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Russian troops left a checkpoint near the Georgian village of Nadarbazevi, about 40 miles west of Tbilisi. Russia is holding the European Union responsible for guaranteeing peace and security in the volatile area, and the European Union said it would oversee a "step-by-step" handover of the buffer zones near the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Photo: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

A Russian peackeeping soldier sat inside an armored vehicle driving out of the Karaleti checkpoint, near South Ossetia. Russian forces abandoned military positions deep inside Georgia in a major pullback the Kremlin vowed to complete by midnight, two months after the South Ossetia war began.
Photo: Natalia Kolesnikova/Agence France-Presse — ***** Images

Thai soldiers took a rest after patrolling near Government House in Bangkok, a day after violent clashes rocked the Thai capital, leaving one person dead and 400 injured. The army was deployed on the streets of Bangkok on Tuesday after the worst political violence since 1992. Protesters continued a six-week sit-in outside the prime minister's office, forcing the government to conduct its business from a former international airport.
Photo: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/Agence France-Presse — ***** Images

A police officer took photographs of the wreckage of a Yeti Airlines aircraft at Lukla airport in Katmandu, Nepal. The small plane crashed and caught fire as it tried to land in foggy weather at a tiny mountain airport near Mount Everest, killing 18 people, including 16 tourists from Germany, Australia and Nepal, officials said.
Photo: Suraj Kunwar/European Pressphoto Agency

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Soldiers of a Kirgyz honor guard wait for beginning of the official welcoming ceremony of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, at the Presidential palace, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

bd popeye · Oct 13, 2008

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bd popeye · Oct 13, 2008

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Policemen guard the recovered Francisco de Goya engraving, which is part of his "Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)" series, in Bogota October 13, 2008. Police found the stolen engraving on October 12, in a hotel room in downtown Bogota.

Iraqi police college students attend the first Commssioner Institute course at the Baghdad Police College on October 13, 2008. The course will assist, train and teach high school students while they complete their education as well as basic police training. At the end of a three year curriculum, students will complete their education and become members of the Iraqi Police force. The top 25% of students will continue their education to become higher ranked officers in the force.

U.S. citizen Timy Hakim, 32, sits beside a police officer as he appears in the Kibera Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday Oct. 13 2008. Police have charged a U.S. citizen with possessing 1.98 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of cocaine, saying the man is part of a drug syndicate that operates in East Africa and Italy. Police say they arrested Hakim, late Sunday while he was waiting to board a flight to Italy, going via Ethiopia. Hakim pleaded not guilty to the charge in court on Monday. He is a resident of Suffolk, Virginia.

A man carries a bag containing cocaine while two officers standing on guard during a drug incineration at a police base in Lima, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Police incinerated four tons of drugs including cocaine, marijuana, opium and heroin, seized over the last two months.

Policemen detain a bystander who was filming the crime scene with his mobile in Monterrey, northern Mexico October 12, 2008. The bodies of two men, who were killed with a shot in the head, were found on Sunday morning on a roadside according to local media. Police presumed that the men were killed in another place and then dumped on the roadside.

SRINAGAR, INDIA - OCTOBER 12: Indian military patrol the streets while tensions on the streets remain high October 12, 2008 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Violence remains a daily threat after police killed two people when thousands of Muslims protested Indian Prime Minister Singh's visit to the region. In the past few months the region's summer captiol has witnessed the biggest pro-independence demonstrations since the separatist insurgency erupted in 1989. The protests have triggered a heavy crackdown by Indian security forces including many strict curfews and with that tourist numbers have dropped significantly. Continuous disturbances have brought down hotel occupancy from 100 percent in May 2008 to almost zero in September 2008, according to government statements.

Bulgarian football (soccer) fans confront riot police during their team's World Cup 2010 qualifying soccer match against Italy, in Sofia October 11, 2008.

Italian fans argue with Bulgarian riot policemen before their World Cup 2010 qualifying football (soccer) match against Bulgaria in Sofia October 11, 2008.

38-caliber pistols are displayed as a composite team of Philippine Coast Guards prepare for formation for its 109th anniversary celebration Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Manila, Philippines. The Coast Guard activated their Deployable Reaction Group, to respond urgently for search, rescue and terrorism attacks.

Philippine Coast Guard members stand at attention during a ceremony marking the 107th anniversary of the founding of the Philippine Coast Guard in Manila October 10, 2008.

bd popeye · Oct 14, 2008

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A Congolese soldier passes by a tank of the Congolese army during a break due to the fog while fighting against rebels in the Mulindi Mountains, near Tongo, about 65 kilometers north west of the provincial capital of Goma, on October 14, 2008. The Democratic Republic of Congo's powderkeg east is being bled dry as Kinshasa and Rwanda refuse to bury the hatchet and marauding militias plunder its bountiful mineral wealth, analysts say.

Polish Forces in operation..

Afghanistan, 8-11.10.2008: First stage of Yow Malat operation in Ghazni province is finished

Afghanistan, 11.10.2008: The oldest school in Ghazni and rehabilitation centre of handicapped persons received from polish soldiers indispensable support

Lebanon, 10.10.2008: Assistance for youngest inhabitants in Alma Chaab

bd popeye · Oct 15, 2008

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Palestinian police officers gestured to journalists as they displayed three Palestinian men, standing against the wall at right, for the media after they were convicted by a tribunal of collaborating with Israel in the West Bank city of Hebron. A Palestinian military court handed down seven-year prison terms for the three men, Palestinian sources said.
Photo: Nasser Shiyoukhi/Associated Press

A convoy of government troops patrol the area during a visit from a delegation representing the European Union (EU) at an evacuation site in Datu Odin Sinsuat municipality in Maguindanao after the European Community decided to extend seven million euros, or almost 10 million USD, in emergency aid for people displaced by the Muslim insurgency in the southern Philippines on October 10, 2008. The announcement by the EU, one of the largest sources of official development aid to the predominantly Roman Catholic southeast Asian country's

Seized packages of 33 kg heroin are displayed by Macedonian customs and police officers at customs department near Gevgelija late on October 14,2008. Macedonian customs seized 33 kg (73 lbs) of heroine hidden in a truck with Macedonian plates entering in the country from neighboring Greece at the Dojran border crossing. The value of the seized heroin on the black market is estimated to be more than 600,000 euros (824,340 U.S. dollars).

A Lebanese soldier fought to extinguish the remnants of a forest fire in Dibiyeh village, southeast of Beirut. The Lebanese army has been helping firefighters tackle major forest fires in the Shouf area, south of Beirut. At least two people have been injured, and reports say about 1,235 acres of land have been badly damaged.
Photo: Sharif Karim/Reuters

bd popeye · Oct 17, 2008

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Papuan (F) stands next to policemen during a protest in front of the Presidential palace in Jakarta on October 17, 2008. A day after thousands of Papuans demanded a referendum on independence from Indonesia during a peaceful rally watched by hundreds of riot police.

A masked police agent (R) and a security agent stand guard outside the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, northern Mexico October 16, 2008. State police increased security on the perimeter of the U.S. Consulate after gunshots were heard on Thursday, according to local media. On Sunday unknown gunmen shot and threw a grenade at the building but it did not explode and no one was injured, the U.S. Embassy said on Monday.

Police agents stand guard outside the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, northern Mexico October 16, 2008. State police increased security on the perimeter of the U.S. Consulate after gunshots were heard on Thursday, according to local media. On Sunday unknown gunmen shot and threw a grenade at the building but it did not explode and no one was injured, the U.S. Embassy said on Monday.

Soldiers take part in a police operation set up after a shooting with unknown assailants at a wealthy neighbourhood in Monterrey, northern Mexico October 16, 2008. A gunfight erupted between soldiers and unknown assailants in a wealthy sector of this business city, according to local media. Four shootings were reported on Thursday, one of them near the US Consulate, in different areas leaving at least three people injured.

Fighters from the National Congress for People's Defence (CNDP) under the direction of renegade General Laurent Nkunda, parade on October 17, 2008 a piece of artillery they took from the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) in an attack to a base in Rumangabo just north of the Eastern Congolese town of Goma last week. A cease fire between government forces and rebels from General Laurent Nkunda broke down on August 28, 2008 when rebel forces clashed with Congolese army troops. There has been repeated fighting over the past 6 weeks.

Members of the United Nations Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) take note of an artillery piece while on patrol at the Congolese north eastern town of Bunagana while fighters from the National Congress for People's Defence (CNDP), under the direction of renegade General Laurent Nkunda, parade on October 17, 2008

Cambodian solders patrol near the Engel field at the disputed 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, about 543 km (337 miles) north of Phnom Penh, October 17, 2008. Thai and Cambodian army commanders ended five hours of talks on Thursday with no agreement to withdraw their forces after heavy fighting near the temple killed two Cambodian soldiers.

Thai soldiers chat each other at the jungle along the Cambodia-Thailand border near the famed Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. Cambodia's prime minister called Friday for more talks with Thailand after a deadly armed clash raised fears the two neighbors were headed for a full-scale war over a patch of disputed land along their border.

bd popeye · Oct 17, 2008

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Four security officials were killed and 26 wounded in an attack on a police station in the troubled northern Swat region of Pakistan, a senior police official said. The attack left three members of the Frontier Constabulary and a local police officer dead, he said.
Photo: Sherin Zada/Associated Press

An Iraqi man wept over the body of his younger brother at the Baquba central hospital. The young man was killed by an explosion of an improvised device while working on his family's farm. Insurgent groups continue attacks in Diyala Province.

An Israeli soldier looked at a car damaged by stones thrown by Jewish settlers from Alon Moreh, near the northern West Bank village of Azmout. Tensions in the area have been increasing after a series of clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians.
Photo: Majdi Mohammed/Associated Press

Algerian women police graduates perform during a graduation ceremony. A total of 490 police women graduated to join police units.

SteelBird · Oct 17, 2008

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Upper Left: The black shirt Thai soldiers being captured after the fight on Oct 15. Upper right: A Cambodian commander was talking through radio. Lower Right: Cambodian people who run their business at Rong Cleur market on the Thai side of Thai-Cambodian border in Poipet rushed back to Cambodia after hearing the news of the fight in Preah Vihear.

According a local news paper, The Kok Santepheap, amount the three points of the fight on the Oct 15, the Thai soldiers who attack near the temple disarm themselves and surrendered to Cambodian army. They were treated well and were not really taken as prisoners and were all free later on. However the Thai side still deny that they had any soldier being captured by Cambodian army.

bd popeye · Oct 18, 2008

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A bomb planted near a mosque in the Shaab neighborhood of north Baghdad killed three Shiite worshipers as they left Friday Prayer. At a mosque in Samarra, worshipers were searched before they entered the Al-Askari mosque to attend prayer. A mass protest called for by the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to demonstrate against the American presence in Iraq is scheduled for tomorrow. Iraqi leaders are working on a new draft of a military pact with Washington that would set the terms of an American troop presence beyond this year.
Photo: Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images

Soldiers of the Afghan National Army parade during a graduation ceremony at a military training center in Kabul, Afghanistan

Residents of the northeastern Congolese town of Bunagana watched a soldier resting his hand on a 120mm artillery piece. Fighters with the renegade General Laurent Nkunda seized the large caliber weapon from the Congolese Armed Forces in an attack on a base in Rumangabo, north of the Eastern Congolese town of Goma last week. Fighting between rebel groups and the government has escalated in the past six weeks.
Photo: Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images

An Indian policeman was the target of Kashmiri protesters who threw stones at him during the protest in Srinagar. The disputed Himalayan region has seen some of the biggest pro-independence demonstrations in the past two months since a separatist revolt against Indian rule erupted in 1989.
Photo: Danish Ismail/Reuters

A Kashmiri demonstrator threw back a teargas canister fired by the Indian police during a protest in Srinagar. At least 20 people, including six police officers, were wounded in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city, when Indian police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in fresh protests against Indian rule, the police and witnesses said.
Photo: Danish Ismail/Reuters

Police confront & detain right-wing protesters during a rally in support of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008. Authorities say dozens of nationalist activists have been detained in Kiev after clashing with police. Members of the nationalist group Brotherhood marched down Kiev's main avenue Saturday to honor veterans who fought both Soviet and Nazi forces in World War II.

Israeli soldiers guard news photographer Abdul Hafiz al Hashlamoun after he was attacked by Israeli Jewish settlers during a traditional olive harvesting in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 18, 2008. Jewish settlers punched and kicked two news photographers and a British woman helping Palestinians pick olives in a West Bank town on Saturday and Israeli police responded by stopping the harvest.

An Italian soldier with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard near the site of a suicide attack in which an Italian military convoy of the NATO was targeted in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008. A police spokesman Raouf Ahmadi says a suicide bomber attacked an Italian military convoy. A spokeswoman with the NATO-led force says there were NATO casualties but she didn't have immediate details.

bd popeye · Oct 19, 2008

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Polish Forces in training for missions in Chad and Afghanitan...

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Pictures released on 19th of September. Fire and tactic exercises fo soldiers from 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade

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Poland, 17.10.2008: Exercises „IRIBA II”. Soldiers from 11th Armoured Cavalry Divison finished preparations to mission in Chad

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