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In this image made from 1980 file television footage, Kim Jong Il applauds while attending the Workers' Party of Korea convention, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The official Korean Central News Agency announced last week the ruling Workers' Party would hold a conference Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, to select its "supreme leadership body." (AP Photo/APTN)

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In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, North Korean schoolchildren march past a placard announcing the meeting of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, set for Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 in Pyongyang, North Korea. A large number of signs, flags and placards have been put up around Pyongyang to celebrate the country's biggest political meeting in three decades and amid intense speculation that Kim Jong Il's youngest son and sister could be given key posts at the gathering. (AP Photo/APTN)

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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Palestinian militant, Alaa Abu Z'beida, out of the family house during his funeral in Al Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Alaa Abu Z'beida and two other Palestinian militant were killed late Monday in a clash with Israeli soldiers. The Israelis said their forces fired at militants near the border of central Gaza as they were about to launch rockets at Israel. A small, al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Palestinian relatives react, after the death of Palestinian militant, Awni Abd Al Hadi, in the family house during his funeral in Al Bureij refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Awni Abd Al Hadi and two other Palestinian militants were killed late Monday in a clash with Israeli soldiers. The Israelis said their forces fired at militants near the border of central Gaza as they were about to launch rockets at Israel. A small, al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A relative of Palestinian Awni Abdul Hadi, 19, fires his gun into the air during his funeral in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on September 28, 2010. Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed three men Palestinian medics said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad

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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Alaa Abu Zbeedh, 25, during his funeral in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on September 28, 2010. Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed three men Palestinian medics said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad

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In this Sept. 8, 2010, photo, a Costco customer leaves the check out stand with two carts at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. Americans' view of the economy turned grimmer in September amid escalating job worries, falling to the lowest point since February. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Jewish activists aboard hold a banner before sets sail from Famagusta harbor in the Turkish-occupied north of ethnically divided Cyprus in a bid to breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. The trip came nearly four months after Israeli commandos boarded a flotilla of Gaza-bound ships, killing nine activists. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

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Nicholas Welch was arrested on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, in the weekend shooting at an off-campus house party that left a Seton Hall University student dead and four other people wounded. (AP Photo/East Orange, N.J., Police)

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Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, a day before the Kremlin fired him. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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A Jewish settler boy watches earth-moving equipment working at a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Senior Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo said Monday that President Mahmoud Abbas remains ready to walk out on Mideast peace talks if Israel resumes construction in its West Bank settlements now that building restrictions have expired. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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CAMPAIGNING: President Obama said Monday that voters "have a real big choice" to make between the parties in the midterm elections. (Associated Press)

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Education Secretary Arne Duncan has spoken positively of the D.C. schools chancellor's reforms. (Associated Press)

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PASSING FANCY: Posing as Cuban revolutionary "Che" Guevara, a rider passes near the Venezuelan presidential palace. Voters gave a newly unified opposition a significant bloc of National Assembly seats. (Associated Press)

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In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency, delegates to North Korea's ruling Workers' Party meeting arrive Monday in Pyongyang, North Korea. The reclusive Stalinist state holds its biggest political gathering in decades Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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CAMPAIGNING: President Obama said Monday that voters "have a real big choice" to make between the parties in the midterm elections. (Associated Press)

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India's defense minister, Arackaparambil Kurian Antony, will meet with U.S. defense, State Department and national security officials Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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A Pakistani officer in Peshawar displays recovered equipment of NATO forces fighting in neighboring Afghanistan on Monday. The paramilitary Frontier Corps has recovered a variety of military gear stolen from NATO convoys in recent months in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, official said. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he won't have any "quick reactions" to Israel's resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank. (Associated Press)

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Mrs. Rousseff is joined by Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral in greeting supporters during a campaign rally at Rio's Center of Northeastern Traditions on Sept. 26. Election Day is Oct. 3. (Associated Press)