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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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Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger, second from left, Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, a relative of the Holtzberg family, second from right, and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar, right, attend the funeral of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivkah, 28, killed in the Mumbai Jewish center attack, in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Israelis on Tuesday began burying the six Jews killed in the murder spree in the Indian city of Mumbai, the grimness of the occasion deepened by the conviction that the victims were targeted because of their religion.
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Policemen stand guard at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, also known as Victoria Terminus, in Mumbai December 2, 2008. Security has been increased at this railway station after an attack on the station last week by armed militants.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) is pictured next to British Foreign Minister David Miliband prior the Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, on December 2, 2008, in Brussels. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is attending the NATO meeting for the last time, with the Alliance's relationship with Russia top of their agenda.
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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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U.S. Democratic presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (R) share a hug at the conclusion of the CNN/Los Angeles Times Democratic presidential debate in Hollywood, California January 31, 2008.
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German flags are waved as Pope Benedict XVI, left in background, gestures during the Angelus prayer, to the faithful gathered outside his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday Aug. 31, 2008. Benedict told pilgrims in Castel Gandolfo, that a humanitarian spirit must guide political actions dealing with illegal migration. The pope in his remarks Sunday, also urged the homelands of these migrants to eradicate criminal organizations who profit from people's dreams for a better life.
CORRECTING BYLINE --- Pope Benedict XVI arrives to meet the priests in the dome of Bressanone, near Bolzano, northern Italy, on August 6, 2008. Pope Benedict XVI said on August 5, that it was important that China "open up" to Christ, during a visit to the memorial of an Italian missionary who moved to the Asian country, ANSA news agency reported. The pope was speaking from Oies, a village near Bressanone in northern Italy where he is on holiday. He honoured the memory of Giuseppe Freinademetz, who left to preach the gospel in China in 1879 and died there of typhoid in 1908.
Pope Benedict XVI arrives to meet the priests in the dome of Bressanone, near Bolzano, northern Italy, on August 6, 2008. Pope Benedict XVI said on August 5, that it was important that China "open up" to Christ, during a visit to the memorial of an Italian missionary who moved to the Asian country, ANSA news agency reported. The pope was speaking from Oies, a village near Bressanone in northern Italy where he is on holiday. He honoured the memory of Giuseppe Freinademetz, who left to preach the gospel in China in 1879 and died there of typhoid in 1908.
Photo taken Tuesday Aug. 5, 2008 provided by the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper Wednesday Aug. 6, 2008, showing Pope Benedict XVI, right, with curator Pietro Ursala visiting the home of late missionary Josef Freinademetz, who was made saint after his mission in China, in Oies, Alta Badia, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. The Pontiff begun last week his Alpine vacation in this mountain resort of the Dolomites where he will remain until August 11.
BADIA, ITALY - AUGUST 05: Pope Benedict XVI (C) and his brother Georg Ratzinger (half covered by the Pope) are seen in front of the birth place of Saint Josef Freinademetz during his summer holidays on August 5, 2008 in Badia (Abtei), Italy. Josef Freinademetz, born as a farmer's son 1852 in Badia, spent his life as missionary in China and was canonized 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
BADIA, ITALY - AUGUST 05: Pope Benedict XVI (C) and his brother Georg Ratzinger (half covered by the Pope) are seen in front of the birth place of Saint Josef Freinademetz during his summer holidays on August 5, 2008 in Badia (Abtei), Italy. Josef Freinademetz, born as a farmer's son 1852 in Badia, spent his life as missionary in China and was canonized 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
Pope Benedict XVI arrives to pay a visit to the home of Josef Freinademetz a 19th century saint who died as a missionary in China, and to pray in the church devoted to him, in Oies, Alta Badia, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Benedict XVI is urging China to open up to Christianity saying, "It is important for this great country to open itself to the Gospel."
BADIA, ITALY - AUGUST 05: Pope Benedict XVI (C) and his brother Georg Ratzinger (R) arrive in front of the birth place of Saint Josef Freinademetz during his summer holidays on August 5, 2008 in Badia (Abtei), Italy. Josef Freinademetz, born as a farmer's son 1852 in Badia, spent his life as missionary in China and was canonized 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
BADIA, ITALY - AUGUST 05: Pope Benedict XVI (C) arrives in front of the birth place of Saint Josef Freinademetz during his summer holidays on August 5, 2008 in Badia (Abtei), Italy. Josef Freinademetz, born as a farmer's son 1852 in Badia, spent his life as missionary in China and was canonized 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
BADIA, ITALY - AUGUST 05: Pope Benedict XVI (C) greets children arriving in front of the birth place of Saint Josef Freinademetz during his summer holidays on August 5, 2008 in Badia (Abtei), Italy. Josef Freinademetz, born as a farmer's son 1852 in Badia, spent his life as missionary in China and was canonized 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
BADIA, ITALY - AUGUST 05: Pope Benedict XVI (C) greets children arriving in front of the birth place of Saint Josef Freinademetz during his summer holidays on August 5, 2008 in Badia (Abtei), Italy. Josef Freinademetz, born as a farmer's son 1852 in Badia, spent his life as missionary in China and was canonized 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
BADIA, ITALY - AUGUST 05: Pope Benedict XVI (2L) is welcomed in front of the birth place of Saint Josef Freinademetz during his summer holidays on August 5, 2008 in Badia (Abtei), Italy. Josef Freinademetz, born as a farmer's son 1852 in Badia, spent his life as missionary in China and was canonized 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
Pope Benedict XVI arrives on August 5, 2008 to pay a visit to the home of late missionary Josef Freinademetz, who was made saint after doing his mission in China, and pray in the church devoted to him, in Oies-Badia. The Pontiff begun last week his Alpine vacation in this mountain resort of the Dolomites where he will remain until August 11. The 81-year-old pontiff has another scheduled appearance on August 10, to deliver the Sunday noon Angelus prayer.
In this file photo dated Aug. 3, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI, right, greets the faithful with Bressanone Bishop Wilhem Egger, left, as they arrive for the Angelus prayer in Bressanone where he is vacationing, near Bolzano, northern Italy. On Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008 Benedict told pilgrims at his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo near Rome that he felt "profound emotion" when he learned of the death Saturday night of the 68-year-old Bressanone Bishop. Benedict said on Sunday that when he bid goodbye to the bishop on Aug. 11 in the mountain town that Egger seemed to be in good health.
Pope Benedict XVI, center foreground in white, leaves the seminary where he is vacationing, in background, on his way to the Angelus prayer in Bressanone, near Bolzano, northern Italy, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008. The pontiff sent Sunday his greetings to China before the Olympics and said he hopes the Games offer an example of coexistence between people from different places. Meeting the faithful Benedict said he will follow the Olympics with a sense of deep friendship and hopes the sports can represent "a pledge of brotherhood and peace among people." At right, Bressanone Bishop Wilhem Egger; At second-left in background, Benedict's secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein; at letf partially visible, the pontiff's personal bodyguard, Domenico Giani.
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