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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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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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A pedestrian walks past an electric stock market board in Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The Nikkei index lost 460.78 points to 9,695.12 at the end of the morning session on Wednesday. The Japanese index on Tuesday closed at the lowest level in almost five years amid deepening uncertainty over the course of the financial crisis.
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U.S.Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (R) and Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) face the audience at the end of their townhall-style presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee October 7, 2008.
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NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 07: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) shakes hand with debate moderator Tom Brokaw (R) after the Town Hall Presidential Debate at Belmont University's Curb Event Center October 7, 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee. Tonight's debate is the second presidential debate of three, the only one being held in the town hall style with questions coming from audience members.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 27: Actress Taraji P. Henson arrives at the Launch Party for the New BlackBerry 8330 Pink Curve xxclusively from Verizon Wireless on the 15th Anniversary of Intermix on August 27, 2008 at Intermix on Robertson, Los Angeles, CA.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 27: Television personality Kim Kardashian arrives at the Launch Party for the New BlackBerry 8330 Pink Curve xxclusively from Verizon Wireless on the 15th Anniversary of Intermix on August 27, 2008 at Intermix on Robertson, Los Angeles, CA.
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BEVERLY HILLS - DECEMBER 1: Actress Kat Dennings attends the VH1 Save The Music Foundation Presents "VH1 Big Night For A Cause" benefit at the Esquire House 360 on December 1, 2006 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Kat Dennings
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LONDON - AUGUST 11: Former gymnast Alison Carroll, 23, is presented as the new face of computer game character Lara Croft at Pineapple Studios on August 11, 2008 in London, England. The new Tomb Raider game 'Underworld' comes out on November 21, 2008.
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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 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.
Protesters carry a huge portrait of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a march through a Tokyo street Thursday, June 19, 2008, marking her 63rd birthday. More than 100 protesters called for the Myanmar government to immediately release Suu Kyi who was extended her house arrest by the country's ruling junta last month.
Supporters of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi prepare to release birds as they make an offering for her 63rd birthday, outside the Yangon headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party on 19 June 2008. Supporters of Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi made solemn offerings to Buddhist monks early Thursday as they marked her 63rd birthday, which she is spending under house arrest. Dozens of people gathered outside the Yangon headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, giving food to monks who were making their daily rounds to collect alms. "Later, we will release nine doves to bring peace and freedom to Daw Suu Kyi," said Lai Lai, one of the party members.
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