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A Squirrel Trapped In Manhole Cover
In this photo taken Aug. 5, 2012 and publicly provided by the police department Hanover, Germany, on Aug. 6, 2012, a squirrel is trapped in a manhole cover in Isenhagen, northern Germany. After they were called by neighbours, police managed to free the animal by using olive oil. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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Jamaicans Rejoice At Bolt’s Win Of Olympics Gold
People cheer as they watch Olympic sprinters Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake competing in the 100 m dash at the London Olympics on a large TV screen set up at the national stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. A crowd of roughly 500 people on the grounds of…
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UN Urges Probe On Violence In Myanmar Muslim Region
Tomas Ojea Quintana, left, U.N human rights envoy to Myanmar, talks to journalists during a press conference at Yagon International Airport Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. The UN’s human rights envoy to Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana has called for an urgent independent investigation into the recent bloody inter-communal…
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‘About 10 Million Yemenis Are Starving’
Yemenis receive food from international aid agencies in capital Sanaa on August 2, 2012. The United Nations has warned that about 45 percent of Yemen’s population, or about 10 million, are suffering from food scarcity and malnutrition is affecting about one million children under five years old in Yemen. <Xinhua/Mohammed>…
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Putin-Cameron In Olympic Diplomacy
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron watch women’s -78kg and men’s 100kg judo competition at London 2012 Olympic Games, London, Britain, Aug. 2, 2012. <Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling> news@theasian.asia
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Double Rainbows Over Sea Enchant Beachgoers
In this photo taken July 30, 2012, beachgoers admire a double rainbow that appeared over Hilton Head Island’s South Forest Beach after Monday evening’s rains in Hilton Head, S.C. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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A Cock Trapped By Typhoon Waits For Rescue
A rooster is trapped on its perch as it watches a makeshift raft drifting by at a flooded school at Malabon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday Aug. 1, 2012. Fierce winds and heavy rain from the slow-moving Typhoon Saola battered the country, displacing 154,000 people. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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Mutiple Injuries Blow U.S. Judoka’s Dream In Olympics
Travis Stevens of USA (in white) takes part in men’s Judo 81kg semifinal contest, at London 2012 Olympic Games in London, Britain, on July 31, 2012. Travis Stevens sustained multiple injuries during his semifinal match agasint Ole Bischof of Germany which he finally lost. <Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling> news@theasian.asia
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Putin dreams of making Russia superpower
Russian President Vladimir Putin participated on Monday in a ceremony to launch construction of Russia’s fourth Borei-class (Project 955A) ballistic missile submarine. “By 2020, we should have eight Borei-class submarines,” he said. “Two of them – the Alexander Nevsky and one other – are in trials. I am sure…
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Power Failure Paralyzes Traffic In New Delhi
A traffic jam following power outage and rains at the Delhi-Gurgaon road on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity in one of the…
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