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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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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.
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Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan (R) speaks against Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Pakistan's slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto who is running for the country's presidency, in Islamabad September 5, 2008. Pakistan's new president, almost certain to be Zardari, will have to contend with a host of critical problems including militant violence and an economy in crisis.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) gestures as he talks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Moscow on September 5, 2008. Medvedev said that leaders of six ex-Soviet states attending a summit in Moscow had unanimously supported Russia over last month's military intervention in Georgia.
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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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Residents of Ocean Isle Beach stand at the end of a road to watch the tide come in as Tropical Storm Hanna makes its way toward the coast of the Carolinas in Ocean Isle, North Carolina September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna was off the east coast of Florida as it moves away from the Bahamas toward the Carolina coast. Hanna was located about 110 miles east of Daytona Beach, Florida, and 375 miles south-southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina.
A suicide bomber named on screen as Kamaal Saleem Atiyyah al-Fudli al-Hadhli, also known as Abu Ghareebal-Makki, speaks in this image taken from internet video footage. The video profiled Abu Ghareebal-Makki who it said carried out a June 2 attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, in response to the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad by Danish newspapers. Al Qaeda issued new threats against Denmark in an Internet video released on September 5, 2008, saying an attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan is just the start of its retaliation for perceived insults to the Prophet Mohammad.
The tide makes its way in as Tropical Storm Hanna makes its way to the coast of the Carolinas in Ocean Isle, North Carolina September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna was off the east coast of Florida as it moves away from the Bahamas toward the Carolina coast. Hanna was located about 110 miles east of Daytona Beach, Florida, and 375 miles south-southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina.
A woman has her meal in a nursing home in South Ossetian main city Tskhinvali September 5, 2008. Georgia filed the suit with the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) after Russia's military intervention in the Caucasus state last month, accusing Moscow of human rights violations in the provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
