A young street hawker, Shubamya, does an impromptu salute as he sells a memento version of the Indian flag at a traffic signal in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. India celebrates its 60th anniversary of Independence Aug. 15.
Umm Sattar weeps after two of her sons were arrested in their Sadr City home in east Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. Police said four civilians were killed and five others injured early Tuesday morning as U.S. and Iraqi forces were conducting a house-to-house search. Backed by helicopters, the joint force also arrested 12 suspected Shiite militiamen in the raid which took place in three sections and started at 3:00 a.m., a police officer said. The U.S. military said it was checking into the report.
Filipino comfort women, who were allegedly used as sex slaves by Japanese troops during World War II, shout slogans during a picket at the Japanese Embassy in Manila, Philippines Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007 to commemorate the end of the war and to demand public apology and compensation from the Japanese government. The protest action by Lila Pilipina, an organization of Filipino comfort women is also part of the “Global Action Day” in simultaneous protests in Japan, South Korea, Australia, The Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Taiwan and the United States on Wednesday, Aug.15.
An elderly flood victim waits for medicine at a relief distribution center in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. Devastating floods have laid waste to much of northern India and Bangladesh in recent weeks, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing millions.
A passenger carrying his belongings leaves the site of a train derailment near the village of Malaya Vishera, about 500 km (310 miles) north-west of Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. An explosion derailed a Russian train traveling between Moscow and St Petersburg on Monday evening, injuring dozens of passengers. An explosion derailed a dozen cars on a Russian passenger train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg late Monday. Prosecutors on Tuesday opened a terrorism investigation into a bomb explosion that threw an express train on one of Russia’s major passenger routes off the tracks, injuring 60 people.
Indian Border Security Force Commander Pardeep Kartial, second right, offers sweets to his Pakistani counterpart Qasir Khan Tareen, left, on the eve of Pakistans 60th Independence Day, at Wagah border post near Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. Pakistan marks the 60th anniversary of its independence from British rule amid a political crisis facing the country’s U.S.-allied president and surging militant violence.
A Palestinian woman lifts her blood-covered hands from the body of Ibrahim al-Shami during his funeral in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. Palestinian medical officials said al-Shami, 40, was shot dead by soldiers when he went out onto the roof of his house. Israeli troops and aircraft attacked Islamic militants in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, killing two Hamas fighters and two civilians and wounding 15 people, Hamas and Palestinian medical officials said.
Visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, inspect a guard of honor prior to their meeting at the Presidential palace in Kabul, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. Ahmadinejad is on the first leg of his three-nation tour of Central Asia.
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