RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- NOVEMBER 17: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (C) and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) laugh as Saudi King Abdullah (R) looks on during the opening session of the third OPEC Summit on November 17, 2007 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez started the summit by criticising US hostility to Iran and warning that crude oil prices could rise to $150 if the US was to attack Iran. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- NOVEMBER 17: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (C) and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) laugh as Saudi King Abdullah (R) looks on during the opening session of the third OPEC Summit on November 17, 2007 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez started the summit by criticising US hostility to Iran and warning that crude oil prices could rise to $150 if the US was to attack Iran.

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  1. Local fishermen come ashore on a small boat stained with oil at Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela's western state of Zulia July 6, 2010. The area has been blighted in recent weeks by several leaks from the tangle of antiquated pipes, pumps and other oil installations that crisscross the lake, one of the oldest energy hubs in the Latin American OPEC member. Picture taken July 6, 2010.
  2. Secretary General of OPEC Abdalla Salem El Badri, center, speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday, June 28, 2010. The head of OPEC said on Monday he hopes the U.S. government will re-examine President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. At left is OPEC President and Ecuadorian Oil Minister Wilson Pastor Morris, and right is the Governor of OPEC Diego Armijos-Hidaldo.
  3. (L-R) Iranian Ministry of Energy Affairs Alireza Hamidi Younessi, Iranian minister of petroleum Masoud Mirkazemi, president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) conference Wilson Pastor Morris, Ecuador's governor for OPEC Diego Armijos-Hidalgo, secretary general of OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri hold a press conference with EU commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger (Not seen) on June 28, 2010 at the end of the seventh ministerial level meeting of the energy dialogue between the EU and the OPEC at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.
  4. Secretary general of The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Abdalla Salem El-Badri holds a press conference on June 28, 2010 at the end of the seventh ministerial level meeting of the energy dialogue between the EU and the OPEC at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.
  5. A man stirs the water to show the oil spill in the river in Ogoni region of the Niger Delta June 10, 2010. Nigeria's main militant group said its fighters clashed with soldiers in the creeks of the oil-producing Niger Delta on Thursday, but the military denied any such shoot-out had taken place. The clash would be the first such unrest in the OPEC member nation's oil heartland for several months, following an amnesty for militants agreed with the government last year.
  6. A boy standing in a canoe holds a hose to siphon oil from a spillage site on a river in Bodo community in Ogoni region of the Niger Delta June 10, 2010. Nigeria's main militant group said its fighters clashed with soldiers in the creeks of the oil-producing Niger Delta on Thursday, but the military denied any such shoot-out had taken place. The clash would be the first such unrest in the OPEC member nation's oil heartland for several months, following an amnesty for militants agreed with the government last year.
  7. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) welcomes Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul as Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki looks on during an official meeting in Tehran July 15, 2010.
  8. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, meets with Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rasoul, at the presidency office, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 15, 2010.
  9. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) welcomes his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon the latter's arrival at Al-Shaab presidential palace in Damascus on February 25, 2010. On the eve of Ahmadinejadj's visit, the Obama administration said it was pressing Syria to move away from ally Iran and stop arming Hezbollah. Syria had announced earlier that Ahmadinejad will visit Damascus to hold talks with Assad, whose government says it wants to help Iran and the West engage in a 'constructive' dialogue over the program.
  10. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) review the honour guard at Damascus airport 19 January 2006. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began on today a two-day visit to Syria, Tehran's only regional ally, as both countries struggle to fend off mounting international pressure.
  11. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad (L) review an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony in Tehran 17 February 2007. Bashar al-Assad today arrived in Iran, his country's closest regional ally, for talks with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders, official media said.
  12. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at news conference in Nigeria's capital Abuja July 8, 2010. Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that sanctions imposed by "arrogant" Western powers would not slow the country's progress on its nuclear programme.
  13. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, center, receives Saudi King Abdullah, left, and Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, upon their arrival at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 30, 2010. The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia launched an unprecedented effort Friday to defuse fears of violence over upcoming indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
  14. Saudi King Abdullah, left, and Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, talk to each other as they step off the plane upon their arrival at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday ,July 30, 2010. The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia have launched an unprecedented effort to defuse fears of violence over upcoming indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Many fear that new violence between Lebanon's Shiite and Sunni communities could break out if the international tribunal investigating Hariri's death implicates the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which is Syria's main ally in Lebanon.
  15. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (L) and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) arrive at Beirut international airport July 30, 2010. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew to Beirut on Friday in an unprecedented joint visit, to try to ease tension over a U.N.-backed tribunal that may indict Hezbollah members in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri.
  16. A billboard depicting Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is erected near al-Amin mosque in downtown Beirut July 30, 2010. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and King Abdullah will travel together to Beirut on Friday to try to calm tension over a tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri.

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  2. A renovated hall of Pera Palace is seen, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, July 30, 2010. It was the last stop on the Orient Express, a grand hotel with Istanbul's first electric elevator where artists and aristocrats sipped champagne beneath chandeliers as the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the world drifted toward war. On Sept. 1, the Pera Palace will re-open after a two-year restoration that cost euro23 million ($30 million), seeking to capture the lost sparkle of what was one of Istanbul's most prominent landmarks.
  3. Exterior view of the U.S. Embassy in Paris Friday, July 30, 2010 where two of its employees are undergoing medical tests after handling a suspicious letter. Embassy spokesman Paul Patin says employees in the mailroom identified a "suspicious letter" and French authorities were summoned to examine it.
  4. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, right, meets with Saudi King Abdullah, center, and Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, upon their arrival at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 30, 2010. The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia launched an unprecedented effort Friday to defuse fears of violence over upcoming indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
  5. US Embassy spokesman Paul Patin uses his mobile phone prior to deliver a statement to the media next to the U.S. Embassy in Paris Friday ,July 30, 2010 where two of its employees are undergoing medical tests after handling a suspicious letter. Embassy spokesman Paul Patin says employees in the mailroom identified a "suspicious letter" and French authorities were summoned to examine it.
  6. Sri Lankan cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara, center, interacts with India's Rahul Dravid, right, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni on the last day of the second test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 30, 2010.
  7. A man walks past a painting in memory of a couple, killed during the November 26, 2008 terror attacks, on a grafitti wall in Mumbai on July 30, 2010.
  8. BARCELONA, SPAIN - JULY 30: Jessica Ennis of Great Britain competes in the Womens Heptathlon High Jump during day four of the 20th European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on July 30, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain.
  9. A British Airways airplane comes in over the top of houses to land at Heathrow Airport in west London July 30, 2010. British Airways still expects to break even in the full year, despite reporting wider first quarter losses due to the impact of volcanic ash and strike-related disruption, the company reported on July 30, 2010.
  10. Jessica Ennis from Britain reacts after she cleared the bar at 1.89 metres during the high jump event of the women's heptathlon at the European Athletics Championships in the Olympic stadium in Barcelona July 30, 2010.
  11. Ecuadorean sculptor Mario Tapio works on his sculpture at the Damascus International Sculpture Symposium July 30, 2010.
  12. Paula Creamer of the U.S. hits her tee shot on the second hole during the second round of the British Women's Open golf tournament at Royal Birkdale in Southport, northern England, July 30, 2010.
  13. Journalists film on July 30, 2010 the house where skeletal remains of six newborn babies were found in the northern village of Villers-au-Tertre. The mother, Dominic Cottrez, who admitted to have kill eight of her babies, is charged with the 'deliberate homicides of minors under the age of 15', while the father, Pierre-Marie Cottrez has been freed without charge.
  14. CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 30: Hawke's Bay coach Peter Russell walks on the pich before the start of the round one ITM Cup match between Canterbury and Hawkes Bay at AMI Stadium on July 30, 2010 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
  15. LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 30: A man looks at a row of the new cycles after the launch of London's first ever cycle hire scheme on July 30, 2010 in London, England. It is hoped that the flagship cycling scheme which comprises of a total of 5000 bikes spread over 315 docking stations across the capital will help build on the growth in cycle journeys taken on London's major roads.
  16. Ukraine's Hanna Melnychenko during the women's heptathlon high jump at the 2010 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona on July 30, 2010.