August 28 2006, Wajir, Kenya: US Senator Barack Obama is dressed as a Somali elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan during his visit to Wajir, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. Obama's campaign team have accused Hillary Clinton's staff of circulating the photo of him as part of a smear operationPhotograph: EPANovember 19 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam: George Bush and Vladimir Putin, both wearing Vietnamese ao dai silk tunics, take part in an official photograph for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summitPhotograph: Jim Watson/AFPJanuary 13 1997, Pakistan: The British prime minister John Major shakes hands with an elder of the Afridi tribe, while wearing a traditional Pakistani turban presented to him by tribesmen in the northwestern region of Landi KotalPhotograph: B.K. Bangash/AP
April 4 2008, Ahmadabad, India: Bill Clinton wears a garland and traditional Gujarati turban. The former US president had been visiting earthquake-affected areas of the Indian state to raise funds for victimsPhotograph: Siddharth Darshan/APNovember 21 2004, Santiago, Chile: Bush and Putin again, this time wearing Chilean ponchos for the official photo session at La Moneda presidential palace during an earlier Apec summitPhotograph: Tim Sloan/AFPNovember 3 2006, Nurek, Tajikistan: The German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in traditional Tajik dressPhotograph: Peer Grimm/PASeptember 14 2003, Sambalakro, Ivory Coast: The French interior minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, in a local Baoule outfit, is greeted by village womenPhotograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFPJune 15 2004, London, UK: Ken Livingstone, on the election trail in Newham, visiting the Ramgarhia Sikh templePhotograph: Rex
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