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A man looks cars that were washed away in flood waters in Aguilar de la Frontera, southern Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. At least three people were killed and two injured in flash floods in towns close to the southern Spanish city of Cordoba, authorities said Tuesday. An Interior Ministry statement said one man was found dead in a car that had been washed away in torrential overnight rain in the small town of Aguilar de la Frontera. The ministry said the body of a woman who also had been in the vehicle was found some 165 yards away. Another man was killed when an exterior wall of his house collapsed on top of him in the nearby town of Bujalance. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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People view cars that were washed away in flood waters in Aguilar de la Frontera, southern Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. At least three people were killed and two injured in flash floods in towns close to the southern Spanish city of Cordoba, authorities said Tuesday. An Interior Ministry statement said one man was found dead in a car that had been washed away in torrential overnight rain in the small town of Aguilar de la Frontera. The ministry said the body of a woman who also had been in the vehicle was found some 165 yards away. Another man was killed when an exterior wall of his house collapsed on top of him in the nearby town of Bujalance. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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A man reacts as he walks past cars that were washed away in flood waters in Aguilar de la Frontera, southern Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. At least three people were killed and two injured in flash floods in towns close to the southern Spanish city of Cordoba, authorities said Tuesday. An Interior Ministry statement said one man was found dead in a car that had been washed away in torrential overnight rain in the small town of Aguilar de la Frontera. The ministry said the body of a woman who also had been in the vehicle was found some 165 yards away. Another man was killed when an exterior wall of his house collapsed on top of him in the nearby town of Bujalance. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Women clean a flooded house in Aguilar de la Frontera, southern Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Three people were killed and two injured in flash floods in towns close to the southern Spanish city of Cordoba, authorities said Tuesday. An Interior Ministry statement said one man was found dead in a car that had been washed away in torrential overnight rain in the small town of Aguilar de la Frontera. The ministry said the body of a woman who also had been in the vehicle was found some 165 yards away. Another man was killed when an exterior wall of his house collapsed on top of him in the nearby town of Bujalance. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Flood survivors search for their belongings amid the rubble of their houses destroyed by heavy floodwaters in Charsadda, near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Many of about 20 million people affected by flooding in Pakistan have yet to receive any assistance, despite a growing international relief effort, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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A submerged car from which the bodies of two children were recovered is lifted out of the Edisto River in Orangeburg, S.C., on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Their mother, 29-year-old Shaquan Duley, first was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, but police on Tuesday charged her with murder after she confessed to suffocating the toddlers and then faking the accident. (AP Photo/The Times and Democrat/TheTandD.com, Larry Hardy)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS James Paul, a deckhand on the trawler Rolling Thunder, sorts shrimp in Bastian Bay, near Empire, La. Monday marked the first day of shrimping season, although much of the Gulf remained closed because of the massive BP oil spill.
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Haitian children beg for money from a car passenger in the Dominican Republic. Groups say dozens of children have come to the Dominican Republic after the earthquake. (Associated Press)
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Ground fishing has virtually disappeared in Wychmere Harbor in Harwich, Mass. Rules enacted in May have fishermen at New England's major ports worried about their historic fishing communities. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood victims jostle to get relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Pakistani flood survivors jostle for a sack of flour distributed by volunteers Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh, near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Pakistani flood victims fight with each others for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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A Pakistani flood survivor floats his mother to safer area Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani army soldiers rescue villagers from flooded areas Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood survivors return to their village devastated by heavy floods in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's helicopter flies over the flood waters in the Province of Punjab, near the city of Multan in Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan after surveying the devastation and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Echneider)
