A Tibetan refugee woman pleads to Indian political leaders, unseen to help with their cause at the end of a hunger strike in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007. Fourteen Tibetan exiles protesting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and demanding an end to China’s rule over Tibet ended their 33-day hunger strike Thursday following an appeal from the Dalai Lama and some Indian lawmakers.
A security guard walks past a billboard showing a cartoon of the Statue of Liberty and reading in Spanish ” How Barbaric! They’ve freed a terrorist” in front of U.S. Interests Section in Havana, June 28, 2007. Billboards blanket parks, public squares, intersections and highways all over the island, rising above apartment buildings in the city and sugar and coffee fields outside it. Many lionize Castro and revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara, urge energy conservation or use cartoons to promote communism and nationalist fervor.
A woman walks past a billboard reading in Spanish “Full of assassins” shows the faces of, from left to right, Adolf Hitler, President Bush and anti-Castro militants Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch in Havana, June 28, 2007. Billboards blanket parks, public squares, intersections and highways all over the island, rising above apartment buildings in the city and sugar and coffee fields outside it. Many lionize Castro and revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara, urge energy conservation or use cartoons to promote communism and nationalist fervor.
Women in ancient costume hold up torches for a ‘human rights torch relay’ to highlight alleged widespread human rights abuses by authorities in China, in Athens on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007. Organizers, which include several rights groups, said the flame will travel to some 25 countries to draw attention to China’s human right record ahead of the Beijing Olympics next year.
Workers drill to the underground chamber of the Crandall Canyon Mine in a rescue effort Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007, northwest of Huntington, Utah. Six coal miners have been trapped since Monday.
A Palestinian youth throws bottles towards Israeli army vehicles operating in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Aug 9, 2007. The clashes came at a time when Israel is trying to scale back its operations in the West Bank.
Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, left, presents an American flag to Iris Santiago, mother of Army Capt. Maria Ines Ortiz during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007. Ortiz, a Puerto Rican soldier, was killed during a mortar attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone on July 10, was the first Army nurse killed by hostile fire since the Vietnam War.
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