Politics

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President Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House with daughter Malia on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, after the first family's return to Washington from a vacation in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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President Mohammed Morsi (center) meets with his Cabinet, including 10 new ministers after their swearing in, at the presidential palace in Cairo on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

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** FILE ** Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) greets French actor Gerard Depardieu after Mr. Depardieu's arrival late Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at the president's residence in Sochi, Russia, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

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** FILE ** Then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, speaks on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington in 2008. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Mr. Fayyad blames Arab countries that haven’t delivered promised financial aid for an escalating financial crisis in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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** FILE ** Border Security Force soldiers patrol the India-Pakistan border at Kanachak, about 9 miles west of Jammu, India, in 2006. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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Government security forces in a pickup truck drive past a demonstration by several hundred merchants calling for peace on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic, as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) heads the weekly Cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Mr. Netanyahu said Israel will erect a fortified fence on the border with Syria to protect against radical Islamist forces that he claims have taken over the area. (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, Pool)

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This partial quote is etched in stone at the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, September 13, 2011. The quote etched in stone here is only a paraphrase of a Dr. King quote. (The Washington Times)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio performs a mock swearing in for Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington as the 113th Congress began. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)