Politics

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**FILE** Egyptian border guards patrol Aug. 6, 2012, near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt. President Mohammed Morsi is using former jhadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for a stop in a military offensive in the lawless peninsula, participants in the talks say. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks July 17, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Syrian women and children wait Aug. 28, 2012, outside a bakery shop to buy bread in Azaz, Syria. (Associated Press)

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Buildings at Iran's Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran are shrouded with pink tarps in an effort, the Institute for Science and International Security says, to hide efforts to sanitize the site of suspected work on explosive charges used to detonate a warhead, in this photo dated Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/ISIS)

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Supporters of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko take part in a rally outside Ukraine's High Specialized Court on Civil and Criminal Cases in Kiev on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. The country's highest court on Wednesday upheld the guilty verdict against Tymoshenko, who is in jail on abuse-of-office charges. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Syrians, who fled their homes due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, shout slogans as they march toward the Turkish side of the border, during a protest asking the Turkish government to let them enter to their refugee camps, at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sits down for a television interview on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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** FILE ** This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. The firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him. (AP Photo/Dutton, File)