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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
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Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
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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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Lebanese schoolchildren carry symbolic coffins during a protest against the Israeli blockade on the Gaza strip in front of U.N. House in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Nearly 2,000 students marched toward U.N. house Tuesday morning and sang anti-Israeli songs before dispersing peacefully.
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A Jewish settler (C) throws stones at Palestinian houses in the West Bank city of Hebron December 2, 2008. Jewish settlers and Palestinians threw stones in clashes on Monday and Tuesday that injured five in Hebron where Jews want to stop the eviction of 13 settler families, witnesses said. Hundreds of settler supporters, mostly youths, have come to the Jewish enclave in the past week to try to prevent the evacuation of a disputed building, raising tensions.
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(From L) Spanish actress Paz Vega, US actresses Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes pose during a photocall for the presentation of US dirctor Frank Miller's movie 'The Spirit' in Madrid on December 2, 2008.
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Chelsea Clinton (L) and former US President Bill Clinton watch as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the National Building Museum in Washington June 7, 2008. Clinton endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate on Saturday and suspended her own White House bid less than a week after the Illinois senator secured enough support to win the nomination. Clinton's endorsement of Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum marked the beginning of efforts to reunite the Democratic Party after a long and divisive campaign battle that ended on Tuesday when Obama won the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
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A tear runs down the face of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as he speaks about his grandmother who died earlier on Monday, during a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 3, 2008. On the eve of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham died after a battle with cancer.
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (R) share a hug at the conclusion of the CNN/Los Angeles Times Democratic presidential debate in Hollywood, California January 31, 2008.
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (near) answers a question as Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) looks at him during their debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee October 7, 2008.
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German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier arrives for a foreign ministers meeting at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on December 2, 2008, in Brussels. NATO foreign ministers will endeavour to overcome divisions about the best strategy for dealing with Russia and just how far to open the door to former Soviet Georgia and Ukraine. The ministers, meeting almost four months after Russia's war with Georgia, appear certain to back away from offering the two hopefuls a fast-track to join the world's biggest military alliance, despite intense US lobbying.
German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier speaks to journalists as he arrives for a foreign ministers meeting at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on December 2, 2008, in Brussels. NATO foreign ministers will endeavour to overcome divisions about the best strategy for dealing with Russia and just how far to open the door to former Soviet Georgia and Ukraine. The ministers, meeting almost four months after Russia's war with Georgia, appear certain to back away from offering the two hopefuls a fast-track to join the world's biggest military alliance, despite intense US lobbying.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at a model with solar panels of Bremen's football stadion (Weserstadion) with the CEO of energy provider EWE Thomas Neuber, on the sidelines of the annual congress of the Christian Democrats Union (CDU) party in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on December 2, 2008. The day before, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was reelected as CDU chairwoman and sought to slap down critics at the start of the two-day convention resisting calls for broad-based tax cuts to get Europe's biggest economy moving again.
Congolese Army soldiers check a truck heading to the frontline on December 2, 2008 at the Kibati camp outside the provincial capital Goma, in the eastern North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Fighting in eastern DRC between followers of renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda and the army has displaced more than 250,000 people and left more than 100 civilians dead, according to UN and private aid agencies.
