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Associated Press With a courthouse in Somerset, Pa., as backdrop, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania announces he is entering the crowded field for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He criticized President Obama as having put the country on a path to moral and fiscal ruin.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to visit the U.S. starting on Tuesday and be presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (Associated Press)
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Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi said Monday that President Saleh, in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, would return soon. (Associated Press)
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Protesters gather in Athens' Syntagma Square across from Parliament for a 13th day to voice their opposition to Prime Minister George Papandreou's austerity plan to cover a funding gap next year and to prevent the country from defaulting on its debts. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, wipes his eye during a news conference in New York, Monday, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is contending with a scandal involving her chief of staff, issues about her own health and the intervention of her predecessor in a legislative issue at the same time she is managing a slowing economy and high inflation.
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Sulaimon Brown arrives on June 6, 2011, to testify before a D.C. Council committee at the Wilson Building in Washington about allegations that he was paid off by Mayor Vincent C. Gray, then promised a government job. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sulaimon Brown waits on June 6, 2011, to testify before a D.C. Council committee at the Wilson Building in Washington about allegations that he was paid off by Mayor Vincent C. Gray, then promised a government job. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania works the crowd after announcing he is entering the Republican presidential race on Monday, June 6, 2011, at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerset, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Military police investigate a partially submerged DHL cargo plane, which crashed just off the coast of Libreville, Gabon, on June 6, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Israeli troops patrol the border between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights early on Monday, June 6, 2011. Israel braced for more border violence after a day of deadly clashes with pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to surge into the Israeli-controlled Golan from Syria. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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A Yemeni tribesman holds up his rifle on June 5, 2011, while shouting slogans with anti-government protesters in Taiz, Yemen, as they celebrate President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia. (Associated Press)
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Drew Weaver will attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open on Monday at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville. The Open will be held June 16-19 at Congressional. (Dave Knachel/Virginia Tech)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Peruvians voted Sunday in their country's closely contested presidential runoff election pitting Keiko Fujimori, daughter of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori, against Ollanta Humala, a cashiered army lieutenant colonel. Unofficial tallies showed a narrow win for Mr. Humala.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS 'A VERY DEEP HOLE': "It is not a 'jobless recovery.' That is an incorrect phrase," said White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS "The policies of this administration are bad for the economy," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. "While this administration has been great for Wall Street, Main Street has never really gotten out of the last recession."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Pro-Palestinian demonstrators try to rescue a man after he was shot by Israeli troops along the border between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights on Sunday. Israeli troops opened fire across the Syrian frontier to disperse hundreds of protesters who stormed the border.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Soldiers chant slogans and wave their national flag in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday as they celebrate with demonstrators the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Thousands of celebrants jammed the capital after the country's authoritarian leader flew to Saudi Arabia to receive medical treatment for wounds he suffered in a rocket attack.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Indian police officers remove a supporter of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's hunger strike Sunday. Mr. Ramdev, who has millions of followers across India on a daily television show, is demanding an end to endemic corruption.
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A Pakistani police officer and a rescue worker examine the site of a bomb blast in a bus stop in Matani, near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, June 5, 2011. The explosion killed several people in the violence hitting the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
