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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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A Pakistani supporter of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrives to pay his condolences at her house in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, 28 December 2007. Supporters of slain Bhutto in Dubai, where she made her base through eight years of exile, were left in shock following her assassination two months after she returned home.
Sanam Bhutto (L) and Aseefa, the sister and daughter of assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, cry at her grave in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh near Naudero December 29, 2007. Pakistan accused al Qaeda of killing Bhutto, whose assassination has plunged the nuclear-armed country into crisis and triggered bloody protests.
Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of slain Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (L) talks with former premier Nawaz Sharif during a visit at Bhutto residence in Naudero, 29 December 2007. Pakistan indicated it would delay January elections because of turmoil caused by the death of Benazir Bhutto, as a bitter dispute erupted over how the opposition leader was killed.
Supporters of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen in photo center, hold bamboo sticks during a protest rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007. Rioting and violence sparked by the killing of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto continued into Saturday. Thirty-eighty people have been killed and 53 others injured since the slaying on Thursday. More than 1,200 shops, banks, offices and gasoline stations have been torched, along with 370 vehicles, authorities said.
Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres (R) talks with former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (L) before their meeting of the Socialist International in Lisbon in this June 30, 2001 file photo. Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, in a gun and bomb attack as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (L) shakes hands with Sonia Gandhi, leader of the India's main opposition Congress Party, in New Delhi in this November 25, 2001 file photo. Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, her party said.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives to sign a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, 28 December, 2007 at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC. The Pakistan interior ministry said Bhutto died 27 December, 2007 when she hit her head on her vehicle's sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her. "It is baseless. It is a pack of lies," Farooq Naik, Bhutto's top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People's Party, told AFP. "Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head," Naik said. Bhutto's death has unleashed a wave of unrest in Pakistan, with at least 33 people killed and countless buildings and vehicles torched.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives to sign a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, 28 December, 2007 at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC. The Pakistan interior ministry said Bhutto died 27 December, 2007 when she hit her head on her vehicle's sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her. "It is baseless. It is a pack of lies," Farooq Naik, Bhutto's top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People's Party, told AFP. "Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head," Naik said. Bhutto's death has unleashed a wave of unrest in Pakistan, with at least 33 people killed and countless buildings and vehicles torched.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes remarks after arriving to sign a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, 28 December, 2007 at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC. The Pakistan interior ministry said Bhutto died 27 December, 2007 when she hit her head on her vehicle's sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her. "It is baseless. It is a pack of lies," Farooq Naik, Bhutto's top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People's Party, told AFP. "Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head," Naik said. Bhutto's death has unleashed a wave of unrest in Pakistan, with at least 33 people killed and countless buildings and vehicles torched.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signs a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, 28 December, 2007 at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC. The Pakistan interior ministry said Bhutto died 27 December, 2007 when she hit her head on her vehicle's sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her. "It is baseless. It is a pack of lies," Farooq Naik, Bhutto's top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People's Party, told AFP. "Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head," Naik said. Bhutto's death has unleashed a wave of unrest in Pakistan, with at least 33 people killed and countless buildings and vehicles torched.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes remarks after arriving to sign a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, 28 December, 2007 at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC. The Pakistan interior ministry said Bhutto died 27 December, 2007 when she hit her head on her vehicle's sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her. "It is baseless. It is a pack of lies," Farooq Naik, Bhutto's top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan People's Party, told AFP. "Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head," Naik said. Bhutto's death has unleashed a wave of unrest in Pakistan, with at least 33 people killed and countless buildings and vehicles torched.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signs a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, Friday, Dec. 28, 2007, at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is accompanied by Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S., Mahmud Ali Durrani ,as she signs a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2007. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives to signs a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, Friday, Dec. 28, 2007,at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is accompanied by Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S., Mahmud Ali Durrani, as she arrives to sign a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen in portrait, at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2007. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up.
Sanam Bhutto (R), sister of the assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and her friend Samia Waheed arrive to attend the funeral in their ancestral home in Naudero December 28, 2007. Thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads and chests as the body of Bhutto, slain former Pakistan prime minister, left her ancestral home at the start of the funeral procession on Friday.
Members of the public queue to sign a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, Friday, Dec. 28, 2007, at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up.
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto (C) talks with her political secretary, Naheed Khan (L), and party leader Qazi Sultan Mahmood during an election rally in Rawalpindi December 27, 2007. Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, putting January 8 polls in doubt and sparking anger in her native Sindh province.
