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Women wait for Pope Benedict XVI to arrive in L'Aquila
28 Apr 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Women wait for Pope Benedict XVI to arrive in L'Aquila April 28, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday visited Onna and L'Aquila where some 40,000 people lost their homes in the 6.3 magnitude quake, which hit the Abruzzo region in the early hours of April 6, catching residents in their sleep. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico (ITALY DISASTER RELIGION SOCIETY)
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Internally displaced girls, fleeing a military offensive in the Swat valley, hold their ration of bread and potato curry at a UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) camp, in the ...




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