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Wrestling world body president ousted

PHUKET, Thailand - Raphael Martinetti, president of FILA, attends a bureau meeting of the world wrestling governing body in Phuket, Thailand, on Feb. 16, 2013. The organization ousted the Swiss from his post later in the day following the International Olympic Committee's axing of wrestling as a core sport for the 2020 Summer Games.

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(2)Photos from tsunami-hit southern Thailand

PHUKET, Thailand - A boat moved several hundred meters inland from a beach by the Dec. 26 tsunamis attracts attention in the southern Thai province of Phangnga on Jan. 7.

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(1)Photos from tsunami-hit Asian countries

PHUKET, Thailand - An elephant is used to help in the search for missing people in Banyan in the southern Thai province of Phangnga on Jan. 6.

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Powell speaks in Phuket

PHUKET, Thailand - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (C) speaks at a news conference Jan. 4 in Phuket, southern Thailand, hit by the Dec. 26 quake-triggered tsunami disaster.

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Thailand limits access to morgues to fight diseases

PHUKET, Thailand - A makeshift online database room set up at the Phuket provincial government office is crowded with people seeking information about their missing kin on Jan. 3. The Thai government asked foreigners searching for their missing friends and family members to refrain from visiting temporary morgues in tsunami-hit areas in order to prevent the emergence of infectious diseases.

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2 Japanese aid helicopters arrive on Phuket

PHUKET, Thailand - A Japanese helicopter is unloaded from a Russian transport plane at Phuket International Airport on the Thai resort island on Jan. 2. Two helicopters, which belong to the Tokyo and Osaka fire departments, were sent there to join activities to help the victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster.

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(1)Scenes from Phuket

PHUKET, Thailand - People look at an array of photos of persons missing since Sunday's tsunami disaster put up outside a hospital in the Thai resort island of Phuket on Dec. 29

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(1)Scenes from Thailand's Phuket

PHUKET, Thailand - A woman carries a photo of her missing husband in Phuket, Thailand, on Dec. 27 after tsunamis triggered by the world's strongest earthquake in 40 years off Sumatra struck beaches and hotels on the resort island.

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(2)Scenes from Thailand's Phuket

PHUKET, Thailand - People look at a list of the dead and injured at a hospital in Phuket, Thailand, on Dec. 27. The victims were hit by tsunamis which struck beaches and hotels on the resort island after the world's strongest earthquake in 40 years off Sumatra.

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Wrestling world body president ousted

PHUKET, Thailand - Nenad Lalovic of Serbia holds a press conference in Phuket, Thailand, on Feb. 16, 2013, after being appointed acting president of FILA. At a bureau meeting of the world wrestling governing body in the Thai resort, Raphael Martinetti was ousted from the post of president following the International Olympic Committee's axing of wrestling as a core sport for the 2020 Summer Games.

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Indian Ocean tsunami anniversary

PHUKET, Thailand - People pray on Dec. 26, 2012, in Phuket, Thailand, during a ceremony to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

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Indian Ocean tsunami anniversary

PHUKET, Thailand - Buddhist monks chant sutras on Dec. 26, 2012, in Phuket, Thailand, during a ceremony to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

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Missing one-armed Japanese yachtsman found safe on Phuket

PHUKET, Thailand - Photo shows Akio Yonago, 62, a one-armed Japanese yachtsman confirmed safe on Phuket Island, Thailand, June 18 by the Japanese Embassy in the country after having gone missing April 28 when he sailed from the Seychelles, a group of islands off eastern Africa.

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Passenger plane crashes at Phuket airport

PHUKET, Thailand - Photo shows a wreckage of a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 passenger plane at Phuket International Airport in southern Thailand on Sept. 16 after the plane belonging to One-Two-Go Airlines crashed at the airport earlier in the day.

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Passenger plane crashes at Phuket airport

PHUKET, Thailand - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 passenger plane carrying 130 people on board crashed at Phuket International Airport in southern Thailand on Sept. 16 while trying to land at the airport.

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Int'l marathon held in tsunami-hit Thai tourist spot

PHUKET, Thailand - Children join a one-kilometer run in Phuket, Thailand, June 18 as part of the 2006 Phuket International Marathon held to help boost tourism in the southern Thai province hard-hit by a massive tsunami in December 2004.

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Thailand marks 1st anniversary of tsunami disaster

PHUKET, Thailand - Relatives of victims of last year's Indian Ocean tsunami offer flowers during a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the disaster at Patong beach in Phuket, southern Thailand, on Dec. 26.

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(2)Confab opens to discuss tsunami early warning system

PHUKET, Thailand - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa listens to a speech at a ministerial conference on creating a regional early warning system in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia at a Phuket hotel on Jan. 29.

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(1)Photos from tsunami-hit regions

PHUKET, Thailand - A 100-meter-long wall was built Jan. 26 in a village in Phuket, southern Thailand, to commemorate victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster. Monks, the village head and policemen prayed for the victims from 35 countries before the wall, which is adorned with national flags, candles and flowers.

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(1)Photos from quake and tsunami-hit regions

PHUKET, Thailand - Kiichi Nakamura (L), who operates a Japanese restaurant with Italians at a Phuket beach in southern Thailand, has reopened after the original restaurant collapsed. Nakamura and 20 employees, all of whom survived the Dec. 26 quake-induced tsunami, began reconstructing the restaurant three days after the disaster and reopened it on Jan. 14. Photo was taken Jan. 23.

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(1)Scenes from tsunami-hit southern Thailand

PHUKET, Thailand - Much of the land remains covered by seawater in a village in the southern Thai province of Phangnga near Phuket on Jan. 9, two weeks after the area was hit by the quake-triggered killer tunamis on Dec. 26.

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(2)Scenes from tsunami-hit southern Thailand

PHUKET, Thailand - What look like fishing boats remain washed ashore in a village in the southern Thai province of Phangnga near Phuket on Jan. 9, two weeks after the area was hit by the quake-triggered killer tunamis on Dec. 26. The photo was taken from a helicopter flown by the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives.

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Captain of pirated freighter relaxes at hotel

PHUKET, Thailand - Ko Ikeno (L), captain of the Japanese-operated freighter Alondra Rainbow, hijacked in the Straits of Malacca in October, relaxes with his Philippine crew at a hotel in Phuket, Thailand, prior to meeting local officers. Ikeno and his crew were rescued from a lifeboat Nov. 8.