Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks during a news conference in Kabul November 4, 2009. U.S. President Barack Obama and European leaders pressed re-elected Afghan President Karzai on Tuesday to focus on good governance and other challenges facing his country and backed plans for an international conference on Afghanistan. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks during a news conference in Kabul November 4, 2009. U.S. President Barack Obama and European leaders pressed re-elected Afghan President Karzai on Tuesday to focus on good governance and other challenges facing his country and backed plans for an international conference on Afghanistan.

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  1. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - A man tending his wheat field in Jurm, in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, stands near the shadow of a helicopter carrying officials of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah July 11, 2009. Picture taken July 11, 2009.
  2. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah sits on a carpet while interacting with the media at the end of an election rally in central Bamiyan province July 29, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20.
  3. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - A torn campaign poster for Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah is seen on a wall in Herat November 2, 2009. Abdullah quit an election run-off on Sunday after accusing the government of not meeting his demand for a fair vote, leaving doubts over the legitimacy of the next government.
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  5. Abdullah Abdullah, former Afghan Foreign Minister, during an interview with the AP at his house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Abdullah spoke about the uncertainty in Afghanistan as Afghans wait to find out if the U.S. and other nations will send thousands more troops, if the newly elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai will fight corruption and how the U.N.'s decision to send hundreds of workers safely out of the country will impact humanitarian work.
  6. An Afghan municipality worker cleans off election posters of the presidential and provincial council candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai's inauguration is set for Nov. 19. He won his presidential re-election campaign by default earlier this month, after his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of a runoff vote.
  7. Afghan women walk by torn election posters of the presidential and provincial council candidates on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai's inauguration is set for Nov. 19. He won his presidential re-election campaign by default earlier this month, after his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of a runoff vote.
  8. An Afghan municipality worker cleans off election posters of the presidential and provincial council candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai's inauguration is set for Nov. 19. He won his presidential re-election campaign by default earlier this month, after his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of a runoff vote.
  9. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
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  11. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
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