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Pakistani security personnel carry the body of a fellow officer, who was killed in Saturday bomb blasts during their funeral procession, in Jamrud, near Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, March 1, 2014. The Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the group will observe a one-month cease-fire as part of efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the government, throwing new life into a foundering peace process. The violence Saturday showed how difficult it could be to enforce a cease-fire, let alone forge a peace agreement. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 file photo, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, center, flanked by his bodyguards, talks to reporters at an undisclosed location in Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan along Afghanistan border. The Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the group will observe a one-month cease-fire as part of efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the government, throwing new life into a foundering peace process. Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement emailed to reporters that the top leadership of the militant group has instructed all of its units to comply with the cease-fire. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)
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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh applauds as he attends a Black History Month event in Boston, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. The mayors of New York City and Boston say they'll boycott St. Patrick's Day parades to protest policies on gay groups. Walsh said this week he's trying to broker a deal with his city's parade organizers to allow a group of gay military veterans to march. The son of Irish immigrants said that allowing gay groups to participate is "long overdue." (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 file photo, Mayor Martin Walsh speaks to reporters in Boston. On Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, a marriage equality group says Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade is easing its two-decade ban on gay organizations. A MassEquality official said a group of gay military veterans can march under its banner as part of a deal brokered by Walsh. But marchers from the gay-rights group would not be allowed to wear clothing or hold signs that refer to sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, Gov. Chris Christie answers a question at a town hall meeting in Long Hill, N.J. Christie is holding town hall meetings in Republican-controlled areas, renewing attacks on public employees and avoiding settings where reporters could ask about scandals that have hobbled the start of his second term and question his viability to run for president. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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FILE -- In this Jan. 31, 2014, file photo, released by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), shows residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, queuing to receive food supplies, in Damascus, Syria. In one besieged neighborhood after another, weary rebels have turned over their weapons to the Syrian government in exchange for an easing of suffocating blockades that have prevented food, medicine and other staples from reaching civilians trapped inside. The government touts the truces as part of its program of “national reconciliation” to end Syria’s crisis, which has killed more than 140,000 people since March 2011. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File)
