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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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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, meets with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at the Ziguangge Pavilion in the Zhongnanhai leaders' compound in Beijing on Wednesday August 20, 2008.
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Tom Ashley of New Zealand sailing in RS:X Men waves as he gets on to the podium to receive the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, Shandong province, August 20, 2008.
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In a handout picture released by the Iraqi Prime Minister's Office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) shakes hands with his visiting Lebanese counterpart Fuad Siniora (L) as he arrives in Baghdad on August 20, 2008. Siniora was in Baghdad today for trade and policy talks, the first Lebanese leader to visit since the fall of Saddam Hussein more than five years ago.
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Local residents fish in the Black Sea, 50 km south of Sukhumi in the town Ochavchara on August 19, 2008 in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region. Russia and Georgia have agreed to allow 20 Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) unarmed military observers into Georgia, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, the organisation's chairman said.
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In this image provided Kellogg Co., a prototype of a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes with U.S. swimming star Michael Phelps is seen. The record-setting swimmer will soon be appearing on boxes of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes. The winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics will be featured cereal boxes expected to be in stores by mid-September.
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Supporters of Pakistani Islamist party celebrate President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Multan August 19, 2008. Leaders of Pakistan's coalition government set about tackling pressing economic and security problems on Tuesday as a bomb at a hospital in a northwestern town killed 20 people. Coalition leaders were also due to discuss a replacement for Musharraf, the former army chief and key ally of the United States in its campaign against terrorism, who resigned as president on Monday to avoid impeachment.
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Pakistani citizens congratulate each others after the announcement of President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 87, 2008. Musharraf said he was handing in his resignation to avoid an impeachment battle that would harm the nation's interests.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (L), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila (C) and Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (R) listen to people speaking during a U.N. Security Council meeting on peace and security in Africa, at the United Nations headquarters in New York April 16, 2008.
Meles Zenawi, left, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Joseph Kabila, center, President of Congo, and Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia, right, react as they listen during the Security Council discussions on conflict resolution in Africa, at the United Nations Headquarters on Wednesday April 16, 2008.
Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila arrives to an extraordinary Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting in Zimbabwe on April 12, 2008 at the Mulungushi International conference center in Lusaka. The leaders of southern Africa were gathering in Zambia for emergency talks to discuss the post-election crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe despite Robert Mugabe's decision to skip the summit. With still no result from a presidential election held two weeks ago, tensions are visibly mounting in Zimbabwe whose economic meltdown under Mugabe has scorched the whole region.
Congolese President Joseph Kabila arrives at Lusaka airport April 12, 2008, before the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has said he will not attend the SADC summit in Lusaka later on Saturday, called by Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa to discuss the impasse over Zimbabwe's disputed elections.
DRC Congo's President Joseph Kabila, arrives at the airport in Lusaka, Zambia, Saturday April 12, 2008, for the emergency summit of the Southern African leaders post-election crisis in Zambia. African leaders hoped to find a resolution to Zimbabwe's deepening political crisis Saturday at an emergency summit in Zambia, but state media reported that President Mugabe would not attend the "unnecessary" meeting.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila (L) and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki (R) give a press conference on April 03, 2008 at the end of the South Africa-Democratic Republic of Congo bilateral commission at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. South Africa played a key role in the process in the DRC that ended the 1998-2003 regional war and helped fund the 2006 elections. South Africa is also very involved in DRC's energy sector, helping restore the turbines at the Inga hydroelectric stations in the west of the country.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila (L) and South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki (R) give a press conference on April 03, 2008 at the end of the South Africa-Democratic Republic of Congo bilateral commission at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. South Africa played a key role in the process in the DRC that ended the 1998-2003 regional war and helped fund the 2006 elections. South Africa is also very involved in DRC's energy sector, helping restore the turbines at the Inga hydroelectric stations in the west of the country.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila (L) and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki (R) give a press conference on April 03, 2008 at the end of the South Africa-Democratic Republic of Congo bilateral commission at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. South Africa played a key role in the process in the DRC that ended the 1998-2003 regional war and helped fund the 2006 elections. South Africa is also very involved in DRC's energy sector, helping restore the turbines at the Inga hydroelectric stations in the west of the country.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila (L) is greeted by his South Africa counterpart Thabo Mbeki ahead of the South Africa- Democratic Republic of Congo bilateral commission at the presidential guest house in Pretoria, on April 3, 2008. South Africa played a key role in the process in the DRC that ended the 1998-2003 regional war and helped fund the 2006 elections.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila (L) is greeted by his South Africa counterpart Thabo Mbeki (R) ahead of the South Africa-Democratic Republic of Congo bilateral commission at the presidential guest house in Pretoria, on April, 3, 2008. South Africa played a key role in the process in the DRC that ended the 1998-2003 regional war and helped fund the 2006 elections.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila (C) shares a smile as he is greeted by his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki (R) ahead of the South Africa- Democratic Republic of Congo bilateral commission at the presidential guest house in Pretoria, South Africa on April, 3, 2008. South Africa played a key role in the process in the DRC that ended the 1998-2003 regional war and helped fund the 2006 elections.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila (L) is greeted by his South Africa counterpart Thabo Mbeki (R) ahead of the South Africa- Democratic Republic of Congo bilateral commission at the presidential guest house in Pretoria, South Africa. South Africa played a key role in the process in the DRC that ended the 1998-2003 regional war and helped fund the 2006 elections.
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 26: Joseph Kabila (L), President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, speaks as U.S. President George W. Bush listens in the Oval Office of the White House October 26, 02007 in Washington, DC. Bush and Kabila, talked about the possibility of U.S. military trainers working in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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