Snapshots of the Fortnight (August2-14, 2012)

Aug 16, 2012, 11:16 IST3 min
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Two woman hug as community members pay respect to six victims of a mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, at the Oak Creek High School on August, 10, 2012. Suspected gunman, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, who also killed himself at the scene was an army veteran and reportedly a former member of a white supremacist heavy metal band. Three others were critically wounded in the attac
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US army soldiers carry the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of Major Thomas E Kennedy during a dignified transfer at the Dover air force base on August 10, 2012, in Dover, Delaware. Kennedy, who was from West Point, New York, was killed alongside two others while serving in the US army in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Also standing in the ceremonious salute (far l
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Rescue teams search for victims in the earthquake-hit village of Varzaghan in East Azarbaijan on August 11, 2012. Two powerful earthquakes killed 250 people and injured around 1,800 in northwest Iran and its adjoining areas
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A Femen movement protester is detained by police officers during a naked protest in London on August 2, 2012. Two topless women painted with the slogans “Olympic shame” and “No Sharia” protested in front of London's City Hall to draw attention to what they called “bloody Islamist regimes” taking part in the Olympics
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An ethnic Uighur resident receives traditional Chinese medical treatment to cure cervical spondylosis at a hospital in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, on August 3, 2012. The Chinese characters on the sign read, “Prevent slips”
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A doctor displays collected samples of the Ebola virus at the Centre for Disease Control in Entebbe, about 37km southwest of Uganda’s capital Kampala, on August 2, 2012. Residents said they were too scared to go shopping in local markets, visit churches or mosques or travel freely for fear of catching the virus that has already killed 16 people
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A baby rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) plays with a tiger cub at a zoo in Hefei, Anhui province, China, on August 2, 2012
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Ramoncito Campo kisses his wife Hernelie Ruazol Campo on a flooded street during a southwest monsoon that battered Manila on August 8, 2012. The newly-wed couple pushed through with their scheduled wedding despite severe flooding that inundated wide areas of the capital and nine provinces nearby
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People try to recover things that are being washed away by the flood in Boca Del Rio on the outskirts of Veracruz, Mexico, on August 9, 2012. Tropical Storm Ernesto skirted the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, sending wind gusts and showers across the state, home to some of Mexico’s busiest ports and oil installations
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