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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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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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Thai Buddhist monks wait for offerings early Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, near Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands continue to illegally occupy Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's office complex as the political standoff continues into its second week. The standoff stems from a campaign by the People's Alliance for Democracy, a loose-knit group of royalists, wealthy and middle-class urban residents, and union activists, to oust Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his government, accusing it of corruption and violating the constitution.
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Australia's Rebecca Keat celebrates winning the women's elite division of the Aviva Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Singapore September 7, 2008. Over 1,400 athletes took part in the event.
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Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang addresses a press conference after casting his vote in the territory's Legislative Council election in Hong Kong on September 7, 2008. Hong Kong's bedraggled democracy camp could suffer a bloody nose, as pro-Beijing parties bathe in a post-Olympic glow, politicians and analysts said.
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Former astronaut Lisa Nowak (R) speaks to the press as her attorneys Cheney Mason (L) and Donald Lykkebak (C) stand with her after her pre-trial hearing at Orange County Court in Orlando, Florida August 24, 2007. Nowak is accused of stalking and attacking Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman at Orlando International Airport.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling party, Pakistan People's Party, chant slogans as they celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest.
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Trucks loaded with supplies for NATO forces wait to cross the southwest Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing in Chaman September 6, 2008. Pakistan blocked a major fuel supply route in the northwest on Saturday in response to a raid by U.S. forces into northwest Pakistan this week, the defence minister said.
Trucks loaded with supplies for NATO forces wait to cross the southwest Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing in Chaman September 6, 2008. Pakistan blocked a major fuel supply route in the northwest on Saturday in response to a raid by U.S. forces into northwest Pakistan this week, the defence minister said.
People demonstrate for peace under a giant NATO flag, on September 1, 2008 on the Freedom square in Tbilisi. Waving giant European Union flags and angrily denouncing Russia's leaders, huge crowds of Georgians filled the streets to protest against the Russian military presence in their country. In what Georgian officials said was the biggest protest in the ex-Soviet republic's history, tens of thousands formed a gigantic human chain through the capital Tbilisi and staged similar demonstrations nationwide.
Georgian people hold national, EU and NATO flags at a rally against Russia at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Huge crowds of Georgians surged into the capital's streets Monday to demonstrate against Russia. The Tbilisi demonstration started Monday with people holding hands to form "human chains" in an echo of the so-called Baltic Chain of 1989 in which residents of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia stretched the length of their homelands to protest Soviet occupation.
Georgian people hold national, EU and NATO flags at a rally against Russia at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Huge crowds of Georgians surged into the capital's streets Monday to demonstrate against Russia. The Tbilisi demonstration started Monday with people holding hands to form "human chains" in an echo of the so-called Baltic Chain of 1989 in which residents of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia stretched the length of their homelands to protest Soviet occupation.
Georgian people hold national, EU and NATO flags at a rally against Russia at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Huge crowds of Georgians surged into the capital's streets Monday to demonstrate against Russia. The Tbilisi demonstration started Monday with people holding hands to form "human chains" in an echo of the so-called Baltic Chain of 1989 in which residents of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia stretched the length of their homelands to protest Soviet occupation.
Georgian people hold national, EU and NATO flags at a rally against Russia in Tbilisi, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Huge crowds of Georgians surged into the capital's streets Monday to demonstrate against Russia. The Tbilisi demonstration started Monday with people holding hands to form "human chains" in an echo of the so-called Baltic Chain of 1989 in which residents of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia stretched the length of their homelands to protest Soviet occupation.
Georgian people hold national, EU and NATO flags at a rally against Russia at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Huge crowds of Georgians surged into the capital's streets Monday to demonstrate against Russia. The Tbilisi demonstration started Monday with people holding hands to form "human chains" in an echo of the so-called Baltic Chain of 1989 in which residents of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia stretched the length of their homelands to protest Soviet occupation.
Italian soldiers from the NATO-led international peacekeeping force keep watch after a suicide car bomb blast outside Kabul August 30, 2008. A suicide car bomber, targeting foreign soldiers, detonated his explosives in the capital Kabul, killing only himself, head of criminal investigation at Kabul police Ali Shah Paktiawal told Reuters. There were no other causalities.
Italian soldiers from the NATO-led international peacekeeping force keep watch after a suicide car bomb blast outside Kabul August 30, 2008. A suicide car bomber, targeting foreign soldiers, detonated his explosives in the capital Kabul, killing only himself, head of criminal investigation at Kabul police Ali Shah Paktiawal told Reuters. There were no other causalities.
Italian soldiers from the NATO-led international peacekeeping force keep watch after a suicide car bomb blast outside Kabul August 30, 2008. A suicide car bomber, targeting foreign soldiers, detonated his explosives in the capital Kabul, killing only himself, head of criminal investigation at Kabul police Ali Shah Paktiawal told Reuters. There were no other causalities.
Italian soldiers from the NATO-led international peacekeepers force patrol the area after a suicide car bomb blast outside Kabul August 30, 2008. A suicide car bomber, targeting foreign soldiers, detonated his explosive in the capital Kabul, killing only himself, head of criminal investigation at Kabul police Ali Shah Paktiawal told Reuters. There were no other causalities.
An Italian soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard on the main road following a suicide car bomb attack on the out skirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. A suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy west of the Afghan capital Saturday, but no troops or civilians were killed, a provincial police chief said.
The Russian Moskva guided missile cruiser, Slava class (NATO reporting name: Krasina), seen during a naval parade to mark the 225th anniversary of Russian navy's Black Sea fleet at the Crimean Peninsula port of Sevastopol, Ukraine, Sunday, May 11, 2008. With the Kremlin _ and many Russians _ still bitter about having ceded the plush, palm-lined, strategic Black Sea Crimea peninsula, to Ukraine, Western officials worry that a newly brazen Russia might eventually provoke a military conflict here in a bid to stop Kiev's drive to join NATO and return Crimea under its control.
Top NATO official in Kosovo French General Xavier Bout de Marnhac gestures during an interview with AFP in Pristina on August 26, 2008. The general said that the Alliance would be fully committed to maintaining security in the newly dependent state while it prepares for future integration into NATO structures.
Top NATO official in Kosovo French General Xavier Bout de Marnhac gestures during an interview with AFP in Pristina on August 26, 2008. The general said that the Alliance would be fully committed to maintaining security in the newly dependent state while it prepares for future integration into NATO structures.
A French soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard during a patrol in the Shamali Plains, some 30 kms north of Kabul on August 25, 2008. Ten French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in the deadliest ground battle for international soldiers that arrived in Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime in 2001 and root out other extremists.
A French soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) empties his gun after a patrol in the Shamali Plains, some 30 kms north of Kabul on August 25, 2008. Ten French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in the deadliest ground battle for international soldiers that arrived in Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime in 2001 and root out other extremists.
A French soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) arrives at their base after a patrol from the Shamali Plains, some 30 kms north of Kabul on August 25, 2008. Ten French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in the deadliest ground battle for international soldiers that arrived in Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime in 2001 and root out other extremists.
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