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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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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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Australia's Lote Tuqiri, left, avoids a tackle from South Africa's Bismarck du Plessis, right, during the Tri-Nations rugby match at the Coca-Cola Park in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday Aug. 30, 2008.
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Karim Haggui (back) of Bayer Leverkusen tackles Demba Ba of TSG Hoffenheim during their German Bundesliga soccer match in Leverkusen August 30, 2008. Leverkusen won the match 5-2.
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VENICE, ITALY - AUGUST 30: Actress Charlize Theron leaves a charity event organised by Lancia at the Pagoda during the 65th Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2008 in Venice, Italy.
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Pensacola Junior College cheerleaders rally the crowd before the arrival of Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at a campaign rally at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
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A Turkish soldier stands on a tank as it moves past a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, during a military parade on the 86th anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara, August 30, 2008. Tensions between Turkey's government and its powerful generals will continue clouding the future of the European Union-applicant country, after the new military commander warned against the rising profile of Islam.
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Marion Bartoli of France returns to Lindsay Davenport of the US at the US Open tennis tournament August 29, 2008 in Flushing Meadows, NY. Bartoli won the match 6-1, 7-6(3).
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Sebastien Loeb from France and co-driver Daniel Elena in the Citroen Total world Rally team in their Citroen C4 WRC during day two of the WRC Rally of New Zealand, in Hamilton on August 30, 2008.
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As part of a salute to 20-game winning "black ace" pitchers, former Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart throws out the first pitch prior to the Athletics' baseball game against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, May 30, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Watching from left are 20-game winners Jim "Mudcat" Grant, Mike Norris, and Vida Blue.
