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• Aug. 11: Russian soldiers pass by a burning house on the way to Tskhinvali, capital of Georgian breakaway enclave of South Ossetia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday.
• Aug. 12: Demonstrators with Georgian flags and placards walk during a rally outside the Russian embassy in Berlin. The group protested Russia's armed confrontation in Georgia.
• Aug. 12: An Iraqi soldier from the 1st Battalion, 17th Iraqi Army Division, holds an Iraqi flag during a handover ceremony with the U.S. military, in Latifiyah, about 20 miles south of Baghdad in Iraq.
• Aug. 12: Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is seen during Armed Forces Day celebrations in Harare. Mugabe praised the country's army for maintaining peace in the country and decorated senior military officials who have supported him in his bid to cling to power.
• Aug. 1: A Chinese man walks out from his home where a gray wall was built just days earlier to present a cleaner image in the neighborhood where Zhang Wei used to live in Beijing. The son of Zhang Wei, a housing activist who was taken by authorities from her home last week, said his mother has been officially detained for a month for "disturbing social order" on Tuesday.
• Aug. 12: Smoke from a vehicle set on fire by protestors emits in the background during the funeral procession of Sheik Abdul Aziz, leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Srinagar, India. Government forces fired at Muslim protesters for a second day Tuesday as they defied a curfew in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing thirteen, police said.
• Aug. 12: Paragliders start to fly during the international paraglide competition "Sky Nomad open 2008" near the town of Sopot some 87 miles east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Competitors from Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Russia will take part in the competition.
• Aug. 12: A tourist walks along the East Side Gallery in Berlin. On Aug. 13, 1961 the communist former East-German government started the erection of the Berlin Wall.
• Aug. 12: A man looks for his luggage amongst thousands of suitcases at Brussels International Airport. Scores of arriving and departing flights were canceled or delayed Tuesday at the Brussels airport where luggage handlers struck for better working conditions for a second day.
• A Pakistani police officer looks down through a hole created by bomb explosion on an overpass in Peshawar, Pakistan. A roadside bomb hit a Pakistan air force truck in the northwestern city, killing 14 people as the military pounded insurgent positions in a nearby tribal region.