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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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Arab holiday makers film models of notable people, with late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, at the Hall of Fame in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, June 7, 2008. The Hall of Fame was founded in 2002 and houses more than 50 silicone statues of the world's famous people in the political, artistic and cultural fields.
Palestinian shop owners display a large poster featuring a combo of portraits of Hamas supremo in Gaza, former premier Ismail Haniya, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, superimposed on a picture of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque, on June 5, 2008 in Gaza City. Abbas called yesterday for a national dialogue toward reconciliation between his Fatah party and Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to him last June. Other posters hung on the sides show, late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R), and slain spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Seated under the portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, are German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, with Mahmoud Abbas during their talks at the Palestinian President's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, June 2, 2008. Steinmeier is on an official visit to the region.
With a poster showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, a vendor prepares coffee for a customer, unseen, at the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The Palestinian economy won't grow in 2008, largely due to continued Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement, and despite massive foreign aid and Palestinian reform efforts, the World Bank predicted Sunday.
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt speaks in front of portraits of former Palestinain leader Yasser Arafat (L) and current President Mahmud Abbas (R) during a press conference in the West Bank city of Nablus on April 9, 2008. The Israeli army arrested some 30 Palestinians from the rival Fatah and Hamas factions in the northern city of Nablus overnight, Palestinian security officials said today.
Under portraits of late leader Yasser Arafat, left and President Mahmoud Abbas, top right, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center right, walks with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney following a press conference at Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, March 23, 2008. Vice President Dick Cheney began Easter Sunday with a prayer and the singing of "Amazing Grace" at a tiny chapel in Jerusalem, then launched into a day of talks about conflict: the Mideast peace process and the rising influence of Iran in the region.
With the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the background, the Quartet's Mideast envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair gestures as he speaks during a press conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, right, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The lead Palestinian negotiator on Tuesday said a new Israeli plan to expand a West Bank settlement endangers the struggling peace process, and he promised to raise the issue with a key U.S. mediator later this week. The negotiator, Ahmed Qureia, said Israel must freeze construction in areas claimed by the Palestinians in order to get peace talks back on track.
Seated under the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, speaks with Abbas during their meeting in the Palestinian presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region to try to rescue peace talks amid the latest outbreak of violence. Rice hoped in a meeting later Tuesday to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to return to negotiations he cut off Sunday after more than 120 Gazans were killed in an Israeli operation against militants who bombard southern Israel with rocket and mortar fire.
With the background of the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at a press conference during his visit to the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday Feb. 7, 2008. Israeli ground forces backed by warplanes exchanged fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a teacher and six militants.
With the background of portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at a press conference during his visit to the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday Feb. 7, 2008. Israeli ground forces backed by warplanes exchanged fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a teacher and six militants in escalating violence that is hobbling peace efforts.
Moroccan people waving Moroccan flags, hold photos of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, rear center, march during a protest against Israeli economic sanctions against Palestinians in the Gaza strip, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 in Casablanca, Morocco. Earlier this month, Israel tightened its already stringent restrictions on the movement of goods into Gaza in response to ongoing rocket fire at southern Israel from the territory, causing a severe shortage of fuel, electricity cutbacks and a lack of some basic foods. About 1,000 people marched through the streets of Casablanca to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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.
Backdropped by U.S. and Palestinian flags and a photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, United States President George W. Bush talks during a joint news conference with Palestinian Presedent Mahmoud Abbas, unseen, after their meeting in Abbas's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office.
Palestinian Fatah supporters hold up flags with the picture of the popular Fatah leader jailed in Israel, Marwan Barghouti, as they celebrate at a rally marking the movement's 43rd anniversary in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. On a banner in the background are the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right.
Palestinians hold torches next to portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (L) and current president Mahmud Abbas (R) during a rally marking the 43rd anniversary of the Fatah movment in Salem village near the West Bank city of Nablus 31 December 2007. Abbas said today that he was ready to "open a new page" with Hamas if the Islamist movement gave up its control of the Gaza Strip. Abbas's statement came at a gathering of Fatah officials marking 43 years since the secular party first declared itself an armed Palestinian resistance movement.
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.
A Palestinian child sells pictures of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) with executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (C and L) outside 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.
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