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TO GO WITH AFP STORY IRAN-PRISON-RIGHTS BY STUART WILLIAMS (FILES)An Iranian inmate peers from behind a wall as a guard walks by at the female section of the infamous Evin jail, 13 June 2006. From the road it is easy to miss. A small outhouse and a sign saying "Evin House of Detention" give no hint of the huge complex of guard towers and cells that lies behind. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Wine_TopImage Drinking Games
As former Soviet republics develop closer ties with the West, Russia is pulling out all the stops to keep them in the fold. Amid this battle, Moldova’s wine industry has become the unlikeliest front.
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Bakau, GAMBIA: Election officials set up marbles on a board to count the votes after the presidential elections in Bakau early 22 September 2006. Early results today showed Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in a coup 12 years ago, was on track to win a third term as president of mainland Africa's smallest country. Jammeh has won in 12 of the 48 voting regions to have reported provisional results from yesterday's presidential election, according to the results released by the commission over national television and radio.AFP PHOTO SEYLLOU (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images) -
Top_Image The New Abolitionists
Operation Underground Railroad, a small Mormon-led group, is going undercover to rescue kids from sex trafficking. But is its brand of salvation working?
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Muslim ethnic Uighur women pass a Chinese paramilatary police on patrol on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region on July 3, 2010 ahead of the first anniversary of bloody violence that erupted between the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity. The government says nearly 200 people were killed and about 1,700 injured in the unrest, China's worst ethnic violence in decades, with Han making up most of the victims. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
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havana-4 The Hipsters of Havana
With their tattoos, skateboards, and tech degrees, the country's millennials are untethered from the communist ideals of the past and ready to meet the world.
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Afghan school girls play in the yard after their class at Ayesha primary school in Mazar-i Sharif on April 12, 2013. Under the hard line Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, cinema was banned and girls were prohibited from attending school. AFP PHOTO/ Farshad USYAN (Photo credit should read FARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images) -
waitingforeuro Godot Was a Eurocrat
The crisis in Greece isn't an ancient tragedy; it's a modern farce only Samuel Beckett could have written.
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TDF_1 Once Upon a Time: Scandal on the Tour de France
The legendary race’s long history of thugs, drugs, and cheating.