AS SEEN ON EARTH: Porcupine, Kite, Sulfur Mine Photos

AS SEEN ON EARTH: Porcupine, Kite, Sulfur Mine Photos
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Peshawar, Pakistan, May 26, 2009--A young boy displaced from the Swat Valley sleeps under mosquito netting at a refugee camp.

Pakistan has enmeshed itself in international controversy as civilians have been ousted from their homes due to military battles with the Taliban. Human-rights organizations have called for the country to provide food, water, and medicine to its displaced citizens or risk a humanitarian crisis.

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—Photograph by Emilio Morenatti/AP
 
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