Members of India's Dhangar community in the western state of Maharashtra stage a strike calling for the government to classify them as ''Scheduled Tribes'' which would entitle them to government jobs and education benefits [AFP]
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US soldiers salute during a mass enlistment ceremony at the Al-Faw Palace, one of Saddam Hussein's former residences, on US independence day [AFP]
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An Afghan woman walks through an old part of the capital Kabul [AFP]
A boy covers his head during a rain storm at the Kabo internally dispaced persons' camp in the Central African Republic [Reuters]
A wrestler prepares before to compete at the annual traditional oil wrestling tournament in Sarayici in the western Turkish city of Edirne [Reuters]
A Chinese soldier removes algae from a beach near the Olympic Sailing Centre in the city of Qingdao [AFP]
Pakistani religious students offer Friday prayers inside the Red Mosque in Islamabad on the first anniversary of a raid by Pakistani security forces which left about 100 people dead [AFP]
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Firefighters tend to a burning redwood tree during a wildfire in Big Sur, one of more than 1,000 blazes across California that have blackened nearly a half million acres [Reuters]
Bodybuilders flex their muscles during the "Mr and Mrs Muscle Beach" event in Venice Beach, California [AFP]
