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29-03-2009, 20:50
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Quote: A soldier walks in front of Air Self Defense Forces' Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptor missile launchers being readied at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tokyo on March 29, 2009. Japan gave its military the green light on March 27 to shoot down any incoming North Korean rocket, with tensions high ahead of a planned launch that the US and allies say will be an illegal missile test. ***** Images
Quote: Space shuttle Discovery prepares to land at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on March 28, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Discovery, which left March 15, 2009 to work on the International Space Station, postponed its first attempt at landing today due to high winds but then successfully landed at the space center after completing a construction mission. ***** Images
Quote: Space Shuttle Discovery touches down at the shuttle landing facility at Kennedy Space Center March 28, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Discovery completed a construction mission to the International Space Station. ***** Images
Quote: The crew of space shuttle Discovery (L-R) Commander Lee Archambault speaks, as Pilot Tony Antonelli, Joseph Acaba, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and John Phillips stand in front of the orbiter after they returned to earth at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 28, 2009. The landing ends Mission STS-119 to the International Space Station. Not shown is Sandra Magnus, who returns after a mission aboard the space station. Reuters
Quote: The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet (L) and US Vice President Joe Biden review a guard of honor upon arrival at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, on March 28, 2009. Biden, now in official visit, attended the Progressive Governance Leaders' Summit in Vina del Mar, where he defended a massive US spending package as a necessary action to boost sinking US and world economies. ***** Images
Quote: North Dakota National Guard Sgt. Steve Sorenson (L) and Fargo Police Detective Paul Lies monitor a levee holding back flood water from Red River for breaks March 28, 2009 in Fargo, North Dakota. The National Weather Service today reported the river is at or near its anticipated crest. ***** Images
Quote: A military helicopter flies above the flood zone March 28, 2009 in Moorhead, Minnesota. The National Weather Service has reported the Red River has possibily crested at 41 feet and expecting to drop in coming days as people in the area continue to monitor temporary dikes for leaks and working on shoring up levees. ***** Images
Quote: Iraqi special police forces march during a graduation ceremony in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 28, 2009. Some 440 police officers graduated after two months of training. AP Photo
Quote: Iraqi special police forces march during a graduation ceremony in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 28, 2009. Some 440 police officers graduated after two months of training. AP Photo
Quote: U.S. troops take position on a major street after a gunfight sparked Saturday at the dominantly Sunni neighborhood of Fadhil in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 29, 2009. U.S. and Iraqi troops are exchanging gunfire with Sunni militants in central Baghdad a day after the arrest of a local leader of Sunni security volunteers sparked a gunfight, a police officer says on condition of anonymity because he wasn't supposed to release the information. AP Photo
Quote: U.S. troops take position on a major street after a gunfight sparked Saturday at the dominantly Sunni neighborhood of Fadhil in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 29, 2009. U.S. and Iraqi troops are exchanging gunfire with Sunni militants in central Baghdad a day after the arrest of a local leader of Sunni security volunteers sparked a gunfight, a police officer says on condition of anonymity because he wasn't supposed to release the information. AP Photo
Quote: U.S. Military officers confer during a security meeting with the governor of Farah province Rohullah Amin (L), on March 28, 2009 in Farah in southwestern Afghanistan. Afghan and American officials discussed an opium poppy eradication program due to begin soon in the area. In nearby Helmand province, the poppy eradication force has been repeatedly attacked by Taliban insurgents, whose profits from the illegal crop are used to fund attacks on American, British and Afghan forces. ***** Images
Quote: A U.S. Marine C-130 transport plane is unloaded on March 28, 2009 in Farah in southwestern Afghanistan. American forces are flying in large amounts of military materiel in advance of a buildup of some 21,000 fresh U.S. troops to be sent to Afghanistan. ***** Images
Quote: South Korean police officers stand guard upon North Korean national soccer team's arrival at the Incheon international airport, west of Seoul, March 29, 2009. The North Korean team arrived in South Korea on Sunday for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Asia qualifying soccer match to be held in Seoul on April 1, 2009. Reuters
Quote: Israeli soldiers patrol through the West Bank old city of Hebron during a demonstration to mark Land Day on March 28, 2009. Israeli soldiers used tear gas grenades to break up the demonstration by Israeli, Palestinian and foreign pacifists in the occupied flashpoint city of Hebron. ***** Images
Quote: An Israeli soldier fires tear gas at Palestinian and international activists, not pictured, during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Hebron, Saturday, March 28, 2009. The demonstration was to mark the 33rd "Land Day" which occurs on Monday, March 30, 2009 and commemorates the killing of six Arab citizens of Israel by the Israeli army and police in 1976 during protests over Israeli confiscations of Arab land. AP Photo
Quote: Israeli soldiers try to disperse protestors during a demonstration marking Land Day in the West Bank old city of Hebron on March 28, 2009. Israeli soldiers used tear gas grenades to break up the demonstration by Israeli, Palestinian and foreign pacifists in the occupied flashpoint city of Hebron. ***** Images
Quote: Israeli soldiers and police detain protestors during a demonstration marking Land Day in the West Bank old city of Hebron on March 28, 2009. Israeli soldiers used tear gas grenades to break up the demonstration by Israeli, Palestinian and foreign pacifists in the occupied flashpoint city of Hebron. ***** Images
Quote: Anti-riot police (R) stays alert on the other side of barbed wire as thousands of supporters of the religious Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) gather in front of an election office in support of their candidate in Taiping, some 300 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur on March 29, 2009. Thousands of government and opposition supporters converged on the sleepy district in Malaysia's north, for an electoral clash that will test the new leadership of Najib Razak. ***** Images
Quote: Policemen clear the way for the police van in which Varun Gandhi, great-grandson of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and scion of a family dynasty, is sitting after he was arrested in Pilibhit, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, March 28, 2009. Police in northern India on Saturday arrested Gandhi over allegations he made inflammatory comments against Muslims. Reuters
Quote: Police officers fire shots in the air to disperse supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Varun Gandhi after his arrest in Pilibhit, India, Saturday, March 28, 2009. The great-grandson of India's first prime minister was arrested Saturday as police investigated criminal charges against him for allegedly making hate speeches and inciting violence against Muslims ahead of India's national elections, a court official said. AP Photo
Quote: Police walk in front of protesters on their march to Hyde Park on March 28, 2009 in London, England. The 'Put the people first' march plans to make their way through London as part of a global campaign to challenge the G20, ahead of their 2nd April summit on the global financial crisis. ***** Images
Quote: Police clear the streets ahead of demonstrators taking part in the "Put People First" march through central London, on March 28, 2009. Tens of thousands of trade unionists, environmental campaigners and anti-globalisation activists took to the streets of London on Saturday to start five days of protests before the G20 summit. ***** Images
Quote: Anti-riot police confront supporters of Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana in the capital Antananarivo March 28, 2009. Police tear-gassed supporters of Ravalomanana for a third successive day on Saturday to stop them gathering in the main square of the Indian Ocean island's capital. Thousands of pro-Ravalomanana supporters held a rally in an Antananarivo park -- the sixth in six days -- and then tried to reach the May 13 plaza where Madagascar's new leader, Andry Rajoelina, had held months of protests prior to assuming power. Reuters
Quote: Pakistani police officers stand guard at the main gate of National Assembly in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, March 28, 2009. Security is beefed up in the vicinity of National Assembly before President Asif Ali Zardari addresses lawmakers on Saturday dilating upon various national issues and government's future course of action. AP Photo
Quote: A demonstrator clashes with French police officers during a rally to protest the decision of the French appeals court to sentence Yvan Colonna, a Corsican separatist accused of murdering Corsica's governor in 1998, to life in prison, in Ajaccio, southern Corsica island, Saturday, March 28, 2009. AP Photo
Quote: Members of the Iraqi army intelligence unit detain an alledged sniper from the Sahwa militia in Baghdad's Fadel district on March 29, 2009. Iraqi forces clashed with members of an anti-Qaeda militia group in Baghdad for a second straight day, as US troops backing them ordered residents to hand over weapons or face reprisals. The fighting broke out on March 28 after Iraqi special forces arrested a local chief of the Sahwa or Awakening militia comprising mostly-Sunni former insurgents trained and financed by US and Iraqi forces to fight Al-Qaeda militants. ***** Images
Quote: Members of the Iraqi army intelligence unit detain an alledged sniper from the Sahwa militia in Baghdad's Fadel district on March 29, 2009. Iraqi forces clashed with members of an anti-Qaeda militia group in Baghdad for a second straight day, as US troops backing them ordered residents to hand over weapons or face reprisals. The fighting broke out on March 28 after Iraqi special forces arrested a local chief of the Sahwa or Awakening militia comprising mostly-Sunni former insurgents trained and financed by US and Iraqi forces to fight Al-Qaeda militants. ***** Images
Quote: A member of the Iraqi army's intelligence unit pushes an alledged sniper from the Sahwa militia into the trunk of a military Humvee in Baghdad's Fadel district on March 29, 2009. Iraqi forces clashed with members of an anti-Qaeda militia group in Baghdad for a second straight day, as US troops backing them ordered residents to hand over weapons or face reprisals. The fighting broke out on March 28 after Iraqi special forces arrested a local chief of the Sahwa or Awakening militia comprising mostly-Sunni former insurgents trained and financed by US and Iraqi forces to fight Al-Qaeda militants. ***** Images
Quote: Iraqi soldiers stand guard near the district of al-Fadhil in Baghdad March 29, 2009. Three people were killed in hours of clashes between Iraqi security forces and Sunni Arab neighbourhood guards in Baghdad on Saturday, and the guards captured five soldiers, medical and security sources said. Reuters
Quote: Members of the Iraqi army special forces patrol a street leading into Baghdad's Fadel district as Iraqi police battle anti-Qaeda militaimen late March 28, 2009. Two Iraqi civilians were killed in the clashes after police arrested a leader of the Sahwa, or Awakening, militia, an interior ministry official said. ***** Images
Quote: A member of the Iraqi army special forces prevents civilians from crossing a street leading to Baghdad's Fadel district as Iraqi forces battle anti-Qaeda militiamen late March 28, 2009. Two Iraqi civilians were killed after police arrested a leader of the Sahwa, or Awakening, militia, an interior ministry official said. ***** Images
Quote: Thai female military officers carry offerings during merit making ceremonies Saturday, March 28, 2009, near Lumpini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. The gathering of several thousand monks called on all Buddhist to follow the teaching of Buddha to get beyond the current economic problems in Thailand. AP Photo
Quote: A soldier surveys some of the damage while searching for victims at the site of a burst dam in the Cirendeu suburb of Jakarka on March 29, 2009. The death toll from the burst dam rose to 93 on March 29 as hundreds of rescue workers continued to search for more than 100 people still missing, an official said. ***** Images
Quote: A British soldier keeps watch while on foot patrol at the poppy field in Musa Qala, Helmand province March 28, 2009. Reuters
Quote: A soldier from the 2nd Gurkha Regiment of the British army cleans his weapon on Patrol Base Woqab in Musa Qala, Helmand province March 27, 2009. Reuters
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Quote: Japan's Air Self-Defence Forces' Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) guided-missile units are seen at the Defence Ministry headquarters in central Tokyo, Japan, 29 March 2009. In an unprecedented move, Japan is deploying Patriot guided-missile fire units to several locations following Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada order to destroy a North Korean rocket or its debris if they fall onto Japanese territory.
Quote: Filipino photojournalist aim their pistols during the launching of Phillippine Press Photographers Gun Club in Camp Karingal firing range in Quezon City, eastern Philippines, 29 March 2009. An average of five journalists has been killed in the line of duty in the Philippines since 2001 when the Arroyo administration came to power. By the end of February 2009, the count of slain journalists had gone up to 78 since the end of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, according to statistics compiled by the Philippine-based Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility.The Philippines is the most dangerous place in Asia to work as a journalist, according to Committee to Protection of Journalists (CPJ) research
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A Russian Su-34 bomber jet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev aboard landing on the Kubinka airfield near Moscow in Kubinka, Russia, 28 March 2009
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