Politics

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President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Monday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic gathering in Mexico. Mr. Obama needs Russia to help, or at least not hurt, U.S. foreign policy aims in the Middle East and Afghanistan. It will be the leaders' first meeting since Mr. Putin returned to Russia's top job. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney applauds during a campaign stop at Cornwall Iron Furnace on Saturday, June 16, 2012, in Cornwall, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Officials at the Washington Secretary of State's Office in Olympia, Wash., sort petitions June 6 for Referendum 74, which will provide for a public vote in November on whether to overturn a gay-marriage law passed by the Legislature. (Assocaited Press)

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Joseph Backholm, the chairman of Preserve Marriage Washington, speaks out in Olympia, Wash., on June 6 for preserving the traditional definition of marriage. Washington is one of four states that will vote on the subject in November. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama announces June 15, 2012, his administration's immigration plans in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Associated Press)

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Ksenia Sobchak, a 30-year-old blond socialite and TV personality, has taken an unusual path into the ranks of Russia's protest leaders. President Vladimir Putin is rumored to be Miss Sobchak's godfather. (Associated Press)

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Russian socialite Ksenia Sobchak became one of the most recognized figures in Russian entertainment before turning her attention to political activism. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian voters look for their names on lists at a polling center during the second day of the presidential runoff, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 17, 2012. Egyptians are choosing between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a second day of a presidential runoff that has been overshadowed by the domination of the country's military. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Finished helmets prepared for Hollywood period movies and re-enactment events are stacked. Ashok Rai's factory has supplied replica military gear for the Russell Crowe movie "Robin Hood" and the Orlando Bloom movie about the Crusades, "Kingdom of Heaven," among others. (Associated Press)

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Workers at Ashok Rai's workshop in India sew military uniforms being prepared for a re-enactment of World War II. "They have to look authentic," said Mr. Rai. He takes special care to ensure that the replica weapons his workers create are historically accurate. (Associated Press)

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A Hutterite family is gathered in front of a house in Lewistown, Mont. "Meet the Hutterites" is a National Geographic documentary series about the small religious colony in rural Montana. Three Hutterite bishops have complained the series presents a "distorted" image of the sect. (National Geographic via Associated Press)

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New Democracy conservative party supporters wave a Greek flag as a TV screen shows results at an election kiosk at Syntagma square in Athens, Sunday, June 17, 2012. The pro-bailout New Democracy party came in first Sunday in Greece's national election, and its leader has proposed forming a pro-euro coalition government.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Election officials empty a ballot box to count votes in a parliamentary election at a polling station in Athens on Sunday, June 17, 2012. Greeks voted for the second time in six weeks in what is arguably their country's most critical election in 40 years. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Gilbert Collard, a National Front candidate for France's National Assembly, casts his vote during the second round of parliamentary elections in Gallician, near Nimes, France, on Sunday, June 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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An Egyptian casts her vote at a polling station in Alexandria, Egypt, on Sunday, June 17, 2012, the second day of the nation's presidential runoff election. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)