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An Indian policeman stands guard in front of a decorated Christian Church prayer hall ahead of Christmas celebrations in Bhubaneswar, India, Tuesday, Dec.23, 2008. Anti-Christian riots in late August, by Hindu hard-liners had left at least 38 people dead, as many as 30,000 homeless and dozen of churches destroyed in this eastern Indian state. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

A beggar warms herself near a bonfire on a foggy morning in the outskirts of Jammu, India, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) An Afghan street vender sells his peanuts as he waits for customers in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

A photographer reacts as he get hit by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Family members cry near the hearse where the casket of Corporal Thomas James Hamilton rests at CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ont., on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Two other fallen Canadian soldiers, Private John Michael Roy Curwin, and Private Justin Peter Jones, were also honoured. They were all from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment based at CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Fisherwomen dry fish at a village near Paradeep, about 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of Bhubaneswar, India, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

Children and their parents pick up single corn kernels spilled on the road side by trucks ferrying maize corn imported from South Africa in Masvingo, south of Harare, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. According to a United Nations forecast, a full scale humanitarian emergency is needed in Zimbabwe by January 2009 with more than 5 million people, about half the population needing food aid by the beginning of the year. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Tourists and local residents walk on raised wooden walkways during flooding on St. Mark's Square as strong winds pushed the Adriatic Sea into the Venice lagoon, submerging part of the city, Friday, Dec.12, 2008. Violent storms flooded parts of Rome on Thursday, killing at least one person, and the sea again threatened Venice as a wave of bad weather continued to plague Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) Security personnel drag away a Kenyan journalist, as Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki's delivers his speech during Independence Day (Jamhuri Day) celebrations at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. During the event a number of Kenyan journalists were removed while protesting against a contentious media bill, which critics say is intended to limit press freedom. During the violence after Kenya's presidential election late last year, the government banned all live broadcasts for several weeks, citing national security. (AP Photo /Khalil Senosi)

Palestinians wait to take money from a bank machine at an Arab Bank branch in Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. An armored truck carrying 100 million Israeli shekels (US$ 25 million) arrived in Gaza Thursday to ease a cash crunch. It was the first time Israel has let money enter Gaza since October. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Riot police attempt to assist a colleague covered in flames from a petrol bomb thrown by protesters, during clashes in central Athens, Friday Dec. 12, 2008. Greek youths were hurling rocks and broken paving stones at riot police who responded with volleys of tear gas, on the seventh straight day of unrest over the fatal police shooting of a teenager last Saturday night(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

A woman suspected to be suffering from cholera, is transported in a wheelbarrow to a clinic for treatment, in Harare, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. President Robert Mugabe said Zimbabwe's cholera crisis was over, even as the United Nations raised the death toll from the disease to 783. (AP Photo)

A woman walks past cars burned during five days of riots in central Athens, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Protesters attacked Athens' main courthouse with firebombs during a hearing for police officers whose shooting of a teenager set off rioting that appeared to be tapering off Wednesday even as a general strike paralyzed the country. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)