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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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China's Qi Haifeng in action during the 110-meter hurdles of the decathlon at the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.
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New York Yankees' Jason Giambi (R) is out on force at second with the tag by Toronto Blue Jays' Joe Inglett (L) in the seventh inning of their American League MLB baseball game in Toronto August 21, 2008.
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NEW YORK - AUGUST 21: Tennis Player Andy Roddick celebrates Lacoste's 75 Anniversary at Macy's Herald Square on August 21, 2008 in New York City.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama listens to his introduction at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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MARTINSVILLE, VA - AUGUST 20: Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a campaign event at the Patrick Henry Community College August 20, 2008 in Martinsville, Virginia. Obama is expected to announce his Vice Presidential candidate before the start of the Democratic National Convention on August 25th.
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The Olympics is a great occasion for people from around world to celebrate the human spirit, to have their national teams compete under fair rules, and to bring us all closer together, as a global family, Wenran Jiang writes in his Globe essay.
The
Steve Andersen holds up the Tibetan flag he unfurled near Tiananmen Square for reporters in Edmonton on Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
Steve Andersen, a member of Students for a Free Tibet, arrives in Edmonton on Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, after being deported
Now that the Olympic Games are under way in Beijing, under the watch of the Chinese government's extraordinarily broad and heavy security operation, are China's human-rights record and other controversial subjects still such a big deal? Should they be?
BEIJING — Until recently, the sight of a Japanese warship steaming toward Chinese shores or of a Chinese aircraft swooping low over Taiwan would have provoked alarm across Asia.
But when Japan’s navy made its first Chinese port call since World War II
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Reporter Peter Ford talks about the impact of round-the-clock media coverage of the Chinese earthquake.
Beijing - In an unexpected silver lining to the
TANGSHAN
(CHINA): Well before this city was destroyed by an earthquake 32 years ago, the
coming disaster was loudly preceded by strange animal behaviour and other
bizarre signals that survivors wish they
heeded.
"The animals were
trying to tell
A devastating earthquake leveled the Chinese town of Wenchuan, leaving in its wake over 60,000 dead and five million homeless throughout Sichuan Province. It will take years to heal the damage of this tragedy. Nevertheless, even as aid organizations
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Reporter Peter Ford discusses the volunteer effort in helping earthquake victims in China.
Jiangyou, China - Standing at a dusty crossroads surrounded by
Quotes spotlight for "Wenran Jiang"
There are serious problems of implementation and of government interference, but these tangible steps are moving China toward the rule of law....The government still interferes, still rounds up severe critics, and has made life harder for foreign reporters since the Tibetan crisis in March. But China's progress since 2001 has been largely along the positive trajectory of the past three decades.
said Wenran Jiang
