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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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Activists of Pakistan People's party decorating an area near the Presidential palace Parliament with banner of their slain leader Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari, Friday, Sept 5, 2008 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Zardari who is running for President of Pakistan will get votes on Saturday in the Parliament.
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France's Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner speaks during a news conference for an informal EU foreign ministers meeting (GYMNICH) in Avignon, southern France, September 5, 2008.
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TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 05: Actress Renee Zellweger speaks at the "Appaloosa" press conference during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival held at the Sutton Place Hotel on September 5, 2008 in Toronto, Canada.
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Italy's Claudia Pettazzoni (L) and Peru's Fidel Rios kiss each other to win the IKE, the International underwater kissing event in Riccione on July 20, 2008. The couple won the world's longest underwater kiss title with a time of 1 minutes and 51 seconds.
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A model presents a creation by Belarussian designer Dmitry Prigozhaev during the International Festival of Vanguard Art, Mammoth, in Minsk November 17, 2007.
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Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) arrives to accept the nomination. at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008.
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ST. PAUL, MN - SEPTEMBER 04: Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pauses while speaking during day four of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Xcel Energy Center on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will accept the GOP nomination for U.S. President Thursday night.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (2ndR), flanked by President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (L) and President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov (2ndL), walk during Collective Security Treaty Organization summit on September 5, 2008 in Moscow. The members of CSTO have been unambiquously negative in their assessment of Georgia's action to South Ossetia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) gestures as he talks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Moscow on September 5, 2008. Medvedev said that leaders of six ex-Soviet states attending a summit in Moscow had unanimously supported Russia over last month's military intervention in Georgia.
Indian flood-affected villagers collect food packets from flood waters after they were distributed by National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) personnel in Vaimani village, Madhepura district of India's northeastern state of Bihar, some 450 km north-east of Patna, on September 5, 2008. Rescue workers in flood-hit northern India have brought over 800,000 people to safety, but tens of thousands more are still believed to be trapped, officials said. Large swathes of the already impoverished state of Bihar were flooded after defences upstream in Nepal broke, shifting the flow of the Kosi river away from its normal course and onto farmland. Around 100 people are confirmed to have died in the floods, but the real number is certain to be far higher as many were simply washed away by the deep water and strong currents that swept through rural areas.
