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Paramilitary police for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games take part in a training session in Beijing April 10, 2008. China's paramilitary forces must ensure domestic stability at the Beijing Olympics as well as tackle terrorist threats, commanders said at a security meeting. The playing cards are used to ensure that the police maintain good posture.
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Polar bear cub Flocke jumps in the water as she is introduced to the public on April 8, 2008 at the zoo in Nuremberg, southern Germany. Four-month old Flocke -- German for snowflake -- has until now been kept behind closed doors at Nuremberg zoo and has been hand-reared by zookeepers because of fears her mother might harm her.
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Men are caught in a dust storm while playing cricket at a playground in Kabul March 31, 2008.
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Pumtheara Chend in the role of Pamina Devi (Pamina) performs during a dress rehearsal 09 October 2007 for "Pamina Devi: A Cambodian Magic Flute" at the Joyce Theater in New York. Under the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, classical Cambodian dance was banned and as many as 90 percent of the dance's practitioners perished from disease, starvation and slaughter
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An Iraqi man mourns the loss of his relative at hospital in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad Saturday April 19, 2008. Just after noon in the al Khadra area in Kirkuk a parked car bomb went off killing 1 civilian and wounded 4 others, police colonel Anwar Qadir said. In a separate incident in Yarji area 30 kilometers west of Kirkuk a roadside bomb targeting a foot patrol of Iraqi police went off killing 1 policeman and wounded 2 others, police brigadier Sarhat Qadir said.
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A Iraqi soldier holds a rocket propelled grenade launcher on his shoulder in Hayaniya district in Basra, 550 km (342 miles) south of Baghdad, April 19, 2008. Government forces said they captured the district of Hayaniya in Basra, long a stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army, achieving an objective that had eluded them during a crackdown last month.
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Hundreds of Chinese protesters wave the national flags as they march down a street in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on April 19, 2008. Hundreds of Chinese citizens protested in the central city of Wuhan and in Beijing against France's attitude towards Tibet and the Olympic Games, as many of the demonstrators congregated in front of Carrefour, the French supermarket accused by some Chinese of supporting Tibet.
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Indian film actor Saif Ali Khan (C) prepares to run with the Olympic Torch during the torch relay in New Delhi on April 17, 2008. The Indian leg of the global Olympic torch relay ended after a short run along a central New Delhi avenue guarded by thousands of police and soldiers.
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A young Tibetan child wearing a slogan emblazoned headband holds a Tibetan flag as Tibetan refugees take part in a demonstration against the alleged crackdown in Tibet in Srinagar on April 17, 2008 on the day the Olympic Torch relay passed through New Delhi. A total of 180 Tibetan protesters have so far been detained near the tightly-guarded Beijing Olympic torch relay route in New Delhi, police and activists said.
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A Tibetan in exile shouts anti-Chinese slogans as he is arrested by Indian police during a protest held on the sidelines of the Indian leg of the Olympic torch relay, in New Delhi on April 17, 2008. Hundreds of Tibetan demonstrators were arrested in India and neighbouring Nepal as thousands of police and soldiers defended the Beijing Olympic torch on a suffocating run through New Delhi.
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A Tibetan in exile shouts anti-Chinese slogans as he is arrested by Indian police during a protest held on the sidelines of the Indian leg of the Olympic torch relay, in New Delhi on April 17, 2008. Hundreds of Tibetan demonstrators were arrested in India and neighbouring Nepal as thousands of police and soldiers defended the Beijing Olympic torch on a suffocating run through New Delhi.
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A Iraqi soldier holds a rocket propelled grenade launcher on his shoulder in Hayaniya district in Basra, 550 km (342 miles) south of Baghdad, April 19, 2008. Government forces said they captured the district of Hayaniya in Basra, long a stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army, achieving an objective that had eluded them during a crackdown last month.
Libya's Oil Minister Shokri Ghanem speaks to reporters after arriving at the International Energy Forum, where OPEC country energy ministers will meet with consumers, at a hotel in Rome April 19, 2008. OPEC has no plans to meet when oil ministers attend the International Energy Forum in Rome from April 21-22, Ghanem said on Saturday.
A masked Iraqi soldier gestures atop an armoured vehicle in Hayaniya district in Basra, 550 km (342 miles) south of Baghdad, April 19, 2008. Government forces said they captured the district of Hayaniya in Basra, long a stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army, achieving an objective that had eluded them during a crackdown last month. Basra is 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad.