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Searchers comb through the debris of destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government forces in the Jabal Bedro neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in this citizen journalism image provided by the Aleppo Media Center and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center)

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Jan Kubis, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, presents the annual U.N. report on Afghan civilian casualties at a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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Assembly workers for military contractors are at risk of job losses as a result of the uncertainty of sequestration. (Associated Press)

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Peter Root and Mary Thompson, both 34, were killed in Thailand on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, in a road accident during their round-the-world cycling odyssey. The couple, from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, left Britain in July 2011 and had cycled through Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and China — a journey chronicled on the website Two on Four Wheels. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Jerry Root)

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Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says a Chinese missile frigate locked its fire-control radar on a Japanese helicopter and destroyer in January in the East China Sea. China denies the claims. (Japanese Defense Ministry via Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A small boat belonging to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous patrols on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, near the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico. The Carnival Triumph has been floating aimlessly about 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula since a fire erupted in the aft engine room a day earlier, knocking out the ship's propulsion system. No one was injured and the fire was extinguished. (Associated Press/U.S. Coast Guard)

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A cat walks out from a fence near a display of photos of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, new leader Kim Jong Un and the country's successful long range rocket launch, outside the North Korean embassy in Beijing Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. North Korea apparently conducted a widely anticipated nuclear test Tuesday, strongly indicated by an "explosion-like" earthquake that monitoring agencies around the globe said appeared to be unnatural. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)