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  2. Employees of the National Agency for Employment (Pole Emploi) demonstrate in Marseille, November 10, 2009. Unions have called a nationwide strike all over France to protest against a deterioration of working conditions. The placard reads "All on strike".
  3. An Afghan girl watches the U.S. Army's 3/509 Infantry 4BDE25ID Task Force Geronimo's patrol in Patika province November 10, 2009.
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  5. Israeli President Shimon Peres (R) and Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim shake hands during a meeting in Brasilia, on November 10, 2009. Peres is on a four-day official visit to Brazil.
  6. LAS VEGAS - NOVEMBER 10: GameStop worker Brandon Khan (L) sells David Riddick of Nevada a copy of the highly-anticipated video game 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' at a GameStop Corp. store early November 10, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. planned to release the sixth installment in the 'Call of Duty' franchise at midnight in 10,000 stores in the United States.
  7. A carpet vendor awaits costumers in Rawalpindi, on the outskirts of capital Islamabad, on November 10, 2009. The United States has put Pakistan on the frontline of its war against islamist terror networks, increasingly disturbed by deteriorating security in the country where suicide attacks and bombings have killed around 2,500 people in 28 months.
  8. Palestinian honor guards stand at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah a day before the fifth anniversary of Arafat's death on November 10, 2009. Five years after the leader passed away, the Palestinians are fiercely divided and no closer to their dream of statehood, with the divergent paths of peaceful negotiations and armed struggle both at an apparent impasse.
  9. MILAN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 10: Baby Nel Cuore President Simonetta Tugnoli Frabboni poses after the 'eforpeople.com' Supports Abruzzo Earthquake Victims: Press Conference on November 10, 2009 in Milan, Italy.'epeople.com has been created by Baby nel Cuore, an italian voluntary organisation who promotes welfare programmes and child sponsoring in the Third World.
  10. Palestinian honor guards stand at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah a day before the fifth anniversary of Arafat's death on November 10, 2009. Five years after the leader passed away, the Palestinians are fiercely divided and no closer to their dream of statehood, with the divergent paths of peaceful negotiations and armed struggle both at an apparent impasse.
  11. Juan Monaco, of Argentina, returns the ball to Jeremy Chardy, of France, during the BNP Masters indoor tennis tournament in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009.
  12. Jeremy Chardy, of France, returns the ball to Juan Monaco, of Argentina, during the BNP Masters indoor tennis tournament in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009.
  13. Juan Monaco, of Argentina, returns the ball to Jeremy Chardy, of France, during the BNP Masters indoor tennis tournament in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009.
  14. Juan Monaco, of Argentina, returns the ball to Jeremy Chardy, of France, during the BNP Masters indoor tennis tournament in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009.
  15. Palestinian taxis with posters of the late leader Yasser Arafat, center left and President Mahmoud Abbas, center right, are seen in the West Bank town of Nablus, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. The fifth anniversary of Arafat's death will be marked on Monday. Arafat died Nov. 11, 2004, in a Paris hospital at age 75.
  16. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, left, during a joint press conference with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta in Kabul, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Bildt, whose country currently holds the European Union presidency, says no change is expected in the number of European troops in Afghanistan.