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Russia -- Sanitary service workers prepare to burn up swine that were killed to combat African swine plague in the Tsimlyansk district, Rostov Oblast, 06Oct2009 - 62. Россия. Ростовская область. 6 октября. Сотрудники санитарных служб готовят к сжиганию туши павших животных во время ликвидации очага африканской чумы свиней в Цимлянском районе. Фото ИТАР-ТАСС/ Валерий Матыцин
ROSTOV REGION, RUSSIA. OCTOBER 6, 2009. Sanitary service workers prepare to burn up swine that were killed to combat African swine plague in the Tsimlyansk district, Rostov Oblast top2009
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Afghanistan -- US Marines are engulfed in a storm of dust and debris as a CH-53 helicopter lands to transport them from their forward operating base in Farah Province, 12Oct2009 - AFGHANISTAN, Farah province : US Marines from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines are engulfed in a storm of dust and debris as a CH-53 helicopter lands to transport them from their forward operating base in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, on October 12, 2009. Twenty Taliban militants were killed and a number arrested in separate operations involving foreign forces and Afghan troops, police, military commanders and the government said today. top2009
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Iraq -- An Iraqi nurse attends to an injured soldier at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk, 255 kms from Baghdad, 13Oct2009 - IRAQ, Kirkuk : An Iraqi nurse attends to an injured soldier at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk, 255 kms from Baghdad, on October 13, 2009. Ten people were killed, including two Iraqi soldiers and the leader of a Sunni Arab militia allied with the United States, in bombings across Iraq. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb targeting their patrol near ethnically mixed Kirkuk, which is at the centre of a land dispute between the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan and the central government.
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Iran -- Two Iranian children fly kites in a Kite festival in Mahallat, 17Oct2009 - http://www.farsnews.com/imgrep.php?nn=8807250786
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