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Russian riot police try to disperse opposition protesters in downtown Moscow on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration in May. Mr. Putin has taken a harder line against the opposition since returning to the presidency, threatening demonstrators with prison time and onerous fines. (Associated Press)
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy exits Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Sunday. Spain became the fourth and largest country to ask Europe to rescue its failing banks, seeking a bailout of up to $125 billion. (Associated Press)
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks during a press conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Sunday, June 10, 2012, after Spain became the fourth and largest country in the eurozone to ask for a bailout to rescue its failing banks. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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An investigator uses a metal detector to search for evidence at the scene of an overnight shooting at an apartment complex in Auburn, Ala., on Sunday, June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney smiles as he talks with his staff aboard his campaign bus after a stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Friday, June 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)
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** FILE ** Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti is seen during a state function in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2005. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
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This image made from video released by the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) and accessed on Saturday, June 9, 2012, purports to show a U.N. observer near a destroyed bus after overnight fighting in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/UNSMIS via AP Video)
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A man in Karachi, Pakistan, naps on Thursday, May 17, 2012, on one of the oil tankers used to transport NATO fuel supplies to neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the supply route to Afghanistan after American airstrikes killed 24 Pakistani troops along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in November. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Supporters of Proposition B, which would roll back public pensions, adjust a sign before a rally on election day in San Diego on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
