Israeli border policemen block Jewish settlers trying to prevent an army bulldozer from entering the West Bank outpost of Mitzpe Yizhar, near Nablus, 17 May 2004. Around 300 Jewish settlers were in a stand-off with hundreds of Israeli soldiers who were preparing to dismantle the unauthorised settlement outpost in the northern West Bank.
A Haitian police officer takes cover behind a detained President Aristide supporter suspected of disrupting a protest march attended by thousands of countrymen. The rally attended by Haitians who oppose their country's leader turned violent when gunfire broke out several times.
Neighborhood Armagedon. Homes in Sunset Lakes are in the path of flames and smoke from a giant brush fire in Miramar, Florida, March 18, 2004. Believed to be the work of an arsonist, he huge fire has burned out of control for 5 days with well over 3000 acres gone. The fire is now dangerously close to several thousand homes.
Thousands of Kashmiris come to protest the as Indian army bring back the bodies of five people who were killed when a grenade exploded in the hands of a man who was seeking to extort money from a family in Budgam district of Kashmir, March 10, 2004. Locals said the man was a former militant who was extorting money from villagers. Tens of thousands of people have died in Kashmir since the eruption of anti-Indian revolt in the region in 1989. Separatists put the toll at between 80,000 and 100,000.