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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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Utah State's Kejon Murphy, left, and Andy Carlsen, right, pursues Oregon's LeGarrette Blount (9) as he runs for a touchdown in the second quarter of their NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, in Eugene, Ore. Oregon defeated Utah State 66-24.
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Mexico's striker Andres Guardado celebrates after scoring against Jamaica during their CONCACAF qualifier for the South Africa 2010 World Cup in Mexico City, September 6, 2008.
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A Paraguayan supporter cheers his national team, during their FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 qualifier football match against Argentina at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, on September 6, 2008. The match ended tied 1-1.
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Former astronaut Lisa Nowak (R) speaks to the press as her attorneys Cheney Mason (L) and Donald Lykkebak (C) stand with her after her pre-trial hearing at Orange County Court in Orlando, Florida August 24, 2007. Nowak is accused of stalking and attacking Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman at Orlando International Airport.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling party, Pakistan People's Party, chant slogans as they celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest.
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Myanmar student Buddhist Monks, hold pictures of the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and her late father Gen. Aung San, who led the country's independence war, chant during a protest in front of Myanmar's Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The protestors demanded that the military junta accept international aid for cyclone victims and release all political prisoners.
A poster of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) stands outside the head quarters of the National League for Democracy in Yangonon May 10, 2008. Polling stations opened on May 10 in parts of cyclone-hit Myanmar, as the military regime asked voters to approve a new constitution just one week after tens of thousands of people died in the storm. The military delayed the vote for two weeks in the areas hardest-hit by Cyclone Nargis, including in the main city and former capital of Yangon.
Myanmar's Labor Minister Aung Kyi (R) meets with emocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, 11 January 2008. Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met for one hour with a junta official, in what her party described as a positive sign nearly two months after her last contact with the regime. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was taken from her rambling lakeside home in Yangon, where she has been held under house arrest for a total of 12 years, to meet Labour Minister Aung Kyi at a nearby military facility.
In this Myanmar News Agency photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, meets with Myanmar Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi at the State Guest House in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2007. Suu Kyi met Monday for third time with the cabinet minister designated to handle relations with her in the latest effort to nudge along political reconciliation in Myanmar.
Two Myanmar activists chant slogans and hold the pictures of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and her father Gen. Aung San, right, during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. About 30 activists took part in the protest against the ruling military government and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi who still under house arrest.
Two Myanmar activists chant slogans and hold the pictures of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and her father Gen. Aung San, right, during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. About 30 activists took part in the protest against the ruling military government and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi who still under house arrest.
Myanmar activists chant slogans and hold the pictures of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and her father Gen. Aung San, right, during a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. About 30 activists took part in the protest against the ruling military government and demanded the release of Suu Kyi who still under house arrest.
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) meets with UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari during a meeting in Yangon, 08 November 2007. Gambari met Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after warning the junta against a return to the status quo before mass pro-democracy protests shook the nation. The meeting took about an hour at a government guest house in the main city of Yangon.
Supporters of the National League for Democracy gather beneath the portraits of slain leader Aung San, center, and others at party headquarters Monday, May 6, 2002. The party of Aung San Suu Kyi is calling for talks with Myanmar's military regime following a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters but urges the junta not to set conditions of any meetings.
Buddhist monks pray under a poster of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) hangs in Rome's Capitol hill during a protest, 27 September 2007. Nine people, including eight protesters and a Japanese man, were killed in Myanmar Thursday in a crackdown on anti-government protests, Myanmar's state media said
Buddhist monks pray under a poster of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) hangs in Rome's Capitol hill during a protest, 27 September 2007. Nine people, including eight protesters and a Japanese man, were killed in Myanmar Thursday in a crackdown on anti-government protests, Myanmar's state media said
Myanmar soldiers stand guard as Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, left in the background, pays respects to monks at the gate of her home in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 22, 2007. Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks and sympathizers had been allowed past barricades to walk to the house where democracy leader Suu Kyi is being detained. She greeted them from her gate in her first public appearance in more than four years.
A supporter with a T-shirt of Aung San -- Myanmar pro-democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi's father -- joins others to mark Martyr's Day outside the headquarters of the National League for Democracy Party in Yangon on July 19, 2008. Myanmar pro-democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest on July 19 as others gathered to pay tribute to her late father on Martyr's Day. Martyr's Day commemorates the assasination of General Aung San and eight other leaders on July 19, 1942 while they were holding a meeting for Myanmar independence from Britian.
A protester wearing a mask of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi stands outside the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei June 19, 2008. Pro-Aung San Suu Kyi activists gathered on Thursday to send a letter of appeal to the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei, for Britain to halt financial ties with Myanmar and to ask the military junta to end Aung San Suu Kyi's latest stretch of detention.
A protester wearing a mask of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi stands outside the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei June 19, 2008. Pro-Aung San Suu Kyi activists gathered on Thursday to send a letter of appeal to the British Trade and Cultural Office in Taipei, for Britain to halt financial ties with Myanmar and to ask the military junta to end Aung San Suu Kyi's latest stretch of detention.
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