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U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing Five aircraft are tied down on the flight deck of the USS George Washington during joint military drills with South Korean forces off that country's west coast on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Korea Pool)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron, standing outside his official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, greets Sweden's Prime Minister Frank Reinfeldt, not seen, prior to their meeting, Thursday Nov. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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The State Department headquarters is located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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ASSOCIATED PRESS South Korean ships stage off of the coast of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island on Sunday. The U.S. and South Korea prepared for war games Sunday as South Koreans demanded vengeance.
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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, shakes hands with Vijay Nambiar, chief of staff for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, after their meeting at her home on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar. Mrs. Suu Kyi met for more than an hour with Mr. Nambiar and said she hopes the talks will be the first of many with the world body to solve the country's problems. (Associated Press)
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Electoral workers count ballots at a counting center after polls closed in the Abdeen neighborhood of Cairo on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Egypt's parliamentary election was marred by scattered violence, reports of vote buying and the ejection of many independent monitors from polling stations amid what opponents say is a government campaign to clamp down at a time of political uncertainty. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen speaks to the media in Dublin on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010, on the European Union's $113 billion bailout deal to help debt-struck Ireland with its banking crisis.
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Greenpeace activists wave windsocks as they campaign for the use of renewable energy Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines. The Filipino activists called on President Benigno Aquino III to commit to 50 percent renewable energy by 2020 as one of the solutions to fight climate change. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)
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South Korean soldiers take part in a military drill on scenic Mallipo Beach in western South Korea on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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A former South Korean underwater demolition team member shouts a slogan during an anti-government rally in front of the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. (Photo: Associated Press)
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Former South Korean marines burn images of North Korean leader Kim Jong il, right, and his son Kim Jong Un, during a rally denouncing North Korea on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010, in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea is gearing up for joint military maneuvers with the U.S. starting Sunday that are likely to keep tensions soaring following the attack on a South Korean island, which killed two two marines and two civilians. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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South Korean marines carry a flag-draped casket containing the remains of a marine, killed in Tuesday's North Korean bombardment, during a funeral service at a military hospital in Seongnam, South Korea, on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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This image provided by the Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office shows Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Officials say he tried to detonate a vehicle bomb at Pioneer Courthouse Square during the tree-lighting ceremony on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. They said the bomb was a dummy that FBI agents supplied him. (AP Photo/Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office)
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First lady Michelle Obama stands with daughters Malia and Sasha as she receives the official White House Christmas tree, a Douglas Fir from the Crystal Spring Tree Farm in Leighton, Pa., at the White House in Washington on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama walks with a U.S. Secret Service agent back to his vehicle after playing a private game of basketball at Fort McNair in Washington on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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An anti-North Korea protester threatens police trying to extinguish burning icons of North Korea during a demonstration on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, in Seoul, South Korea. Fresh artillery shots were heard Friday on the tense South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, three days after it was devastated by a North Korean attack and hours after Pyongyang warned that the peninsula was on the brink of war. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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Police officers patrol near houses destroyed by North Korean shelling on the Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. North Korea warned Friday that planned U.S.-South Korean military drills are pushing the peninsula to the brink of war. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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In this Nov.23, 2010 photo, Kashmir rapper MC Kash poses for a photograph in Srinagar, India. MC Kash, whose real name is Roushan Illahi, calls himself a rebel who uses sharp rhymes and beats instead of stones or guns to protest India's rule over the mostly Muslim region in the Himalayas. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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A Chinese man smokes a cigarette while reading to his daughter in Beijing, Aug. 25, 1997. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Election banners in Cairo depict candidates in parliamentary elections scheduled for this weekend. A U.S. State Department spokesman said that a U.S. request for independent election monitors "is not interfering in Egyptian affairs." (Associated Press)
