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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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A Buddhist monk looks on in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Buddhism is the predominate religion in Cambodia.
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The cast of "House" including actors Hugh Laurie (3rd R) and Jennifer Morrison (4th R), pose backstage after winning the award for Favorite TV Drama at the 35th annual People's Choice awards in Los Angeles January 7, 2009.
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TOKYO - JANUARY 08: Former sumo wrestler Jesse Takamiyama (L) demonstrates the ease of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) at the U.S. Embassy on January 8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The system will become mandatory on January 12 to all nationals or citizens of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries.
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WASHINGTON - JANUARY 07: U.S. President George W. Bush (C) meets with President-elect Barack Obama (2nd-L), former President Bill Clinton (2nd-R), former President Jimmy Carter (R) and former President George H.W. Bush (L) in the Oval Office January 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nations�s 44th president.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (2nd R in the front row) visits the Chollima Steel Complex at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in this undated picture released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) December 25, 2008.
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Balloons with anti-North Korea leaflets released by former North Korean defectors and anti-North Korea activists fly towards the North in Imjinkak pavilion, near the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul, December 3, 2008. Dozens of activists, who demanded improvements of North Korea's human rights and the release of South Koreans abducted by the North, launched about 90,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets in helium-filled balloons near DMZ on Wednesday.
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An Israeli woman and her two children take cover during a rocket attack near Kfar Aza, just outside the northern Gaza Strip January 7, 2009. The woman came to meet her husband, an Israeli army officer currently serving on the Gaza border. Rockets exploded as they were waiting for him. Israel postponed on Wednesday a decision on whether to order its armed forces to storm the Gaza Strip's urban centres, an Israeli official said, citing Egyptian- and French-led efforts to secure a truce with Hamas.
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Reid M. Figel (center left), attorney for Gary Mulgrew reads a statement outside the Bob Casey United States Court House, late Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007, after British ex-bankers (L to R) Giles Darby, Figel, Gary Mulgrew and David Bermingham pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud. They allegedly colluding with former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow in a scam to bilk their former London employer of millions of dollars.
Reid M. Figel (center left), attorney for Gary Mulgrew reads a statement outside the Bob Casey United States Court House, late Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007, after British ex-bankers (L to R) Giles Darby, Figel, Gary Mulgrew and David Bermingham pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud. They allegedly colluded with former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow in a scam to bilk their former London employer of millions of dollars.
Reid M. Figel (center left), attorney for Gary Mulgrew reads a statement outside the Bob Casey United States Court House, late Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007, after British ex-bankers (L to R) Giles Darby, Figel, Gary Mulgrew and David Bermingham pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud. They allegedly colluding with former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow in a scam to bilk their former London employer of millions of dollars.
Reid M. Figel (center left), attorney for Gary Mulgrew reads a statement outside the Bob Casey United States Court House, late Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007, after British ex-bankers (L to R) Giles Darby, Figel, Gary Mulgrew and David Bermingham pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud. They allegedly colluded with former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow in a scam to bilk their former London employer of millions of dollars.
Reid M. Figel (center left), attorney for Gary Mulgrew reads a statement outside the Bob Casey United States Court House, late Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007, after British ex-bankers (L to R) Giles Darby, Figel, Gary Mulgrew and David Bermingham pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud. They allegedly colluding with former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow in a scam to bilk their former London employer of millions of dollars.
Former media mogul Conrad Black leaves the federal building in Chicago, Friday, July 13, 2007, with his wife Barbara Amiel Black, after he and three other former Hollinger International Inc. executives were convicted in their fraud and racketeering trial. The convictions signaled the latest in a series of triumphs by government prosecutors in an Enron-inspired crackdown on corporate crime that began five years ago this month.
A sign on the Citigroup office tower is seen in this 11 April, 2007 file photo in New York. US banking giant Citigroup said on March 26,2008 it had agreed to pay 1.66 billion USD to resolve its litigation with Enron creditors dating to the collapse of the former energy trading firm in 2001. Enron's lenders had filed a series of bankruptcy and fraud claims against Citigroup in the US Bankruptcy Court in New York totaling 21 billion USD. The creditors had also sued 10 other banks. Citigroup said it would pay the lenders 1.66 billion USD in a pre-trial settlement which resolves their claims against one of America's biggest financial firms.
Richard Causey, Enron's former chief accounting officer, leaves the federal courthouse in Houston after being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison in this Nov. 15, 2006 file photo. Causey has reported to prison and was listed Wednesday on the prison bureau's Web site as an inmate in the Bastrop Federal Correctional Institution, located about 30 miles southeast of Austin. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Former Enron executive Andrew Fastow, left, leaves the federal courthouse in Houston in chains after being sentenced to six years, in this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, for sentencing. Fastow, the former chief financial officer who cooperated with prosecutors in other cases related to Enron's 2001 implosion, had agreed to serve a maximum 10-year term when he pleaded guilty in 2004. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan/FILE)
Former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling leaves the federal courthouse at the end of week ten of his fraud and conspiracy trial in this April 6, 2006, file photo in Houston. Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role in the scandal that wiped out $2 billion in pension funds and $60 billion in stock. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
Former Enron executive Andrew Fastow, left, leaves the federal courthouse in Houston in chains after being sentenced to six years, in this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, for sentencing. Fastow, the former chief financial officer who cooperated with prosecutors in other cases related to Enron's 2001 implosion, had agreed to serve a maximum 10-year term when he pleaded guilty in 2004. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan/FILE)
Former Enron executive Mark Koenig leaves the federal courthouse after being sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday, Nov. 17, 2006 in Houston. Two former Enron executives whose cooperation with prosecutors helped bring convictions for the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history received sharply reduced sentences Friday. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
HOUSTON - NOVEMBER 15: Former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey leaves the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse with his wife, Elizabeth, after being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, two years probation and a $25,000 fine for his part in the collapse of Enron November 15, 2006 in Houston, Texas. Causey, originally scheduled to stand trial with former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling, agreed to a plea deal. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Richard Causey
HOUSTON - NOVEMBER 15: Former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey leaves the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse with his wife, Elizabeth, after being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, two years probation and a $25,000 fine for his part in the collapse of Enron November 15, 2006 in Houston, Texas. Causey, originally scheduled to stand trial with former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling, agreed to a plea deal. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Richard Causey
HOUSTON - NOVEMBER 15: Former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey leaves the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse with his wife, Elizabeth, after being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, two years probation and a $25,000 fine for his part in the collapse of Enron November 15, 2006 in Houston, Texas. Causey, originally scheduled to stand trial with former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling, agreed to a plea deal. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Richard Causey
HOUSTON - NOVEMBER 15: Former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey leaves the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse with his wife, Elizabeth, after being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, two years probation and a $25,000 fine for his part in the collapse of Enron November 15, 2006 in Houston, Texas. Causey, originally scheduled to stand trial with former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling, agreed to a plea deal. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Richard Causey
HOUSTON - NOVEMBER 15: Former Enron chief accounting officer Richard Causey leaves the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse after being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, two years probation and a $25,000 fine for his part in the collapse of Enron November 15, 2006 in Houston, Texas. Causey, originally scheduled to stand trial with former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling, agreed to a plea deal. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Richard Causey
Richard Causey, Enron's former chief accounting officer, leaves the federal courthouse with his wife Elizabeth after being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006 in Houston. Causey pleaded guilty to securities fraud last year in a plea deal. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
