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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan casts a shadow on the wall during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA's board of governors at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: "The president of the United States has enormous capacity to enable the increased production of American oil and American gas. By deregulation, by opening up the Gulf, by opening up fields in Alaska, by opening up federal lands." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner wrote to President Obama about greenhouse gas rule-making: "These rules ... stand to cost 180,000 American jobs per year." (Associated Press)
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Piles of debris are all that remain, right, at the site of the St. Louis Catholic church, which collapsed a day earlier following explosions at an adjacent munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Congo Monday, March 5, 2012. Unknown numbers of victims are believed to be trapped under the rubble as rescues wait for the area to be safe to enter. (AP Photo/Elie Mbena)
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A woman walks March 5, 2012, amongst debris near buildings damaged by the previous day's explosions at a munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Congo. International experts fought to prevent a fire from reaching a second arms depot in the capital of the Republic of Congo, a day after a blaze set off a series of explosions so violent they flattened buildings, killing hundreds and trapping countless others under the falling debris. (Associated Press)
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Technicians install solar panels to supply power to a health center and a fish hatchery in Boucan Carre, Haiti. The panels will also provide the town with dependable electricity for the first time. (Associated Press)
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A Haitian woman cooks by candlelight in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Only a quarter of Haitians have regular access to electricity, and the scarcity touches just about every aspect of Haitian life. (Associated Press)
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People make their way down a dark street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, recently. Haitian President Michel Martelly's administration hopes to double the number of rural homes with access to power by helping villagers acquire solar-power systems. (Associated Press)
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President Obama walks out to deliver remarks at a March, 2, 2012, conservation event at the U.S. Department of Interior in Washington. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A worker scoops up a layer of radiation-contaminated soil and ice in the garden of a private home in Fukushima, Japan, on Feb. 21, 2012. (Associated Press)
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A girl attending mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church sits in a pew in front of clothing and supplies that have been collected to aid victims of a tornado in Henryville, Ind., Sunday, March 4, 2012. The church was in the path of a tornado that destroyed much of the town. Three people were killed in Southern Indiana by Tornados on Friday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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** FILE ** Shrimp boats sit docked April 30, 2010, in Venice, La., near the mouth of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, 10 days after the oil-rig explosion that triggered a massive oil spill in the Gulf. BP will compensate claimants who can prove they got sick from the spill. (Associated Press)
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Neighbors comfort one another amid the debris that once was their homes along Highway 160 in Henryville, Ind., on Saturday, March 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
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Piles of splintered wood is all that remains of homes in Henryville, Ind., Friday, March 2, 2012, in Marysville, Ind. Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes flattened buildings in several states, wrecked two Indiana towns and bred anxiety across a wide swath of the country in the second powerful tornado outbreak this week. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Michael Clevenger)
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A semitrailer lies on its side in front of the remains of a gas station following severe storms Friday, March 2, 2012, in Henryville, Ind. Tornadoes ripped across several small southern Indiana towns on Friday, killing at least three people and leaving behind miles of flattened devastation along the border with Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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The remains of the Henryville High school are examined by firefighters and residents of Henryville following severe storms that went through the area, Friday, March 2, 2012, in Henryville, Ind. Tornadoes ripped across several small southern Indiana towns on Friday, killing at least three people and leaving behind miles of flattened devastation along the border with Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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Downed power lines and debris caused by a reported tornado lie along Yarbrough Road, Friday, March 2, 2012, in Harvest, Ala. (AP Photo/The Huntsville Times, Bob Gathany)
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Greg Cook hugs his friend David Derrick at East Limestone community on Friday, March 2, 2012. A reported tornado destroyed several houses in northern Alabama as storms threatened more twisters across the region Friday (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Gary Cosby Jr.)
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Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in the East Limestone, Ala. on Friday, March 2, 2012. A reported tornado destroyed several houses in northern Alabama as storms threatened more twisters across the region Friday (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Gary Cosby Jr.)
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A funnel cloud begins to form over the Canebrake Subdivision of Athens, Ala., Friday, March 2, 2012. Homes were damaged and utilities were interrupted when several suspected tornadoes struck Limestone County Friday morning. (AP Photo/Chris Simmons, Athens Fire and Rescue Dept.)
