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US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pauses in prayer as he visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, during prayers marking Tisha B'Av in Jerusalem's Old City July 29, 2012. Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting and lament, is traditionally the date in the Jewish calendar on which the First and Second Temples were destroyed, respectively in the sixth century B.C. by the Babylonians and the first century A.D. by the Romans in Jerusalem. [Photo/Agencies] |
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Local residents carry a ladder as they try to extinguish a fire that broke out at a Sufi shrine in Srinagar June 25, 2012. According to local media reports on Monday, the cause of the fire, as well as the casualty count and extent of damages, are still unknown. [Photo/Agencies] |