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Left to right, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President George W. Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso pose for a gorup photo during the G8 Summit at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, outside Saint Petersburg, Russia on July 16, 2006. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)

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