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ASSOCIATED PRESS ON PATROL: The South Korean military patrols on Yeonpyeong Island on Tuesday. Yeonpyeong straddles the disputed maritime border between the Koreas.
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British police, headquartered at New Scotland Yard in London, on Monday arrested a dozen men suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack. (AP Photo)
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had harsh words on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, for those protesting the country's disputed election.
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Conservative actor Jon Voight is an outspoken critic of President Obama's New START treaty. (AP Photo)
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Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, talks with Qatari Emir Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, during their meeting in Tehran Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
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Philip Ray Greaves II was arrested on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, in Colorado on a Florida obscenity charge. (AP Photo/Pueblo County [Colo.] Sheriff's Office)
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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, walks near the Senate floor during an unusual Sunday session on Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Mr. McConnell said he would oppose a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, damaging prospects for President Obama's foreign policy priority in the final days of the post-election Congress. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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In this film publicity image released by Touchstone Pictures, sandra Bullock, left, and Betty White are shown in a scene from, "The Proposal." White has been voted the Entertainer of the Year by members of The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Disney/Touchstone Pictures, Kerry Hayes)
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Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, heads to the Senate floor during a rare Sunday session on Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Mr. Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in news show appearances Sunday morning that he believes Democrats have the votes to ratify START, the nuclear arms treaty with Russia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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An opposition supporter appeals to riot policemen during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, late Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Thousands of opposition supporters in Minsk, the capital, tried to storm the main government building to protest what the opposition claims was large-scale vote-rigging in Sunday's presidential election. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. John Kerry heads to the Senate floor during a rare Sunday session on Capitol Hill on Sunday. Mr. Kerry, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in news-show appearances Sunday morning that he thinks Democrats have the votes to ratify START, the nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
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Associated Press IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman cautioned Congress against waiting till 2011 to settle the tax-cut extension fight.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. John Kerry heads to the Senate floor during a rare Sunday session on Capitol Hill on Sunday. Mr. Kerry, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in news-show appearances Sunday morning that he thinks Democrats have the votes to ratify START, the nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
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BLOOMBERG "This compromise was to help people who were drowning," said Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., defending the compromise President Obama made with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts. The bill also included an extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.
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** FILE ** Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (right) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in Cairo on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. The talks came within the framework of efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, from right, speaks as he stands with Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Independent, Sen. Mark Udall, Colorado Democrat, and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, at a press conference about the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" bill during an unusual Saturday session on Capitol Hill in Washington Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who has been appointed by the Iranian President as interim Foreign Minister, leaves a Foreign Ministry function, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, walks near the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, during a rare Saturday session to finish the year's legislative business. The Senate voted to advance legislation that would overturn the military ban on openly gay troops known as "don't ask, don't tell." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Human rights activists hang a sign on the wall of the state prosecutors office to protest the killing of Marisela Escobedo Ortiz in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday Dec. 17, 2010. Ms. Escobedo Ortiz, who had been protesting for three days in front of the governor's office in Chihuahua city to demand justice for her slain daughter, was shot in the head Thursday by unknown assailants in front of the governor's office. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)
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A scene in Turkey in 1915 when Armenians were marched long distances and said to have been massacred. The U.S. House of Representatives staffers said Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, that the House may vote next week on a resolution declaring the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide that could damage U.S. relations with critical ally Turkey. (AP Photo, File)
