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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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Former NBA player Patrick Ewing holds his 11-month-old daughter, Alexis, at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Ewing is being inducted into the Hall.
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Argentinian UN peacekeepers provide security as people unload water donated by the World Food Program at a private port after Tropical Storm Hanna passed through the region dumping heavy rains that flooded the entire region leaving at least 136 dead and thousands stranded in Gonaives September 5, 2008.
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CEDARBURG, WI - SEPTEMBER 5: Republican U.S vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks while Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his wife Cindy (R) look on during a campaign stop at a meet and greet downtown on September 5, 2008 Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Palin and Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are making their first post-convention campaign stops after McCain accepted the GOP nomination for U.S. President yesterday at the Republican National Convention.
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Italy's Claudia Pettazzoni (L) and Peru's Fidel Rios kiss each other to win the IKE, the International underwater kissing event in Riccione on July 20, 2008. The couple won the world's longest underwater kiss title with a time of 1 minutes and 51 seconds.
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A model presents a creation by Belarussian designer Dmitry Prigozhaev during the International Festival of Vanguard Art, Mammoth, in Minsk November 17, 2007.
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Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) arrives to accept the nomination. at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008.
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ST. PAUL, MN - SEPTEMBER 04: Republican U.S presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pauses while speaking during day four of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Xcel Energy Center on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will accept the GOP nomination for U.S. President Thursday night.
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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
Portrait of Iraq's ex-dictator Saddam Hussein is seen on a barricade blocking the Lebanese-Syrian border crossing near Al-Masna, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Road blocks, erected by anti-government factions, and clashes have blocked the road at Al-Masna, the key crossing on the Lebanon-Syria border. Gunmen opened fire in the region on cars on several occasions over the past two days.
Supporters of Saddam Hussein (portrait) lay flowers over his tomb in the village of Awja, near the central city of Tikrit, on April 28, 2008. Sunni Arab supporters of Saddam Hussein marked the anniversary of the executed Iraqi dictator's birth on Monday with poems and songs of praise by his grave in his native village of Awja.
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