Politics

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Ri Yong-ho, North Korea's senior nuclear negotiator, speaks to journalists outside the Diaoyutai state guest house in Beijing on Monday, March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

** FILE ** Tongan King George Tupou V, who championed a more democratic system of government in his Pacific island nation, sits on the throne in Nuku'aloka, Tonga, in August 2008. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Glenn Jeffrey, File)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses an audience March 18, 2012, during a campaign stop in Vernon Hills, Ill., as his wife, Ann, looks on. (Associated Press)

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Ron Paul, of Texas, go head to head during the Republican presidential debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., on Nov. 9, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson got invitations to participate in two of the debates for Republican presidential candidates. (Associated Press)

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Syrian refugees speak with a Turkish soldier as people fleeing violence in Syria continue to cross the border near Reyhanli, Turkey, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney presses the flesh at a campaign stop on Sunday, March 18, 2012, in Moline, Ill. (Associated Press)

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It's politics heartland style. RIck Santorum final campaign stop Monday night before the Illinois primaries: Davis Brothers Pizza in East Peoria, founded in 1948.

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Destroyed cars on Sunday litter the area near the Syrian aviation intelligence department in Damascus. Bombs struck government targets in the Syrian capital early Saturday, killing security forces and civilians and leaving pools of blood and carnage in the streets, according to state-run television. (Associated Press)

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Virginia House Speaker William J. Howell is seeking to make Arlington pay for its efforts that helped kill proposed HOT lanes on Interstate 395. (Associated Press)

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Ever since seafaring explorers happened upon the Falkland Islands in the 16th century, people have been fighting over them. Argentina fought a brief and bloody war with Great Britain in 1982. Argentina lost and the islands are now a self-governing British Overseas Territory. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A former private security guard (left) hands over his weapon to Jamal Abdul Naser Sidiqi, head of the Afghan Public Protection Force, during a transition ceremony Thursday of private security forces to Afghan Public Protection Force on the outskirts of Kabul. The Afghan government is giving companies extensions ranging from a few weeks to 90 days.

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks at First Baptist Church in Bossier City, La., on Sunday, March 18, 2012 (AP Photo/The Times, Val Horvath Davidson)

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A poster by P.H. Mar, circa 1932, is part of a collection of thousands of rare posters believed to be worth between $6 million to $21 million. A German court ruled that they should be released to Peter Sachs by a Berlin museum. (Peter Sachs via Associated Press)

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Peter Sachs fought a battle in courts to reclaim posters collected by his father that were taken by the Gestapo and eventually ended up in a Berlin museum. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds the weekly Cabinet meeting in his offices in Jerusalem on Sunday, March 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, Pool)

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Demonstrators hold pictures of slain protesters as they march in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, March 18, 2012, to commemorate those who were killed a year ago in a particularly bloody protest. The writing in Arabic on the banner (foreground) reads, "Overthrow the family dictatorial regime." (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)