Photos (General)
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![]() A young ethnic Albanian refugee from Kosovo peers over a concrete wall withbarbed wire surrounding a refugee camp set up by Italian civil defense workers near Kukes in northern Albania after his family moved into the compound Wednesday April 7, 1999. Yugoslav authorities shut down the main exit route for ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo to Albania reportedly forcing tens of thousands ofpeople back toward the burning towns and carnage they left behind. (AP Photo/David Brauchli) |
![]() An ethnic Albanian boy eats some chocolate in the arms of woman as refugees line up for food and water at the Stankovic NATO camp in Skopje, Macedonia, Wednesday, April 7, 1999. The tent city is home to 25,000 refugees displaced by the war in neighboring Kosovo. Macedonia has been flooded with more than 130,000 refugees since the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia began two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Ryan Remiorz, CP) |
![]() An unidentified ethnic Albanian refugee lies ill on a stretcher in the Israeli army field hospital in a refugee camp at Stenkovec,on the outskirts of Skopje, Wednesday April 7, 1999. Macedonia has been flooded with more than 130,000 refugees since the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia began two weeks ago.(AP Photo/David Silverman/pool) |
![]() An ethnic Albanian refugee watches his children as they play at the Gazi Osman Pasa refugee camp in the Turkish western city of Kirklareli on Wednesday, April 7, 1999. Over 2,100 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo have been airlifted to Kirklareli near the Turkish-Bulgarian border since Monday, and have been placed in houses, built for ethnic Turks who fled Bulgaria a decade ago. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer) |
![]() Feride Gerguri, 25, left, from the village of Gjuravkovc in Kosovo, holds her son Florin, on her way to the refugee camps in Rozaje, after she walked to the Montenegrin village of Jablanica, Monday, April 12, 1999. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 500,000 people, the vast majority of them ethnic Albanians, have left Kosovo since NATO began its air assault on Yugoslavia on March 24.(AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) |
![]() STENKOVEC, Macedonia (Reuters) - Nejmije Rejep, a 75 year-old ethnic Albanian woman, cries as she arrives with a new group of refugees to the Stenkovac camp Monday. NATO foreign ministers accused Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Monday of creating "a massive humanitarian catastrophe" in Kosovo and warned him not to harm thousands of hungry and desperate ethnic Albanians. Photo by Hazir Reka - (Monday 12 April, 4:10 PM ET) |
![]() The solar eclipse is seen between the minarets of the historical Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on Wednesday August 11, 1999. This is the last solar eclipse of this millenium, which swept accross Europe towards the Bay of Bengal. (AP Photo/Erhan Sevenler/Anatolia) |
![]() This picture combination shows five stages of the solar eclipse over the Mandelbach valley near Saarbruecken, western Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1999. The chronological order begins at left and culminates in the total eclipse on the picture in center. Photos were taken with a 600mm lens. (AP Photo/Becker&Bredel) |
![]() BOTLIKH, Russia (Reuters) - Islamic fighters salute from their fortified position in the village of Ansalata on the front line between Russian forces and separatist rebels in the Botlikh region of southern Dagestan Friday. Photo by Adlan Hasanov |
![]() ROKHATA, Russia (Reuters) - An Islamist rebel watches Russian troops moving at a position near the village of Rokhata in the Botlikhsky district of Dagestan Wednesday. Reuters Photo |
![]() Dagestan volunteers pray during a stop on their way to Botlikh, a mountain region of Dagestan in southern Russia, from Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital, where they will fight against Islamic rebels Saturday, Aug. 14, 1999. (AP Photo/ str) |
![]() A woman lies trapped in rubble next to a companion as rescue workers try to dig her out of her collapsed home in Istanbul Tuesday following an early morning earthquake. A powerful earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale rocked western Turkey on Tuesday, killing more than 100 people and injuring hundreds others. (Reuters) |
![]() Residents and rescue workers try to sift through the rubble of a collapsed five-story apartment building in the Avcilar district of Istanbul Tuesday in the hope of finding relatives alive. Four people died in this building and three were rescued. More than 800 people were killed in the quake, which registered 7.8 on the Richter scale. (Fatih Saribas/Reuters) |