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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, 2nd right, is accompanied by his son Bilawal, striped shirt, and daughter, Asifa, left, when they arrived at London's Heathrow Airport , Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Flood-stricken Pakistanis wait outside a relief center to get food supply on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Relief work for some 3.2 million people has been delayed by swamped roads, washed-out bridges and downed communication lines, and survivors have complained about government inaction. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, center, speaks at a press conference held to address the reopening of commercial fishing areas along the Louisiana coast behind a chest of shrimp caught this morning in Dixon Bay in Venice, La., Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Standing behind Jindal are St. Bernard Parish president Craig Taffaro, left, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries secretary Robert Barham and Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Rick Lazio, Republican candidate for governor of New York, speaks to reporters about his opposition to a proposal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center during a Landmarks Commission hearing, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A Lebanese soldier holds his rifle as Israeli troops patrol the border fence in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)
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In this June 30, 2010, file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. A confirmation vote is all but assured for Ms. Kagan as the Senate begins debate on making her the fourth female justice. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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A vehicle burns after being set on fire by protesters following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. More than 40 people were killed in revenge attacks. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Associated Press CHALLENGING CHARGES: Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, says she "simply will not be forced to admit to something I did not do."
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Associated Press Democrats are hoping to win the votes of Sens. Olympia J. Snowe (left) and Susan Collins, Maine Republicans, to pass a $26 billion spending measure that would help states and local school boards.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, after a trip to Atlanta.
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Associated Press The Senate is expected to vote this week on Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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Nick Jonas is co-chairman of a youth leadership committee for next year's Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration. (Associated Press)
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Low pay means low productivity in communist Cuba, where the state employs 95 percent of the official work force. Now, facing a severe budget deficit, President Raul Castro has hinted at restructuring or pruning the government payroll. (Associated Press)
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New Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter, right, and Orioles President of baseball operations Andy MacPhail smile during a news conference Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, in Baltimore.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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In this Aug. 6, 2007, photo, Guyanese Abdul Kadir, former member of the South American nation's Parliament, arrives at the Magistrates' Court for an extradition hearing in downtown Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. On Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, a New York jury convicted Kabir and a U.S. citizen of plotting to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
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An Indian policeman fires tear-gas shells to disperse protesters during a demonstration defying a curfew in Humhamma, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Government troops fired at thousands of people protesting Indian rule over the country's portion of Kashmir on Monday. (AP Photo)
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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan , Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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** FILE ** This is a Friday April 2, 2004 file photo of British diplomat Peter Ricketts, at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Mr. Rickett's who became Britain's first national security adviser is to leave his post, the government confirmed Monday, Aug. 2. 2010, less than three months after the official took up the newly created role. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, file)
