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Hezbollah fighters shout slogans as they carry the coffin of their commander Ali Bazzi, who was killed in Syria during a battle against the Syrian rebels, during his funeral procession, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Hezbollah announced that two of its members, including a local commander, were killed while "performing their jihadi duties." Syrian troops captured a western town near the country's main north-south highway on Monday as the government forged ahead with a punishing offensive in a mountainous region near the border with Lebanon, state media said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Vice President Joe Biden, left, accompanied by his wife wife Jill Biden, signs a condolence book inside the South African Embassy in Washington, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, as they paid their respects to former South African President Nelson Mandela. During the visit Biden said that the former president was, "the most remarkable man I met in my whole career." President Obama is en route to South Africa to attend a Tuesday memorial service for Mandela. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
