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A North Korean soldier looks at the southern side at the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. South Korea says it is preparing for the possibility of North Korea provoking a naval skirmish around their disputed sea border amid heightened tension on the divided peninsula.

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A woman carrying a baby on her back rides on a motorbike with a North Korean soldier along the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Qing Cheng, located around 50km (31 miles) north of the Chinese border city of Dandong

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An Indian Para-military soldier stands guard at Indira Gandhi International airport, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. A police official says security forces have swarmed through New Delhi's international airport after the sound of gunfire rang out, but no one was injured.

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A Lebanese soldier prepares a shell during a live training exercise with U.N. peacekeepers near the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, December 4, 2008. The exercise was held by the Field Artillery Group as part of UNIFIL's quick reaction force and falls within the group's regular training schedule to hone its skills and expertise.

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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard during heightened security checks at a domestic airport in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Indian airports were put on high alert after the government received warnings of possible airborne attacks.

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Soldiers from the seventh PARECO (Congolese Patriots and Resistants) watch the road on December 4, 2008 in Nyamilima, in Nord-Kivuin the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Allied to the Congolese government, the PARECO is an armed group composed mainly of Congolese Hutus fighting the rebellion by renegade general, Laurent Nkunda. Months of fighting pitting Nkunda's rebels against government troops and various militia groups have displaced some 250,000 people in the eastern Congo and triggered a humanitarian crisis that has sparked international concern.

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A Congolese rebel soldier allied to the government-backing FARDC walks past a UN convoy broken down during a patrol near the buffer zone at Kibati December 4, 2008 on the frontline between the Laurent Nkunda led National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) main rebel group and government forces. Civilians returned to their homes in eastern DR Congo towns near the Ugandan border Thursday after Laurent Nkunda's rebel movement pulled out of the area.

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An Israeli soldier climbs during the removal of Jewish settlers from a previously evacuated house in the West Bank city of Hebron December 3, 2008. According to local media reports, dozens of Jewish settlers were removed by Israeli police on Wednesday from a house that had been evicted in 2006 following a High court order.

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An Iraqi soldier stand guard outside a villa during a house-to-house patrol in the Karrad Karej district of Baghdad on December 03, 2008. The army patrol is checking the deeds of each home many of which are being illegally occupied and or are being used for business ventures.

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Illegal Cuban immigrants are loaded onto Mexican Navy patrol boats as they are sent in small groups to the naval base in Isla Mujeres in Mexico's caribbean coast Thursday Dec. 4, 2008. Mexico is preparing to send illegal Cuban migrants home for the first time under a new immigration accord, says a Mexican immigration official.

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Indian Marine Commandos (MARCOS) take part in the annual Navy Day celebrations at Ramakrishna Beach in Visakhapatnam, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh December 4, 2008.

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Anti-terrorist Special Forces, of the Mexican marines, train during a military exercise of the maritime interdiction operation in Valparaiso, about 75 miles (120 km) northwest of Santiago December 4, 2008. Armed forces of Latin America and the world are participating in the 6th International Maritime Exhibition and Conference for Latin America, under the name Exponaval 2008.

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Anti-terrorist Special Forces, of the Chilean marines, train during a military exercise of the maritime interdiction operation in Valparaiso, about 75 miles (120 km) northwest of Santiago December 4, 2008.

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Member of Serbian special police unit secure area around family apartments of the most wanted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic in Belgrade December 4, 2008. Police searched several locations across Serbia on Thursday looking for former Bosnian Serb war-time general Mladic, a source in the war crimes prosecutor's office said.

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Supporters of Peru's General Edwin Donayre hold banners during his farewell ceremony at the Army headquarters in Lima, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Peru's President Alan Garcia says the removal of army chief Edwin Donayre from his post for the bellicose, anti-Chilean comments he made recently should bury the diplomatic spat between the neighboring Andean nations. The banner at left reads in Spanish "We carry you in our hearts, thank you General Donayre."

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A pedestrian (R) walks down the steps while army soldiers wearing protective gears wait for their anti-biochemical terrorism exercise at a subway station in Incheon, west of Seoul, August 19, 2008. The exercise organised by South Korean soldiers, government officials and civilians is a part of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise, an annual joint military drill between the U.S and South Korea.

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The General Commander of the Peruvian Army, Edwin Donayre, salutes the troops during a farewell ceremony following his retirement from the institution, at the Army's command in Lima on December 5, 2008. Donayre, who created a diplomatic controversy with Chile with his comment that Chileans visiting Peru would leave the country in coffins of body bags, retired from the Army without being discharged or sanctioned as the Chilean Government had asked. The president of Peru, Alan Garcia, who did not attend the ceremony, said that with Donayre's retirement the incident should be left behind.

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Congolese army soldiers hold their positions 200 metres from rebel lines on December 5, 2008 near Kibati in Nord-Kivu. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and a rebel movement are to meet on December 8, in Kenya to formalise a ceasefire, Kinshasa's foreign minister said Friday, raising hopes of an end to months of fighting in the east of the country. At the same time Congolese and Rwandan armed forces are to launch operations against Rwandan Hutu rebels operating in the same region following two days of talks, a statement said. The UN refugee agency said Friday that more than 90,000 people were missing in the conflict-hit eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after three makeshift camps in rebel-held areas were found emptied.

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Congolese army soldiers gather at their outpost 200 metres from rebel lines on December 5, 2008 near Katiba in Nord-Kivu

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A Dominican Republic soldier leaves a helicopter carrying two survivors of a boating accident where 49 people died after drifting more than three weeks at sea is helped by civil workers for being transported to a hospital in Santo Domingo December 5, 2008.

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An Israeli soldier points his rifle towards Palestinian stone throwers during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Israel placed military and police forces on alert Friday to head off new violence after the evacuation of a disputed West Bank building brought tensions between the government, extremist settlers and Palestinians to a peak.

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Israeli soldiers fire tear gas toward Palestinian stone throwers in the West Bank city of Hebron on December 5, 2008.

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HEBRON, WEST BANK - DECEMBER 04: Israeli riot police evacuate a right-wing Jewish settler from a disputed house December 4, 2008 in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron. Dozens of settlers and police were injured in the evacuation and the protests that followed.

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Soldiers from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which is in charge of airport security, keeps watch at the international airport in New Delhi December 5, 2008. Gunshot-like sounds were heard at New Delhi's international airport early on Friday, sparking a security scare after last week's Mumbai attacks, but police said no one was hurt.

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A police officer mans a checkpoint at the entrance of Mecca December 5, 2008. Over two million Muslim pilgrims arrive in the holy city of Mecca this week for the haj pilgrimage, one of the world's biggest displays of mass religious devotion and duty for able-bodied Muslims. The climax of the pilgrimage is on Sunday when worshippers spend the day gathered en masse on and around Mount Arafat, about 15 km (10 miles) east of Mecca.

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A police investigator, left, interviews an inmate who was working as a guard when 12 inmates escaped from Bartolinas jail in San Salvador, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. A total of 12 inmates escaped before dawn Friday, but four were recaptured. Deputy prison director Cesar Flores says the prisoners tied their shirts together to make a rope and climb to the jail's roof.

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Protesters try to protect themselves, as a riot policeman raises his stick, during a students' rally opposing the Greek government's plans on education reforms in Athens December 4, 2008.

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DRC army soldiers (FARDC) carry a weapons near the front line with the National Congress for People's Defense (CNDP) forces north of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo December 7, 2008.

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DRC army soldiers (FARDC) sit on top of a truck near the front line with the National Congress for People's Defense (CNDP) forces north of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo December 7, 2008.

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DRC army soldiers (FARDC) jump start a truck near the front line with the National Congress for People's Defense (CNDP) forces north of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo December 7, 2008.

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French Brig. Gen. Michel Yakovleff gestures during an interview for The Associated Press in French military base in the village of Novoselo Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. Yakovleff, NATO's commander in Kosovo's tense north says he has heightened security days before the European Union's police mission takes over policing from the United Nations.

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A crew member of the Russian ship Admiral Chabanenko stands guard on deck as the ship remains in the former US Rodman naval base, some 10 km southeast of Panama City on December 6, 2008. Chabanenko, which participated in military exercises in Venezuela, is the first Russian military ship that crosses the Panama Canal after World War II.

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Israeli border police officers gather next to a disputed building that was evacuated Thursday, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Israel placed military and police forces on alert Friday to head off new violence after the evacuation of a disputed West Bank building brought tensions between the government, extremist settlers and Palestinians to a peak.

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Student Riots strike Hellas!(Greece) Why??

Mourners carry the coffin of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15, during his funeral in Athens December 9, 2008. Riot police fought running battles with hundreds of protesters outside Greece's parliament on Tuesday while the opposition socialist party called for elections to end four days of protests. In the outskirts of Athens, more than 5,000 people dressed in black gathered at a funeral for the 15-year-old boy whose shooting by police on Saturday has triggered Greece's worst riots in decades.

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An teenager is arrested by police officers during clashes between riot police and stone-throwing mourners, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, after the funeral of a teenager shot by police Saturday. Dozens of residents shouted at police to stop firing tear gas and leave the closely built-up area. Athens and other Greek cities were ravaged by three successive nights of rioting after police shot teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos dead.

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A woman is arrested by riot police in central Athens Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. Athens and other Greek cities were ravaged by three successive nights of rioting after police shot teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos dead.

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Riot police clash with protesters outside the Law school during a night of riots early on December 9, 2008. Authorities closed off many Athens streets today after a third night of rampaging violence by groups of youths sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy.

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Men carry away a woman which collapsed from tear gas, while riot police push back protestors from the front of the Parliament in Athens on December 9, 2008. Four straight days of riots have left a trail of destruction in Athens, with burnt cars, shattered windows and smouldering trash cans strewn across the capital.

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Riot police officers arrest a young boy near a cemetery where a funeral service was held for a 15-year-old boy whose killing by police sparked massive riots on December 09, 2008. The youths attacked police and set fire to garbage cans along the main avenue of Nea Smyrni, a residential and shopping district a short distance from the cemetery where Alexis Grigoropoulos' funeral had just been held.

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A man stands in front of riot policemen during a demonstration in Athens December 9, 2008. Hundreds of protesters threw stones and bottles at lines of riot police outside the Greek parliament on Tuesday, in a fourth day of anti-government clashes triggered by police killing a teenager.

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A protester tries to escape from riot policemen during a demonstration in Athens December 9, 2008.

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Athens residents argue with riot police officers during clashes between riot police and stone-throwing mourners Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, after the funeral of a teenager shot by police Saturday.

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Riot police officers signal as they regroup during clashes between riot police and stone-throwing mourners Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, after the funeral of a teenager shot by police Saturday

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Police detain a youth during riots following the funeral of Alexandros Grigoropoulos at Athens' suburb of Nea Smyrni December 9, 2008. Riot police fought running battles with hundreds of protesters outside Greece's parliament on Tuesday while the opposition socialist party called for elections to end four days of protests. In the outskirts of Athens, more than 5,000 people dressed in black gathered at the funeral for the 15-year-old boy whose shooting by police on Saturday has triggered Greece's worst riots in decades.

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Recent photos of Finnish Forces.

The men from the local local defence company are taking part of the exercise. Local defence companies are reserve units which trains more often and are in better readines. All the men are volunteers. 10.12.2008

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The armored brigade takes part in the exercise. The Leopards arrived today in the exercise area. 10.12.2008

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Leopard 2 bridgelayer 10.12.2008

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Coastal jaeger from the amphibious Nyland brigade is taking part of the southern Finland military district main exercise Koski 08. 9000 men and 1500 vehicles are taking part of the 8 day long exercise 11.12.2008

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Motorcycle messenger in the new m05 wintercamo

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12.7 Itkk NSV in camoflauged fireposition. Note the vintage star in the ammobox 11.12.2008

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peculiar to note that each time I see "offical" (eg pro-shot) pictures of our trainings, people always were the M/91 camoflage suites. (As seen here)
In my time (2004), those were the service dress, we had two pairs of them, one (usually dated, bit worn out one) for daily garrison service, and one tigthly trim one for walking-out uniform. In drills and training situation we used lot older M/62 model field uniform...wich were propaply from 1962 vintage. They were old and worn out, all with unigue shade of how the pattern had faded, thus making a unit wearing one look like a circuss, more than military unit. They were served (and thus regulary replaced) as regular loundry (like underwear and bedclothes), from the central loundry depot opposite to the service uniform that came from equipment depot along with all other material (combat west, boots, gas-mask, field-dish ect...) exept armament wich naturally came from ammunition depot.

Thougth They had brand new M/05 model camoflage suite, so who knows? Perhaps the "good" ol' M/62 have been finally disposed off and replaced with the M/91 suite as field uniform

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Last three F-16s have been delivered to Poland

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An Israeli soldier takes position next to a parked car after a Palestinian youth was shot by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. The youth was seriously injured after being shot in the head while throwing stones at Israeli troops during clashes in the divided West Bank city, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. He was taken by ambulance to an Israeli hospital in critical condition.

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Zimbabwe Presidential guard soldiers honour the burial of ZANU-PF political commissar Elliot Manyika at National Heroes Acre in Harare, Zimbabwe, 11 December, 2008. Mugabe has said there is no cholera in his country - as the United Nations warned the deadly epidemic was getting worse. He also claimed Western powers were plotting to use cholera as an excuse to invade Zimbabwe and overthrow him

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Colombian policemen escort crime boss suspect Diego Montoya as he is being extradited to the U.S. at the military airport of Catam in Bogota December 12, 2008. Montoya was sent to the United States on Friday to face charges of smuggling hundreds of tonnes of cocaine, marking what police called the end of the Norte del Valle cartel.

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An Indian policeman stands guard at a barricade to prevent anti-poll protests during the fifth phase of local elections in Srinagar December 13, 2008. Authorities have stepped up security across the disputed Kashmir region to prevent planned anti-poll protests. Separatists have called a total boycott of the seven-phase state elections that started November 17. (Reuters)

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Demonstrations in Greece continued for a seventh day after a teenager was killed by the police. A protester threw a metal crowd barrier at riot control officers outside Parliament during a demonstration in central Athens. Hundreds of shops have been damaged, cars burned and public property vandalized in the country's worst rioting in decades.
Photo: Petros Karadjias/Associated Press

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A riot control officer was covered in flames from a gasoline bomb thrown by rioters during clashes in central Athens.
Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press

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An elderly man walked in front of riot control officers as demonstrations continued in central Athens.
Photo: Olivier Laban-Mattei/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images

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As part of the effort to modernize its military, the Polish government has brought a close to conscription, making last week's class of drafted recruits the final one after 90 years of compulsory military service.

A young recruit waiting in line at the base in Radom. After a history of being conquered by Russia and Germany, and at times disappearing from the map entirely, Poles worry more acutely than people in many other countries about questions of national defense.
Photo: Piotr Malecki for The New York Times

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Draftee Piotr Piotrkowicz puts on his uniform for the first time at the air force base in Radom last week. For Poland, moving to a professional army is just one step among many that the country is taking in the process to revamp its military forces from a 450,000-man force to a lean, well-equipped military that can quickly deploy to the world's trouble spots as part of multinational missions.
Photo: Piotr Malecki for The New York Times

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A policemen gestures to the media towards a newly acquired speed boat belonging to the Indian customs department in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008. As part of strengthening India's coastal surveillance, the Indian Customs Saturday commissioned nine advanced patrol vessels and announced plans to acquire 100 more within the next five years. The sole gunman captured in last month's terrorist attacks on Mumbai has written to Pakistani officials to ask for legal help after Indian lawyers refused to take his criminal case, police said Saturday. (AP Photo / Manish Swarup)

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A Bulgarian soldier holds the Bulgarian flag after returning from Iraq at Sofia airport, December 17, 2008. The last 155 Bulgarian soldiers arrived in Sofia on Wednesday after the Balkan country decided to withdraw its 334-strong light infantry battalion from Iraq earlier this year. The troops were guarding detainees undergoing a reintegration program at U.S. Camp Cropper near Baghdad's airport as part of the multinational forces in Iraq.

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A soldier crosses across a hurdle during his training period at 11 Gorkha Rifles Regimental Centre, on a foggy day in the northern Indian city Lucknow December 17, 2008.

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Bangladeshi soldier stands guard during an election campaign rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Dec. 15, 2008. Bangladesh's two main political parties formally began their election campaigns Friday as restrictions on political rallies were lifted ahead of national polls due later this month. Election symbol of Bangladesh Awami League party is seen in the background.

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Colombian soldiers organize packages of cocaine seized near Carepa in Antioquia province December 16, 2008. At least 3.5 tons of cocaine were confiscated by Colombian army troops during a raid, authorities said.

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Indian army soldiers pay homage, to soldiers who died during the war, on the occasion of Vijay Diwas in Kolkata December 16, 2008. Vijay Diwas is a ceremony held to celebrate the liberation of Bangladesh by the Indian Armed forces on December 16, 1971.

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An Indian Army officer helps Defence Minister A.K. Antony (C) walk over a camera cable as Chief of Army staff Deepak Kapoor (R) escorts him after Vijay Diwas celebrations at the India Gate war memorial in New Delhi December 16, 2008. Vijay Diwas is a ceremony held to celebrate the liberation of Bangladesh by the Indian Armed forces on December 16, 1971.

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A student throws an orange at riot police near the entrance of Athens' main court complex on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. About 100 high school students gathered outside the capital's main court complex, pelting riot police guarding the building with stones, eggs, rocks and yogurt to demand that those detained in the riots be freed. Greece has seen its worst riots in decades after 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos died Dec. 6 in a police shooting incident.

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A large but peaceful demonstration in central Athens turned violent when rioters threw rocks and firebombs at the police. Christmas shoppers fled the streets and retailers rolled down their shutters as protesters smashed store fronts and burned at least four cars. The clashes were the most violent since the first days of rioting that erupted in Greece after the fatal shooting by the police on Dec. 6 of a 15-year-old boy.
Photo: Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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A riot police officer uses pepper spray against protesters as an elderly woman passes in central Athens.

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Col. Theoneste Bagosora, left, a former senior Rwandan Army officer, was ushered by a security guard after being sentenced to life imprisonment for "genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes" by a United Nations court in Tanzania. Colonel Bagosora was a leading Hutu extremist and the cabinet director for Rwanda's Defense Ministry at the start of the slaughter by Hutus of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994.
Photo: Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki waves during the re-opening of the Mutanabi Street in Baghdad, Iraq. The Mutanabi Street, also known as Baghdad's Book Market, was largely destroyed in several large bombings in the past years.

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Israeli soldiers take position against Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes in the West Bank village of Jayous near Qalqilya December 19, 2008. According to an Israeli army spokesperson, a German citizen was injured by a rock thrown by Palestinian protesters, as she took part in a protest against the controversial Israeli barrier on Friday.

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