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Five hundred and thirty five police officers graduated during a ceremony at the interior ministry in Kabul, awarded by the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai.
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March of Millions takes place in Moscow. Thousands of people marched alongside the Garden Ring and then rallied on the Academician Sakharov Prospect protesting the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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In a tent camp on Khreshchatyk street, people hold a rally titled "300 days since the arrest of former Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko and placed in the prison system for being found guilty of an illegal gas deal with Russia.
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Meeting of newly elected Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and former president, candidate for prime minister, Boris Tadic in Belgrade.
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President Karzai and President Obama sign a long term strategic document in Kabul, due to this agreement US will help Afghanistan and training of Afghan security forces and other social projects.
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Taliban insurgents claimed a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, shortly after US President Barack Obama left the city after an overnight visit.
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Julia Tymoshenko, the braided darling of Ukraine's Orange Revolution who went on to be prime minister becomes covered in prison. She recently went on hunger strike to be released and is now bruised from prison beatings her family says.
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Armenia Marks the Genocide Anniversary at the Genocide Monument overlooking the capital. In 1915, 300 Armenian leaders, writers, thinkers and professionals in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) were rounded up and deported or killed.
