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Afghans unload ballot materials from a truck outside a polling station on the eve of the parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, May. 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary election as the Taliban have warned of countrywide attacks on Saturday targeting voters and election workers. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Afghans walk past under election posters of parliamentarian candidates on the eve of the parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary election on Sept. 18 as the Taliban have warned of countrywide attacks on Saturday targeting voters and election workers. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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An Afghan election worker counts distributed ballot materials at a polling station on the eve of the parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, May. 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary election Saturday as the Taliban have warned of countrywide attacks targeting voters and election workers. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Afghan election workers carry a ballot box into a polling station on the eve of the parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary election on Saturday as the Taliban have warned of countrywide attacks targeting voters and election workers. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Afghan police officers walk by distributed ballot materials at a polling station on the eve of the parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary election on Saturday as the Taliban have warned of countrywide attacks on targeting voters and election workers. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Election posters of Afghan parliamentarian candidates pasted on a partly demolished building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary election on Sept. 18 as the Taliban have warned of countrywide attacks on Saturday targeting voters and election workers. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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An Afghan man, carrying a floor mat, walks past election campaign billboards in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Police set up extra checkpoints across Afghanistan on Friday to scan for suicide bombers and insurgents a day ahead of parliamentary polling. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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A Palestinian relative of Hamas member Iyad Abu Shilbaya reacts in the family house after Shilbaya was killed by Israeli troops in his bedroom, in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, Friday Sept. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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Sri Lankan police officers inspect the site of an explosion at a police station in Karadiyanaru, a small town in the former conflict zone in eastern Sri Lanka, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Three containers filled with explosives meant for road construction detonated Friday outside the police station, killing dozens of people in a blast government officials called an accident. (AP Photo)

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Polish police officers arrest the head of the Chechen government in exile Akhmed Zakhayev who is wanted in Russia on terrorism, charges, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Sept.17, 2010. Mr. Zakhayev, who resides in London, came to Poland to attend a World Congress of Chechens. (AP Photo/str)

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Korea War veterans from the United States and other countries parade on military vehicles through a street to celebrate of the 60th Incheon Landing Operations Commemoration, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 near Incheon, the South Korean coastal city where United Nations Forces led by U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed in September 1950 just months after North Korea invaded the South. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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Dancers perform during the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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A dancer performs during the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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Dancers perform during the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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Chinelo dancers perform during the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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A woman participates in a bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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People operate mannequins in the likeness of revolutionary fighters during the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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Men wearing Aztec costumes perform during the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. After two days of inconclusive Mideast peace negotiations, Mrs. Clinton traveled Thursday to the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in the West Bank to confer with Mr. Abbas. On the wall are portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (left) and Mr. Abbas. (AP Photo/Fadi Arouri, Pool)

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Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, from left to right, Nuon Chea, 84, the group's ideologist; former head of state and public face of the regime, Khieu Samphan, 79; former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary; and his wife Ieng Thirith, ex-minister for social affairs, both in their 80, for 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith/Chor Sokunthea, File)