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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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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Tripoli, Libya Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Rice begins a four-nation tour of North Africa in Tripoli today, meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and other top officials in what the State Department is calling a landmark trip that will symbolize the opening of a new era in ties between the United States and the oil-rich country.
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (L) talks to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) summit in Moscow, September 5, 2008. The heads of ex-Soviet states grouped in Moscow-led military alliance supported on Friday Russia's actions in last month's armed conflict with Georgia, but stopped short of recognising Georgia's separatist regions.
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RICHMOND, VA - SEPTEMBER 05: Elliott Sadler, driver of the #19 Best Buy Dodge looks on in the garage during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Richmond International Raceway on September 5, 2008 in Richmond, Virginia.
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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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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.
Leaders of the countries, members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, pose during a summit in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. From left, Armenian President Serge Sarkisian, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, partly visible, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon. At right is Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolai Bordyuzha. Leaders of ex-Soviet nations members of Russia-led security alliance condemned Georgia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, with leaders of the countries, members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, head for a summit in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. From left, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Dmitry Medvedev, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolai Bordyuzha. Leaders of ex-Soviet nations members of Russia-led security alliance condemned Georgia.
Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto who is running for Pakistan's presidentship, smiles during his news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan May 30, 2008 file photo. The man set to become the next president of nuclear-armed Pakistan is a horse-loving aristocrat and novice political leader lifted from obscurity by his marriage to Benazir Bhutto and propelled into power by her brutal death.
