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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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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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A seriously injured anti-government protester cries after an explosion blew off his lower left leg during clashes with Thai police in front of parliament in Bangkok, Thailsnd, on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. The exact source of the explosion was not immediately known.
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Los Angeles Angels Mark Teixeira (R) and Vladimir Guerrero celebrate after scoring on a single by teammate Torii Hunter against the Boston Red Sox during the eighth inning. in Game 4 of the their MLB American League Division Series baseball playoff at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, October 6, 2008.
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A South Korean woman walks past a sign of a foreign exchange bank in Seoul on October 7, 2008. Korea's won fell to an over six-year low on increased concerns that the global credit crunch is deepening as it is exacerbated by slumping stock markets, dealers said.
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LONDON - JULY 10: (UK TABLOID Singer and charity co-founder Alicia Keys arrives at the Black Ball UK in aid of 'Keep A Child Alive' HIV/AIDS charity at St John's, Smith Square on July 10, 2008 in London, England.
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TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 06: Actress Alicia Keys from the film "The Secret Life Of Bees", poses for a portrait during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival at The Sutton Place Hotel on September 6, 2008 in Toronto, Canada.
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TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 05: (L-R) Actresses Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys and Queen Latifah attend the "The Secret Life Of Bees" premiere after party during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival held at the Ultra Supper Club on September 5, 2008 in Toronto, Canada.
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Egyptian women wearing the niqab, the Islamic full face veil that leaves only a slit for the eyes, chat at the River Nile bank in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 14, 2007. An Egyptian supreme court ended Saturday June 9, a five year legal battle ruling that the American University in Cairo "AUC" cannot ban women from wearing face veil while on campus. The decision by the Supreme Administrative court will force other universities in Egypt to relinquish its ban on face veils on campus.
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Iraqis stand on top of what appears to be a destroyed US military humvee in the predominantly Shiite Fidhiliyah area on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 10, 2007. Overnight clashes between U.S. troops and militiamen loyal to a radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr left three people dead and 17 wounded in the district, police and witnesses said. They said the fighting broke out after a U.S. military convoy came under attack near the local offices of Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric whose Mahdi Army militia has recently stepped up attacks on American troops.
Iraqis examine what appears to be a destroyed US military humvee in the predominantly Shiite Fidhiliyah area on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 10, 2007. Overnight clashes between U.S. troops and militiamen loyal to a radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr left three people dead and 17 wounded in the district, police and witnesses said. They said the fighting broke out after a U.S. military convoy came under attack near the local offices of Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric whose Mahdi Army militia has recently stepped up attacks on American troops.
A man works on a billboard showing a radical anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, center, his late father Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr and late Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, right, in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, April 5, 2007. Radical anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his followers to put up Iraqi flags at his strongholds in the run up for the planned massive protest in the holy cities of Kufa and Najaf on the April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to the American forces.
A pilgrim carries a poster that pictures the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left, and his father, Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 4, 2007. Thousands of devout Shiite Muslims are converging on Karbala for the March 10 celebration of Arbaeen, which marks the end of the forty-day mourning period after the date of the death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, killed in Karbala in 680 A.D.
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left, steps from an office building in Najaf, Iraq Saturday June 5, 2004. Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia leader is turning to his commanders who distinguished themselves fighting U.S. troops in 2004 to screen fighters, weed out criminals and assume key positions in an effort to build a more disciplined force, two of his key lieutenants say. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 4: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr supporters carry anti-Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki banners 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.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 4: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr supporters supporters pray near 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.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 4: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr supporters pray 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.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 4: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr supporters chant slogans 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.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 4: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr supporters pray 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.
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.
