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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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Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson is seen during his team's English League Cup semi-final first leg soccer match at Pride Park Stadium, Derby, England, Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009.
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Members of the band Rascal Flatts arrive at the 35th annual People's Choice awards in Los Angeles January 7, 2009.
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David Pogue (R), a technology columnist for the New York Times, speaks with video game designer and Internet celebrity Matt Harding about his international dancing videos during the Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco, CA, Wednesday, January 7, 2009.
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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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A picture taken in Madrid 24 June 1960 shows Spanish head of State and dictator General Francisco Franco (R) posing with Portuguese President and dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. A right-wing dictator whose authoritarian regime ruled Portugal between 1933 and 1974 has been selected by viewers of a popular television show as the nation's greatest personality of all time. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar captured 41 percent of all votes cast, beating his nearest rival, veteran Communist Party leader Alvaro Cunhal who spent years in prison for his opposition to the regime, by a wide margin
Supporters of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco give a fascist salute during a demonstration to commemorate the 32th anniversary of his death in Madrid's Oriente Square, 18 November 2007. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco Bahamonde commonly known as Franco headed and later formally became head of state of Nationalist Spain from October 1936, and of all of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975.
Supporters of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco give a fascist salute during a demonstration to commemorate the 32th anniversary of his death in Madrid's Oriente Square, 18 November 2007. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco Bahamonde commonly known as Franco headed and later formally became head of state of Nationalist Spain from October 1936, and of all of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975.
Supporters of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco unfurl the Spanish banner under Franco bearing the Eagle of St John, 17 November 2007 in front of the basilica of Santa Cruz at the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid, where a solemn mass is celebrated to commemorate the 32th anniversary of his death. In 1975, after Franco's death, the site was designated by the interim government as the burial place for the Caudillo. Today, (the Valle de los Ca�dos) is a popular tourist site and every November 20 is marked by memorial celebrations by Franco's nostalgic supporters and Falange activists.
A statue of Gen. Francisco Franco is seen in this Oct 11, 2007 file photo in central Santander, Spain. Spanish lawmakers a passed historic legislation in Madrid Wednesday Oct. 31, 2007, condemning Gen. Francisco Franco's coup and the nearly 40-year dictatorship that followed. The vote in Spain's lower house formally denounces Franco's fascist regime, mandates that local governments fund efforts to unearth mass graves from the 1936-1939 Civil War, orders the removal of all Franco-era symbols from streets and buildings, and declares "illegitimate" summary military trials that led to the execution or imprisonment of thousands of the general's enemies.
One of Spain's last statues of the late Gen. Francisco Franco is removed from a park in the northern city of Santander Thursday Dec. 18, 2008. With the removal of this Franco statue, now only one remains in public view, in Melilla, a Spanish city on the coast of North Africa. But officials there have said they will take it down as well, although there is no timetable.
Workers prepare to remove one of Spain's last statues of the late Gen. Francisco Franco from a park in the northern city of Santander Thursday Dec. 18, 2008. With the removal of this Franco statue, now only one remains in public view, in Melilla, a Spanish city on the coast of North Africa. But officials there have said they will take it down as well, although there is no timetable.
One of Spain's last statues of the late Gen. Francisco Franco is removed from a park in the northern city of Santander Thursday Dec. 18, 2008. With the removal of this Franco statue, now only one remains in public view, in Melilla, a Spanish city on the coast of North Africa. But officials there have said they will take it down as well, although there is no timetable.
An unidentified man waves a flag of the Spanish Falangist (political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original fascist movement in Spain) movement as workers dismantle the last Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's equestrian statue it on December 18, 2008 in the northern Spanish city of Santander. Franco's statue was erected in 1964.
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