Railway workers and employees watch a drill by the Railway Protection force as part of an awareness program on dealing with bomb explosions at the Secunderabad Railway station in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. Two blasts that occurred minutes apart on Aug. 25 in crowded areas of Hyderabad had killed at least 43 people.
Piedad Cilal, 65, right, mourns next to the place where a forensic team work at the scene where her daughter, Esmeralda Uyun, was killed near San Raymundo, Guatemala, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. Uyun and Wenceslao Ayapan, of Encuentro Por Guatemala Party, the party of Nobel Laureate and presidential candidate Rigoberta Menchu, were killed by assailants with automatic weapons . The two were running for seats in the municipality of San Raymundo for upcoming elections.
Israeli armored vehicles drive out of the northern Gaza Strip into Israel after finishing an operation, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. Israeli leaders on Wednesday decided against a large-scale military response to repeated rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, but said they would consider cutting off electricity or other vital supplies to the impoverished area if the attacks persist, meeting participants said.
A U.S. soldier demonstrates how to search a suspect to his Georgian counterparts, background, during a joint exercises aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea port of Batumi, Georgia, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. Joint maritime exercises began Monday in the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi.
More than 500 Druze clergymen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights cross the buffer zone between the Israeli and Syrian checkpoints near Quneitra, Syria, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. The bearded clerics walked some 300 meters (330 yards) through the buffer zone near Quneitra, 65 kilometers (50 miles) south of Damascus, as they make their way for an annual pilgrimage to a holy shrine in one of Damascus’ suburbs. The visit is organized by the International Red Cross.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, inspects honor guards prior to his meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. Russia’s military clout in Asia was set for a boost Thursday when Putin witnesses the signing of a US$1 billion defense deal that will help Indonesia purchase dozens of helicopters, tanks and submarines.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, left, salutes beside Military Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon during honors before she departs for Australia at Manila’s International Airport on Thursday Sept. 6, 2007. Arroyo urged an annual summit of Asia-Pacific leaders to push forward on trade liberalization, address climate change and help lift up the world’s poor.
