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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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Maldivian fishermen unload their catch at a fishing harbor in Male, Maldives, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Longtime President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom will face five opponents in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election on Oct. 8. He has been credited with turning a sleepy string of fishing islands off the southwestern tip of India into a major tourism destination and filling its coffers with hard currency.
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A member of the staff of Bakrie Telecom makes a phone call at the Bakrie building in Jakarta October 7, 2008. The Indonesia Stock Exchange suspended trading on Tuesday in shares of six firms controlled by the family of chief social welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie, including coal miner Bumi Resources Tbk. Erry Firmansyah, the president director of the stock exchange, said that the bourse had suspended trading pending clarification from the companies on a number of issues. The stock exchange also halted trading in Bakrie & Brothers Tbk, Bakrie Telecom Tbk, Bakrieland Development Tbk, Bakrie Sumatra Plantations Tbk, and Energy Mega Persada Tbk.
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A Chinese diver feeds the fishes to entertain visitors at an aquarium in Hefei, eastern China's Anhui province on October 7, 2008. China's tourism industry is expected to employ 100 million people by 2015, meaning one in every 14 Chinese will work in the sector then.
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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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A man hold pictures of late Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish (bottom L), near images of late Palestinian leaser Yasser Arafat (C) and late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (L), on August 10, 2008 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinians today mourned the passing of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets. In a televised address after Darwish died on Saturday in a US hospital from complications following open-heart surgery, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas declared three days of official mourning.
Posters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with a noose around his neck (L) and with half his face metamorphosing into the late President Saddam Hussein (R) are seen plastered to a hut painted in the colours of the Iraqi flag, in the restive district of Sadr City in east Baghdad on May 14, 2008. US troops went from house-to-house today in Baghdad searching for weapons in this Shiite stronghold ahead of a deployment of Iraqi forces in line with a new truce between militants loyal to anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and US and Iraq troops, witnesses and officials said. Bottom right is the word 'God' written in Arabic.
Posters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with a noose around his neck (L) and with half his face metamorphosing into the late President Saddam Hussein (R) are seen plastered to a hut painted in the colours of the Iraqi flag, in the restive district of Sadr City in east Baghdad on May 14, 2008. US troops went from house-to-house today in Baghdad searching for weapons in this Shiite stronghold ahead of a deployment of Iraqi forces in line with a new truce between militants loyal to anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and US and Iraq troops, witnesses and officials said.
A combo of pictures shows a watch with a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (L) on January 14, 2003, in Baghdad. Pictured right is a watch with a portrait of firebrand Shiite Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr in Baghdad on March 10, 2008, five years after the US-led war on Iraq which toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.
A Palestinian police officer stands by a mural painting of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, left, during a march against Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. The international Red Cross issued a dire warning on the state of basic services in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, calling on Israel to lift a blockade it has imposed in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
A Palestinian woman followed by a girl walk past giant portraits of Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein (L) and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on a main road in the West Bank city of Jenin, 09 January 2008. The first anniversary of the execution of Iraq's ousted dictator was marked 30 December 2007.
A Palestinian man recites poems while standing between posters of former slain Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (L) and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) during a gathering marking the anniversary of Saddam's execution, 31 December 2007 in the southern West Bank village of Halhul. The gathering was called by the Arab Liberation Front and some 700 people attended it. Saddam was hanged for crimes against humanity on December 30, 2006 in Baghdad.
Pictures of executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (L) hang outisde a shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 30 December 2007. Saddam Hussein loyalists gathered at the ousted dictator's graveside today to mark the first anniversary of his execution, as former opponents expressed joy over the end of his rule.
Disabled Palestinian artist Mohammed Shaban paints a mural on a wall depicting the face of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, left, next to a mural depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Jenin, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. Sunday marks the the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution.
Disabled Palestinian artist Mohammed Shaban paints a mural on a wall depicting the face of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, left, next to a mural depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Jenin, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. Sunday marks the the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution.
A Palestinian woman walks past a wall decorated with photographs of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, bottom left, late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, bottom right, Cuba's revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, center right, Barcelona soccer team, top left, and U.S. actor Sylvester Stallone, top right, displayed for sale at the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007.
This file photo dated 31 December, 2000 shows Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (R) and Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan attending a military parade at the Victory Square in Baghdad. Iraq executed Saddam Hussein's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan before dawn 20 March, 2007 as the nation marked the fourth anniversary of the US-led war that toppled the feared dictator
This file handout picture released by the offcial Iraqi News Agency (INA) shows Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (R) looking at a gift offered to him by the ruling Baa'th party Kurdistan branch in Baghdad 30 July 2002, as Iraqi Deputy Premier Tarek Aziz (L), vice chairman of Iraq's Revolution Command Council, Izzat Ibrahim (2nd L) and Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan (2nd R) look on. Iraq executed Saddam Hussein's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan before dawn 20 March, 2007 as the nation marked the fourth anniversary of the US-led war that toppled the feared dictator
A combo of recent portraits shows Iraq's ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (L) during a hearing in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone 17 October 2006 and his defence attorney, Khalil Al-Dulaimi, addressing the court during the third day of the Anfal Campaign trial in Baghdad on 23 August of the same year. Dulailmi told
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (C) raises his national flag at the Iraqi embassy in Riyadh, 13 February 2007. Zebari formally reopened Iraq's embassy in Riyadh, which was closed at the height of the 1991 Gulf war but has operated informally since the two countries restored diplomatic relations in July 2004. Ties with Riyadh were broken off by then President Saddam Hussein's regime during the 1991 conflict when US-led forces used Saudi Arabia as a springboard to free neighbouring Kuwait from Iraqi occupation
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