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Police detain a protestor who was blocking an avenue in Madrid, on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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Protestors shout slogans against open stores on Madrid's Gran Via, on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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Stickers that read "closed" are seen at the entrance of a department store on Madrid's Gran Via, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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A store employee works on a display window that has graffiti with the word "strike" on in Madrid's Gran Via, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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Riot police hit out at demonstrators during protests in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession.(AP Photo/David Ramos)
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Protesters vandalize a police car during riots in Barcelona on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Shortly after, the car was set on fire. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Paula Fernandez)
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A man observes the riots from his closed shop in Barcelona, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/David Ramos)
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Riot police confront demonstrators during riots in Barcelona, on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession.(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Delegates clap in unison during the ruling Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. The Korean Central News Agency said Kim Kyong-hui (third from right in the front row), sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, retained her position as a department director on the Central Committee and gained a new post as a member of the Central Committee's Political Bureau. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Police guard a bus depot in Madrid during a nationwide general strike organized by Spanish unions on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Picketers hurled eggs at buses and blocked trucks from delivering produce to wholesale markets as Spanish workers protested austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Paul White)
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Associated Press President Obama chats with a patron during an unscheduled stop at Barelas Coffee House on Tuesday in Albuquerque, N.M. He warned New Mexico voters that Republicans would roll back his agenda.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai decried the violence in his country and expressed fear that the mayhem would chase away young Afghans. He has established a "peace council" to negotiate with the Taliban. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, sought Tuesday to blame Republicans for the congressional standoff over extending the Bush-era tax cuts, which are set to expire at year's end.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Wizards' John Wall, right, talks with Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo, left, during the NBA basketball team's training camp at the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010.
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Associated Press President Obama chats with a patron during an unscheduled stop at Barelas Coffee House on Tuesday in Albuquerque, N.M. He warned New Mexico voters that Republicans would roll back his agenda.
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Mr. Castro said capitalism and the United States would be the primary culprits of a nuclear war and environmental destruction. (Associated Press)
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In Cairo, Nobel peace laureate and former nuclear-watchdog agency head Mohamed ElBaradei holds up signed petitions gathered online to support his call for democratic reforms in Egypt. A nascent youth opposition movement looks to him for leadership but, recognizing political realities, is focusing on organization. (Associated Press)
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In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, North Korean youth dance to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's re-election to the party's top position of general secretary in a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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In this photo released by the U.S. Embassy in Oman, Sarah Shourd, center-left, gestures as she visits the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Miss Shourd was released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy in Oman)
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President Obama holds a discussion on the economy with neighborhood families in the front yard of a home in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
