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**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (right) shares a laugh April 1, 2012, with Rep. Paul Ryan (center), Wisconsin Republican, and Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, during a campaign event in Milwaukee. (Associated Press)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (center right) and an unidentified woman applaud a performance by North Korea's new Moranbong band in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday, July 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pauses July 11, 2012, during a speech to the NAACP annual convention in Houston. (Associated Press/Houston Chronicle)

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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks to the parliament in Madrid on Wednesday, July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Barack Obama brings ice cream to members of his staff during a stop at Deb's Ice Cream and Deli in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, before heading to the airport on Tuesday, July 10 2012. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Cliff Jette)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks July 10, 2012, to volunteers working at the Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colo., to distribute food to those affected by recent wildfires. (Associated Press)

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Syrian opposition leader Michel Kilo (right) and other members of his delegation leave Russia's Foreign Ministry after a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)