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  • A Buddhist monk enters the formidable doors of Trongsa Dzong, the Ancestral home of Bhutan's monarchy. The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has sat in isolation for thousands of years and only recently has been thrust into the glare of modern times after centuries of solitude. Bhutan is a tiny, remote, and impoverished country wedged precariously between two powerful neighbors, India and China. Violent storms coming off the Himalaya gave the country its name, meaning "Land of the Thunder Dragon." This conservative Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalaya had no paved roads until the 1960s, was off-limits to foreigners until 1974, and launched television only in 1999 .
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  • Ali Ipak  feeds their turkeys that were given to them by the Food and Agricultural Organization telefood project December 13, 2005 in central Turkey, Konya in Kutoren district, about 400 kilometers from Ankara. The projects are meant to improve rural poor families livelihoods. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A child holds a mushroom in a village in Rwanda in 2004, ten years after the Rwandan genocide when at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and thousands of moderate Hutus in Rwanda were killed.  Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage of the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, most first-world countries including France, Belgium and the United States declined to intervene or speak out against the planned massacres.
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  • An Indian prays in the holy Ganges river December 11, 2001 in Varanasi, India.  The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the holy city of Varanasi  according to Hare Krishna devotees.
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  • Shah Jaha Kabir Ali Shaikh, 18, who was burned by mobs of Hindu rioters on February 28, recovers inside a refugee camp inside a mosque in Ahmedabad, India, May 12, 2002. Thousands of people who fled their homes are still living in squalid conditions since a wave of revenge killings and clashes erupted in late February.
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