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REUTERS/Rafiquar Rahman
A flood victim waits for her turn to
receive food aid at Malachi, 86km (
54miles) from the capital Dhaka, August
10, 2007. About 700 diarrhoea patients a
day are checking into already
overcrowded hospital in Dhaka as filthy
flood water spread disease across
Bangladesh, health officials said on
Friday. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman.(
BANGLADESH)
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REUTERS/Rafiquar Rahman
An elderly flood victim waits near a
flood relief centre in Gangachara
September 12, 2007. A second spell of
floods in less than a month has spread
across parts of Bangladesh, killing
seven people and leaving thousands
stranded, officials said on Monday.
REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH)
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REUTERS/Aly Song
A farmer is seen at his field in Dingxi,
northwest China's Gansu province, July
25, 2007. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA)
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REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
A village elder passes in front of the
mud mosque in the village of Welingare,
Mali, January 13, 2007. REUTERS/Finbarr
O'Reilly (MALI)
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REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
An Afghan man sits at the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
hospital for prosthetics in Kabul
September 5, 2007. REUTERS/Desmond
Boylan (AFGHANISTAN)
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REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO
(L-R) Musician and activist Peter
Gabriel, Professor Muhammad Yunus,
former Pesident of Ireland Mary Robinson,
former Secretary General of the U.N.
Kofi Annan, former President of South
Africa Nelson Mandela, former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter, Archbishop
Desmont Tutu and entrepreneur Richard
Branson pose for photographers during a
ceremony marking the 89th birthday of
Mandela in Johannesburg July 18 2007.
Mandela marked his birthday on Wednesday
by launching an international group of
elder statesmen, including fellow Nobel
peace laureates Desmond Tutu and Jimmy
Carter, to tackle the world's problems.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (SOUTH AFRICA)
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REUTERS/Ajay Verma
A boy sits on a bicycle as his
grandfather walks next to it, at village
Nadda on the outskirts of the northern
Indian city of Chandigarh August 11,
2007. REUTERS/Ajay Verma (INDIA)
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REUTERS/Rafiquar Rahman
Flood victims built a makeshift home on
a dry land in Basila near Dhaka
September 16, 2007. Slum dwellings in
low-lying areas near the Bangladesh
capital Dhaka have been deluged by
floodwaters, forcing thousands of people
into camps, witnesses said on Sunday.
REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH)
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REUTERS/STR New
Bissari Jacques, 70-year-old, sits
outside his house in the village of
Bedaya, August 20, 2007. Jacques is one
of a handful of people left in the
village - he could not flee as he is
almost crippled. According to locals,
government soldiers attacked Korosigna
without warning in January 2006, part of
a two-year-old bush war fought against
rag-tag rebels across northern parts of
the former French colony, landlocked in
the heart of Africa. Picture taken
August 20, 2007. To match feature
CENTRALAFRICA-REFUGEES/ REUTERS/
Stephanie Hancock (CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC)
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REUTERS/Beawiharta Beawiharta
An earthquake survivor waits for medical
treatment at a temporary clinic in Arga
Makmur, Bengkulu province September 16,
2007. The toll from a severe earthquake
on Indonesia's Sumatra island last week
has risen to 23 dead and 88 injured, an
official said on Sunday, and the area is
likely to experience further significant
aftershocks. REUTERS/Beawiharta (
INDONESIA)
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REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi
An elderly woman looks in a slum area in
Sana'a September 8, 2007. The slum
houses around 2,000 people from the
Akhdam (servants) communinty, who are,
according to popular accounts, the
descendants of Ethiopian invaders from
the sixth century. REUTERS/Khaled
Abdullah (YEMEN)
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REUTERS/Stringer Shanghai
An elderly woman looks out of a
temporary tent after her place was hit
by floods, in Xincai county, central
China's Henan province, July 12, 2007.
Floods and landslides have killed at
least 360 people across China this
summer and destroyed more than 4 million
hectares (15,440 sq miles) of crops,
Xinhua news agency said. Picture taken
July 12, 2007. The Chinese character
reads "rescue". REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)
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REUTERS/Beawiharta Beawiharta
A villager searches for valuable
belongings from the ruins of her damaged
house at Batiknau village near Bengkulu
September 16, 2007. The toll from a
severe earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra
island last week has risen to 23 dead
and 88 injured, an official said on
Sunday, and the area is likely to
experience further significant
aftershocks. REUTERS/Beawiharta (
INDONESIA)
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REUTERS/Rafiquar Rahman
Zamila Khatoon breaks bricks as her
grandson stands behind her near a
construction site in Dhaka July 17, 2007.
REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH)
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REUTERS/Guillermo Granja
Ecuadorean street vendor Facundo Delgado,
83, carries a banana bunch in Pajan
city 390 km (242 miles) west of Quito
July 19, 2007. Delgado is part of the 1.
2 million poor Ecuadoreans who receive
each month a $30 'poverty bonus' to
reach the minimum wage. Picture taken
July 19, 2007. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja (
ECUADOR)
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REUTERS/Nikola Solic
An elderly Iraqi woman washes-up in
Yarmuk neighbourhood of Baghdad on July
11, 2007. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (IRAQ)
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REUTERS/Crack Palinggi
An elderly woman waits beside jerrycans
as she queues for kerosene in Jakarta
August 25, 2007. State oil and gas
company PT Pertamina has reduced
kerosene distribution in Jakarta and
surrounding areas by 50 percent since
Wednesday to support the Indonesia
government in accelerating the energy
conversion programme of encouraging
people to switch from kerosene to LPG (
liquid petroleum gas) for cooking.
REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA)
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REUTERS/THOMAS PETER
A woman and two girls stand out on the
terrace of their house in the remote
mountain village of Tsovkra-1, some 3,
000 metres above sea level in Russia's
Caucasus region of Dagestan August 20,
2007. For children in this remote
mountain village on Russia's southern
fringe, after-school games means
balancing on a wire suspended one storey
above ground. By a quirk of history that
goes so far back that in time no one
really remembers, nearly every man,
woman and child in Tsovkra-1 can walk
the tightrope. Picture taken August 20,
2007. To match feature RUSSIA-DAGESTAN/
TIGHTROPE REUTERS/Thomas Peter (RUSSIA)
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REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
An elderly Palestinian man reads the
Koran in the Al-Shafai mosque during the
Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Gaza
September 17, 2007. REUTERS/Ibraheem
Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
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REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
An indigenous Miskito woman stands near
her house, damaged by Hurricane Felix,
in the small town of Krukira on the
Caribbean coast of Nicaragua September 6,
2007. Bodies of Miskito Indians killed
by Hurricane Felix floated in the
Caribbean off Central America and washed
up on beaches on Thursday as the death
toll from the storm rose to over 60.
REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA)
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REUTERS/Munish Sharma
An Indian army soldier carries an
elderly man for a medical checkup during
a medical aid camp at Sarai Amanat Khan
village, about 30 km (19 miles) west
from the northern Indian city of
Amritsar September 12, 2007. REUTERS/
Munish Sharma (INDIA)
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