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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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Arizona's Mike Thomas (10) runs for a gain against Toledo's Barry Church, right, in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Tucson, Ariz., Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.
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China's Liu Ce swims during the men's 200m individual medley SM6 heat at the 2008 Paralympics at the National Aquatics Centre, also known as the Water Cube, in Beijing September 7, 2008.
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A supporter of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) holds a poster of newly president-elect Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, as they light fireworks to celebrate the victory of Zardari in Karachi on September 7, 2008. Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari is unlikely to have the country's powerful military breathing down his neck as did his slain wife during two stormy stints in power. Zardari was overwhelmingly elected on September 6 in a secret ballot of lawmakers, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago.
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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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US President George W. Bush speaks on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush walks from the Oval Office to speak on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush speaks on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush speaks on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush speaks on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush arrives to speak on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush speaks on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush speaks on North Korea June 26, 2008 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. The United States on Thursday welcomed North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs and announced steps to remove the communist state from a terrorism blacklist and ease some trade sanctions. The White House will immediately lift sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act and notify the US Congress that it plans to take North Korea off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, triggering a 45-day evaluation period.
US President George W. Bush speaks under a portrait of former US President George Washington, on developing world food problems in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 1, 2008. Bush urged the US Congress to approve an additional $770 million USD in aid to cope with the worsening global food crisis.
US actor and pro-Tibetan activist Richard Gere (R) listens to the testimony of US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte at the Senate Foreign Relations' East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee hearing on the crisis in Tibet at the US Congress in Washington on April 23, 2008. The US warned China that failure to hold a dialogue now with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could harden the position of moderate pro-Tibetan groups. "If Beijing does not engage with the Dalai Lama now, it will only serve to strengthen those who advocate extremist views," Negroponte told a Senate hearing on China's crackdown in Tibet.
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations' East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee on the crisis in Tibet at the US Congress in Washington on April 23, 2008 as actor and pro-Tibetan activist Richard Gere (R) looks on. The US warned China that failure to hold a dialogue now with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could harden the position of moderate pro-Tibetan groups. "If Beijing does not engage with the Dalai Lama now, it will only serve to strengthen those who advocate extremist views," Negroponte told a Senate hearing on China's crackdown in Tibet.
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) testifies on April 23, 2008 during a Senate hearing on the crisis in Tibet, at the US Congress in Washington, DC. The US warned China that failure to hold a dialogue now with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could harden the position of moderate pro-Tibetan groups. "If Beijing does not engage with the Dalai Lama now, it will only serve to strengthen those who advocate extremist views," Negroponte told a Senate hearing on China's crackdown in Tibet.
Actor and Tibet activist Richard Gere (R) listens as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) testifies on April 23, 2008 during a Senate hearing on the crisis in Tibet, at the US Congress in Washington, DC. The US warned China that failure to hold a dialogue now with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could harden the position of moderate pro-Tibetan groups. "If Beijing does not engage with the Dalai Lama now, it will only serve to strengthen those who advocate extremist views," Negroponte told a Senate hearing on China's crackdown in Tibet.
Actor and Tibet activist Richard Gere (R) listens as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) testifies on April 23, 2008 during a Senate hearing on the crisis in Tibet, at the US Congress in Washington, DC. The US warned China that failure to hold a dialogue now with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could harden the position of moderate pro-Tibetan groups. "If Beijing does not engage with the Dalai Lama now, it will only serve to strengthen those who advocate extremist views," Negroponte told a Senate hearing on China's crackdown in Tibet.
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) testifies on April 23, 2008 during a Senate hearing on the crisis in Tibet, at the US Congress in Washington, DC. The US warned China that failure to hold a dialogue now with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could harden the position of moderate pro-Tibetan groups. "If Beijing does not engage with the Dalai Lama now, it will only serve to strengthen those who advocate extremist views," Negroponte told a Senate hearing on China's crackdown in Tibet.
Actor and Tibet activist Richard Gere (R) listens as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) testifies on April 23, 2008 during a Senate hearing on the crisis in Tibet, at the US Congress in Washington, DC. The US warned China that failure to hold a dialogue now with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama could harden the position of moderate pro-Tibetan groups. "If Beijing does not engage with the Dalai Lama now, it will only serve to strengthen those who advocate extremist views," Negroponte told a Senate hearing on China's crackdown in Tibet.
A US soldier (R) from a military transition team (MITT) coaches Iraqi soldiers during a training exercise at a US military base in the restive Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, on March 14, 2008. US President George W. Bush will make a speech at the Pentagon next week, five years to the day after the US-led invasion of Iraq, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said today. Public opinion polls show that most Americans want to withdraw swiftly from Iraq, which clouds prospects for Bush's fellow Republicans in the November 2008 elections that will decide control of the White House and US Congress.
US army 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team Command Sergeant Major John Troxell (foreground) speaks to a class of Iraqi soldiers on a training exercise with US troops at a US military base in the restive Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, on March 14, 2008. US President George W. Bush will make a speech at the Pentagon next week, five years to the day after the US-led invasion of Iraq, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said today. Public opinion polls show that most Americans want to withdraw swiftly from Iraq, which clouds prospects for Bush's fellow Republicans in the November 2008 elections that will decide control of the White House and US Congress.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, second left, stands with US Congress members Representative Jane Harman, left, Senator Jon Kyl, center, Representative Elton Gallegly, second right, and Senator Sam Brownback, during their meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave his military a "free hand" to hit Gaza militants after a rocket slammed into a house in an Israeli town following a visit there by the new U.N. humanitarian chief, who called for an end to the daily salvos.
WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 14: The U.S. Congress holds a memorial service for House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Captiol February 14, 2008 in Washington, DC. A Holocaust survivor and a member of Congress since 1981, Lantos died of complications form cancer of the esophagus on February 11 at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Md.
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