Iraqi rescue workers carry a wounded man after clashes broke out in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007. Fighting erupted Tuesday between rival Shiite militias in Karbala during a religious festival, claiming 51 lives and forcing officials to abort the celebrations and order up to 1 million Shiite pilgrims to leave the southern city.
This photo, supplied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, shows Angelina Jolie talking to a wheelchair-bound woman, one of some 1,300 trapped at the makeshift Al Waleed refugee camp inside Iraq, unable to leave the country for neighboring Syria, on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007.
Police officers lead members of the Salvadorian police who are accused of belonging to “groups of extermination” of delinquents in San Salvador, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007.
Indonesian karate practitioners tear at a mock Malaysian flag during a demonstration in front of the Malaysian embassy Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Several hundred supporters of Donald Peter Luther Kolopita, Indonesia’s chief karate referee who was allegedly assaulted by Malaysian police while he was attending a regional karate tournament in Malaysia, demonstrated against the Malaysian government demanding an apology for the alleged incident.
Women protest climbing the windows of La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007. The protest was held to demand land to build houses.
President Bush, right, is greeted at Louis Armstrong International airport by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, left, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007, in New Orleans.
A devout Muslim won Turkey’s presidency Tuesday after months of confrontation with the secular establishment, promising to be impartial and praising the idea that Islam and the state should be separate.
A Kashmiri Muslim girl has her head on a pillow after she fell asleep while reading the Quran at her home on Shab-E-Barat, or the night of forgiveness or Day of Atonement, in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007. Muslims believe that on the night of Shab-E-Barat God writes the destinies of all living beings for the coming year by taking into account the deeds committed by them in the past.
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