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Chilean judge Juan Guzman Tapia (C) speaks with the media about the charges against former dictator Augusto Pinochet in one of many pending cases related to human rights abuses committed during Pinochet's 17-year rule, December 13, 2004. The charges relate to nine disappearances and one death that occurred in the 1970`s as part of Operation Condor, an intelligence-sharing network of South American dictators who helped each other hunt down dissidents. (Reuters)


A frame grab taken from an amateur video made available December 13, 2004, shows masked Palestinain militants loading explosives into a tunnel that they previously dug under a military base near the Rafah border crossing with Israel. Palestinian militants blew up explosives in a tunnel near an Israeli army post on the Gaza-Egypt border on Sunday in a coordinated attack, killing at least four Israeli troops in the deadliest attack since Yasser Arafat's death a month ago kindled new hopes of peace. (Reuters)


Damaged passenger train coaches are seen after a collision in the village of Mansar, 120 Km (75 miles) northeast of the northern Indian city of Amritsar December 14, 2004. Two passenger trains collided with each other in northern India on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 50, officials said. (Reuters)

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