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Georgia -- People mourning the victims of the 2008 South Ossetia War during the Candle of Memory event, Tskhinvali, 08Aug2009 - ITAR-TASS 04: TSKHINVALI, SOUTH OSSETIA. AUGUST 8, 2009. People mourning the victims of the 2008 South Ossetia War during the Candle of Memory event as the entire country marks the first anniversary of the war, also known as the Russia-Georgia War. (Photo ITAR-TASS / Valery Matytsin)
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04. Южная Осетия. Цхинвали. 8 августа. Участники акции "Свеча памяти", посвященной годовщине начала военных действий в Южной Осетии. Фото ИТАР-ТАСС/ Валерий Матыцин
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Iran -- Iranian opposition suspects cover their faces during their second hearing at a revolutionary court in Tehran, 08Aug2009 - top2009
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Afghanistan - Supporters of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdulllah wait for him moments before his arrival to an electoral rally in Dai Kundi province, 14Aug2009 - Del312325
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AFGHANISTAN, Dai Kundi : Thousand of supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdulllah wait for him moments before his arrival to an electoral rally in Dai Kundi province, in central Afghanistan on August 14, 2009. Presidential race heavy-hitters jetted across Afghanistan to win votes ahead of next week's elections as an official said talks were underway to persuade the Taliban not to attack polling day. top2009
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Afghanistan -- Afghans watch a live debate of President Hamid Karzai, and two of his rival candidates Ramzan Bashar Dost and Ashraf Ghani, on TV at a shop in Kabul, 16Aug2009 - Afghans watch a live debate of Afghan incumbent President Hamid Karzai, and two of his rival candidates Ramzan Bashar Dost and Ashraf Ghani, on TV at a shop in Kabul, western Afghanistan on 16Aug2009. Hamid Karzai, for the first time on August 16 took part in a live debate on TV with his two rival candidates independent lawmaker Ramzan Bashar Dost and former finance minister Ashraf Ghani, ahead of presidential and provincial council elections to be held 20 August 2009. top2009
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Chuwashia: Imams performs praying in Bulgar city, 17Aug2009 - Chuwashia: Imams performs praying in Bulgar city, 17Aug2009
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Ingushetia -- Volunteers carry a victim at a site of an explosion of a police compound in Nazran, 17Aug2009 - RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Nazran : Volunteers carry a dead body at a site of explosion of a police compound in Nazran on August 17, 2009. A truck packed with explosives rammed through the gates Monday of a police compound in southern Russia and exploded in an attack that killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens
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Russia -- Russian emergency rescuers work at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky, 19Aug2009 - Russian emergency rescuers work at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. Rescuers insisted they had not given up hope for 62 workers still missing two days after a flood engulfed a Siberian hydroelectric power station in the latest calamity to hit the Russian energy industry. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV
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Afghanistan -- A girl displays her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote at a polling station in Kabul, 20Aug2009 - AFGHANISTAN, Kabul : An Afghan girl displays her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote at a polling station in Kabul on August 20, 2009. Afghans voted to elect a president for just the second time in their war-torn history as a massive security clampdown swung into action to prevent threatened Taliban attacks derailing the ballot.
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Poland -- A Polish veteran at ceremonies marking the anniversary of the first day of World War II at Westerplatte Monument in Gdansk, 01Sep2009 - POLAND, Gdansk : A Polish veteran looks at navy soldiers and honour guards on early September 1, 2009 during ceremonies marking the anniversary of the first day of World War II at Westerplatte Monument in Gdansk.
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Russia -- President Dmitry Medvedev awards tennis player Elena Dementyeva the order Service to the Fatherland, Moscow, 0 - RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Moscow : Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awards tennis player Elena Dementyeva the order Service to the Fatherland, IV Degree, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 8, 2009. Medvedev handed out state awards to several dozen sports professionals in a ceremony at the Kremlin.
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China -- 60th anniversary National Day celebrants in Beijing, 01oct2009 - CHINA, Beijing : A father carries his daughter as they celebrate National Day in Beijing on October 1, 2009. China formally kicked off mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing's historic Tiananmen Square but due to security concerns most of Beijing's 17 million citizens were relegated to watching the pageant in their hometown on television like the rest of China. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS
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Kosovo - Setting the statue of U.S. President Bill Clinton in Pristina, 12Oct2009 - top2009
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Russia -- Sanitary service workers prepare to burn up swine that were killed to combat African swine plague in the Tsimlyansk district, Rostov Oblast, 06Oct2009 - 62. Россия. Ростовская область. 6 октября. Сотрудники санитарных служб готовят к сжиганию туши павших животных во время ликвидации очага африканской чумы свиней в Цимлянском районе. Фото ИТАР-ТАСС/ Валерий Матыцин
ROSTOV REGION, RUSSIA. OCTOBER 6, 2009. Sanitary service workers prepare to burn up swine that were killed to combat African swine plague in the Tsimlyansk district, Rostov Oblast top2009
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Afghanistan -- US Marines are engulfed in a storm of dust and debris as a CH-53 helicopter lands to transport them from their forward operating base in Farah Province, 12Oct2009 - AFGHANISTAN, Farah province : US Marines from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines are engulfed in a storm of dust and debris as a CH-53 helicopter lands to transport them from their forward operating base in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, on October 12, 2009. Twenty Taliban militants were killed and a number arrested in separate operations involving foreign forces and Afghan troops, police, military commanders and the government said today. top2009
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Iraq -- An Iraqi nurse attends to an injured soldier at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk, 255 kms from Baghdad, 13Oct2009 - IRAQ, Kirkuk : An Iraqi nurse attends to an injured soldier at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk, 255 kms from Baghdad, on October 13, 2009. Ten people were killed, including two Iraqi soldiers and the leader of a Sunni Arab militia allied with the United States, in bombings across Iraq. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb targeting their patrol near ethnically mixed Kirkuk, which is at the centre of a land dispute between the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan and the central government.
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Iran -- Two Iranian children fly kites in a Kite festival in Mahallat, 17Oct2009 - http://www.farsnews.com/imgrep.php?nn=8807250786
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Afghanistan -- An elderly man walks through the Bird Street Market in Kabul, 19Oct2009 - AFGHANISTAN, Kabul : An elderly Afghan man walks through the Bird Street Market in Kabul on October 19, 2009. Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission on October 19 released a report into allegations of fraud in the country's presidential election, two months after the controversial polls.The report by the UN-backed commission is pivotal to a decision about whether Afghanistan can declare a new president or if the war-torn country must go to the polls for a second time. The ECC said it had delivered the results of its finding to the Independent Election Commission (IEC), ordering it to "invaldiate a certain percentage of each candidates' votes". top2009
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Georgia -- US actor Andy Garcia during the shooting of a scene in Tbilisi, 20Oct2009 - top2009
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Iraq -- An Iraqi weeps as he walks away from the ministries of justice and labour following a suicide bombing, 25Oct2009 - An Iraqi weeps as he walks away from the ministries of justice and labour following a suicide bombing on 25Oct2009. Twin suicide car bombs blasted the justice ministry and the provincial offices in central Baghdad killing at least 90 people and injuring 600 others.
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Pakistan -- A youth mourns as shops burn at a market following a deadly car bomb blast in Peshawar, 28Oct2009 - PAKISTAN, Peshawar : A Pakistani youth mourns as shops burn at a market following a deadly car bomb blast in Peshawar on October 28, 2009. A car bomb destroyed a packed Pakistani market October 28, slaughtering 80 people and underscoring the blood-drenched scale of the extremist threat
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