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Resident tosses a bottle with water across the river after a bridge collapsed during flash floods in the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. 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 / Petr David Josek)

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A resident stands next to her destroyed house that collapsed in flash floods that hit the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. 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 caused a number of fatalities. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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A woman takes a picture of house that collapsed in flash floods that hit the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. 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 caused a number of fatalities. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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Aerial view shows the broken wall of the Witka dam near Radomierzyce, Poland near the German boder Sunday Aug. 8, 2010. The death toll in flooding in central Europe rose more than 10 as Poland's interior minister said Sunday that two more people had died in the southwestern region of the country. The flooding has struck an area near the borders of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. (AP Photo/ddp/ Jens Schlueter/ddp)

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Pakistani villagers chase to relief supplies dropped from an army helicopter in a heavy flood-hit area of Mithan Kot, in central Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The government has struggled to cope with the scale of the disaster, which has killed at least 1,500 people, prompting the international community to help by donating tens of millions of dollars and providing relief supplies. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

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Pakistani villagers swim across floodwaters after collecting relief supplies dropped from an army helicopter in a heavy flood-hit area of Mithan Kot, in central Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The government has struggled to cope with the scale of the disaster, which has killed at least 1,500 people, prompting the international community to help by donating tens of millions of dollars and providing relief supplies. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

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Crew members help villagers get off an army helicopter after being transported from a heavily flooded area to Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

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Flood-affected women stand in a queue for food relief in a camp set up in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from the worst floods in its history, further straining a country already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist militants, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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A Pakistani mother living in a relief camp for flood victims fans an ailing child in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from its worst floods in history, further straining a country already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist militants, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Flood-affected children queue for relief distributed by the Falah-e-Insaniyat foundation, the charity wing of the Pakistani militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, in Nowshera, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Volunteers of the Falah-e-Insaniyat foundation, the charity wing of the Pakistani militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, supervise the cooking of food for flood-affected people in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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A villager stands outside what is left of homes washed away by heavy floods in Charsadda in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Children scuffle for food relief in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, in the wake of massive flooding. The number of people suffering from the floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)

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A woman affected by the flooding in Pakistan sits next to her mother, Deenal Mai, 75, who is ill and exhausted because of hunger and thirst, on their arrival at Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh Province on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Villagers take shelter on higher ground as flood waters threaten the area in Ghazi Gat near Muzaffargarh in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani villagers flee their home because of heavy flooding in Muzaffargarh in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood victims get relief food in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million -- more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Cargo boxes on board the MSC Chitra, operated by Mediterranean Shipping Co., fall from the deck into the Arabian Sea near Mumbai, India, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The city's Jawaharlal Nehru Port, India's busiest container harbor, suspended operations as salvage workers tried to recover hundreds of cargo boxes from the vessel following a collision on Saturday. (Pal Pillai/Bloomberg)

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Cargo boxes on board the MSC Chitra, operated by Mediterranean Shipping Co., fall from the deck into the Arabian Sea near Mumbai, India, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The city's Jawaharlal Nehru Port, India's busiest container harbor, suspended operations as salvage workers tried to recover hundreds of cargo boxes from the vessel following a collision on Saturday. (Pal Pillai/Bloomberg)

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This Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, photo shows the MSC Chitra listing after it collided on Saturday with the MV Khalijia II in the Arabian Sea close to Mumbai, India. Indian coast guard ships were working Monday to minimize the impact of an oil spill from the collision, news reports said. (AP Photo)