Politics

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** FILE ** Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko looks out from a prison window in Kiev on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Tymoshenko Press Service)

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Alexis Tsipras, the leader of Greece's Radical Left Coalition party (Syriza), speaks at party headquarters in Athens on Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Kadima party leader Shaul Mofaz shake hands before holding a joint press conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, to announce Israel's new coalition government. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 22, 2012, photo Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, talks with fellow candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, after a presidential debate in Arizona. On Monday night, May 7, 2012, Santorum endorsed Romney, saying "above all else" they agree that Obama must be defeated. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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A watchmaker for Nomos assembles a watch in Glashutte, Germany. At least 50 percent of the timekeeping movement must be made here by hand. The watches sell from $1,315 to $5,000. (Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times)

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Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana is fighting to win the GOP nomination for a seventh term in the Senate against Richard Mourdock, the tea party-backed state treasurer who argues the senator is too moderate for the state. (Associated Press)

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Former Harlem Globetrotter Fred Smith has been nominated for a state House seat by the Green Party of Arkansas after being ruled ineligible to run for the Democrats. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, who is struggling to keep his 6th District seat, could get a boost from Republican voters who oppose the redrawn district map and other Democrat-led initiatives. (The Washington Times)