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In this photo taken on Aug. 9, 2010, a Chinese man uses a hammer to knock his damaged house down in the mudslide-hit town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in a remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides. (AP Photo)
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Chinese residents grieve after a mudslide swept through the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Chinese soldiers attempt to pry open the concrete wall of a building that collapsed after Sunday's mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Chinese soldiers use a life detecting device to search for survivors in a building that partially collapsed after Sunday's mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A rooster is tied to the body of a victim killed after Sunday's mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Chinese residents grieve amongst the rocks and debris after a mudslide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A Chinese man rests near a damaged building as rescue workers search a neighboring building after a mudslide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Chinese rescue workers and residents dig in the mud for victims of Sunday's mud slide that swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Explosives are set off to clear away debris stemming the flow of a river after a mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Chinese rescue workers carry wooden boards to create a passable route through soft mud after a mudslide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Rescue workers and residents search for victims after a mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A bird is seen flying along the empty shoreline after a storm in Grand Isle, La., Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The beach in Grand Isle reopened to the public today for the first time since they were closed in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Linda and Gary Haas, both 61, were found dead in a charred camper Wednesday morning on a remote ranch in eastern New Mexico. Federal agents on Monday captured one of two escaped inmates suspected in the killing of the Haases and were searching for the other fugitive and a suspected accomplice. (AP Photo/New Mexico Department of Public Safety)
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Destroyed railroad tracks near Hegenwerder, Germany, show the extent of damage left as swollen rivers pushed northward. (Associated Press)
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A resident of Bogatynia, Poland, uses a rope to get across a fast-flowing but receding river Monday after a bridge collapsed in flash floods that killed at least 11 people and left towns in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany strewn with rubble and coping with badly damaged homes and roads. (Associated Press)
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Students walk by burning debris set afire in protest of the Haitian government's lack of help to rebuild the area after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Education is one of the areas Haitian candidate for president Wyclef Jean hopes to improve. (Associated Press)
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Aerial view shows the castle in Bad Muskau, Germany, partly flooded by the Neisse river on Monday Aug. 9, 2010. The park of the castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Poles, Czechs and Germans struggled Monday to clean up homes and towns badly damaged as the waters of deadly weekend flooding began to recede. But the swollen rivers pushed northward, and other towns and villages braced for possible high waters. The floods have killed more than 10 people. (AP Photo/ddp/ Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert)
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Czech Premier Petr Necas phones while observing the damages caused by Saturday's floods in Chrastava, some 90 kilometres north of Prague, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/CTK, Libor Zavoral)
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Residents stand in a destroyed street after flash floods in the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday , Aug. 9, 2010. The flooding has struck an area near the borders with Germany and the Czech Republic, where there have also been several fatalities. (AP Photo/Robert Steiner )
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A resident walks on a destroyed street after flash floods in the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday , Aug. 9, 2010. The flooding has struck an area near the borders with Germany and the Czech Republic, where there have also been several fatalities. (AP Photo/Robert Steiner )
