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EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY
Enis Yalil, seven-year old earthquake survivor is comforted by
his mother in a kindergarten at a tentcity in Golcuk, Turkey,
Sunday August 29, 1999. According to the UNICEF officials,
the earthquake that devastated northwestern Turkey
on August 17, made about 600,000 people homeless, including
220,000 children. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)



EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY
Kai Pfaffenbach/ Reuters
Turkish soldiers line up the bodies of earthquake victims in a skating rink
in the city of Izmit on Wednesday, while a relative of one victim leaves
the stadium crying. Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company


EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY
A city worker holds a mother cat and her new kitten in Yalova, Turkey,
Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. The small family was rescued Friday after
surviving last week's devastating earthquake in Turkey. The pair were
found in a destroyed apartment building, which looked much like the
one in the background. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)



EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY
A 13-year-old girl identified only as Ozge
looks through a hole in the rubble of a
collapsed building while waiting to be rescued. (AP)


EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY
Fatma Tandogan, 51-year-old an earthquake survivor, weeps as
she looks for her belongings in her collapsed house in Golcuk,
Turkey, Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. Turkish officials acknowledged for
the first time Friday that the number of those left homeless by last
week's massive earthquake could top half a million. The
government is now projecting it will need to build about 100,000 to
120,000 new homes for quake victims, said Harun Aslan,
spokesman for the Ministry of Housing and Public Works. (AP
Photo/Murad Sezer)



A full moon rises at dusk Thursday behind a pedestrian crossing
over Vancouver's Granville Street Bridge. (Mike Blake/Reuters)


CHECHNYA
A Chechen girl waits for permission to cross the border into Ingushetia,
as she and her family escape Russian air attacks on the Chechen
capital Monday. Russia launched fresh air strikes Monday against
Islamic militants it says are hiding in breakaway Chechnya, killing
atleast seven civilians and setting oil installations ablaze in the capital
Grozny. (Reuters)



EARTHQUAKE IN TAIWAN
As rescue worker shades the eyes of a man
Sunday who had been entombed in the rubble
following Taiwan's mammoth earthquake for
 more than five days as he is hoisted to safety.
The man and his brother were found deep in
Taipei's collapsed Sungshan Hotel after rescuers
had all but given up hope of finding anyone
alive. Fifty or more people were believed still
buried in the hotel, many of them children.
(Reuters)


CHECHNYA
Holding portraits of the late Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev (L) and
current President Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen women protest against
Russian air attacks on the Chechen capital Monday. Russia launched
fresh air strikes Monday against Islamic militants it says are hiding in
breakaway Chechnya, killing at least seven civilians and setting oil
installations ablaze in the capital Grozny. (Reuters)



CHECHNYA
An elderly Chechen woman Tuesday wipes her face as she looks through a window at the Altiyevskaya dairy farm in Nazran (Reuters)



 

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