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President Obama exits Air Force One on Feb. 18, 2012, after landing at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (Associated Press)
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Shin Gambira, a dissident monk in Myanmar who helped lead an uprising against the government, is facing new legal action after being released from jail Jan. 13. (Associated Press)
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Marine Le Pen, at the National Front party's convention in Lille on Sunday, took over leadership of party last year from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and is a candidate with some following in the 2012 French presidential elections. Polls show her not far behind incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Maggie McIntosh, Baltimore City Democrat, left, and Rep. Heather Mizeur, Montgomery Democrat, both openly gay members of the Maryland House of Delegates, speak with reporters alongside Speaker of the House of Delegates Michael Busch in Annapolis, Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, after the House passed a gay marriage bill. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Mourners carry the coffins of two protesters at Mazzeh district in Damascus. Activists say that they were killed by Syrian security forces during a demonstration. (Associated Press)
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A shopkeeper waits for customers in Sanaa on Thursday as campaign posters showing Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi hang on the wall. President Obama backed the vice president days before the election. Mr. Hadi is the only candidate. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)
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In this image taken by a citizen journalist and provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria, anti-Syrian-regime protesters hold a banner against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a demonstration in Dael village in Syria's Daraa province on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)
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Demonstrators in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, hold a poster depicting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a rally in support of Mr. Putin's candidacy for the presidency in the March 4 elections. The sign reads: "Will provide continuation of Russia's development!" (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks to a group of former Salt Lake City Olympic committee members, at an event marking the tenth anniversary of the games, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks to a group of former Salt Lake City Olympic committee members, at an event marking the tenth anniversary of the games, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Behind is his wife Ann. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, April 3, 2007, file photo, technicians work at the reactor building of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/ISNA, Sot Akbar, File)
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, right, hugs Speaker of the House of Delegates Michael Busch after the House passed a gay marriage bill in Annapolis, Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Defense attorneys Rhonda Quagliana, left, and Francis McQ. Lawrence, right, walk into the Charlottesville Circuit courthouse for George W. Huguely V's trial in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Norm Shafer)
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** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) listens to a technician during his visit to the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in April 2008. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office)
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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidates, from left, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, look toward moderator Wolf Blitzer of CNN as they participate in the Republican presidential candidates debate in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Maryland Speaker of the House of Delegates Michael E. Busch, center, speaks with party leaders in Annapolis on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and EU High Representative Catherine Ashton take part in a news conference Feb. 17, 2012, at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Ulysses Currie, Prince George's Democrat, looks on after the Senate voted to censure him for failing to disclose his work for a grocery store chain in Annapolis on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (left), Montana Democrat, and House Ways and Means Committee Charman Rep. David Camp, Michigan Republican, raise their hands Feb. 16, 2012, on Capitol Hill as the bipartisan House and Senate conferees gather to sign the compromise agreement. (Associated Press)
