Politics

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Protesters chant slogans against the Syrian regime and Russia's support of President Bashar Assad, seen in a poster with a shoe on his face, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Sunday, June 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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Protesters chant slogans against the Syrian regime and Russia's support of President Bashar Assad as they hold a burned banner depicting Mr. Assad (right) and his brother, Maher Assad (left), in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Sunday, June 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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Antonis Samaras, whose conservative party placed first in Greece's election, leaves the Presidential Palace in Athens after meeting with President Karolos Papoulias on Monday, June 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks on Sunday, June 17, 2012, at a campaign event at K's Hamburger Shop in Troy, Ohio. Joining him onstage is Sen. Rob Portman (left), Ohio Republican, and House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. (Associated Press)

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Protesters chant slogans against the Syrian regime and Russia's support of President Bashar Assad as they burn a banner Sunday depicting Mr. Assad, his brother, Maher Assad, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon. (Associated Press)

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Alexis Tsipras, head of the left-wing Syriza Party, waves to his supporters in Athens late Sunday. The party won 72 seats in parliament. (Associated Press)

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Antonis Samaras, speaking at a press conference on Sunday, leads the New Democracy conservative party, which came in first in Greece's national election. Mr. Samaras has proposed forming a pro-euro coalition government with his party's historic rival, the center-left party Pasok. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Scott P. Brown, Massachusetts Republican, runs a triathlon in Ashland, Mass., on Sunday. Mr. Brown is facing Democrat Elizabeth Warren in his bid for re-election. (Associated Press)

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Elmo Sherman of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, waits for a stop Sunday in Newark, Ohio, by the Romney campaign in front of the county courthouse. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney arrives for a campaign stop at Mapleside Farms on Sunday in Brunswick, Ohio. No Republican ever has won the White House without winning the Buckeye State. (Associated Press)

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Supporters of Mitt Romney wait in the rain for the former Massachusetts governor's arrival for a campaign event Sunday in the Cleveland suburb of Brunswick, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama announces June 15, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House that his administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. (Associated Press)