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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks to Russian troops stationed at the key Black Sea port of Gudauta in Abkhazia. Mr. Medvedev pledged Sunday to provide further support to breakaway Georgian regions on the anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war. He arrived in Abkhazia to hold talks with the Kremlin-friendly separatist government. (Associated Press)
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Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, is a suspected al Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. The FBI says he has become chief of the terror network's global operations. (FBI via Associated Press)
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The Washington Times Pro-lifer Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, gets into a shouting match over health care legislation at an August 2009 town-hall meeting held by Rep. James P. Moran, Virginia Democrat, in Reston, Va. A year later, both sides are still shouting.
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Associated Press Arizona Sen. John McCain lends support Sunday in Centennial, Colo., to a fellow Republican, former Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, in her bid for the party's senatorial nomination in Tuesday's primary.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dan Coats, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate (right center), speaks with health care professionals during a roundtable discussion on health care at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis on Tuesday.
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is photographed in her chambers in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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President Paul Kagame speaks to Rwandans on a campaign stop in Nyagatare. Mr. Kagame is thought to be all but assured of re-election, but opposition leaders say they've been barred from participating. (Associated Press)
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Thomas Grams, 51, a dentist who formerly practiced in Durango, Colo., is shown in an undated photo released by Kay Shaw of Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based group that sends teams of dentists around the globe. He was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, along with five other Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton, Ms. Shaw said. (AP Photo/Global Dental Relief)
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Former student activists and pro-democracy politicians hold a quiet religious ceremony at a Buddhist monastery in an eastern suburb of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, to mark the anniversary of the 1988 uprising that was brutally crushed by Myanmar's military. More than a million people rose up Aug. 8 that year to protest an entrenched military-backed regime headed by Gen. Ne Win that had wiped out the savings of many by a sudden demonetization of the currency. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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** FILE ** President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami and former secretary of health and human services, in the East Room of the White House in Washington in June 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
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Casslyn Welch is a suspected accomplice in the escape of three convicted murderers from a northwest Arizona prison on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohave County [Ariz.] Sheriff's Office)
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American fighter jets prepare to take off from the USS George Washington, cruising in the South China Sea about 200 miles off Vietnam's central coast on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Margie Mason)
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** FILE ** South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (right) talks with Kim Tae-ho, whom Mr. Lee on Sunday named as the nation's prime minister, in Seoul in October 2008. Mr. Kim's appointment was part of a Cabinet reshuffle. (AP Photo/Yonhap)
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U.S. solicitor general Elena Kagan smiles in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, during a ceremony with President Barack Obama after her confirmation as Supreme Court justice by the Senate on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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A Saudi customer is served in a mobile shop at a market in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Illustration: Abortion (after Da Vinci)
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In this July 2005 photo provided by Lynn France, France poses for a photo on her wedding day on Italy's Amalfi Coast. In January of 2009, France discovered her husband's affair on Facebook. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Lynn France) NO SALES
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FILE - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski speaks at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., in this Nov. 24, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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In this June 24, 2010 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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People look for survivors in the wreckage of a passenger bus which plunged into the flooded River Jhelum in Ghari Duppata near Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Police, said only a few of the 50 to 70 passengers onboard have been rescued so far. (AP Photo/Aftab Ahmed)
