Elena Perez pleads with the judge as she reveals Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007, in Miami, that two letters submitted into evidence were fabricated. Letters purportedly written to Perez, the mother of a girl at the center of an international custody dispute, were faked in a desperate attempt to boost the chances of the Cuban father to win the case, Perez testified Thursday in admitting she previously lied on the witness stand.
Relatives of South Koreans kidnapped in Afghanistan celebrate as they hearing a news report in Sungnam, south of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Taliban militants released the last seven South Korean hostages held in Afghanistan on Thursday under a deal struck with Seoul, ending a six-week ordeal that the insurgents claimed as a “great victory for our holy warriors.”
Palestinian police officers demonstrate carrying out an arrest during their graduation ceremony in Gaza City, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007. The first police graduation ceremony since Hamas’ violent takeover of Gaza in June 2007 took place on Thursday.
An injured man tries to call his family on a cellphone as he is helped by others after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday Aug. 31, 2007. A suicide attacker detonated his vehicle close to the airport in the Afghanistan capital on Friday, killing at least one solider and wounding six other people, officials and witnesses said.
This photo released by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office shows law enforcement officers arresting Alabama fugitive Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV, Wednesday Aug. 29, 2007, in Playa Herradura, Costa Rica. Smith fled the United States after disabling a court-ordered electronic monitoring device in late May.Upon his return to Alabama, Smith faces felony charges in Mobile County that include escape, theft and illegal use of a gun during a June 2006 incident involving a high-speed car chase.
A young Filipino Muslim holds his father’s head as they join a prayer rally Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 in Taguig City south of Manila to demand the end of the military offensives in the island of Basilan and Sulu in southern Philippines. The Filipino Muslims alleged that the military’s all-out war against the al-Qaida linked Abu Sayyaf caused more hardship to the populace and caused the escalation of human rights violations.
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