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A catholic and a protestant priest sit in the middle of the soccer pitch of German second division Bundesliga team MSV Duisburg during the official farewell ceremony for the 21 stampede victims July 31. Only a couple of hundred mourners gathered in the Duisburg stadium on Saturday to mourn the death of 21 techno fans when hordes of young people pushed through a tunnel into the techno festival in the western German city last week. Photo:Wolfgang Rattay/REUTERS
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A firefighter works to extinguish forest fires on the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh July 31. Forest fires sweeping across European Russia on Friday killed at least 25 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago. Photo: Sergei Karpukhin/REUTERS
A giant photo mosaic, measuring 250 feet by 200 feet of the late President Corazon "Cory" Aquino is unfurled to commemorate her first death anniversary at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, Phillipines, July 31. Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, who ousted one of the 20th Century's most corrupt dictators to become a global icon of democracy, died on August 1, 2009. Photo: Cheryl Ravelo/REUTERS
Members of Hamas' security forces are seen through the window of a vehicle as they survey the damage after Israeli air strikes at a training camp in Gaza City July 31. Israel carried out air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the city of Ashkelon, witnesses said.Photo: Mohammed Salem/REUTERS
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