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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani arrives at the Supreme Court for a hearing in Islamabad on Monday. Judges charged Mr. Gilani with contempt for defying their orders to reopen an old corruption case against his political ally, President Asif Ali Zardari. (Associated Press)
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New Jersey state Sen. Richard J. Codey, a Democrat, speaks in favor of a bill legalizing gay marriage in debate Monday at the state Capitol in Trenton, N.J. The Senate passed the measure on a vote of 24-16, but Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, has vowed to veto it. (Associated Press)
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Indian security and forensic officials examine the spot where a bomb blew up an Israeli Embassy car. The attack was similar to ones on Iranian nuclear scientists. (Associated Press)
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A car belonging to the Israeli Embassy goes up in flames Monday in New Delhi after a magnetic bomb attached to the car exploded, injuring four people. A similar bomb on an Israeli diplomatic car in Georgia was defused. (Economic via Associated Press)
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Army Maj. Graham Bundy (center left), a medevac commander from Sussex, Wis., points to the inside of a U.S. medevac helicopter in a hangar at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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**FILE** House Speaker John A. Boehner (right), Ohio Republican, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, speak Feb. 9, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
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Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks, arrives Feb. 13, 2012, to his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Associated Press)
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Indian police forensics experts collect evidence on Feb. 13, 2012, after an explosion tore through a car belonging to the Israel Embassy in New Delhi. Assailants targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed on archenemy Iran, and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah. (Associated Press)
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High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks Feb. 13, 2012, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters to discuss the human rights situation in Syria. (Associated Press)
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Russian representative Vitaly Churkin delivers remarks Feb. 13, 2012, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters to discuss the human rights situation in Syria. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outline the main areas of proposed defense spending cuts during a Jan. 26, 2012, news conference at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and American and Chinese business leaders at the Beijing Hotel in Beijing on Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Lintao Zhang, Pool, File)
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Copies of the fiscal 2013 budget are delivered and ready to be picked up on Feb. 13, 2012, at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Federal authorities say that (clockwise from top left) David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich.; David Brian Stone Jr. of Adrian, Mich.; Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio; Tina Mae Stone of Manchester, Mich.; Thomas William Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind.; Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.; Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; and Michael David Meeks, 40, of Manchester, had ties to Hutaree, a Michigan militia with a goal of rebelling against the U.S. government. (Associated Press/U.S. Marshals Service)
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An injured person is carried Feb. 13, 2012, from a burning car belonging to the Israeli Embassy following an explosion in New Delhi. The wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured in the explosion, the same day an Israeli Embassy staffer in Georgia found a bomb underneath his car, which was dismantled before exploding, according to Indian and Israeli media reports. (Associated Press/Economic Times)
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. The court charged Mr. Gilani with contempt for defying its orders to reopen an old corruption case against his political ally, President Asif Ali Zardari. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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Patricia Gillaird, a Government Printing Office receiving clerk, displays for news crews a copy of the fiscal 2013 budget at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Cheryl Kitchens, a Government Printing Office receiving clerk, delivers the printed version of the Office of Management and Budget's fiscal 2013 budget on a pallet to the House Committee on the Budget in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Daniel Grabauskas, seen here in March 2003 when he was Massachusetts' transportation secretary, sought federal funding for infrastructure projects at the behest of then-Gov. Mitt Romney. (Associated Press)
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President Richard Nixon (right), shown with Redskins coach George Allen on Jan. 2, 1973, challenged the NFL to change its blackout policy. (Associated Press)
