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Egypt's Christian minority
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People demonstrate in front of the Egyptian Television building to protest the torching of a church in the village of Sol in Atfeeh, south of Cairo March 7, 2011
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An Egyptian Christian women stands near a blood-splattered image of Jesus Christ, inside the Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, January 2, 2011.
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Egyptian Christians grieve for their relatives killed during Saturday's bomb attack at the Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, January 2, 2011.
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An Egyptian Christian clashes with Egyptian riot police in front of the the Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, 230 km (140 miles) north of Cairo, January 1, 2011.
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A woman covers the hair of a man with talcum powder during "El Dia de los Polvos" (Powder Day) festival in the southern Spanish village of Tolox March 8, 2011. During the carnival, it is traditional, especially for young people, to hurl talcum powder at each other until they are completely covered with it. In the past, young men used this game to seduce girls. Although the method of courtship has changed in modern days, the tradition of throwing powder on one another without distinction of gender or origin continues.
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Strumica, Macedonia: Revellers parade on the final night of carnival celebrations
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast: A wounded man lies on a hospital floor after protests calling for the voted-out president Laurent Gbagbo to stand down
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Revellers in a bar after the gay carnival
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Monterrey, Mexico: A man watches a burning tanker truck
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New Delhi, India: A Tibetan exile is detained by Indian police during a protest outside the Chinese embassy on the eve of the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising
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Mexico City, Mexico: A child carries at an International Women's Day march carries a cross with a picture of a woman assassinated last year
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New Orleans, US: Spectators reach to catch beads thrown by the Krewe of Zulu parade on Canal St on mardi gras day
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Redondo Beach, US: Fish lie in King Harbour, California, after dying from an apparent lack of oxygen in the water
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Tolox, Spain: Women dressed up as widows re-enact the traditional burial of a sardine during the dia de los polvos (powder day) festival
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Sana'a, Yemen: Women protesters perform evening prayers during a rally against President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside Sana'a University
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti: People walk through the city's rubbish dump
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Unanu, Spain: A man dressed as a momotxorro mythological character takes part in the town's traditional carnival. Momotxorros chase people and hit them with sticks - Just try it, go on, just try it! :)
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Soldiers open fire on Ivory Coast protesters
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A man in a balaclava provides security at a rally of supporters of Laurent Gbagbo's main challenger, Alassane Ouattara, protesting against violence linked to the nation's ongoing political crisis
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Men ride a moped past burning debris shortly before security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo opened fire on civilians, in the Treichville neighbourhood of Abidjan
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A man shot in the leg when security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo opened fire on civilians awaits treatment
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Women, whose relative had been shot but was expected to recover, at a health clinic where four dead people and a dozen casualties were taken
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Any Day Now: David Bowie - The early life and career of David Bowie
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Bowie (then David Jones) with his first professional band, the King Bees. Front row from left: Roger Bluck, Robert Allen, Dave Howard and George Underwood, 1964
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After Bowie split from the King Bees he joined R&B outfit the Manish Boys. Davie Jones and the Manish Boys are pictured here in the band’s hometown of Maidstone, 1965
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Bowie models John Stephen clothes for a Fabulous magazine feature in 1965. He is photographed with model Jan De Souza in Soho’s Kingly Street
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Bowie with the Pretty Things. He is waiting for the ferry to the Isle of Wight, where he supported one of his favourite bands. From left: Graham Rivens (Lower Third bassist), Bowie, Pretty Things' Phil May and Brian Pendleton, unknown and Phil Lancaster (Lower Third drummer), August 1965
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Two months after the release of his first album, Bowie is photographed on the roof of 39 Manchester Street, September 1967
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Bowie, then girlfriend Hermione Farthingale and John Hutchinson become mixed-media trio Feathers, November 1968
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Bowie in Paddington Street Gardens, Marylebone in 1969
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Bowie at Foxgrove Road, the morning after the moon landing, July 1969
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The last performance by David Bowie and Hype. The Roundhouse, July 1970
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Bowie performing at a party in Los Angeles in 1971
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Bowie and Mick Ronson at the former's RCA signing in New York, September 1971. During the same trip, Bowie met Andy Warhol for the first time
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'The idea of fame was an obsession – until it happened.' Ziggy’s first photocall, January 1972
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Bowie preparing for a show. Ziggy mania had just started to sweep the UK in 1972
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Prior to his famous Starman appearance on Top of the Pops, Bowie and the Spiders performed the song for children’s TV show Lift Off With Ayshea, June 1972
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Performing My Death on Russell Harty Plays Pop, January 1973
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Pictured with Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore after the duo's Behind the Fridge show at London’s Cambridge Theatre in May 1973. In 1971 David had asked Moore if he would play piano on a Hunky Dory track, though there is no record of a response
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In 1974, Bowie asked Belgium artist Guy Peellaert to create a half-man/half-dog Dr Moreau type album cover image. Peellaert’s work generally involved heavily airbrushed, manipulated images
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Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kensoha, center, calls an impromptu news conference Wednesday, March 9, 2011, after Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats
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Mardi Gras reveler Mike Turpin, whose night still isn't over, reacts as a front loader collects beads and other debris left behind by revelers on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, early Wednesday, March 9. Ash Wednesday marks the end of Mardi Gras festivities and the beginning of the Lenten season for Catholics.
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Mars orbiter tracks down rover
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An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Opportunity rover on the rim of Santa Maria Crater (indicated by arrow) with the tracks of its wheels extending toward the left edge of the frame (visible as a faint reddish line).
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Russian citizen Ivan Gaponov, left, speaks with his lawyer, right, as he stands in a cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus on March 10. Gaponov was detained in Minsk on Dec. 19, 2010, during an unsanctioned rally in support of candidates for the Belarussian presidency from the opposition.
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A cub from a rare endangered species of striped hyena is seen at the Nairobi animal orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya on March 10. Three cubs, believed to be 11 days old, were found in Taveta Tsavo National Park after being abandoned by their mother
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Stunning views of the sun ... and Discovery?!
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This section of the solar disk was imaged at the Winter Star Party on West Summerland Key in Florida, in the midst of 30 mph winds. The massive detached solar prominence was visible for hours. Skies were quite steady, despite the wind.
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Silhouetted by the sun, the space shuttle Discovery can be seen docked to the International Space Station during its final mission.
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24 killed as China quake topples buildings
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Rescuers search for survivors at a destroyed building in Yingjiang, China, on Wednesday
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Islam in America
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Sin City may seem like a strange place for a mosque, but the Islamic Society of Nevada is one of at least six in Las Vegas. Here, Naim Shah Jr., Dr. Aslam Abdullah, head of the ISN, and Imam Fateen Seifullah have a discussion in the parking lot of the mosque, the only one in the city with a traditional minaret.
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Marwan Kamel, left, and Sahar Abu Saqer discuss a new song that they plan to play at their next show in Chicago. Both Kamel, who is of Syrian descent, and Saqer, who is of Palestinian descent, are Muslim Americans and members of the Al Thawra ("The Revolution" in Arabic), a punk band, and are both practicing Muslims. They are part of a burgeoning Islamic punk rock scene devoted to creating music related to Islam and the Middle East.
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Marwan Kamel, leader of the Muslim punk band Al Thawra, performs the Maghreb prayer at the Islamic Community Center of Chicago. This prayer ends the fasting day during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Shiite and Sunni Muslims protest against terrorism in Washington, D.C., denouncing countries like Saudi Arabia for sponsoring fundamentalist groups in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sunni and Shia Islam are the two major denominations of Islam, and members hold different religious beliefs, practices, traditions and customs. Relations between the two have been marked by both cooperation and conflict, often with deadly violence.
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Imams and rabbis from the largest cities in the U.S. share a bus in midtown Manhattan during the National Summit of Imams and Rabbis, an event jointly organized by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and the Islamic Cultural Center of New York
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Mohamed Al Thaibani, who immigrated to the U.S. from Yemen, stands in his living room in Brooklyn, N.Y., with a portrait from his youth and other traditional furniture from Yemen in the background. Sixty-five percent of American Muslims are foreign-born, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Ahmed Nasser, a New York Police Department community affairs officer, talks to a colleague in the basement of a police station. Nasser, a police detective of Yemeni descent, produced a movie intended to familiarize NYPD officers with the religion.
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Saira Farooqui and Nausheen Ansari, two friends of Pakistani descent, shop together in New York City’s Soho district. Both were born and raised in the U.S. Though they are practicing Muslims, they don't usually cover up, but they do try to pray five times a day, as is called for in the Quran.
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Unrest in Libya
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Students hold a portrait of Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi in a volleyball court during a visit by members of the foreign media on a government-guided tour of Zahara Al Fata school in Tripoli on Thursday, March 10.
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Libyan rebel fighters prepare to go into battle against forces loyal to leader Moammar Kadhafi a few kilometers outside the town of Ras Lanuf on March 9, as heavy black smoke rises from an oil pipe that was hit in a blast
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A rebel youth sits at the entrance of an apartment block in an alley of the oil rich Libyan town of Ras Lanuf on March 9. Once home to a population of tens of thousands of people, this now ghost city became the front line town of an increasingly violent armed struggle between insurgents and loyalist armed forces of Libya.
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Mourners carry the coffin of a rebel fighter who was killed fighting forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi near the town of Bin Jawwad, during his funeral in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on March 9.
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Afghanistan
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Humera Khan poses for a picture as she holds her doll in a poor neighborhood of Kabul on March, 8. More than nine years after the fall of the Taliban, most Afghan children still don't attend school.
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Afghan men, some of them wearing pieces of cloth bearing the words "God is Great" shout anti-American slogans during a protest against a raid by U.S. soldiers on a home in which they claim two men were detained, in Jalalabad on March 7.
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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie meets with Khanum Gul, 35, a mother of 8 and her youngest son, Samir at their makeshift home at Tamil Mill Bus site in Kabul on March 2. When Jolie last visited Khanum Gul, Samir was a newly born baby of 14 days. Now he's two and a half years old, but having medical problems.
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A wounded man looks on as others examine the wreckage of a car after an explosion in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province on Feb. 27. Twin bomb blasts killed eight Afghans at an illegal dog fight in the volatile south, officials said.
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Would-be suicide bomber Akhtar Nawaz, 14, from South Waziristan, Pakistan, speaks as Lutfullah Mashal, spokesman for the Afghan intelligence service, right, looks on during a news conference in Kabul on Feb, 26. The Afghan intelligence service announced the arrests of a Pakistani boy and two teenagers - one from Afghanistan and the other from Pakistan - who claimed they had been coerced into becoming would-be suicide bombers. All three appeared at a news conference and recounted stories of how militants forced them into becoming suicide attackers for the insurgency.
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A mother touches her wounded son after a suicide attack in Emam Saheb district of Kunduz province on Feb. 21. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a government office, killing at least 30 people - many who were waiting in line to obtain government identification cards, police said.
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Smoke rises from the area where three suicide bombers burst into a branch of Kabul Bank and detonated their devices in Jalalabad on Feb. 19. At least nine people died in the attack and 70 were injured, NBC News reported. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokesman for the group, Zabiullah Mujahid, said militants targeted Afghan forces who were at the branch to collect their pay.
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A U.S. Marine with 2nd Batallion,1st Marines shares a light moment with children in a village in Gamser, Helmand Province on Feb. 18.
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Yemeni president's offer of a new constitution rejected by protesters
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Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves to supporters gathered in a soccer stadium in Sanaa where he delivered a speech on March 10. Saleh, hoping to defuse increasingly violent protests against his 32-year rule, said on Thursday he would draw up a new constitution to create a parliamentary system of government.
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An anti-government protestor looks on while taking part in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on March 10.
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French riot police storm car ferry to break up strike
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French riot police launch an assault on the car ferry Kalliste on March 10 as striking CGT workers of SNCM (National Maritime Corsica-Mediterranean company) block access to Marseille's port.
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Riot police on small boats (background) launch an assault as striking CGT maritime workers block access to Marseille's port on March 10.
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Striking CGT workers on the car ferry Kalliste spray riot police with water cannons as authorities try to unblock access to Marseille's port on March 10.
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Dalai Lama stepping down as Tibetan political leader
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The Dalai Lama reads a statement from the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile during a ceremony marking the 52nd anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising against Chinese rule, at the Tsuglakhang Temple in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, India on March 10. The Dalai Lama announced his plan to retire as political head of the exiled Tibetan movement, saying the time had come for his replacement by a "freely elected" leader. The Dalai Lama, whose more significant role is as the movement's spiritual leader, said he would seek an amendment allowing him to resign his political office when the exiled Tibetan parliament meets next week.
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Elderly Tibetan women shout slogans during a protest marking the 52nd anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising against Chinese rule, in New Delhi, India on March 10.
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Nepalese riot police arrest a Tibetan protester at Boudhanath in Kathmandu, Nepal on March 10, during a protest to mark the 52nd anniversary of the Tibetan uprising.
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Members of the U.S. men's and women's teams are framed by arena drapes during a training session for the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England, on Thursday, Mar. 10.
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Egyptian Coptic Christians grieve over the coffins during a mass funeral for seven victims of sectarian clashes, at Samaan el-Kharaz Church in Manshiet Nasr shantytown in eastern Cairo on Thursday, March 10.
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Egyptian Coptic Christian women grieve after a mass funeral for seven victims of sectarian clashes, at Samaan el-Kharaz Church in Manshiet Nasr shantytown in eastern Cairo on Thursday.
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Egyptian Coptic Christians gather during the mass funeral of people killed in bloody clashes between Christians and Muslims two days earlier, at the Samaan el-Kharaz Church in Cairo on March 10.
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Egyptian Coptic Christians look through a fence during a mass funeral for seven victims of sectarian clashes, at Samaan el-Kharaz Church in Manshiet Nasr shantytown in eastern Cairo on March 10.
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Nicole Briggs looks at a real human brain being displayed in a new exhibition at the [at]Bristol attraction on Monday, Mar. 8, in Bristol, England. The brain is suspended in liquid with a engraved full scale skeleton on one side and a diagram of the central nervous system on the other and is a key feature of the All About Us exhibition opening this week.
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Gay couples kiss during their ceremonial 'wedding' as they try to raise awareness of the issue of homosexual marriage, in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province on March 8. Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder in China until 2001. Today, gays face crushing social and family pressure and many remain in the closet as a result, despite gradual steps towards greater acceptance.
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Chechnya rising
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Chechen pensioner Khamid Yusupov, removes concrete from bricks collected from a destroyed house in the Chechen capital Grozny, March 5, 2004.
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Chechen children bathe in the fountain in the central square of the Chechen town of Gudermes, 35 km east of the capital Grozny, June 23, 2004.
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Chechen women clean up a street in the Chechen capital Grozny, December 23, 2005.
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A woman carrying a child walks past election posters on a street in Chechnya's capital of Grozny November 24, 2005.
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Labourers work on a road construction in front of a new mosque in the main Chechnya's regional city of Grozny, April 23, 2007.
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A member of Russia's Interior Ministry Forces (R) watches Vladimir Putin speak during a live question-and-answer session aired on television in a electronic store in Grozny, the capital of the Caucasus region of Chechnya, October 18, 2007.
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Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov dances after taking part in parliamentary elections in the Tsentoroy settlement December 2, 2007.
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President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, dressed in the national costume, holds the reins of a horse as he arrives for The Day Of Chechen Language celebrations in Grozny April 25, 2010. The Day Of The Chechen Language holiday was established by Kadyrov in 2007 to promote the national language.
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A fan takes a picture with a player from team Brazil at an airport building as they arrive in Grozny, March 8, 2011. Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia's volatile Chechnya region, scored two goals for team Chechnya in a friendly against Brazil's 2002 World Cup winners in front of a capacity crowd.
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A woman tries on traditional Islamic clothing at a shop on Prospect Putin in Grozny, March 9, 2011. A spate of attacks last year on women for not wearing headscarves on city streets in Chechnya angered women who said being forced to dress a certain way violated their rights
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A spectator, dressed in the national costume, looks on, with fireworks exploding in the background, after a friendly soccer match between team Chechnya, led by Ramzan Kadyrov, and team Brazil, including 1994 and 2002 World Cup champions, in Grozny, March 8, 2011. Kadyrov, leader of Russia's volatile Chechnya region, will play for a Terek Grozny XI in Tuesday's friendly against Brazil's 2002 World Cup winners.