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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)
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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 (background) becoming submerged after it collided Saturday with the MV Khalijia II (unseen) 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)
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The Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra, which on Saturday collided with the MV Khalijia II, a St. Kitts-registered ship, tilts in the Arabian Sea close to Mumbai, India, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Indian coast guard ships and helicopters are working to contain an oil spill from the dangerously tilting container ship following the collision, a spokesman for India's Defense Ministry said Monday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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The Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra, which on Saturday collided with the MV Khalijia II, a St. Kitts-registered ship, tilts in the Arabian Sea close to Mumbai, India, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Indian coast guard ships and helicopters are working to contain an oil spill from the dangerously tilting container ship following the collision, a spokesman for India's Defense Ministry said Monday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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The Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra, which on Saturday collided with the MV Khalijia II, a St. Kitts-registered ship, tilts in the Arabian Sea close to Mumbai, India, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Indian coast guard ships and helicopters are working to contain an oil spill from the dangerously tilting container ship following the collision, a spokesman for India's Defense Ministry said Monday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (left) and Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (right) applaud as Letitia A. Long (center) is hugged by James Clapper, director of national intelligence, after becoming the new director of the National Geospatial-Inteligence Agency on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, at the agency in Springfield, Va. Adm. Murrett is the outgoing director of the agency. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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A firefighter works on a fire front on Arada Mountain near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Firefighters were continuing to battle raging brush fires on Monday. They say some have been contained but others still are burning out of control. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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A firefighter works on a fire front on Arada Mountain near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Firefighters were continuing to battle raging brush fires on Monday. They say some have been contained but others still are burning out of control. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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A firefighter works on a fire front on Arada Mountain near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Firefighters were continuing to battle raging brush fires on Monday. They say some have been contained but others still are burning out of control. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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A firefighter works on a fire front on Arada Mountain near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Firefighters were continuing to battle raging brush fires on Monday. They say some have been contained but others are still burning out of control. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Soldiers carry a rescued woman on a stretcher after heavy rains triggered a mudslide in Zhouqu county in northwestern China's Gansu province on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Rescuers searched Monday for an estimated 1,300 people left missing after rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China, just one of a series of flood disasters across Asia that have plunged millions into misery. (AP Photo)
