Politics

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks up after smelling coffee beans during the opening tour of the International Green Week in Berlin on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Michael Kappeler)

Free Syrian Army fighters take their positions during clashes with government forces in Qusair, in Syria's Homs province, on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Syrian government troops battled rebels in several areas outside Damascus on Sunday while regime warplanes bombed opposition-held areas around the capital, including an airstrike on one village that killed at least seven people, activists said. (AP Photo/Yong Homsi Lens)

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President Obama is officially sworn in by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (right) in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2013. Next to Mr. Obama are first lady Michelle Obama, holding the Robinson family Bible, and daughters Malia and Sasha. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden takes the oath of office, administered by Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the residence of the vice president at the U.S. Naval Observatory as Jill Biden looks on, on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/New York Times, Josh Haner, Pool)

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Gun control legislation that drew crowds of protesters to the Maryland State House in Annapolis in 2013 would be expanded under a package of bills introduced Wednesday in the General Assembly. (Associated Press/File)

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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, file photograph, a worker hangs a huge poster with an image of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking the Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

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Image grab from video shows a man identified as Oktai Enimehmedov, 25, as he points a weapon at Ahmed Dogan, left, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, during his speech at his party's congress in Sofia, on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. Dogan struck the man before other delegates wrestled the assailant to the ground, and no shots were fired. Police took the man away.(AP Photo/ BTVnews)