Argentina’s controversial President Javier Milei, who was elected only a month and a half ago, is facing the first nationwide strike. Trade unions are calling the proposed measures draconian, as they involve reforming more than a thousand laws and regulations that have been in place for decades.
And this, of course, is not the only event that has attracted the attention of Pavlo Bishko, Zaborona’s photo editor. Here is a traditional Friday photo selection of the most interesting news, some of which, for obvious reasons, have been ignored by the Ukrainian information space.
The sails of the Sydney Opera House are illuminated by a projection of indigenous artwork by Indigenous artist Brett Leavy on January 26, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. The 2024 First Nations projection was created by Aboriginal digital artist Brett Leavy, who worked in consultation with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council on the artwork. Australia Day, formerly known as Foundation Day, is the official national day of Australia and is celebrated annually on January 26 to commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788. Many indigenous Australians refer to the day as ‘Invasion Day’ and there is a growing movement to change the date to one which can be celebrated by all Australians. Photo: Wendell Teodoro / Getty Images
Members of the rescue team put out a forest fire in Nemocon, Colombia on January 24, 2024. About twenty forest fires have Bogota and several regions of Colombia on alert, amid temperature records due to the El Niño phenomenon, authorities said this Wednesday, who are investigating whether they were caused accidentally or deliberately. Photo: LUIS ACOSTA / AFP via Getty Images
Swedish-made Archer Howitzer operated by Ukrainian members of the 45th Artillery Brigade fires toward Russian positions, in the Donetsk region, on January 20, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP via Getty Images
In this photo taken on January 20, 2024 a tourist poses in front of incense sticks drying in a courtyard in the village of Quang Phu Cau on the outskirts of Hanoi. Families living and working in the “incense village” of Quang Phu Cau now also make sticks in yellow, blue and green, catering to visitors eager to snap shots for Instagram. Photo: NHAC NGUYEN / AFP via Getty Images
Austrian Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for over 24 years and fathered seven children with her, is escorted back to a prison after his hearing at the regional court in Krems an der Donau, Austria on January 25, 2024. The reginal court in Krems, some 80 kilometres northwest of Vienna, approved the application of Fritzl to be transferred out of the jail he is currently in for the mentally ill who pose a high degree of danger, to a regular prison. Fritzl, now 88, was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for the murder by neglect of a new-born baby he fathered with his daughter Elisabeth while holding her in the purpose-built basement of his house. Photo: JOE KLAMAR / AFP via Getty Images
In this photograph taken on January 20, 2024, Setbai (C), a member of the Ramnami religious movement with tattoos of Hindu god Ram’s name on her body, along with others chants hymns during Ramnami Samaj Hindu festival (Bhajan mela) near the Mahanadi river in Jaijaipur of India’s Chhattisgarh state. Setbai is unfazed by the grand opening of a controversial temple to Ram in India, even though she has the Hindu god’s name tattooed all over her body, including her entire face. The tattoos were a message from the Dalits to the higher caste Hindus that the god they were being stopped from worshipping at a temple was for everyone, irrespective of caste and gender. Photo: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP via Getty Images
Chinese military personnel search for missing victims following a landslide in Liangshui village at Zhaotong, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province on January 22, 2024. Dozens of people were buried and eight confirmed killed when a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China on January 22. Photo: AFP via Getty Images
A road sign sits in the village of Yablonovo near the Russian IL-76 military transport plane crash site in the Belgorod region on January 24, 2024. Russia on January 24, 2024 accused Ukraine of shooting down a military transport plane. Photo: STRINGER / AFP via Getty Images
Joan Salter (L) sits with Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Olivia Marks-Woldman as she lights a memorial candle at her home in north London, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance day this weekend, on January 23, 2024 in London, England. Joan Salter, a child survivor of the Holocaust, was three months old when her native Belgium was invaded by the Nazis. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is on January 27. Photo: Leon Neal / Getty Images
People attend a funeral ceremony for the remains of 41 victims from the Yazidi minority, who were executed by Islamic State (IS) group militants in 2014, in front of a memorial monument in Sinjar in northwestern Iraq’s Nineveh province on January 24, 2024. The victims of the August 2014 massacre, carried out in the Sinjar region by IS group militants, have been recently identified through DNA tests. Photo: ZAID AL-OBEIDI / AFP via Getty Images
A farmer pulls waste to block the RN 19 near in Vesoul, eastern France, on January 25, 2024. French farmers continued their actions on January 25, 2024, and are eagerly awaiting a response from the government to their request for “immediate” aid worth several hundred million euros. Photo: SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP via Getty Images
People shower flower petals over India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center R) and France’s President Emmanuel Macron (center L) along a street in Jaipur on January 25, 2024. President Emmanuel Macron was given a red carpet reception in India on January 25, with a welcome parade of elephants, as France eyes lucrative deals with the world’s fifth-largest economy. Photo: LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images
View of a gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguin with its breeding at the Paradise Bay in the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 20, 2024. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel ‘ARC Simon Bolivar,’ designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet. Photo: JUAN BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images
Firefighters tend to a blaze at the scene of an explosion from a vehicle crash in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia on January 24, 2024. Six people were killed and 14 injured in a gas explosion caused by a vehicle crash in Mongolia’s capital on January 24, authorities said. Photo: B. ALTJIN / AFP via Getty Images
A man walks past bodies of people lying on the ground, killed as a result of a missile strike, in Donetsk on January 21, 2024, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. At least 25 people were killed and 20 injured in shelling on a market in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in east Ukraine, the region’s Moscow-installed chief Denis Pushilin said on January 21, 2024. Photo: STRINGER / AFP via Getty Images
A masked couple take part in a demonstration against Argentina’s President Javier Milei and in support of the national strike in Mexico City, on January 24, 2024. Argentine President Javier Milei faces the first national strike in just 45 days of government, against his draconian fiscal adjustment and his plan to reform more than a thousand laws and regulations that governed for decades. The largest Argentine union called the strike in rejection, in particular, of the changes by decree to the labor regime promoted by Milei, which limit the right to strike and affect the financing of unions. Photo: RODRIGO OROPEZA / AFP via Getty Images
Local residents talk outside a heavily damaged building in Kharkiv on January 24, 2024 one day after after a Russian missile barrage across the country. Photo: SERGEY BOBOK / AFP via Getty Images
Migrants rest under a shrub on January 19, 2024 in Godorya, Djibouti. The recent attacks on commercial ships by Yemen’s Houthi rebel group, which have prompted a series of air strikes by the United States and its allies in response, have not just imperilled a vital shipping route, but also the popular “Eastern Route” for migrants heading from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia, via Djibouti and the Bab al-Mandab Strait that connects the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea. The strait is also a heavily trafficked shipping route on the way to the Suez Canal. Photo: Luke Dray / Getty Images
Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska hits a return against China’s Zheng Qinwen during their women’s singles semi-final match on day 12 of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 25, 2024. Photo: DAVID GRAY / AFP via Getty Images
