Politics

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Yoshihiko Noda reacts before Japan's lower house elected him as the country's new prime minister at the parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Patrick Murphy is director of training at Sunrise Aviation flight school in Ormond Beach, Fla. Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, federal government screening has made it harder for foreign students to enroll in U.S. civilian flight schools.

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President Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport in St. Paul, Minn., on Aug. 30, 2011, after addressing the American Legion in Minneapolis. (Associated Press)

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Actress Daryl Hannah is arrested by U.S. Park Police in front of the White House on Aug. 30, 2011, during a protest against the Keystone oil pipeline. (Associated Press)

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A rocket is launched from a new Israeli anti-missile system known as Iron Dome in order to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, on Aug. 21, 2011. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Wounded Israeli soldiers are treated at the site of a shooting attack along the border between Israel and Egypt, southern Israel, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Yosi Ben)

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President Obama listens to an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington on Aug. 27, 2011. He is joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (left) and FEMA director Craig Fugate (right). (Associated Press)

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Libyan rebel vehicles with mounted missile launchers park next to a road sign that reads, in Arabic, "Sirte," on the front line, 86 miles from Sirte, Libya, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Rebels have been converging from the east and west on Sirte, 250 miles east of Tripoli, preparing to battle forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, whose tribe is based in the city. (AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) prays during a service for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, at the Hafez Assad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Lauren McTear looks over the remains of the trailer home owned by her boyfriend's parents on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011 in Berlin, Vt. The trailer was destroyed by a recreational vehicle which floated down the river into it. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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Rep. Michele Bachmann waves goodbye to a small group of supporters in the parking lot of Calistoga Bakery Cafe in Naples, Fla., on Monday after a brief campaign stop. (Naples (Fla.) Daily News via Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry heard loud applause at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 112th National Conference on Monday when he said only U.S. officers should be leading American troops in missions abroad. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner (left), Ohio Republican, participates in a ceremonial House swearing-in ceremony for Rep. Steve Rothman, New Jersey Democrat, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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A Syrian sweet vendor stands outside his shop at a popular market in the old city of Damascus, Syria, on Aug. 29, 2011. A picture above the shop depicts the late Syrian President Hafez Assad (left) and his dead son Bassel Assad. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from July 24, 2010, Turkish soldiers march after a funeral ceremony for captain Ibrahim Baris Yurtseven, an army officer who was killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakkari at Turkey-Iraq border, at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey. (Associated Press)

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German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle reacts prior to a speech at a meeting of German ambassadors in Berlin on Aug. 29, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Trader Fred Demarco (right) works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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President Obama announces his selection of Alan Krueger (left), a labor economist at Princeton University, as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Mustafa Abdul-Jalil (left), head of the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council, and Major Gen. Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah, Qatari chief of staff, look on during NATO talks in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)