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A Sri Lankan man hold as a newspaper at a newspaper stand in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Political suppor... A Sri Lankan man hold as a newspaper at a newspaper stand in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
China jails youn... In this undated photo provided by Xue Mingkai's mother Wang Shuqing, Xue Mingkai, dressed as a security worker, poses for a photo in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province. Xue, a 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China, was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010, his mother said. (AP Photo)
Suspect on trial... Alleged Islamic militant Amir Abdillah, center, is escorted by plain-clothed police officers after his first trial at South Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Abdillah went on trial Wednesday on charges of harboring terrorists behind twin suicide hotel bombings in the Indonesian capital that killed seven and wounded more than 50 last year. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
UN envoy in Nort... In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
US poised to sei... A U.S. Army flight medic looks through the window of a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter, during a mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army aero-medical units positioned around southern Afghanistan by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, known as Task Force Pegasus. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
China gives 5 ye... FILE - In this May 17, 2008 file photo, student ID tags are placed on the ground at the Juyuan Middle School, following the May 12 earthquake, in Dujiangyan, in China's southwest Sichuan province. A Chinese court Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)
Stranded panda l... A panda eats bamboo in Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Sri Lanka opposi... Anoma Fonseka, wife of the Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate and former military chief Sarath Fonseka, reacts as she speaks to the media at her residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Sarath Fonseka has been arrested and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Anti-whalers, Ja... In this photo released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker, right, and the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No.3 collide in the waters of Antarctica Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. It was the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. (AP Photo/Institute of Cetacean Research)
UN appeals for $... Elderly Pakistani men line up to get a ration of rice during a donated food distribution in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Marines wait in ... U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines gather at their tents at Belleau Wood outpost outside Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Violence, tight ... Presidential candidates for the May 10 national elections, from left, Benigno Aquino III, John Carlos de los Reyes, Richard Gordon, Jamby Madrigal, Nicanor Perlas, Gilbert Teodoro, Eddie Villanueva and Manuel Villar join their hands together prior to the start of the Philippine Daily Inquirer-sponsored presidential debate Monda, Feb. 8, 2010 at the University of the Philippines campus at Manila's Quezon city. The official campaign period for the Philippines' first-ever automated elections starts Tuesday, Feb. 9. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Toyota recalling... Light snow falls on a row of unsold 2010 Prius sedans at a Toyota dealership in Lakewood, Colo., on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Toyota plans to recall about 300,000 Prius hybrids worldwide over a brake problem and will notify the U.S. and Japanese governments Tuesday, Feb. 9, a news report said, as a top executive is scheduled to testify before U.S. lawmakers over recall woes that have tarnished its reputation for quality and safety. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
NATO says Afghan... U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson meets with Afghan National Army personnel at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Huge recovery ef... In this photo taken Feb. 4, 2010, a car drives in a town destroyed from the 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China. Just 22 months from the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, scarred mountain sides are often the only physical indication of the devastation that left nearly 90,000 dead or missing and another 5 million homeless. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
17 soldiers dead... A vehicle carrying Indian Army rescue team is seen on the way to Gulmarg, via Tangmarg, about 25 miles (41 kilometers) northwest of Srinagar, India, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. A massive avalanche is reported to have plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Bomb hits truck ... Cambodian soldiers are seen by a machine gun as they guard along the Cambodia-Thailand border near Preah Vihear temple, Preah Vihear province, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to pay his first official visit on Saturday to his troops at the disputed territory near the historic temple. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Thailand tighten... A young monk plays with pigeons at Sanam Luang Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok authorities have closed the parade grounds near the Royal Palace for renovation and are planning to capture and relocate the park's pigeons. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Wild West motif ... A U.S. Stryker armored vehicle leaves the Tombstone base in the Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The sign at the entrance shows Wyatt Earp, the legendary lawman of the American Wild West. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
Unrest in Indian... Kashmiri Muslim protesters shout pro freedom slogans as they protest the killing of 17-year-old Zahid Farooq Shah, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Shah who died Friday is the second teenager in a week whose death has been blamed on police and government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city. Widespread protests have rocked the disputed Himalayan region a week, and thousands of armed troops patrolled the city warning residents to stay indoors. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Malaysia: Anwar ... Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim waves to his supporters as he leaves Desa Damansara Condominium, where he alleged sodomized a former aide, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. More lurid sex allegations were heard behind closed doors Thursday at the sodomy trial of Anwar, who has dismissed the charges as a government conspiracy to stop him from seizing power. (AP Photo)
Hundreds flee so... Afghan police men check belongings of displaced families, who arrived from Marjah, at a check post in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)
Pakistanis doubt... In this image taken on Jan . 20, 2010, A Pakistani arms merchant arranges assault rifles in a shop in Quetta, Pakistan. If Afghan Taliban fighters and their top leaders are roaming around this remote part of Pakistan as the U.S. alleges, the police chief here says he hasn't seen them. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Australia mourns... Residents from the town of Kinglake gather to thank firefighters during a one-year anniversary memorial in Kinglake, Australia Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. A remembrance service was held to honor the 173 people killed during the Feb 7, 2009 fires. (AP Photo/Paul Jones)
Japan balks at $... FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2007 file photo, helicopters and transport planes are seen on the tarmac at Futenma Marine Corps Air Station next to residential buildings in Okinawa, Japan. For decades, it has been a rallying point for islanders frustrated at having to share their crowded surroundings with tens of thousands of U.S. troops. So when Tokyo and Washington agreed three years ago to move the airfield to a more secluded place, the deal was hailed as a breakthrough. But in September Japan got a new government which has put the plan on hold. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)

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