ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 3, 2010) Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Elan Landin, from Visalia, Calif., signals to an approaching Brazilian navy SH-3 Sea King helicopter during a joint maritime exercise with the Brazilian navy aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) . Bunker Hill and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) are participating with the Brazilian Navy in Southern Seas 2010. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker/Released)
DAADSAR, KASHMIR, INDIA - MARCH 04: (INDIA AND Indian Army soldiers rest & stand guard near the area of a gun battle between Pakistani-trained Kashmiri militants and Indian troops on March 04, 2010 in Daadsar, 37 km (23 miles) south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, . Indian military reports state that one Indian army Captain and four Pakistani-trained Kashmiri militants of Hizbul Mujahideen, the largest militant outfit operating in Indian Administered Kashmir have been killed during an ongoing gun fight in the village of Daadsar which started on Wednesday morning.
An Iraqi soldier, right, is searched for weapons and other prohibited items as he arrives to cast his vote at a polling center in Ramadi, , Thursday, March 4, 2010. Early voting in Iraq for detainees, hospital patients and military and security personnel is taking place Thursday, ahead of the parliamentary elections on Sunday, March 7, 2010.
A Chilean soldier patrols inside a supermarket after it reopened for the first time since Saturday's massive earthquake in Concepcion March 4, 2010. Chile will need international loans and three or four years to rebuild after Saturday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 800 people and ravaged its infrastructure, President said.
An Israeli border police officer fires a tear gas canister as Palestinians hurl stones during clashes in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in 's old city. Friday, March 5, 2010. Clashes erupted Friday between Muslim worshippers and Israeli riot police at a sacred and disputed hilltop compound following a sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include two shrines on a list of national heritage sites
Mexican Marines secure an area after a gunfight against drug hitmen, in a wealthy neighbourhood in Monterrey March 5, 2010. The Gulf cartel's home turf in northeastern Mexico has been relatively calm, but tensions between the cartel and the Zetas broke out into a full-scale war last month, U.S. and Mexican anti-drug officials say. The Zetas are made up of former elite soldiers who switched sides to join the Gulf cartel in the 1990s, but split away in early 2008. Violence has also spread to the wealthy industrial city of Monterrey, where gunmen attacked a string of police stations last weekend and fought the army in surrounding towns.
Art squad members of the Korean People's Army Large Combined Unit 264 perform as North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il watches, according to KCNA news agency, at an undisclosed location in this picture released by KCNA in Pyongyang March 5, 2010