World News in Pictures

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As long as American Indians have lived in the Pacific Northwest, they have looked to a jawless, eel-like fish for food.
Tribes once harvested the lamprey from rivers throughout the Columbia Basin, which stretches from the Oregon coast up into Canada. But with dozens of hydroelectric dams in the way, the fish has followed the path of the buffalo — from a food staple of a people to a curiosity.
Today, the tribes in the Northwest have just one place to go for them: a 40-foot waterfall on the Willamette River flanked by an abandoned paper mill and a power plant, and located about a dozen miles upstream from a Superfund site.









Tribal harvesters searching for lamprey at Willamette Falls, the only place in the Pacific Northwest where they can still be fished.

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An image taken by a gamma ray camera showing the bottom of a ventilation stack standing between Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No.1 and No.2 reactors, where radiation exceeding 10 sieverts per hour - seen here in red - was recorded.

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A car bomb outside a Christian church wounded 23 people Tuesday as security forces found and disabled vehicles packed with explosives outside two other churches in northern Iraq.

The bombing and the two averted attacks in the northern city of Kirkuk signal continued violence against Iraqi Christians, nearly 1 million of whom have fled since the war began in 2003.

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Russian warships fire during a naval parade in the far eastern port of Vladivostok July 31, 2011.



An activist is detained by police during a protest action to defend Article 31 of the Russian constitution in Moscow July 31, 2011. Article 31 guarantees the right of assembly.

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Latif Yahia, who was a body double for Saddam Hussein's son Uday, and whose story is told in the film "The Devil's Double", poses for a photograph in a hotel in London August 1, 2011



A man sleeps on the ground at a tent camp set up on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard to call for lower living costs in Israel August 1, 2011.

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Storms Drench the Philippines
A man rides a tricycle along a flooded road in suburban Manila on Tuesday. The combined death toll from Tropical Storm Nock-ten and Typhoon Muifa in the Philippines has risen to 70, officials said.



A Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia
A severely-malnourished 5-year-old boy rests inside a makeshift tent at a camp south of Mogadishu on Monday. Somalia's famine refugees, weakened by months of drought, have begun Islam's punishing Ramadan

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Will the Case of D.B. Cooper Finally Be Solved?
Four decades after D.B. Cooper bailed out of a U.S. jetliner in mid-air and vanished with $200,000 in cash, federal agents are pursuing new clues pointing to a suspect they believe is long dead, the FBI said on Tuesday.



He's a Free Man
Jatuporn Prompan, center, a key leader of Thailand's "red shirt" protest movement, smiles as he is released on bail from a Bangkok prison on Tuesday.

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Bloody Aftermath in Afghanistan
The body of an Afghan security guard, who was killed by suicide bombers at a guesthouse, lies at the site of the attack in Kunduz province on Tuesday. Three other guards were killed, one official said.

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An Uighur ethnic woman feeds her son on the roof of their house in Kashgar, Xinjiang province August 2, 2011. Chinese security forces blanketed central areas of Kashgar city in the western region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, days after deadly attacks that China blamed on Islamic militants highlighted ethnic tensions in the Muslim Uighur area.



Uighur ethnic women squat in front of a beer advertisement near a local market in Kashgar, Xinjiang province August 2, 2011.



Police officers eat at an Uighur ethnic market area in Kashgar, Xinjiang province August 2, 2011.

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Canada geese swim along a stretch of the Regent's Canal in Camden amidst green algae, on August 2 in London, England. Reports suggest that the toxic algae has thrived following a sudden spell of hot weather.

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A car passes by a giant statue showing the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, second right, and defaced face of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, left, in 6th of October city, in Egypt on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, a day before Mubarak, his security chief Habib el-Adly and six top police officers will face trial, on charges they ordered the use of lethal force against protesters during Egypt's 18-day uprising, in which some 850 protesters were killed. At second left is Egyptian Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail, and at right Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz. The arabic reads " Mubarak."

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A view of the south reflecting pool at the National September 11 Memorial at ground zero in New York, August 2. The memorial is scheduled to open in time for the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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A billboard for JELL-O stands at the corner of Grand Street and West Broadway on August 2 in New York City. The billboard acts as a mood-meter by analyzing Twitter and gauging the number of happy and sad emoticons used at any given moment, causing the billboard's face to change between a smile and a frown.

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An underwater drug bust. What's next? - More on that story



A crew member from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Oak counts packaged bales of 15,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $180 million unloaded at Base Support Unit Miami August 2. The haul was recovered from a self-propelled submersible vessel in the western Caribbean Sea July 13, 2010 after being spotted by U.S. Coast Guard patrol.

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Barn swallows are cared for in a barn near Lawrence, Kan., Tuesday, Aug. 2. The birds fell from their nest and were given a new home in a funnel. The parents continue to care for them.

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A worker prepares the kite thread on the road side in the northern Indian city of Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir on Tuesday, August 2. The kite string or the 'dorr' is made of crushed glass, glue, colors and egg on the thread to make it strong enough to hold the kite. Kite flying is a passion not only in India but all over the world.

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Sean Henry's sculpture Man with Cup (2008) is exhibited on the West Front of Salisbury Cathedral on August 2, 2011 in Salisbury, United Kingdom. The exhibition, 'Conflux: A Union of the Sacred and the Anonymous', features over 20 contemporary sculptures of dramatically different scales occupying vacant plinths and open spaces on both the inside and exterior of the iconic 13th century building. This exhibition brings to the Cathedral the biggest single group of polychrome sculpture since the Reformation and runs until the end of October.

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Workers fix the 'Giant Mermaid' at the inner Alster in Hamburg on Tuesday. The sculpture made by the artist and owner of an advertising agency Oliver Voss will stay in the inner Alster for the next ten days.

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Managua, Nicaragua: Revellers, including a man with his body coated in grease and motor oil, take part in Santo Domingo festivities



Sundarijal, Nepal: Hindu pilgrims, also known as Bolboms, walk in the forest during a procession to worship Lord Shiva and collect holy water

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Foreign workers look through a window at the biometric registration procedure of a fellow immigrant during an amnesty for the country's nearly two million illegal foreign workers



Benghazi, Libya: A man eats as others pray minutes after breaking their fast on the first evening of Ramadan

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Washington, DC, US: Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann greets a family showing their support for a balanced budget amendment before the vote on Capitol Hill



Manila, Philippines: People wade through a flooded street as Typhoon Muifa passes through the area

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Yad Mordechay, Israel: A bomb technician inspects the remains of a rocket that injured a woman when launched from the Gaza Strip

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Yemen's defectors




Defected army soldiers stand in line during a parade ahead of a protest demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Taghyeer Square in Sanaa August 2, 2011. After six months of mass protests seeking to end president Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule, demonstrators vow to continue their sit-in at Taghyeer square through the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan until their demands are met.

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Defected army soldiers man a checkpoint on a street in Sanaa

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A defecting army soldier waves during a celebration by anti-government protesters commemorating the anniversary of Yemen's reunification in Sanaa