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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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Anti-government protesters leave Suvarnabhumi airport Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands of anti-government protesters who occupied and shut down Bangkok's main international airport for a week began leaving today as their leaders declared victory after a court verdict disbanding the ruling party.
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A young refugee from Myanmar sits on a bus as he arrives for a demonstration outside the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) office in Kuala Lumpur December 3, 2008, before he was turned away by the police. About 150 Myanmarese of ethnic Rohingya origin gathered outside the UNHCR office on Wednesday to demand for their basic and fundamental rights, and assistance to their problems.
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NEW YORK - DECEMBER 02: Television personality Soledad O'Brien attends the Room to Grow 10th Anniversary benefit gala at Christie's on December 2, 2008 in New York City.
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Policemen stand guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, August 11, 2008. Olympic organisers vowed to tighten security in central Beijing on Sunday after an American tourist died in a stabbing attack, but they insisted the Chinese capital was safe and Western sightseers were unfazed.
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DETROIT - NOVEMBER 20: Shuttered homes and businesses line a downtown street November 20, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. An estimated one in three Detroiters lives in poverty, making the city the poorest large city in America. The Big Three U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, are appearing this week in Washington to ask for federal funds to curb to decline of the American auto industry. Detroit, home to the big three, would be hardest hit if the government lets the auto makers fall into bankruptcy.
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Actor Viggo Mortensen gestures during a news conference to promote his latest film "Alatriste" in Tokyo on December 1, 2008. The film will be on the screens on December 13. Alatriste, played in the film by 47 year old US actor, is a unscrupulous 17th century adventurer in the movie, set in Spain's "golden age" under King Philip IV which coincided with the emergence of artistic giants such as Velasquez and the development of the "New World."
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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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Holding pictures of the country's national hero Gen. Aung San, left, and his daughter and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, Myanmar activists chant slogans during a protest outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. About thirty people took part in about one-hour noisy protest urging the Myanmar government to hand over the power to people and to free all political prisoners as well as giving freedom of the press.
Myanmar protestors shout anti-military slogans as they display a portrait of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) during a demonstration to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy revolution, in New Delhi on August 8, 2008. People in Myanmar marked exactly 20 years on August 8 since the army crushed an "8-8-88" democracy uprising with the loss of an estimated 3,000 lives, although the only protests were likely to be outside the country.
Myanmar protestors shout anti-military slogans as they display a portrait of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) during a demonstration to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy revolution, in New Delhi on August 8, 2008. People in Myanmar marked exactly 20 years on August 8 since the army crushed an "8-8-88" democracy uprising with the loss of an estimated 3,000 lives, although the only protests were likely to be outside the country.
Myanmar protestors shout anti-military slogans as they display a portrait of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) during a demonstration to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy revolution, in New Delhi on August 8, 2008. People in Myanmar marked exactly 20 years on August 8 since the army crushed an "8-8-88" democracy uprising with the loss of an estimated 3,000 lives, although the only protests were likely to be outside the country.
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.
Myanmar nationals, some holding photographs of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok September 27, 2008. Several dozen activists yelling "free Burma'" held a demonstration outside the embassy on the one-year anniversary of a deadly crackdown on protests against decades of army rule in the former Burma.
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