Politics

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“There’s an ideological and, I would say, even philosophical attitude here against the press,” says Jege Lanata, an Argentine journalist who has challenged authorities on both sides, including President Cristina Fernandez. (Associated Press)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Kofi Annan, the U.N. envoy for the Syrian crisis, conferred in Moscow on Tuesday on efforts to end the fighting in Syria. (Associated Press)

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Rory McIlroy headed into the British Open last year fresh off a record victory in the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club. He struggled to a 25th-place finish at Royal St. George’s. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (right) is visted by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the al-Salam palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Sunday in Cairo with Egypt’s top military leaders, who are veterans of the Mubarak era and close friends of the U.S. military establishment. They show little sign of changing their traditional wariness of Tehran. (Associated Press)

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who also served five terms as Wyoming's representative in the House, returns July 17, 2012, to the Capitol in Washington to meet with Senate Republican leaders at a political strategy luncheon. He is accompanied by Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Republican Policy Committee chairman. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz shake hands before holding a joint press conference to announce the new coalition government in Jerusalem on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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**FILE** Former Washington Redskins defensive lineman Dexter Manley (Brett Coomer/Special to the Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (right) prepares to speak on Friday, Nov. 3, 2011, at the town hall in Exeter, N.H., as former Gov. John Sununu pulls up his socks. (Associated Press)