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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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Ossetian women sit on the front steps of their house in Tskhinvali, regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Russia recognized South Ossetia and the separatist Black Sea province of Abkhazia as independent nations after the five-day war and has ringed the regions with checkpoints the West says violate the terms of a cease-fire brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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A boy suffering from diarrhoea rests at flood relief camp in Araria district town in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, September 7, 2008. Authorities battling a massive deluge in eastern India issued public warnings on Friday of more floods to come and asked villagers not to return home from temporary shelters yet.
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Jean Sarkozy (up), son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Neuilly municipal counselor holds his hand on UMP' secretary general Patrick Devedjian on September 7, 2008 at the end of a summer rally of French ruling right-wing UMP party in Royan, southwestern France.
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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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Liu Qi, President of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, right, and Chinese Ambassador to United Nations Guangya Wang, center, shake hands with former Governor of New York George Pataki left, who serves as Public Delegate of the US Mission to United Nations during the debate about Sport for Peace and Development at U.N. Headquarters, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the UN's Yugoslav warcrimes court in The Hague on August 28, 2008 for his second appearance before the court which is trying him for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Karadzic, 63, was arrested in Belgrade six weeks ago, 13 years after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued an indictment against him over a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people died.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic arrives in the UN's Yugoslav warcrimes court in The Hague on August 28, 2008 for his second appearance before the court which is trying him for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Karadzic, 63, was arrested in Belgrade six weeks ago, 13 years after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued an indictment against him over a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people died.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the UN's Yugoslav warcrimes court in The Hague on August 29, 2008 for his second appearance before the court which is trying him for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Karadzic, 63, was arrested in Belgrade six weeks ago, 13 years after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued an indictment against him over a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people died.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the UN's Yugoslav warcrimes court in The Hague on August 28, 2008 for his second appearance before the court which is trying him for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Karadzic, 63, was arrested in Belgrade six weeks ago, 13 years after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued an indictment against him over a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people died.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the UN's Yugoslav warcrimes court in The Hague on August 29, 2008 for his second appearance before the court which is trying him for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Karadzic, 63, was arrested in Belgrade six weeks ago, 13 years after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued an indictment against him over a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people died.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the UN's Yugoslav warcrimes court in The Hague on August 28, 2008 for his second appearance before the court which is trying him for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Karadzic, 63, was arrested in Belgrade six weeks ago, 13 years after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued an indictment against him over a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which 100,000 people died.
Peacekeeping troops with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol an area near Marjayoun in southern Lebanon on August 29, 2008. Gunmen opened fire on a Lebanese army helicopter flying over a region known as a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon yesterday killing an officer, Samer Hanna, 25, and wounding several of the crew, a security official said. The finger of blame was being pointed today at Lebanon's Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement over the downing of an military helicopter.
Peacekeeping troops with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and Lebanese Army forces patrol an area near Marjayoun in southern Lebanon on August 29, 2008. Gunmen opened fire on a Lebanese army helicopter flying over a region known as a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon yesterday killing an officer, Samer Hanna, 25, and wounding several of the crew, a security official said. The finger of blame was being pointed today at Lebanon's Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement over the downing of an military helicopter.
Anti-government demonstrators clash with riot police outside the United Nations Building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Tensions between demonstrators and police continue to rise however Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej refuses to resign and vows not to use force against the demonstrators.
Riot police scuffle with demonstrators outside the United Nations Building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Thai police muscled into crowds of anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office compound Friday to deliver a court order demanding they leave, sparking scuffles that left several people with minor injuries.
Riot police scuffle with demonstrators outside the United Nations Building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Thai police muscled into crowds of anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office compound Friday to deliver a court order demanding they leave, sparking scuffles that left several people with minor injuries.
Riot police scuffle with demonstrators outside the United Nations Building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Thai police muscled into crowds of anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office compound Friday to deliver a court order demanding they leave, sparking scuffles that left several people with minor injuries.
Riot police scuffle with demonstrators outside the United Nations Building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Thai police muscled into crowds of anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office compound Friday to deliver a court order demanding they leave, sparking scuffles that left several people with minor injuries.
Riot police scuffle with demonstrators outside the United Nations Building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Thai police muscled into crowds of anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office compound Friday to deliver a court order demanding they leave, sparking scuffles that left several people with minor injuries.
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