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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney greets supporters in Troy, Mich., on Thursday. The night before, in a GOP candidates debate, the former Massachusetts governor sought to defuse criticism of his changing his views on the issues. (Associated Press)
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Rocinha residents gather as police officers raise the state flag of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil's national flag after elite police units backed by armored military vehicles and helicopters took control of the city's largest slum. (Associated Press)
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Police officers edge their way through the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday to take control of the shantytown from a heavily armed drug gang. Soldiers in armored military vehicles assisted the police.
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Rep. Jeb Hensarling (left), Texas Republican, and Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat, co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, sit together as the supercommittee meets on Capitol Hill on Nov. 1, 2011. (Associated Press)**FILE**
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President Obama (right) and his wife Michelle (second from left) greet Chinese President Hu Jintao (second from right) and his wife Liu Yongqing before their dinner at the APEC Summit in Honolulu on Nov. 12, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich (right) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participate in the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg, S.C., on Nov. 12, 2011. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Supercommittee Co-Chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling (center), Texas Republican, flanked by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (left), Virginia Republican, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, talks about the unfinished work of the supercommittee during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Nov. 4, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Brazil's policemen guard the streets of the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro on Nov.13, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans and hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 13, 2011, against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich (left) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participate in the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg, S.C., on Nov. 12, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain signs a car tag, bearing 9-9-9, a reference to his tax reform plan, after speaking to the board of The Federation of Young Republicans Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi leaves the Quirinale Presidential Palace after meeting Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, in Rome, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011. Berlusconi resigned after the Parliament's lower chamber passed European-demanded reforms, ending a 17-year political era and setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing Italy back from the brink of economic crisis. (AP Photo / Roberto Monaldo)
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Wofford College Freshmen, from left to right, Charles Johnson, Corey Holcomb and Bradley Lara walk by a CBS anchor remote location located behind the Wofford College main building in Spartanburg, S.C., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, as CBS crews prepare for the Republican presidential debate that will held Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, at 8 p.m. (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald-Journal/Michael Justus)
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Yussef al-Ahmad, Syria's ambassador to the Arab League, is surrounded by cameramen during the Arab League emergency session on Syria at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011. The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria from all meetings until it implements a plan to end bloodshed. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk confer before the start of an APEC ministerial meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, July 14, 2010, file photo, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends his swearing-in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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From left, World War II veteran Angelo Basso, of Palmer Township, Pa. granddaughter Tammie Kelshaw, of Northampton, and brother World War II veteran Jack Basso, of Palmer Township, stand and listen during a Veterans Day ceremony at Upper Hackett Park in Easton, Pa on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Matt Smith)
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A U.S. Marine salutes the colors during a wreath-laying ceremony at the American Cemetery and Memorial at suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines, as they pay tribute to U.S. veterans and their families on Veterans Day Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial contains the remains of WWII Americans who died in the Pacific, China, India, and Burma along with Philippine Scouts who served with the U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Philippine army Pfc. Enrico Disimulacion plays the Taps during wreath-laying ceremony at the American Cemetery and Memorial at suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines, to pay tribute to U.S. veterans and their families on Veterans Day Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial contains the remains of WWII Americans who died in the Pacific, China, India, and Burma along with Philippine Scouts who served with the U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
