Bayan Mahmoud grieves for her husband, Mahmoud Saber, a 24-year-old police officer killed outside Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. Gunmen ambushed a police patrol southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, killing three officers and wounding another, police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said.
An Afghan police officer moves debris from a damaged U.S. vehicle in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. A roadside bomb blast killed three U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, bringing to five the number of international troops killed over the weekend, officials said. The three troops were engaged in combat operations in Nangarhar province when the roadside bomb hit their vehicle, a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said. A civilian interpreter was also killed.
Indonesian activists act out a scene representing four Indonesian women who were allegedly tortured by their employers in Saudi Arabia, during a demonstration in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy Monday Aug. 13, 2007 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Migrant workers group “Migrant Care” demanded that the Saudi Government apologize and compensate the families of the 4 women, two of whom died.
Palestinian security force members from Hamas’ Executive Force chant slogans during a rally demonstrating their skills in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. Hamas has been growing the force since it wrested control of the volatile Gaza Strip in fighting with the Fatah movement in June.
Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf , center, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second from left, meet delegates of a joint peace meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday Aug. 12, 2007. Musharraf, who spoke in both his native Urdu and English, said that while the world is “forging ahead,” Pakistan and Afghanistan are confronted with a “particularly dark form” of terrorism fostered by foreign influences.
South Korean protester Hong Jung-shik with portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun shout a slogan during a solo protest against the planned two Koreas summit near the Presidential House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. Officials from the two Koreas are to meet Tuesday in the North Korean border city of Kaesong to set the agenda of the Aug. 28-30 summit in Pyongyang, Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Nam-shik said Monday. The letters read “Stop South and North Korea summit”.
A baby is baptized during a ceremony for the folk saint known in Mexico as “Santa Muerte,” or “Saint of Death,” in Mexico City, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. ‘Santa Muerte’ changed its official image Sunday from that of a skeleton holding a globe and scythe to one of a female figure wearing a crown, in a cramped chapel in a working-class neighborhood of Mexico City.
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