Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:20:01 +0100 (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who currently serves as congressman, smiles during a break at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City January 26, 2012. Rios Montt, who ruled the country from 1980-1982 during a bloody civil war, went to the Supreme Court of Justice to declare for the genocide accusations committed during the armed conflict. Rios Montt is one of those accused by Spain of genocide during the 36-year conflict in which some 250,000 people died and 45,000 disappeared from 1960-1996. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
Recently-freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (L) sits next to ...
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Recently-freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (L) sits next to Christophe Bigot, the French ambassador to Israel, during their meeting at the French embassy in Tel Aviv January 11, 2012. During the meeting, Shalit gave the ambassador a letter addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Shalit returned home in October 2011 in a thousand-for-one prisoner swap which ended his five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Jack Guez/Pool (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A Malaysian customs officer inspects recently seized elephant ...
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:40:02 +0100 (Reuters) - A Malaysian customs officer inspects recently seized elephant tusks in Port Klang outside Kuala Lumpur January 9, 2012. Malaysia's customs authorities has foiled an international syndicate’s attempt to smuggle about half a tonne of elephant tusks worth 2.4 million ringgit ($764,330) into the country, as reported by Malaysia's daily The Star. The customs discovered the tusks on Friday when inspecting a shipping container from South Africa stashed in 53 television boxes, which had been put down in the declaration form as carrying polyester and nylon strand matting. Picture taken January 9, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer (MALAYSIA - Tags: ANIMALS CRIME LAW)
Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, currently head of ...
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:40:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, currently head of UN Women, speaks at a conference for women on Health, Development and Women in Politics, in Asuncion December 12, 2011. Bachelet is visiting Paraguay till Tuesday. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno (PARAGUAY - Tags: POLITICS)
Mrs Claudia Steinman, center, on behalf of her recently deceased ...
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:10:02 +0100 (AP) - Mrs Claudia Steinman, center, on behalf of her recently deceased husband the 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology or Medicine Ralph Steinman from Canada, bows after receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, center right, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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