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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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Stoke City's manager Tony Pulis, reacts , during their match against Derby County during their English League Cup soccer match at The Britannia Stadium, Stoke, England, Tuesday Dec. 2, 2008.
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Arsenal's Mark Randall (L) challenges Burnley's Chris Eagles during their English League Cup soccer match in Burnley, northern England December 2, 2008.
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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 03: The Te Waihono A Kupe Maori Cultural Group pose for a photo with the LA Galaxy after arriving at the Auckland International Airport on December 3, 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand. The LA Galaxy are playing a one off match against the Oceania All Stars in Auckland on December 06.
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DETROIT - NOVEMBER 20: Shuttered homes and businesses line a downtown street November 20, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. An estimated one in three Detroiters lives in poverty, making the city the poorest large city in America. The Big Three U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, are appearing this week in Washington to ask for federal funds to curb to decline of the American auto industry. Detroit, home to the big three, would be hardest hit if the government lets the auto makers fall into bankruptcy.
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Actor Viggo Mortensen gestures during a news conference to promote his latest film "Alatriste" in Tokyo on December 1, 2008. The film will be on the screens on December 13. Alatriste, played in the film by 47 year old US actor, is a unscrupulous 17th century adventurer in the movie, set in Spain's "golden age" under King Philip IV which coincided with the emergence of artistic giants such as Velasquez and the development of the "New World."
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Chelsea Clinton (L) and former US President Bill Clinton watch as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the National Building Museum in Washington June 7, 2008. Clinton endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate on Saturday and suspended her own White House bid less than a week after the Illinois senator secured enough support to win the nomination. Clinton's endorsement of Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum marked the beginning of efforts to reunite the Democratic Party after a long and divisive campaign battle that ended on Tuesday when Obama won the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
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A tear runs down the face of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as he speaks about his grandmother who died earlier on Monday, during a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 3, 2008. On the eve of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham died after a battle with cancer.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 4: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr supporters pray as a man holds up an anti-Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki banner during Friday prayer on April 4, 2008 in the Sadr city, the Shiite district in Baghdad, Iraq. A curfew is still imposed in the Sadr city Shiite district in Baghdad and Maliki has ordered Iraqi forces to stop raids across Iraq to give time to those who want to surrender their weapons.
Sheik Salman al-Feraiji, left, Muqtada al-Sadr's chief representative in Sadr City, talks to a group of Iraqi government forces who came to surrender their weapons in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 29, 2008. Some 40 police officers in Sadr City handed over their weapons to al-Sadr's local office Saturday.
Sheik Salman al-Feraiji, Muqtada al-Sadr's chief representative in Sadr City, talks to a group of Iraqi police officers who came to lay down their weapons in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 29, 2008. Some 40 police officers in Sadr City handed over their weapons to al-Sadr's local office Saturday.
Iraqis hold Muqtada al-Sadr's portrait in the city of Kufa, Iraq, after prayers Friday, Feb. 22, 2008. Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Friday that he has extended a cease-fire order to his Shiite Mahdi Army by another six months, giving Iraq a chance to continue its fragile recovery from brutal sectarian violence.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's high ranking representative Sheikh Salman al-Fareji, center right, visits a man wounded in a car bombing in a Sadr City hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. A parked car bomb exploded in a bustling market in Baghdad's main Shiite district on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding 28, police said.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's high ranking representative Sheikh Salman al-Fareji, center right, visits a man wounded in a car bombing in a Sadr City hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. A parked car bomb exploded in a bustling market in Baghdad's main Shiite district on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding 28, police said.
Sheik Salah al-Obeidi, spokesman for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, speaks to reporters in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007. Thirty legislators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr announced Saturday they were leaving the Shiite bloc in parliament amid a campaign of arrests against the anti-American cleric's followers.
Radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks at a news conference in Najaf, 165 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, in this file photo from Oct. 14, 2003. Al- Sadr called for peaceful demonstrations Thursday June 14, 2007, and a three-day mourning period to mark the minarets' destruction. He appeared to take a conciliatory tone in a statement, saying that no Sunni Arab could have been responsible for Wednesday's attack on the Askariya Shiite shrine in Samarra.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr prays in the holy Shiite city of Kufa 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad on Friday, May 25, 2007. Al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr prays in the holy Shiite city of Kufa 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad on Friday, May 25, 2007. Al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr prays in the holy Shiite city of Kufa 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad on Friday, May 25,2007. Al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr prays in the holy Shiite city of Kufa 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad on Friday, May 25,2007. Al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq.
