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Students attend an Arabic class at the Al-Haraiman French-Arabic School in Yaounde, Cameroon, on Monday. Later in the week, Pope Benedict XVI met with representatives of Cameroon’s Muslim community during his first pilgrimage to Africa, the fastest-growing region for the Roman Catholic Church. (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press)
A U.S. Marine scans Farah province in southwestern Afghanistan. An additional 17,000 U.S. troops are being sent to the country in the coming months, but NATO’s secretary-general warned that would not be enough to secure Afghanistan’s presidential election in August. He said about 4,000 more international troops were needed. (John Moore / Getty Images)
An Iraqi man embraces his relative before he was released by the
Thousands of Iraqis held without charge by the U.S. on suspicion of links to insurgents or militants are being freed by this summer because there is little or no evidence against them.
Their release comes as the U.S. prepares to turn over its detention system to the fledgling Iraqi government by early 2010. (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images)
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The coffins of South Korean tourists killed by a suicide bomber in Yemen on Sunday are wheeled by rescue workers upon arrival at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. (Jo Yong-hak / Associated Press)
Josef Fritzl, center, is escorted to the second day of his trial in St. Poelten, Austria.
On Thursday, a jury convicted Fritzl, 73, of homicide and other charges and sentenced him to life in a psychiatric ward for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, fathering her seven children and letting an infant son die in captivity. (Robert Jaeger / Associated Press)
An undersea volcano erupts about six miles off Tongatapu, the main island of Tonga.
Authorities said the eruption did not pose any danger to islanders at this stage, and there have been no reports of fish or other animals being affected. (Lothar Slabon / AFP/Getty Images)
