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ASSOCIATED PRESS Gunmen ambushed a civilian Israeli bus near the resort town of Eilat last week. U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating reports that al Qaeda-aligned groups played a key role in the attack that emanated from the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula.
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Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, listens as her lawyer Kenneth Thompson speaks to the media following a meeting at the Manhattan prosecutor's office on Aug. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)
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A Nissan Leaf charges at a station in Portland, Ore. (Associated Press)
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Masoud Shafiei, the Iranian lawyer for two Americans who have been jailed in Iran on charges of espionage, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 30, 2011. Two Americans could be released after a court hearing slated for Sunday, their lawyer said. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal and Bauer's fiancee, Sarah Shourd, were detained on July 31, 2009, and Iran accused them of illegally crossing the border to spy. Shourd was released last year on $500,000 bail and has said she won't return to Iran for trial. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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**FILE** In this photo from July 27, 2011, a clerk takes a close look at a gold and diamond ring that a customer brought in to sell at a coin shop in Seattle. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Nov. 21, 2008, Craighead County Chief Deputy Bob Sharp (left) escorts Jessie Lloyd Misskelley (center) and Charles Jason Baldwin as they leave the Craighead County Courthouse Annex at Jonesboro, Ark. (Associated Press/The Jonesboro Sun)
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Pakistani villagers carry the body of a boy killed in a suicide bombing in Ghundi, in the Pakistani tribal area of Khyber, on Aug. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Oct. 29, 2002, Jerry T. Jackson sits at the Williamsburg and James City County Circuit Court during jury selection, in Williamsburg, Va. (Associated Press/The Daily Press)
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Pakistanis mourn the fatal shooting of their family member in Karachi on Thursday. A wave of violence killed dozens of people in Pakistan's largest city, with many of the victims tortured, shot and stuffed in sacks that were dumped on the streets, officials said. (Associated Press)
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Mourners carry the bodies of a former lawmaker of the ruling Waja Karim Dad party and his friend at their funeral in Karachi on Thursday. They were fatally shot in violence carried out by gang members. (Associated Press)
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"They suggested that by joining this lawsuit, the banks would have to pay," California Attorney General Kamala Harris said of defendants in an alleged scam. (Associated Press)
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A missing-person flier released by the FBI requests information on Robyn Gardner, a suburban Washington woman who went missing after she flew to Aruba with traveling companion Gary V. Giordano on Sunday, July 31, 2011. He reported her missing two days later, saying she had disappeared while the two were snorkeling. (AP Photo/FBI)
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Job seekers stand in line to enter a job fair in Independence, Ohio, on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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associated press photographs An Abercrombie & Fitch employee (center) poses for photos with two customers at the entrance to the company's Fifth Avenue store in New York. The company wants the cast of "Jersey Shore" to stop wearing its clothing on the show in a bid to protect its image.
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Albrecht Gero Muth has often donned a military costume and claimed to be a secret agent and Iraqi army general. Mr. Muth, 47, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, Viola Herms Drath. (Mai Photo News Agency)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Jared Cano, 17, faces charges in connection with a plot to to blow up his former high school on the first day of class next week. According to police, a confidential informant helped prevent "a potentially catastrophic event."
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Gary V. Giordano, the U.S. citizen being held in Aruba in the disappearance of Robyn Gardner, 35, covers his head while being led to jail from a police station in San Nicolas, Aruba, on Aug. 15, 2011. (AP Photo)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Investment banker Paul Douglas Peters is escorted from the federal courthouse in Louisville, Ky., after being arraigned in connection with a bomb hoax in Sydney, Australia. He is accused of locking a fake bomb around a teen's neck.
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Associated Press photographs Ablene Cooper and son Antonio Cooper leave the Hinds County courtroom in Jackson, Miss., on Tuesday, after a circuit judge dismissed her lawsuit against the author of the novel "The Help." Ms. Cooper claims a main character, Aibileen, is based on her.
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The statute of limitations may help "The Help" author Kathryn Stockett beat the lawsuit filed against her and save her the $75,000 in damages the plaintiff is seeking.
