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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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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, center left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center right, review an honor guard, at the Presidential Palace in suburban Baabda, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Abbas said he rejects the permanent resettlement of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. He added that refugees should have the right to return to their homes.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty Martin Hirsch speak as they attend a meeting with local authorities and beneficiaries of the RSA in Laval, western France, August 28, 2008. Hirsch and Sarkozy presented the plan for a 1.1 percent levy on investment income to pay for the RSA projected measure to help poor jobseekers back into employment in Change, western France.
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Pakistani lawyers and activists of political parties shout slogans against Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto and a leading presidential candidate to succeed former president Pervez Musharraf during a protest in Karachi on August 28, 2008. Pakistani lawyers staged protests in several cities to press for the reinstatement of judges sacked by Musharraf.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama (L) addresses supporters with Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (C) and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (R) during a rally in Kansas City, Missouri, 29 January 2008. Obama is on the campaign trail to try to clinch the Democratic Party ticket in the race to the White House.
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US actor George Clooney poses during the photo call of the movie 'Burn after reading' at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008.
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VENICE, ITALY - AUGUST 27: Actor George Clooney during the 'Burn After Reading' Photocall part of the 65th Venice Film Festival at Palazzo del Casino on August 27, 2008 in Venice, Italy.
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U.S. actor George Clooney poses at the Film Festival in Venice August 27, 2008. Clooney stars in Ethan and Joel Coen's movie "Burn After Reading" which is shown out of the competition at the Venice Film Festival.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty Martin Hirsch speak as they attend a meeting with local authorities and beneficiaries of the RSA in Laval, western France, August 28, 2008. Hirsch and Sarkozy presented the plan for a 1.1 percent levy on investment income to pay for the RSA projected measure to help poor jobseekers back into employment in Change, western France.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty Martin Hirsch speak as they attend a meeting with local authorities and beneficiaries of the RSA in Laval, western France, August 28, 2008. Hirsch and Sarkozy presented the plan for a 1.1 percent levy on investment income to pay for the RSA projected measure to help poor jobseekers back into employment in Change, western France.
Members of the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) wave on a bus as they arrive at the Government House in Bangkok August 28, 2008. Thousands of protesters barricaded inside Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's official compound defied a court order to leave on Thursday as their leaders vowed to stay until his administration fell.
A United Nation bus carrying Syrian Druze villagers living under Israeli occupation drives through the Qunaitra crossing on the frontline August 28, 2008. Israel allowed on Thursday hundreds of Golan residents to visit their relatives in Syria. Most of the 18,000 Syrians still living in the occupied Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, have refused Israeli citizenship, according to officials.
