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Tatang Kurniadi (left), chief of the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Board; Daryatmo (right), National Search and Rescue head; and an unidentified Russian investigator inspect the burned cockpit voice recorder of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed into a mountain in West Java last week, during a press conference in Cijeruk, Indonesia, on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Jefri Tarigan)

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** FILE ** Syrian soldiers are seen through the damaged window of a military truck that was hit by a roadside bomb in Daraa, Syria, on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The blast occurred just seconds after a team of U.N. observers passed by. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

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In a Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, file photo, Walter Lee, right, manager of Nuclear Emergency Preparedness, leads the evaluation as the Tennessee Valley Authority conducts an emergency preparedness drill in the Central Emergency Control Center in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)** FILE **

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Will Venable was a one-man wrecking crew for the Padres, going 4-for-5 with a double, a triple and a stolen base. He scored one run and drove in another. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Firefighters inspect a damaged bus at the scene of a bomb attack that targeted a former Colombian interior minister in Bogota, Colombia, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The blast killed two people and injured at least 19 others. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

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Palestinians mark the 64th anniversary of "Nakba," Arabic for "catastrophe" — the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948 — in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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The Metropolitan Police Department released surveillance footage of a "person of interest" in an attack on a pregnant woman during which her baby was fatally stabbed while in her womb.

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A Libyan man sits on debris from a damaged residential building on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, in June. Human Rights Watch is calling on NATO to provide compensation for Libyans who lost loved ones or had property damaged in airstrikes during the bombing campaign that helped rebels oust former leader Moammar Gadhafi. (Associated Press)

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Matthew Perry will star in "Go On" on NBC as a fast-talking, sarcastic sportscaster who loses his wife in a car accident. (Associated Press)

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Andreas Rasch (center), a Dane who was one of six survivors of a plane crash in the Himalayas, is taken for treatment in the nearby city of Pokhara, Nepal, on Monday, May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Krishnamani Baral)

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Tori Pinheiro (left) of New Bedford, Mass., the girlfriend of Austin Brashears, one of the students killed in the van crash in New Zealand, holds a candle during a vigil with others on Marsh Plaza at Boston University on Saturday after word of the fatal accident was received.