Indian boys, who survived last year’s tsunami, play cricket next to a broken fishing boat at a beach in the southern Indian city of Nagapattinam June 20, 2005. Almost six months ago, the fishing hamlets in Nagapattinam and the nearby Tharangampadi on India’s southern coast were like ghost villages, smelling of decomposing corpses, garbage, dung, faeces and putrid water after giant waves of the Indian Ocean tsunami swept through it on December 26, 2004. About 228,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the tsunami. The villages are now slowly rebuilding themselves, as many gleaming new fibre boats can be seen lined up returning after a day’s catch.
20 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Arko Datta
An Iranian family walk on a street littered with pre-election posters in central Tehran during the last hours of campaigning June 23, 2005. Veteran Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani faces Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardline former Revolutionary Guardsman, in presidential polls on Friday that will seal the fate of political reform and set the tone of ties with the West.
23 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Chinese residents look at a house submerged by floods in Wuzhou, southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 23, 2005. Heavy floods have crashed into towns across southern China, killing at least 80 people, leaving dozens missing and forcing almost 700,000 to run for their lives, state media and residents said on Thursday.
23 Jun 2005
REUTERS/China Newsphoto
A policeman blocks North Korean defector Pak Sang-a (L) at a rally demanding the repatriation of South Korean prisoners of war, missing during the Korean War, from North Korea outside of the venue of inter-Korean ministerial talks in Seoul June 23, 2005. Dozens of North Korean defectors including the daughter of Lee Man-dong, who died in the North after being taken prisoner during the war, rallied on Thursday demanding the repatriation and compensation from the government while delegates from the two Korean held talks.
23 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
A Jewish bride stands on the beach before her wedding near the settlement of Tel Kataifa, part of Gush Katif settlement bloc, Gaza Strip, June 22, 2005. Israel has resumed an assassination policy against Islamic Jihad militants, a sign of how far a truce with the Palestinians has deteriorated. An Israeli aircraft fired missiles at four Islamic Jihad men in the Gaza village of Beit Lahiya on Wednesday as they launched rockets into Israel. No one was hurt but a rocket was destroyed. The army said the strike targeted the launchers, not people.
22 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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An Indian farmer plough his field in Chuli village, 255 km (158 miles) west of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. India’s delayed monsoon rains have spread to the country’s western and eastern regions but the wind currents were weak, weather officials said on Thursday.
22 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Amit Dave
A participant with a fancy hat enjoys the Christopher Street Day festival in Berlin in Berlin June 25, 2005. Several thousand demonstrators showed up in the German capital for the annual CSD parade to demonstrate for the rights of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transexual people and to commemorate clashes between gay people and U.S. police in New York City’s Christopher Street in June 1969.
25 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Christian
Pakistani children cool down from a heat wave in Wana, the main town of Pakistan’s south Waziristan tribal region, 360 km (225 miles) west of capital Islamabad June 25, 2005. At least 375 people have died from sunstroke and dehydration in a month-long heat wave sweeping India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as South Asia endures one of its hottest summers on record, authorities said. REUTERS/Kamran Waz
25 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Mian Khursheed
An Indian Sikh farmer walks through his dry paddy field in the Roper district, in the northern Indian state of Punjab June 25, 2005. The paddy crop has been destroyed because of the delay of a monsoon.
25 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Ajay Verma
Two Iranian women walk on a U.S. flag in Tehran June 25, 2005. Ultra-conservative Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to a stunning landslide victory in presidential elections on Saturday and immediately vowed to turn Iran into a strong and exemplary Islamic state.
25 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
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An Afghan soldier patrols the area where narcotics are burnt at the outskirts of Kabul June 26, 2005. Afghanistan burnt more than 30 tons of illicit narcotics, such as heroin, opium, hashish and more on Sunday, during a ceremony to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, by holding the largest drug burning in the history of the world, an Interior Ministry press release said.
26 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
Indian fishermen, who survived last year’s tsunami, work on their fishing nets in the southern Indian town of Cuddalore June 26,2005. Frustrated, living in tents and jobless, survivors of last December’s tsunami that killed up to 232,000 people around the Indian Ocean are struggling to rebuild six months after one of history’s worst natural calamities.
26 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Arko Datta
Pakistani workers of an ice factory cool down from a heat wave in Multan June 26, 2005. At least 375 people have died from sunstroke and dehydration in a month-long heat wave sweeping India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as South Asia endures one of its hottest summers on record, authorities said.
26 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Asim Tanveer
An Iranian official walks in front of burning narcotics in Tehran June 26, 2005. Iran burned more than 50,000 kg (110,000 lbs) of narcotic drugs in Tehran during a ceremony to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
26 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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Chinese men ride a motorcycle on a flooded road in Deqing, southern China’s Guangdong province June 27, 2005. Swollen rivers that have flooded parts of southern and eastern China, killing at least 567 people and displacing 2.5 million, have sunk back below warning levels, state media reported on Sunday.
27 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Jason Lee
A participant of a mud race climbs out one of the 22 ditches of the 3 km course along the meadow lands near Monnickendam, Netherlands June 26, 2005. Over 200 participants join the old Dutch tradition at the beginning of the summer.
26 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Koen van Weel
Indian boys run through a field in the northern Indian city of Lucknow June 27, 2005. India’s southwest monsoon has spread to about three-quarters of the country, including the capital New Delhi, which has led to increased sowing of winter crops, weather officials and traders said on Monday.
27 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Pawan Kumar