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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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McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain, center, the pole getter, Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland, right, second placed, and McLaren Mercedes driver Heikki Kovalainen of Finland, third placed, react after the qualifying session at the Fuji Speedway Formula One Grand Prix circuit in Oyama, Japan, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Formula One Japan Grand Prix is scheduled on Sunday on this circuit at the foot of Mont Fuji.
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McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates taking poll position with a team mate after the qualifying session for Sunday's Japanese F1 Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway in Oyama, central Japan, October 11, 2008.
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An Iraqi policeman isnspects the site of a car bomb explosion on October 11, 2008 at the Abu Dshir market in Baghdad's mainly Sunni quarter of Dora. Car bombs, roadside blasts and a shooting near the capital and the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk killed at least 19 people and wounded at least another 66 yesterday, police and security officials said. The worst single attack was in the Iraqi capital's Dora district where a car bomb blast at a crowded market killed 13 people and wounded 27 on October 10, police and the defence ministry said.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting with Russia's Communist Party in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Vladimir Putin said Thursday the wide-ranging financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin smiles as he poses with a tiger cub on October 10, 2008 which was presented to him on his bithday on October 7, in Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow.
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) listens to questions from supporters as his vice presidential running mate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) looks on during a town hall meeting in Waukesha, Wisconsin October 9, 2008.
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Director Ridley Scott and girlfriend Giannina Facio attend the world premiere of 'Body Of Lies' at the Rose Hall Theater on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 in New York.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (R) is greeted by an unidentified awardee and principal of a school during the teachers and students awards ceremony at the convention center in Managua on September 13, 2008. Ortega, a former Marxist guerilla who had close ties to the ex-Soviet Union, went further than other leftist Latin American governments in his defiance of Washington by recognizing the two breakaway Georgian separatist provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after an armed conflict between Moscow and Tbilisi last month.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (R) waves to supporters while his wife Rosario Murillo looks on during the teachers and students awards ceremony at the convention center in Managua on September 13, 2008. Ortega, a former Marxist guerilla who had close ties to the ex-Soviet Union, went further than other leftist Latin American governments in his defiance of Washington by recognizing the two breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after an armed conflict between Moscow and Tbilisi over South Ossetia last month.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, left, embraces a student during an award ceremony for public school teachers and students in Managua, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. Ortega says he will reject an invitation to meet with George W. Bush out of "solidarity" with Bolivia in its diplomatic spat with Washington.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (R) beside to the General Commissioner and Nicaragua Police Chief Aminta Granera (L), review the troops during the ceremony of the 29th anniversary of the National Police, September 5, 2008 in Managua, Nicaragua. Granera start the third year like the Nicarguan police chief, and she is the second woman in charge of the police, after the former guerrilla commander Doris Tijerino whom was the Chief during the Sandinista govermment in the 80's.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (2nd R) and his counterparts of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez (C) and Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega (L) wave next to Bolivian President Evo Morales (R, background) in Tegucigalpa on August 25, 2008, after the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) meeting, in which Honduras joined the organization.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (L) speaks with his counterparts of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega (R) in Tegucigalpa on August 25, 2008, before the start of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) meeting, which will mark the joining of Honduras to the organization.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, left, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, center, and Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya talk during a signing ceremony at the presidential house in Tegucigalpa, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. Honduras officially joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) trade alliance on Monday, which was created in 2004 with the participation of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, and Nicaragua.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) and former guerrilla commander Eden Pastora a.k.a. "Commander Zero" offer a clenched-fist salute on August 22, 2008, in Managua during the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the assault on the National Palace. The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN for its initials in Spanish) took the National Palace by force on August 22, 1978, with some 1,000 hostages which they used as ransom to free 59 political prisoners incarcerated by the government of Anastasio Somoza. The members of the commando group and the released prisoners subsequently fled to Panama and Cuba in exile.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) and former guerrilla commander Eden Pastora a.k.a. "Commander Zero", wave to the crowd on August 22, 2008, in Managua during the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the assault on the National Palace. The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN for its initials in Spanish) took the National Palace by force on August 22, 1978, with some 1,000 hostages which they used as ransom to free 59 political prisoners incarcerated by the government of Anastasio Somoza. The members of the commando group and the released prisoners subsequently fled to Panama and Cuba in exile.
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