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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 )
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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)
