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world in February

Revisiting old wounds (岁月流逝,伤口弥合?)

An Indian woman touches a coffin carrying the remains of relative Feb. 1 in the Guatemalan town of Xolcuay. Excavators(开凿者)who pulled 35 bodies from shallow graves this week believe the bodies constitute nearly all of Xolcuay's inhabitants. They say army soldiers killed the villagers in February 1982 at the height of Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

Innocents in Ireland (爱尔兰的天真)

Catholic schoolchildren play near graffiti supporting the Irish Republican Army's refusal to disarm Feb. 4 in Twinbrook, a Republican neighborhood of Belfast in Northern Ireland. The British government said Northern Ireland's Protestant-Catholic administration would be suspended if the IRA didn’t quickly promise to disarm.

Tornado tragedy (龙卷风之灾)

Bill Hancock receives a hug from his cousin Sara Scoggins in front of the debris left by a Feb. 14 tornado in Albany, Ga., that killed Hancockfather, John E. Hancock.

Sweethearts (世纪风雨,濡沫白头)

Willie Ferguson, 104, gives 89-year-old Mattie Walls a rose and a kiss for ValentineDay at a party in Natchez, Miss.

Mourning in Chechnya (车臣的葬礼)

A Chechen woman stands near the body of one of her two sisters killed during the Russian attack on Grozny on Feb. 12.

Suicide threat (自杀威胁)

A Turkish military officer holds a pistol to his head in an aborted suicide attempt after climbing onto a monument in Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Feb. 14. He was eventually detained by security forces without firing a shot and taken to hospital for a psychological assessment.

Fishing for votes (不莱德利的额选票)

On the campaign trail in Seattle, Democratic presidential contender Bill Bradley clowns with employees at the Pike Place Fish Co. on Feb. 11.

Emotional testimony (我们没有故意杀他)

New York City police officer Sean Carroll, a defendant in the shooting of Amadou Diallo(纽约警察枪杀黑人案), becomes emotional during Feb. 14 testimony in Albany County Court, N.Y.

A change in Iran? (伊朗变了?)

An Iranian man uses a telephone in Tehran Motahari seminary on Feb. 17 as the nation‘'s voters go to the polls. A nearby poster features the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose 21-year-old Islamic revolution is under fire by reformists who hope to gain power in parliament when the votes are counted.

In the storm’s wake

A Mozambican man helps his wife cross the flooded highway to Xhai Xhai from Maputo on Feb. 22 in the aftermath of Cyclone Eline, a storm strong enough to overturn the bus in the background.

Taking a punch (重奖之下,铁拳无情)

Namibia’s Henry Simon hits Argentina's Enrique Areco on Feb. 19 during a WBO Middleweight World title fight in Dagenham, England.

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