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People react at the scene of an accident outside the town of Marhanets, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 after a bus attempted to cross the track, ignoring a siren that indicated an oncoming train. At least 40 people were killed officials at the Ministry of Emergency Situations said. Another eleven people were injured. Road and railway accidents are common in Ukraine, where the roads are in poor condition, vehicles are poorly maintained, and drivers and passengers routinely disregard safety and traffic rules. (AP Photo)
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Police stand next to the the wreckage of a van carrying seasonal orchard workers that crashed head-on with a truck while apparently trying to overtake in dense fog near Nowe Miasto in central Poland, killing all 17 passengers and the driver, early Tuesday, Oct.12, 2010. The truck driver was injured. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Police work at the site where a van carrying seasonal orchard workers crashed head-on with a truck while apparently trying to overtake in dense fog near Nowe Miasto in central Poland, killing all 17 passengers and the driver, early Tuesday, Oct.12, 2010. The truck driver was injured. (AP Photo)
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Police work at the site where a van carrying seasonal orchard workers crashed head-on with a truck while apparently trying to overtake in dense fog near Nowe Miasto in central Poland, killing all 17 passengers and the driver, early Tuesday, Oct.12, 2010. The truck driver was injured. (AP Photo/str)
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Police officers stand in front of a screen that hides from view a van and a truck which collided near Nowe Miasto in central Poland killing 18 people early Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. Police say the cargo van carrying orchard workers was apparently trying to overtake in dense fog when it crashed head-on with the truck, killing all 17 passengers and the driver. The truck driver was injured. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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A train crashed into a bus outside Marhanets, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, when the bus driver attempted to cross the track after ignoring a warning siren from the locomotive and a red light that indicated an oncoming train. (AP Photo)
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Two injured Afghan civilians lie in the back of a medical evacuation helicopter after being picked up by U.S. Air Force pilots and pararescuemen from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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The remains of a bus lie next to a railway train at the site of an accident outside the town of Marhanets, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. The crowded passenger bus collided with the train in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 43 people and leaving 8 injured, police said. (AP Photo/Emergency Situations Ministry)
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RESCUE READY: Air Force Pararescueman Alejandro Serrano with the 46th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron test-fires his weapon over Kandahar province in case it's needed during casualty-pickup missions in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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A Hungarian firefighter wearing protective mask and clothing stands guard at the red sludge reservoir, where a rupture caused deadly sludge flood in Kolontar, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. The population of Kolontar was evacuated Saturday, and the neighboring town of Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a new sludge deluge. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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A Hungarian soldier and a volunteer, wearing protective gears, walk across a street covered by flooded toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Hungary's prime ministers says police have taken into custody the managing director of the company which owns the metals plant where a broken reservoir flooded several towns with toxic red sludge and water.(AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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Hungarian soldiers, wearing protective gears, wash each others after cleaning streets covered by flooded toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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Hungarian soldiers, wearing protective gears, wash each others after cleaning streets covered by flooded toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Redskins safety LaRon Landry intercepts a pass intended for Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings, left, during overtime in an NFL football game in Landover, Md., Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Washington won 16-13.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Redskins safety LaRon Landry forces a fumble from Green Bay Packers tight end Donald Lee during the first half of an NFL football game in Landover, Md., Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Washington recovered the fumble.
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The first residents evacuated from Kolontar, Hungary, which was inundated by toxic red sludge from an alumina plant on Monday, arrive at a temporary shelter set up in the Sports Hall of Ajka on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Police and army officials evacuated the residents on Saturday because of new signs of damage that have appeared on the dam of the red-sludge reservoir at the nearby Ajka aluminium plant. (AP Photos/MTI, Lajos Nagy)
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A relative reacts after it was announced that a drill reached the trapped miners at the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. A drill reached the miners at a point 2,041 feet (622 meters) below the surface at 8:05 a.m., after 33 days of drilling. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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In this photo made available on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, police and army officials are helping during the evacuation of western Hungary's village of Kolontar, which is being cleared due to new signs of damage that have appeared on the dam of the red sludge reservoir at the nearby Ajka aluminium plant on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/MTI, Balint Juhasz)
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Local residents look to burning oil tankers after a militant attack in Mithri, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of Quetta, Pakistan, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Gunmen armed with a rocket torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday, the latest attack on the supply line for international troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing amid a dispute with the United States. (AP Photo)
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Workers involved in the operations to rescue 33 trapped miners are seen taking pictures in the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Sixty-six agonizing days after their gold and copper mine collapsed above them, 33 miners anxiously awaited a way out early Saturday as a drill carved into the last layers of rock above their underground purgatory. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
