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Ukrainian border guards patrol along the Ukraine-Romania border near the west Ukrainian village of Yablunitsa February 5, 2009. Thousands of would-be immigrants from India, Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Somalia, Chechnya and Georgia have begun to choose the "easy" route to Europe - through Ukraine's Carpathian mountains. Either duped by their smugglers into thinking Ukraine is Romania or Hungary or dumped in a Ukrainian forest, many migrants end their thousands of dollars-worth trips to Europe in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian border guards patrol along the Ukraine-Romania border near the west Ukrainian village of Yablunitsa February 5, 2009. Thousands of would-be immigrants from India, Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Somalia, Chechnya and Georgia have begun to choose the "easy" route to Europe - through Ukraine's Carpathian mountains. Either duped by their smugglers into thinking Ukraine is Romania or Hungary or dumped in a Ukrainian forest, many migrants end their thousands of dollars-worth trips to Europe in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian border guards patrol along the Ukraine-Romania border near the west Ukrainian village of Yablunitsa February 5, 2009. Thousands of would-be immigrants from India, Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Somalia, Chechnya and Georgia have begun to choose the "easy" route to Europe - through Ukraine's Carpathian mountains. Either duped by their smugglers into thinking Ukraine is Romania or Hungary or dumped in a Ukrainian forest, many migrants end their thousands of dollars-worth trips to Europe in Ukraine.
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A South Korean Army K-1 tank (front) and U.S. Army M1 tanks take part in a joint river-crossing exercise on the Hantan river in Yeoncheon, about 62 km (38 miles) north of Seoul, February 5, 2009.
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Chinese soldiers use washbasins to help irrigate crops in a field at Hejie village in Xuchang in China's Henan province Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. The People's Liberation Army deployed over 1,000 soldiers to help irrigate crops in Xuchang. China has declared a top-level emergency for the country's worst drought in five decades that has hit eight wheat-growing northern provinces and left more than 4 million people without proper drinking water.
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Cap. Michael Harris, commander of U.S. Army's Alfa Company, 1st Battalion of 32nd Infantry Regiment, speaks with an Afghan family during a patrol near Nawapass village, Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan February 6, 2009.
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A U.S. Army helicopter takes off during a patrol near Nawapass village, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan February 6, 2009.
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An Afghan soldier stands guard at the border with Pakistan near Nawapass village, Kunar province, in eastern Afghanistan February 6, 2009.
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Soldiers of Pakistan's paramilitary force guard a newly built bridge to lead a trailer truck with U.S. and NATO supplies into Pakistani tribal area of Khyber neighboring Afghanistan on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. A suicide car bomber blew himself up in the troubled Khyber tribal region after tribal police signaled him to halt during a routine check, government official said. The bridge was destroyed by militants Tuesday.
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A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guard near the site of bomb blast in the Khyber agency on the outskirts of Peshawar February 6, 2009. A suicide car bomber blew himself up and wounded seven people on Friday when police stopped him on the road through Pakistan's Khyber Pass, a vital supply route for Western forces in Afghanistan.
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Pakistani tribal people look at remains of a vehicle blown up by a suicide bomber in tribal area of Khyber in Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. A suicide car bomber blew himself up in the troubled Khyber tribal region after tribal police signaled him to halt during a routine check, government official said.
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This Nov. 7, 2008 file photo shows a view of a police building destroyed by a suicide bomber in the Mingora district of Pakistan's troubled Swat valley on. Taliban militants are beheading and burning their way through the Swat Valley and now control most of the picturesque northwest region once dubbed "the Switzerland of Pakistan," residents and officials say.
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Local residents examine a damaged school, wrecked by Islamic militants in Mingora, main town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. In recent months, militants have blown up or burned down some 170 schools, most of them for girls, and demanded in December that all schools for girls be closed by Jan. 15.
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Residents gather at a damaged school building after it was blown up by the Taliban in Swat valley January 19, 2009. Pakistani Taliban insurgents blew up four schools in the northwestern Swat region on Monday hours after a cabinet minister vowed that the government would reopen schools in the violence-plagued valley.
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Pakistani children stand on the rubble of a damaged portion of a government school wrecked by Islamic militants with explosives in Saidu Sharif, an area of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. In a northern valley where Taliban guerrillas have been waging a bloody war against security forces for more than a year, hard-liners have blown up or burned down some 170 schools, most of them for girls.
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Residents stand at a damaged school building after it was blown up by militants in Swat Valley January 26, 2009. Militants blew up a government high school, district officials said. Schools are closed for a winter break and no one was hurt. Militants have destroyed more than 180 valley schools, most of them for girls
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Pakistani women rally against Taliban and Islamic militants in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. The rally is organized in protest against Talibans destroying girls schools in the troubled area of SwatValley in northern Pakistan.
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Taliban militants now control most of Pakistan's Swat Valley, a pitcuresque tourist region less than 100 miles from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, and away from Predator missile strikes in the western Tribal areas.