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** FILE ** Pakistani women mourn on Sunday, May 5, 2013, in Karachi, Pakistan, during the funeral of a child killed in a bombing on Saturday. The two blasts also killed two others near the office of a political party critical of the Taliban, heightening tensions ahead of the country's historic May 11 election. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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President Obama waves as he leaves the White House in Washington on his way to Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday, May 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike are seen in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital early Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)
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** FILE ** Vehicles make their way along structures destroyed by an earthquake which struck southern Iran in the city of Shonbeh, Iran, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Mohammad Fatemi)
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Syrian President Bashar Assad is under heavy security Saturday as he greets young people during the inauguration ceremony of a statue dedicated to “martyrs” from Syrian universities who died in the country’s 2-year-old civil war. (Associated Press)
