Politics

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The casket containing the remains of former New York Mayor Ed Koch is carried by policemen into Temple Emanu-El for his funeral in New York on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Mr. Koch died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 88. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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New Secretary of State John Kerry shows his first diplomatic passport he got when he was 11 years old when his father was in the foreign service, during a ceremony welcoming him as the 68th secretary of state, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Secretary of State John Kerry, escorted by staff, waves as he begins his first week on the job, as he arrives at the State Department in Washington, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and presidential candidate, replaces Hillary Rodham Clinton as the top U.S. diplomat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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** FILE ** U.S. Sen. John Kerry greets William "Mo" Cowan, who will occupy his Senate seat temporarily, before addressing constituents at Faneuil Hall in Boston Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Kerry will step down tomorrow from the office he has held for nearly three decades to become the next secretary of state. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to an unidentified pilot during a ceremony to unveil Iran's newest fighter jet, Qaher-313, or Dominant-313,which officials claim can evade radar, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Younes Khani)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency, SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Iran's Chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Palestinian women hold pictures of prisoners jailed in Israel during a rally calling for their release, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Israeli forces arrested 20 members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, including three lawmakers, in a raid early Monday in the West Bank, Hamas officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, photo, the USS San Francisco, a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, is docked before South Korea and U.S. joint military exercises, at Jinhae naval base, South Korea. South Korean and U.S. troops began naval drills Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon carry out a threat to conduct its third atomic test. (AP Photo/Yonhap)