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**FILE** In this image taken from an Algerian TV broadcast on Jan. 20, 2013, the aftermath of a hostage crisis at the remote Ain Amenas gas facility in Algeria is seen. Algerian special forces stormed the plant to end the four-day siege, moving in to thwart what government officials said was a plot by the Islamic extremists to blow up the complex and kill all their captives with mines sown throughout the site. (Associated Press/Algerie TV via Associated Press TV)
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President Obama, accompanied by first responders behind him, speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington on Feb. 19, 2013, to urge Congress to come up with an alternative plan to avert automatic spending cuts set to kick in on March 1. (Associated Press)
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Searchers comb through the debris of destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government forces in the Jabal Bedro neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in this citizen journalism image provided by the Aleppo Media Center and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center)
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Jan Kubis, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, presents the annual U.N. report on Afghan civilian casualties at a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
