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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Croatia's Blanka Vlasic makes an attempt in the qualification for the women's high jump during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.
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Tia Hellebaut of Belgium competes in the women's high jump qualifying round of the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 21, 2008.
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Afghan President Hamed Karzai (R) shakes hands with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ahead of a press conference at The Presidential Palace in Kabul on August 21, 2008. Brown flew into Kabul to meet President Hamid Karzai after a short visit with British troops fighting a Taliban-led insurgency in volatile southern Afghanistan. Brown arrived in the Afghan capital from the southern province of Helmand, where he met British soldiers at the sprawling Camp Bastion, an AFP correspondent travelling with him said. The British prime minister, whose visit was kept under wraps for security reasons, is en route to China for the Olympics closing ceremony in Beijing.
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Eighty-four year-old Georgian Shalva Khutsenashvili and his South Ossetian wife Misurat Khutayeva sit in a hospital room on August 16, 2008 in Tskhinvali. Russian troops have the right to patrol "a few kilometres" deeper inside Georgia beyond the conflict zone South Ossetia, Georgian and French officials said. This allowance was stipulated in a confidential letter from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to his Georgian counterpart shown to AFP here by a high-level Georgian source and later released in Paris by the Elysee Palace.
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A South Ossetian man holds an axe as he stands in his house on August 16, 2008 in Tskhinvali. Dozens of haggard Georgian captives were marched through the rebel city of South Ossetia, as separatists called on Tbilisi to recover the rotting corpses of its soldiers. The mostly elderly men -- apparently all civilians -- walked with their heads bowed and their hands behind their backs, escorted by armed guards. Locals stopped to take pictures on their mobile phones. Some pointed and laughed as the detainees marched through Tskhinvali. One woman said: "Those are the prisoners? But they're just old men!".
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TBILISI, GEORGIA - AUGUST 16: A man smokes in a corridor as Georgian refugees, many of them from the breakaway province of South Ossetia, settle into a refugee shelter August 16, 2008 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tens of thousands of Georgians and others have fled the areas of north Georgia affected by the stand off with Russian forces, and hundreds of them are taking shelter in this old Communist-era ministry building. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tblisi yesterday to show support for Georgia and to try to firm up the recent peace initiative with the Russians instigated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Manya Pleeva, a 76-year-old South Ossetian sits on the bed in her house on August 16, 2008 in Tskhinvali. Dozens of haggard Georgian captives were marched through the rebel city of South Ossetia, as separatists called on Tbilisi to recover the rotting corpses of its soldiers. The mostly elderly men -- apparently all civilians -- walked with their heads bowed and their hands behind their backs, escorted by armed guards. Locals stopped to take pictures on their mobile phones. Some pointed and laughed as the detainees marched through Tskhinvali. One woman said: "Those are the prisoners? But they're just old men!".
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) shakes hands with a British soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as he prepares to leave Camp Bastion in Helmand Province on August 21, 2008, ahead of a meeting with President Hamid Karzai after visiting British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said. Brown's earlier visit with British soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown walks boards an aircraft as he prepares to leave Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on August 21, 2008. Brown flew into Kabul on August 21 for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai after visiting British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said. Brown's earlier visit with British soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown walks boards an aircraft as he prepares to leave Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on August 21, 2008. Brown flew into Kabul on August 21 for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai after visiting British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said. Brown's earlier visit with British soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (C) poses for a photograph with British troops as he prepares to leave Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on August 21, 2008. Brown flew into Kabul on August 21 for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai after visiting British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said. Brown's earlier visit with British soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2-L) walks towards the aircraft as he prepares to leave Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on August 21, 2008. Brown flew into Kabul on August 21 for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai after visiting British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said. Brown's earlier visit with British soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown walks towards the aircraft as he prepares to leave Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on August 21, 2008. Brown flew into Kabul on August 21 for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai after visiting British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said. Brown's earlier visit with British soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2-L) talks with British soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as he prepares to leave Camp Bastion in Helmand Province on August 21, 2008. Brown flew into Kabul on August 21 for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai after visiting British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said. Brown's earlier visit with British soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
