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A display shows how the dual-mode electric S6DM sport utility vehicle from Chinese automaker BYD can be plugged into a charging station to recharge its onboard batteries, at the North American International Auto Show on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Detroit.
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New Zealand's Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters, center, and Defense Minister Ron Mark, left, talk to reporters in Wellington, New Zealand Monday, July 9, 2018. They announced that New Zealand has agreed to buy four Boeing maritime patrol planes from the U.S.
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This is an undated file photo of a shadowy shape that some people say is a photo of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. For hundreds of years, visitors to Scotland's Loch Ness have described seeing a monster that some believe lives in the depths. Now the legend of 'Nessie' may have no place to hide. Researchers will travel there next month to take samples of the murky waters and use DNA tests to determine what species live there.
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