Around the world -- Photos

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eeeeh picha nzuri....Za Zenji hauna?

 

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A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.

 

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A dog named "Leao" sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.

 

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Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011.

 

[Bejajunior]

Nice 1's

 

[Lily Flower]

Very nice pixs

 

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Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in California after a successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.

 

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Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.

 

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Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old cousin, Private Douglas Halliday, as he and six other fallen soldiers are brought through the town of Wootton Bassett in England.

 

[webondo]

nice pix

 

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Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.

 

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The iconic photo of Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

 

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A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve of South Sudan's independence from Sudan.

 

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A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubble by soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami

 

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A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument

 

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Starving In Sudan.

This Pulitzer Prize winning photograph was that of much controversy. Photographer Kevin Carter was accused of not helping the girl, who was struggling to reach a feeding centre.

Whether accounts of him scaring the bird away to assist the girl were true or not, is unknown, following the photojournalist’s suicide. ©Kevin Carter/The New York Times

 

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A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured.

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[Mshirazi]

Huyo mbwa anahuzunisha sana

 

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Maasai warriors cover a battle field as they clash with bows and arrows with members of the Kalenjin tribe in the Kapune hill overlooking the Olmelil valley located in the Transmara District in Western Kenya on March 01, 2008.

The Massai, the Kalenjin and the Kisii tribes have recently clashed over ongoing land disputes that erupted after botched local elections during the general elections held in Kenya in December of 2007. Over twenty warriors from the tribes have been killed in bow and arrow battles near the borders of these tribes in the last couple of months.

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A Kenyan boy screams as he sees kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 January 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search for protestors.

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