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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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This is a general view of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II residence in Peredelkino, outside Moscow on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II, died Friday Dec. 5, 2008, at his residence outside Moscow at the age 79.
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Swiss Minister of Justice Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf gestures during a news conference after the weekly meeting of the Federal Council in Bern December 5, 2008.
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NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: Actor Harold Pirraneau attends the 2008 Stockings with Care celebrity bartending night at Bar 13 on December 4, 2008 in New York City.
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A memorial tribute to shoe mogul Thomas Bata is shown at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto September 3, 2008. Bata died earlier this week at the age of 93.
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A visitor takes a close look at a photo by French photographer Bettina Rheims during the inauguration of her exhibition "Can You Find Happiness?" on March 7, 2008 at the c/o-Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition runs from March 8 to May 11, 2008.
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Forty-five euro coins, worth 500 Slovak Crowns or 16,60 euros, are seen in Bratislava where Slovakian banks and post offices started selling them on December 1,2008 before Slovakia joins the euro zone on January 1, 2009.
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People walk behind the European Union's flag during the annual gay parade in Budapest July 5, 2008. Several hundreds of demonstrators clashed with the police in the center of Hungarian capital as police tried to separate them from the participants of the Gay Pride march.
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Secretary general of the European Union anti-fraud agency OLAF Franz-Hermann Bruener (L) walks with Bulgarian deputy Prime Minister Meglena Plugchieva before their meeting in Sofia, November 20, 2008. Bruener is in Sofia to inspect measures taken by the Socialist-led government to fight rampant graft. The EU has punished Bulgaria for its failure to tame chronic corruption and crime by freezing over 500 million euros in aid.
France's Pierre Morel, EU Special Representative for Central Asia and chairman of the Geneva discussions, arrives to take part in the second round of Caucasus talks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. The European Union made a new attempt Wednesday to get fractious talks going to resolve security and refugee issues from the conflict between Russia and Georgia over its breakaway region of South Ossetia.
US Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, arrives to take part in the second round of Caucasus talks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. The European Union made a new attempt Wednesday to get fractious talks going to resolve security and refugee issues from the conflict between Russia and Georgia over its breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Serbian President Boris Tadic (R) talks to UN chief war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz (L) during their meeting in Belgrade on November 18, 2008. Brammertz, who has reportedly urged Serbia to arrest and transfer genocide suspect Ratko Mladic to the war crimes tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia by the year's end, is in the country to assess its cooperation with the UN court. But the Serbian government is doubtful that a bi-annual report he is to submit soon to the United Nations Security Council will be enough to unfreeze a trade and aid accord with the European Union.
UN chief war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz meets with Serbian President Boris Tadic (not pictured) in Belgrade on November 18, 2008. Brammertz, who has reportedly urged Serbia to arrest and transfer genocide suspect Ratko Mladic to the war crimes tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia by the year's end, is in the country to assess its cooperation with the UN court. But the Serbian government is doubtful that a bi-annual report he is to submit soon to the United Nations Security Council will be enough to unfreeze a trade and aid accord with the European Union.
Serbian President Boris Tadic (R) talks to UN chief war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz (L) during their meeting in Belgrade on November 18, 2008. Brammertz, who has reportedly urged Serbia to arrest and transfer genocide suspect Ratko Mladic to the war crimes tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia by the year's end, is in the country to assess its cooperation with the UN court. But the Serbian government is doubtful that a bi-annual report he is to submit soon to the United Nations Security Council will be enough to unfreeze a trade and aid accord with the European Union.
EU consumer affairs commissioner Meglena Kuneva (R) and Chinese Vice Minister Wei Chuanzhong exchange documents on November 17, 2008 during a signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding beetwen the European Union and the Chinese Product Safety Authority (AQSIQ) at the EU headquarters in Brussels.
EU consumer affairs commissioner Meglena Kuneva (R) and Chinese Vice Minister Wei Chuanzhong exchange documents on November 17, 2008 during a signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding beetwen the European Union and the Chinese Product Safety Authority (AQSIQ) at the EU headquarters in Brussels.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C) is followed by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R), European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner and former British permier Tony Blair (L) after a joint press conference held at the end of the Middle East peace sponsors' meeting in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Shiekh on November 9, 2008. Israel and the Palestinians should continue the peace process in the context of last year's US conference which revived their negotiations, Ban said, reading from a statement by the Middle East peace Quartet, which groups the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (R) is followed by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner after a joint press conference held at the end of the Middle East peace sponsors' meeting in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Shiekh on November 9, 2008. Israel and the Palestinians should continue the peace process in the context of last year's US conference which revived their negotiations, Ban said, reading from a statement by the Middle East peace Quartet, which groups the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.
European Union Aid Commissioner Louis Michel addresses the media in Kigali October 31, 2008. Michel is in Rwanda for talks with President Paul Kagame after visiting Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila, hoping to get the two leaders to meet as the United Nations, the European Union and the U.S. lobbied Rwanda and Congo to end the rebellion on their common border, with EU presidency holder France pressing for deployment of an EU force.
European Union Aid Commissioner Louis Michel addresses the media in Kigali October 31, 2008. Michel is in Rwanda for talks with President Paul Kagame after visiting Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila, hoping to get the two leaders to meet as the United Nations, the European Union and the United States lobbied Rwanda and Congo to end the rebellion on their common border, with EU presidency holder France pressing for deployment of an EU force.
European Union Aid Commissioner Louis Michel addresses the media in Kigali October 31, 2008. Michel is in Rwanda for talks with President Paul Kagame after visiting Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila, hoping to get the two leaders to meet as the United Nations, the European Union and the U.S. lobbied Rwanda and Congo to end the rebellion on their common border, with EU presidency holder France pressing for deployment of an EU force.
Russian soldierz let an UN car pass at the Abkhazia-Georgia border near the village of Nabakevi, outside the town of Gal, on October 28, 2008. Russia opposes the deployment of European Union monitors in two Georgian rebel provinces and will enforce security there itself, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
