Politics

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**FILE** Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann holds a postcard to help identify voters in need of a free state-government issued card on June 19, 2012. The card will be issued through his office in Jackson, Miss., at no charge. (Associated Press)

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Supporters of the Defense Council of Pakistan sit July 8, 2012, atop vehicles with party flags as they take part in a rally in Lahore, Pakistan. Prominent hardline Islamists led thousands of people in a protest against Pakistan's decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Soldiers from the M23 rebel group show off July 7, 2012, in Bunagana, Congo, weapons captured from government troops, who fled to neighboring Uganda a day earlier as the rebel group took control of the border town. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks June 30, 2012, during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva. (Associated Press/Keystone)

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**FILE** Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Saud bin Abdel-Aziz speaks May 12, 2009, with his visitors at his palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A general view of the first Egyptian parliament session in Cairo is seen here on Jan. 23, 2012, after the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak. (Associated Press)

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Libyans celebrate July 7, 2012, in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya, by holding up ink-marked fingers, showing they have voted in the first parliamentary election after last year's overthrow and killing of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. (Associated Press)

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This citizen journalism image released by Shaam News Network purports to show a child in a military uniform and flashing the victory sign July 6, 2012, at an anti-Assad protest in Kafr Nabil, in northwestern Syria. (Associated Press/Ra'ed Alfares, Shaam News Network)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens July 7, 2012, during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Clinton announced that President Obama had designated Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally shortly after arriving in the country for talks with Karzai. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on July 8, 2012, before the start of an international conference in Tokyo on Afghan civilian assistance. (Associated Press)