Palestinian relatives of Fareed Abu Daher, react during his funeral in Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. Israeli troops shot and killed Abu Daher in the Gaza Strip on Monday as he approached the border fence with Israel, the Israeli army and Palestinian doctors said. He was found unarmed next to the border fence with Israel, Palestinian doctors said. Israelis troops suspected the man had tried to lay an explosive and saw him climbing the fence, the army said.
Robert Murray, center, chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., embraces two miners in charge of drilling bore holes into the Crandall Canyon Mine, during a news conference northwest of Huntington Utah.
Some of the 100 would-be immigrants, intercepted at sea while traveling in a wooden fishing boat, rest on a rescue boat as they arrive in the Port of Los Cristianos, on Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. Thousands of African immigrants arrive by boat every year trying to find a better life in Europe.
Female pilgrims pray inside the shrine of Imam Abbas in the holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. Over a million of Shiite pilgrims from throughout the world are expected to visit the Shiite holy city of Karbala for the Shabaniyah festival that marks the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th and last Shiite Imam who disappeared in the 9th century. The celebrations will reach their high point late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Guatemala’s Presidential candidate Rigoberta Menchu, right, and congress woman Nineth Montenegro, left, pose for photographers during a campaign rally of the “Encuentro por Guatemala” party in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. The Presidential election is scheduled to take place on Sept. 9.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, 2nd left, tries his hand at diabolo whirling as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right watches him in Zhongshan Park next to the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. After a short walk followed by dozens of journalists and officials during which the leaders stopped to speak with local visitors, they went on to attend a special musical evening at the Forbidden City concert hall to celebrate 35 years of diplomatic relations.
Women, some holding the Moroccan flag, cheer Saadeddine Othmani, leader of the Islamist Justice and Development Party, known as the PJD, during a campaign meeting in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. Morocco’s parliamentary race kicked off Saturday with the start of the two-week-long official campaign period. Some 15 million voters head to the polls Sept. 7 for the North African kingdom’s parliamentary elections, in which 325 seats in the lower house are up for grabs.
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