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 A body is removed from the wreckage after a bomb went off in Nairobi, August 7, 1998. The bomb, which killed more than 250 people and injured 5,000, was aimed at the U.S. embassy.


A demonstrator pounds away at the Berlin Wall as East Berlin border guards look on from above the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in November, 1989. 


A Haitian suspected of being a multiple assassin for exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party is detained in Petit Goave in 2004.


A picture of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang in this October 2011 photo.


A Russian police officer carries a released baby from a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya in 2004.


A would-be immigrant crawls on the beach after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain's Canary Island of Fuerteventura on May 5, 2006.


A young Rwandan refugee who traveled from Bukavu with several thousand others shivers in the early morning in this November 1996 photo before getting back on the road to the border.


AFP photojournalist Kenji Nagai lies dying after police and military officials fired on him in Yangon, Myanmar on September 27, 2007.


Bucharest's residents protect themselves from the crossfire during clashes in the Republican square in Bucharest, December, 1989.


China's national flag is raised during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium.


Frantic Kurdish refugees struggle for a loaf of bread during a humanitarian aid distribution at the Iraqi-Turkish border in this April 5, 1992 photo.


Marooned flood victims try to grab onto the side bars of a hovering army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province in August 2010.


Romanian parents carry a small casket and cross as they arrive at a Bucharest hospital to collect the body of their dead baby who died of AIDS on February 6, 1990.


Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev (L) congratulates East German Leader Erich Honecker with a kiss after Honecker's re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party Congress in East Berlin in April, 1986.


The bomb damaged area of the City of London is seen in this April 24, 1993 file photo after two blasts ripped through the buildings in the area. Dozens of people were injured in the blast caused by IRA bombs.


U.S. Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad on April 9, 2003.


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