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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh speaks on state television on Sunday. The embattled president says he endorses a U.S.-backed power-transfer deal, however he remained defiant in the face of protesters. (Associated Press)
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Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a service Sunday in Freiburg, Germany, on his last day of a four-day-visit to his homeland. Thousands from neighboring countries attended his celebrations of Mass. But during his visit, he also drew protesters in Berlin, and 100 lawmakers boycotted his address to Parliament. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain trounced GOP front-runners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney in a weekend poll of 2,657 delegates at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida. (Associated Press)
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CAMPAIGN BUSINESS: Shawn Mitchell uses his business, Modern Mechanical in Ashburn, Va., to announce the endorsements of state Sens. Louise L. Lucas (left) and Mary Margaret Whipple in his bid for a Virginia Senate seat. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Virginia state Senate candidate Shawn Mitchell works the phones in his Modern Mechanical office in Ashburn, Va. A candidate in the newly drawn District 13 in Prince William and Loudoun counties, Mr. Mitchell recently settled a messy legal dispute with a former employer. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, and Ann, his wife of 42 years, serve up a Labor Day pancake breakfast in Manchester, N.H., She wears the white apron with the ease of a woman who spent countless mornings flipping flapjacks for five hungry sons. "It's going to happen this time," she said. (Associated Press)
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"There is one attitude that says that the right strategy to take is to fight Washington ... I think we need to fix Washington," said Tim Kaine, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Washington Capitals' Mike Knuble is a healthy scratch for the first time in his three years in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday accepts the United Russia party's nomination for president. If Mr. Putin wins the March 4 election — a near-certainty — he will be eligible to hold his steely command over Russia for two six-year terms. (Associated Press/Ria Novosti)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, and his wife, Ann, share the stage before his address to the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, Mich., on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to delegates before a straw poll during the Florida Republican Party Presidency 5 Convention on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Bernadette Peters stars in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies," which originated at the Kennedy Center in Washington and will run in New York through Jan. 22. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown)
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** FILE ** Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, a U.S. military spokesman, speaks near a poster of senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative Ali Mussa Daqduq during a press conference in July 2007 in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie, Pool, File)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves to supporters upon his arrival at the government compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. Mr. Abbas received a hero's welcome, triumphantly telling his people the "Palestinian Spring" has begun following his historic speech to the United Nations on Friday. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 66th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Republican delegates cheer after the results of a straw poll with Republican candidate businessman Herman Cain the clear winner with 37 percent of the vote during a Florida Republican Party Presidency 5 Convention Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends a United Russia party's congress in Moscow on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Pakistani protesters shout slogans at an anti-American rally in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, Sept 23, 2011. Pakistan lashed out at the U.S. for accusing the country's most powerful intelligence agency of supporting extremist attacks against American targets in Afghanistan — the most serious allegations against Islamabad since the beginning of the Afghan war. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abduallah Saleh stand on flag poles celebrating his return to Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Saleh made a surprise return to Yemen on Friday after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in a move certain to further inflame battles between forces loyal to him and his opponents that have turned the capital into a war zone. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Anti-government protesters react to tear gas fired by riot police Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, in Jidhafs, Bahrain. Bahrain's Sunni rulers are practicing "fake democracy," the Gulf kingdom's leading Shiite cleric said Friday as opposition groups called for a boycott of weekend parliamentary elections and stepped up protests for greater rights. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
