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A shoe flies, a leader ducks … a trend is born? (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2008 file photo, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi throws a shoe at President George W. Bush during a new conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. Throwing shoes at the mighty has become a global phenomenon that shows no sign of fading away. Since that infamous Baghdad press conference on Dec. 14, 2008, when an Iraqi TV journalist hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush's head and called him a dog, shoes have flown at the prime ministers of China and Turkey, the chief justice of Israel's Supreme Court, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, a Ukrainian politician who favored joining NATO, and a string of Indian politicians. Just this month, shoes flew at Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and the top elected official in Indian-controlled Kashmir. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - For a few days, he was famous the world over — an Iraqi TV journalist who became an instant hero for millions when he hurled his shoes at…

UN chief flies in to Pakistan as crisis worsens (AP)

August 15th, 2010

Pakistani flood affected villagers sit in the rubble of their houses, in Aza Kheil near Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. International aid for Pakistani flood victims is coming in slowly compared to other recent disasters despite the massive number of people affected and the potential for dire economic consequences in a country key to Western hopes in the fight against Islamist extremists. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Sunday to boost relief efforts as concerns grew about the 20 million people made homeless in one of the…

US Army flies flood relief missions in Pakistan (AP)

August 5th, 2010

People who had been stranded in Kalam, arrive in Khawaza Kheila in northwest Pakistan, on the U. S. Chinook helicopters on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. The floods have already killed an estimated 1,500 people over the past week, most of them in the northwest, the center of Pakistan's fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban. An estimated 4.2 million Pakistanis have been affected, including many in eastern Punjab province, which has seen numerous villages swallowed by rising water in recent days. (AP Photo/Sherin Zada)AP - U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency…

US flies Afghan troops to recapture district (AP)

June 1st, 2010

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, left, commander of some 94,000 U.S. troops that are now in Afghanistan, watches Afghan soldiers perform target practice at Operating Base Thunder in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Heidi Vogt)AP - U.S. helicopters flew Afghan troops into a remote district overrun by the Taliban and recaptured the main town Tuesday without firing a shot, military officials said.


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Chinese president Hu flies to Tibetan quake zone (AP)

April 18th, 2010

Tibetan monks sit on a hillside to offer prayers during a mass cremation for victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai province, Saturday, April 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao flew to the remote, mountainous Tibetan region devastated by an earthquake as the flow of rescue supplies picked up pace Sunday.


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Kyrgyzstan’s deposed president flies to Kazakhstan (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Supporters of the ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev hold posters at a rally in the centre of Jalalabad, April 13, 2010. REUTERS/Denis SinyakovAP - The deposed president of Kyrgyzstan left the country Thursday for neighboring Kazakhstan, allaying fears of new violence in the Central Asian nation that hosts a key U.S. military…

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