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A Yemeni anti-government demonstrator stands on top of a destroyed vehicle belongs to supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Yemeni anti-government demonstrators shout at supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not pictured, as they gather a top and around a destroyed vehicle belonging to the supporters, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A Yemeni anti-government demonstrator rides his bike past a burning vehicle belonging to supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Yemeni anti-government demonstrators react during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A Yemeni police officer pushes back a government supporters chanting slogans facing anti-government demonstrators, not pictured, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh raise his posters facing anti-government demonstrators, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A masked Yemeni anti-government demonstrator seen during clashes with supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not pictured, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Yemen's embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters. Arabic reads on the mask, " Leave". (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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This image broadcast on Libyan state television Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as he addresses the nation in Tripoli, Libya. Col. Gadhafi vowed to fight on against protesters demanding his ouster and die as martyr. (AP Photo/Libya State Television via APTN)
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Chicago mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle (right) assembles campaign signs with volunteer Israel Martinez at his campaign headquarters on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, in Chicago. Six candidates are on Tuesday's ballot to replace the retiring Mayor Richard M. Daley, who didn't seek a seventh term. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Thousands of Bahraini mourners participate in a funeral march on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, in Malkiya, Bahrain, for Redha Bu Hameed, who died during clashes between army forces and anti-government protesters. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Residents gather outside a burned building in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi, claiming control of the country's second-largest city after bloody fighting. Anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (Associated Press)
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TAKING A TANK: Protesters celebrate on a tank inside a security-forces compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday. Demonstrators rallied in the streets of Benghazi as they claimed control of the country's second-largest city. (Associated Press)
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A more flattering photo of the royal couple was taken at St. James's Palace in London. (Associated Press)
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STRAIGHT-TALKER: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is being touted as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2012 largely because of his no-nonsense style. (Associated Press)
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Yemenis, joined by members of parliament, take to the streets of Sanaa on Monday to demand the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. A defiant Mr. Saleh said, "If they want me to quit, I will only leave through the ballot box." (Associated Press)
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Residents stand Monday on a tank holding a pre-Gadhafi era national flag inside a security forces compound in Benghazi, Libya. Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. (Associated Press)
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A group of detained Haitian women are driven away by Dominican military border officers in Jimani, Dominican Republic, late last month. After a one-year easing following the January 2010 Haitian earthquake, deportations have resumed. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators protest in Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, to demand the release of political prisoners in Egyptian jails and of anti-government protesters arrested last week who are still in custody. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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An Egyptian paints an anti-higher military council, which rules Egypt, graffiti, at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, April 10, 2011. Demonstrators barricaded themselves with barbed wire inside a central Cairo square demanding the resignation of the military's head after troops violently dispersed Friday's overnight protest killing one and injuring scores. At left, painting showing field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the higher military council. Arabic read, " the battle of higher military council against demonstrators" . (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011 file photo, a Bahraini military armored personnel carrier (APC) pulls out from the Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain, past a banner advertising the Formula One race seen on a building behind. The season-opening Formula One race in Bahrain was called off Monday due to the anti-government protests in the Gulf kingdom. Writing on banner in arabic reads "Release your enthusiasm. 11-12-13 March". (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)
