash / Reuters

    A boy sprays colored foam during Holi celebrations in a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on March 26. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.

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    Hindu devotees chant religious slogans amid dust from colored powder inside Banke Bihari temple during Holi festival celebrations in Vrindavan, India, on March 26.

    Thousands pack a small town in India to celebrate spring with their traditional Holi Festival. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • In a dirty, polluted river, prayers are offered
    • Hindus worship the sun god as night falls during Chhath Puja
    • With a flash and a bang, Hindus celebrate festival of lights
    • Color flies at Hindu festival in India

     

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  • 26
    Mar
    2013
    9:48am, EDT

    Same-sex marriage supporters gather outside US Supreme Court for hearings

    Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    Anti-Proposition 8 protesters are shadowed by a rainbow banner in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, on March 26. America's top court takes up the delicate and divisive issue of gay marriage on Tuesday when the nine Supreme Court justices consider the legality of a California ballot initiative that limits marriage to opposite-sex couples.

    Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

    Gay rights supporters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it waits to hear the marriage equality case referred to as Prop 8 in Washington DC, on March 26. The Supreme Court is to hear arguments in the cases of Hollingsworth vs Perry and US vs Windsor. The cases involve a California law known as Proposition 8 that bans same-sex marriages there, and a federal law, the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), which keeps the US government from offering benefits to same-sex couples.

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    Married couple Mike McFarland, left, and Larry Baxley show their support for gay marriage during a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26, in Washington, DC. Today the high court is scheduled to hear arguments in California's proposition 8, the controversial ballot initiative that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

    Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    A protester from Ohio carries a flag outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 26. America's top court takes up the delicate and divisive issue of gay marriage on Tuesday when the nine Supreme Court justices consider the legality of a California ballot initiative that limits marriage to opposite-sex couples.

    Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    People line up to enter the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, March 26.

     By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News - The Supreme Court prepared Tuesday for a historic one-hour oral argument on marriage which could lead to any one of a wide array of possible decisions -- from essentially leaving in place the traditional marriage laws now on the books in most states to proclaiming same-sex marriage a fundamental right under the United States Constitution. Continue reading this article here.

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    • Same-sex marriage's big day in court: What's at stake?
    • Key dates in the fight for equality

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    A deviant behavior shouldn't be compared to the natural pairing of a man and a woman to make human existence possible.

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  • 7
    Feb
    2013
    11:15am, EST

    From dumpster to table: German foodsharers salvage vegetables

    Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

    Benjamin Schmittand Helena Jachmann, supporters of the foodsharing movement sort through food found in a dumpster behind a supermarket in Berlin, February 4. Foodsharing is a German internet based platform where individuals, retailers or producers have the possibility of offering surplus food to consumers for free.

    Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

    Helena Jachmann, supporter of the foodsharing movement holds a pepper found in a dumpster behind a supermarket in Berlin, Feb. 4. Foodsharing is a German internet based platform where individuals, retailers or producers have the possibility of offering surplus food to consumers for free.

    Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

    Benjamin Schmitt and Helena Jachmann, supporters of the foodsharing movement sort food found in a dumpster behind a supermarket in Berlin, Feb. 4.

    Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

    Raphael Fellmer, a supporter of the foodsharing movement shows Christmas biscuits collected from waste bins of supermarket at his home in Berlin, on Jan. 31.

    Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

    Raphael Fellmer, a supporter of the foodsharing movement has lunch with his partner Nieves Palmer Muntaner, with food cooked from vegetables from waste of an organic supermarket in Berlin, on Jan. 24.

     

    By Stephen Brown, Reuters

    Published at 11:15a.m. ET: BERLIN  - Just past midnight behind a Berlin supermarket, two youngsters with torches strapped to their woollen hats sift through rubbish bins for food that is still edible, load their bikes with bread, vegetables and chocolate Santas and cycle off into the darkness.

    It is not poverty that inspires a growing number of young Germans like 21-year-old student Benjamin Schmitt to forage for food in the garbage, but anger at loss and waste which the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates at one-third of all food produced worldwide, every year, valued at about $1 trillion. Continue Reading.

     

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    "It is not poverty that inspires ...." Yeah, right. Less mindless spewing on of popular propaganda. Thank you.

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  • 30
    Oct
    2012
    2:50pm, EDT

    1.6 million Egyptian children work, activists worry number will grow

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child stands in front of a tire repair shop where he works in Cairo, Egypt. Photo taken on Oct. 2.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian girl fills water containers at a pottery workshop in old Cairo. Photo taken on Oct. 18.

    The Egyptian government estimates that 1.6 million minors work - almost 10 percent of the population aged 17 or under. Other experts put the number at nearly twice that.

    Some child labor activists worry that protections for children could be loosened further under the new constitution still being written. Earlier this month, the Egyptian Coalition for Children's Rights warned that early drafts of the document did not include as firm prohibitions on child labor as past constitutions.

    • In workshops, fields, Egyptian children at work
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    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child helps his father to load a donkey cart with hay in a farm at the outskirts of Qalyobiya, 27 miles north of Cairo, Egypt. Photo captured on Oct. 17.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child loads a cart with cement bricks in a brick factory at the outskirts of Qalyobiya, 27 miles north of Cairo.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child carries a clay roof tile in a pottery workshop in old Cairo. Photo captured on Oct. 18.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian child takes a tea break during his work at a mechanics workshop in Cairo, Egypt. Photo captured Oct. 4.

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    1.6 million Egyptian children work A lot of Democrats could learn a thing or two from these kids.

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  • 15
    Aug
    2012
    3:04pm, EDT

    Thousands of 'Dreamers' line up to apply for deferral program

    Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

    Hundreds of people line up around the block from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles offices to apply for deportation reprieve on August 15, in Los Angeles, California. Under a new program established by the Obama administration undocumented youth who qualify for the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, can file applications from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website to avoid deportation and obtain the right to work

    Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters

    People line up for assistance with paperwork for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, August 15. The U.S. government began accepting applications on Wednesday from young illegal immigrants seeking temporary legal status under relaxed deportation rules announced by the Obama administration in June.

    Richard Drew / AP

    People fill the hall of St. Mary's Church attending an orientation workshop and legal clinic for potential deferred action applicants, on New York's Lower East Side on Aug. 15, 2012. Hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants scrambled to get papers in order Wednesday as the U.S. started accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get a work permit under a new government program.

    Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

    A group of immigrants, known as DREAMers, hold flowers as they listen to a news conference to kick off a new program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles on August 15, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Under a new program established by the Obama administration undocumented youth who qualify for the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, can file applications from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website to avoid deportation and obtain the right to work

     

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    • Young illegal immigrants line up for chance to legally stay, work in US under new deferral program
    • Read more Immigration" stories here.

     

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    I don't know what you are talking about.

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  • 14
    Jul
    2012
    8:37pm, EDT

    Haitian pilgrims soak up a waterfall's purifying power in Saut d' Eau

    Pilgrims bathe in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers in Saut d' Eau, Haiti, Saturday, July 14. The annual pilgrimage is made in honor of Haiti's most celebrated patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Legend has it that she appeared on a palm tree in 1847 in the Palms Grove in Saut d'Eau and was integrated into Haiti's voodoo culture as the goddess of love, Ezili Danto.

    Dieu Nalio Chery / AP

    A pilgrim bathes in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers in Saut d' Eau, Haiti, Saturday, July 14. The annual pilgrimage is made in honor of Haiti's most celebrated patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Legend has it that she appeared on a palm tree in 1847 in the Palms Grove in Saut d'Eau and was integrated into Haiti's voodoo culture as the goddess of love, Ezili

    Dieu Nalio Chery / AP

    A pilgrim bathes next to a waterfall believed to have purifying powers in Saut d' Eau, Haiti, Saturday, July 14, 2012. The annual pilgrimage is made in honor of Haiti's most celebrated patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Legend has it that she appeared on a palm tree in 1847 in the Palms Grove in Saut d'Eau and was integrated into Haiti's voodoo culture as the goddess of love, Ezili Danto.

     

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    Sure, why not contaminate the water supply! Typical for these vagrants to only think of themselves.

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  • 1
    Jun
    2012
    4:01pm, EDT

    Rose's Divine Love - A mother's battle for her children's health

    Nacho Doce / Reuters

    The children of the Amor Divino family, (L-R) Dhones, Izabely and Samille, sit on their couch after their parents dressed them for a weekly physical therapy session, in the Brasilandia favela of Sao Paulo, before sunrise on March 23. All three children suffer from a disease called Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, a rare genetic nervous disorder which affects coordination and intellect. Brazil's social security system INSS granted the family monetary assistance only for one of the three children, leaving the others to depend on the income from their father's job in a bakery.

     

    By Nacho Doce of Reuters:  (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Deep inside the massive favela called Brasilandia, one of the biggest of Sao Paulo’s wretched slums, lives Rose with her husband Ivo and their three disabled children. I first learned of Rose’s predicament while doing a feature story about the AACD clinic for disabled children. I immediately arranged for us to meet for the first time in their slum at 5 am, the time they leave for a weekly session of physical therapy.

    Their alley didn’t appear on my taxi’s GPS, and we got lost in the dark maze. I had to wait for a more decent hour closer to 5 am before phoning them for help. With their directions, I finally reached the top of a steep alley, and found myself practically inside a “boca de fumo,” best described as an open air crack den.  It wasn’t until Ivo quickly rushed to meet me and spoke to one of the addicts, that I heard the words, “Taxi free to pass.” I was relieved.

    We hiked downhill through two steep alleys to reach their house. In the living room, their three mute children, Samille, 9, Dhones, 7, and Izabely, 6, were sitting in a row on a red felt-covered sofa, in front of a wall covered with green and brown mold. The scene struck me as both sad and beautiful.

    Nacho Doce / Reuters

    Rose Amor Divino pushes her children (front to back) Izabely, Dhones and Samille on a triple wheelchair as they arrive at the AACD clinic for a physical therapy session in Sao Paulo March 30. All three children suffer from a disease called Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, a rare genetic nervous disorder which affects coordination and intellect. Brazil's social security system INSS granted the family monetary assistance only for one of the three children, leaving the others to depend on the income from their father's job in a bakery.

    Nacho Doce / Reuters

    Samille, left, and Dhones Amor Divino, joke in their wheelchairs as they wait with their sister Izabely for the start of a session of physical therapy in the AACD clinic in Sao Paulo March 23. All three children suffer from a disease called Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, a rare genetic nervous disorder which affects coordination and intellect.

    Nacho Doce / Reuters

    Dhones do Amor Divino undergoes a session of physical therapy in the AACD clinic in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 23.

    All three kids suffer from a disease called Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, or PMD, a rare genetic nervous disorder which affects coordination and intellect. I asked myself the logical question of how a mother could continue to have children with such a serious health condition. Samille, Dhones and Izabely all were diagnosed with the disease at an early age.

    As soon as I arrived at the house, it was time to take the kids to the clinic. Ivo quickly began the arduous ritual of lugging the wheelchairs, one by one, back up the alleys to the street at the very top. He made three trips, and then returned again to carry two of the kids while Rose carried the third. A specially-equipped van arrived as the sky lightened, and we all got in and headed off on the long ride to AACD.

    Rose and her family were living in the poor northeastern state of Bahia when they learned of AACD, the only free clinic of its type in Brazil. Ivo traveled to Sao Paulo first to find work and then bring the family, even though at that time they weren’t sure how the disease would affect each of their children.

    Nacho Doce / Reuters

    Rose Amor Divino carries her son Dhones home from school in the Brasilandia favela of Sao Paulo, April 24. Dhones and his two sisters suffer from a disease called Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, a rare genetic nervous disorder which affects coordination and intellect. Brazil's social security system INSS granted the family monetary assistance only for one of the three children, leaving the others to depend on the income from their father's job in a bakery.

    Nacho Doce / Reuters

    Rose Amor Divino gives medicine to her son Dhones at home in the Brasilandia favela of Sao Paulo, April 24.

    Once in Sao Paulo, Rose requested help from the INSS social security system, and after three years of waiting they were granted just 622 reais ($332) per month for one of the three kids. The INSS determined that Ivo’s job could maintain the other two. Ivo works in a bakery 12 hours a day, six days a week, and earns 680 reais a month, just over $350 at today’s exchange. When I commented to Rose that she should keep requesting help from the INSS, she responded, “I felt humiliated there. I can’t go back.” What she did obtain was help from Sao Paulo city hall in the form of transportation to AACP. The van that picked us up at the top of their alley began to arrive a year after she put in the request.

    Click here to see more images and continue reading about the Rose Divino and the battle to get care for her children in Brazil.

     

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  • 17
    Jun
    2011
    10:13am, EDT

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    A combination picture shows (top) the figures of Soviet soldiers at the base of the Soviet Army monument, painted by an unknown artist, in Sofia on June 17 and a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party's youth organisation cleaning the same figures of the monument February 18, 2010. The figures have been painted to resemble U.S. comic book heroes and characters from popular culture like Santa Claus and Ronald McDonald, the mascot of fast-food chain giant McDonald's. The inscription below them reads: "Moving with the times".

    Moving with the times: Soviet monument gets a facelift in Bulgaria

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  • 1
    Jun
    2011
    10:22am, EDT

    Celebrating International Children's Day around the world

    Carlos Barria / Reuters

    A child plays with a bubble gun on a subway train in Shanghai on International Children's Day on Wednesday, June 1.

    Frederic J. Brown / AFP - Getty Images

    Children play inside inflatable wheels floating on the water of a lake at a Beijing park as schoolchildren have the day off to celebrate International Children's Day on Wednesday in Beijing. International Children's Day began in 1925 when the World Conference for the well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, chose the date of June 1 to mark the occassion. China has the world's biggest population of 1.3 billion people but is battling a severe gender imbalance with the latest completed census in the country finding 118.06 males born to every 100 females over the past decade.

    Wong Campion / Reuters

    Children of migrant workers look out from backstage as they wait for their performance during the International Children's Day celebration at a kindergarten in Kunming, Yunnan province on Wednesday.

    Heng Sinith / AP

    Cambodian schoolchildren living near the dam site of Steung Mean Chey participate in an Interntional Children's Day event in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Wednesday. More then 300 schoolchildren took part in the event sponsored by a social activists group and presented with some educational materials.

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    Russian children play with foam in Dvortsovaya Square in central St. Petersburg on Wednesday celebrating International Childrens' Day.

    Armend Nimani / AFP - Getty Images

    Kosovo Albanian children's dressed as ballet dancers take part in activities marking the International Children's Day in Pristina, on Wednesday.

    International Children's Day began in 1925 when the World Conference for the well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, chose the date of June 1 to mark the occassion.

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