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WEEK IN PHOTOS: Meteor Show, Octopus Body Art, More
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Gori, Georgia, August 9, 2008Emotion overwhelms a Georgian man as he cradles the body of a relative killed when Russian warplanes bombed a Gori apartment block.

By August 14, a tenuous ceasefire in the week-old war was still being contested in the key Georgian city, which is near the Russian-supported separarist province South Ossetia.

The future of South Ossetia and another breakaway province, Abkhazia, remains unclearas do the long-term consequences of the Russian invasion.

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