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A girl looks at a tank's turret, which was hurled back into a building by the armored vehicle's explosion, during recent fighting in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. Russia's parliament voted unanimously Monday to urge the president to recognize the independence of Georgia's two breakaway regions, stoking further tension between Moscow and the small Caucasus nation's Western allies. After Georgia tried to reassert control of South Ossetia by force Aug. 7, Russian troops overwhelmed the Georgians, and for nearly two weeks occupied positions deep within Georgia.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)