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  • Pic by Heathcliff O'malley.The Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq,who after years of persecution and their habitat destroyed by the hands of the dictator Saddam Hussein,have begun returning to their recently reflooded homeland,south of Nasiriyah.They hope to rebuild their lives in what they hope will be a more just and humane New Iraq,but also to rise from the abject poverty that they have known throughout their history.
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  • A Marsh Arab makes his way through an avenue of reeds by canoe...The Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq, who after years of persecution and their habitat destroyed by the hands of the dictator Saddam Hussein have begun returning to their recently re-flooded homeland, south of Nasiriyah. They plan to rebuild their lives in what they hope will be a more just and humane New Iraq, but also to rise from the abject poverty that they have known throughout their history...5 April 2004 , Iraq
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  • Street scene and Vintage American car ,Havana,Cuba. Due to ownership restrictions and U.S embargoes thousands of vintage pre 1960's cars can be found across Cuba in various states of repair.
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  • Che Guevara mural,Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana,Cuba
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  • Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana,Cuba
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  • Street Scene, Havana,Cuba.
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  • The famous Floridita Restaurant and Daiquiri bar that author Ernest Hemmingway frequented in central Havana,Cuba.
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  • Domino players in the shade of a bulding's colonade near the Malecon ,Havana,Cuba.
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  • Cubans relax along the famous 7km long Malecon sea wall bulit during the U.S occupation in 1901 that faces the Florida Straits in Havana,Cuba.
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  • Cubans relax along the famous 7km long Malecon sea wall bulit during the U.S occupation in 1901 that faces the Florida Straits in Havana,Cuba.
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  • An elderly woman walks by in the town of Devprayag, a centre for pilrimage in the foothills of the Himalayas,and the confluence of Bhagirathia and Alaknanda tributaries, where the great river Ganges starts.<br />
The Ganges is 1557 miles long and stretches from the Himalayas to the Indian Port of Calcutta supplying water to one twelth of the worlds population. . The Ganges is worshipped by the Hindu faith and is believed to be not only a source of life but also able to wash one's sins away, and Hindu's from across the globe make pilgrimage to the river referring to it as Ma Ganga.
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  • Varanasi, India. Friday 16 March.The "Ganga Aarti" ceremony which takes place every evening at the Dasaswamedh Ghat in Varanasi, one of the holiest cities in India which is situated on the western bank of the Ganges River and attracts Hindu pilgrims from across the Globe who come to the Varanasi ghats (steps) to bathe in the waters of Ma Ganga..  Alongside the bathing ghats are also "burning ghats" where bodies are cremated in public, the ashes then given to the waters..     The Ganges river is 1557 miles long and stretches from the Himalayas to the Indian Port of Calcutta, supplying water to one twelth of the worlds population. .
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Mughal Serai, Uttar Pradesh, India..Indian Railway Logo on a train at Mughal Serain Train Station near the holy city of Varanasi, where many of the express trains from Dehli to Calcutta stop.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Bihar State, India..Locals from the town of Mokama, in Bihar , India's most lawless state, celebrate a partial solar eclipse by taking a holy dip, Puja, before paying their respects at the local Shrine to the god Shiva.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Calcutta, West Bengal, India 23 March 2007..Street scenes in the West Bengal capital of Calcutta, located in Eastern India on the bank of the River Hooghly, it has a population of 6 Million, making it the fourth largest city in India..  Formerly the Capital of the British Raj until it was moved to Dehli in 1911, Calcutta has been ruled by the Marxist CPI(M) party for the past three decades, making it the longest running democratically elected Communist government in the world.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Sagar Island, West Bengal, India 25 March 2007..<br />
Muslim women scour for coins left by Hindu Pilgrims in the sand on Gangasagar beach..Gangasagar is situated on the southern tip of Sagar Island in the bay of Bengal where the River Ganges finally meets the ocean after it's 1500 mile journey from the Himalayas. Annually the island plays host to hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims .who take part in the Gangasagar Mela festival bathing en masse,washing away their sins.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Sagar Island, West Bengal, India 25 March 2007..<br />
Muslim women scour for coins left by Hindu Pilgrims in the sand on Gangasagar beach..Gangasagar is situated on the southern tip of Sagar Island in the bay of Bengal where the River Ganges finally meets the ocean after it's 1500 mile journey from the Himalayas. Annually the island plays host to hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims .who take part in the Gangasagar Mela festival bathing en masse,washing away their sins.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Moscow 29 October 2007.Russian Dolls, including one of the incumbent Russian President Vladimir  Putin on a stall close to Moscow's Red Square.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Moscow 29 October 2007.Sightseers near St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, which was built in the 16th century to celebrate Ivan the Terrible's capture of the Tartar stronghold of Kazan.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Moscow 29 October 2007.Sightseers near St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, which was built in the 16th century to celebrate Ivan the Terrible's capture of the Tartar stronghold of Kazan.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Wealthy Russian Newly weds celebrate outside the walls of the old Kremlin in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Russian prison officers after a visit to the Kul Sharif Mosque in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Muslim Russians worshipping at the Kul Sharif Mosque in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan. Statistics show that the Russian Muslims population could overtake the Christian Orthodox in the next thirty years.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Samara 5 November 2007.A Soyuz Space Rocket in the centre of the City of Samara, a reminder of the city's involvement in Russia's Space Programme..  Samara lies on the eastern bank of the river Volga and not only hosted the beginning of the Russian Civil war but was also the "second capital" during WWII and Stalin's bunker was situated here. Nowadays apart from being Oil rich, it also has one of the highest rates of AIDS in the country.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox paraphernalia at the  "Clinic of the Yekaterinburg City without Drugs" founded  by Yevgeny Roizman, suspected ex-Russian Mafia and member of the Duma (Parliament) , where addicts are handcuffed to their beds for the first 27 days of their rehabilitation..Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yekaterinburg 7 November 2007.Die-hard Communists celebrate the "Day of the Great October Revolution" once a public holiday, but now disregarded by the new regime..  Yekaterinburg was the site of the slaughter by Bolsheviks revolutionaries of the Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918 and in the 1990's suffered from open Mafia warfare on it's streets but is now a thriving city once again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Nizhny Tagil 9 November 2007.The Industrial town of Nizhny Tagil 150km from Yekaterinburg in the Urals, an area rich minerals, which has one of the highest rates of pollution the country.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Yakutsk 22 November 2007.A snowbound Lada car in the village of Khomustakh outside of Yakutsk, in the Outer Far East of Russia .
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Irkutsk 19-20 November 2007.A central market in the city of Irkutsk , eastern Siberia's trade and administrative centre,which lies just west of Lake Baikal, was founded in 1651 as a Cossack Garrison and is now a thriving post soviet city.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Irkutsk 19-20 November 2007.Fresh fish for sale including the local "Omu" in the central market in the city of Irkutsk , eastern Siberia's trade and administrative centre,which lies just west of Lake Baikal, was founded in 1651 as a Cossack Garrison and is now a thriving post soviet city.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Ulan Ude 21 November 2007.The City of Ulan Ude , east of Lake Baikal and just north of the Mongolian border, and home to the worlds largest Lenin head which is in the main square. The indigenous population which stands at about 30 percent are the Buryats, a mongol people, and Buddhist Datsan temples are beginning to sprout up around the city again.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Ulan Ude - Khabarovsk  22 November 2007.A woman's face peers through the window of a " Rossiya" Trans Siberian railway carriage.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Vladivostok, Russia 25 November 2007.Russian sailors walking along the sea-front promenade in the City of Vladivostok in Far Eastern Russia, which is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and was a closed city until 1992.
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  • Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Vladivostok, Russia 25 November 2007.A market in a disused stadium with stalls mainly owned by Chinese immigrants in the City of Vladivostok in Far Eastern Russia, which is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and was a closed city until 1992.
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..High rise buildings in the ever-changing skyline of Hong Kong..With the cost of living rising and a complicated state benefit system, many are now finding it difficult to support themselves, especially the elderly...Hong Kong 5 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..Densely populated Hong Kong..With the cost of living rising and a complicated state benefit system, many are now finding it difficult to support themselves, especially the elderly...Hong Kong 5 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..High rise apartments in densely populated Hong Kong..With the cost of living rising and a complicated state benefit system, many are now finding it difficult to support themselves, especially the elderly...Hong Kong 5 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..People crossing Hennessy Road, in the Causeway Bay area of central Hong Kong...Hong Kong 6 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..Neon signs on Lockhart Road in the Causeway Bay area of central Hong Kong...Hong Kong 6 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..People on the Yee Wo Street crossing close to the Sogo department store, in the Causeway Bay area of central Hong Kong...Hong Kong 6 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..Men dressed for a wedding in the Causeway Bay area of central Hong Kong...Hong Kong 6 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..A fisherman paddles his way out of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong...Hong Kong 6 October 2011
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  • Mcc0034623 .  Daily Telegraph..People on the Yee Wo Street crossing close to the Sogo department store, in the Causeway Bay area of central Hong Kong...Hong Kong 6 October 2011
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  • Mcc0044919 . Daily Telegraph..A Buddhist monk walks along one of the terraces of the stupa on the 2500 year old Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma, the oldest Pagoda in the world with a 99 metre high Stupa, covered in genuine gold plate and topped with 76 carat diamond...Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Mcc0044919 . Daily Telegraph..The 2500 year old Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma, the oldest Pagoda in the world with a 99 metre high Stupa, covered in genuine gold plate and topped with 76 carat diamond. It reportedly holds ..Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Buddhist nuns at the  Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma, the oldest Pagoda in the world with a 99 metre high Stupa, covered in genuine gold plate and topped with 76 carat diamond. It reportedly holds ..Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Mcc0044919 . Daily Telegraph..Young Buddhist nuns at the  Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma, the oldest Pagoda in the world with a 99 metre high Stupa, covered in genuine gold plate and topped with 76 carat diamond. It reportedly holds ..Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Burmese outside a cinema in central Yangon(Rangoon) . ..Rangoon 19 January  2013
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  • The Sule Paya Road in Rangoon, Burma..Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Mcc0044919 . Daily Telegraph..A Buddhist nun walks through a market in Chinatown on Rangoon's Mahabandoola Road . With the recent democratic reforms in Myanmar(Burma) and the lifting of international sanctions, investment is now booming and tourism slowly increasing ...Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Mcc0044919 . Daily Telegraph..DT Features.. Burmese couples watch the sun set on Inya Lake in central Yangon (Rangoon) . With the recent democratic reforms in Myanmar(Burma) and the lifting of international sanctions, investment is now booming and tourism slowly increasing ...Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Mcc0044919 . Daily Telegraph..DT Features..The golden stupa of the Shwedagon Paya reflected in Kandawgyi Lake in central Yangon (Rangoon) . With the recent democratic reforms in Myanmar(Burma) and the lifting of international sanctions, investment is now booming and tourism slowly increasing ...Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Mcc0044919 . Daily Telegraph..DT Features..The golden stupa of the Shwedagon Paya reflected in Kandawgyi Lake in central Yangon (Rangoon) . With the recent democratic reforms in Myanmar(Burma) and the lifting of international sanctions, investment is now booming and tourism slowly increasing ...Rangoon 20 January  2013
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  • Staff at the Nilar Biryani restaurant on Anawratha Rd, central Yangon (Rangoon) . With the recent democratic reforms in Myanmar(Burma) and the lifting of international sanctions, investment is now booming and tourism slowly increasing ...Rangoon 20 January  2013
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