Santiago, Chile
Demonstrators clash with riot police in Santiago. Chile has been rocked by months of protests against Sebastián Piñera’s government that began with strikes over metro fare rises and escalated into the most severe social unrest since Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship nearly 30 years ago.
Photograph: Claudio Reyes/AFP/Getty Images
Bega, Australia
Amy and Ben Spencer sit at the show grounds in the southern New South Wales town of Bega where they are camping after fleeing wildfires. Australia’s bushfire crisis claimed at least two more lives as dozens of blazes tore through several towns on the east coast and forced thousands to take shelter on nearby beaches.
Lake Conjola, Australia
A kangaroo passes a burning house in Lake Conjola. Australian authorities have made a final plea for people to flee bushfire-affected areas in three states as conditions became so dangerous that firefighters may be unable to defend entire towns.
Photograph: Matthew Abbott/New York Times/Redux/eyevine
London
Anti-semitic graffiti in the form of numbers, 9 11, and a Star of David, on a shop window in Belsize Park. The graffiti was done during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. The numbers may refer to an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews were responsible for the 9/11 terror attack.
Gippsland, Australia
Smoke rises as East Gippsland, Victoria, burns. Thousands of people have had to flee their homes in north-east Victoria and the south coast of New South Wales in Australia’s largest ever peacetime evacuation.
Photograph: Dale Appleton/Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
I enlisted in 1970...very few inductees then would have meet those requirements either...yet they were still drafted...
(Comment is aimed at "SSG" in the pic, not the poster)
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