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North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, second from left, arrives at Noibai Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday, July 21, 2010, to attend the 43rd annual ASEAN ministers meeting and related meetings as a security guard looks on. North Korea's top diplomat will likely be on a damage control mission this week at the Asian security meeting, pleading innocent to the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors and has been widely blamed on Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Na Son-Nguyen)
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In a Wednesday, July 21, 2010, photo provided by the Navy Visual News Service, the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) arrives in Busan, Republic of Korea, to take part in four days of joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States that starts Sunday. (AP Photo/Navy Visual News Service, PO 3rd class Charles Oki)
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U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor, right, briefs Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, 2nd right, as a curious North Korean soldier looks through the window at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates look at North Korea using binoculars at a guard post in Camp Oulette neat the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/ Korea Pool) *
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel and her husband, Steve, leave a polling spot in Roswell, Ga. Sarah Palin has endorsed Mrs. Handel, who has recently surged to the top of polls. (Associated Press)
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D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray "failed to hold a hearing on any of the proposal packages" submitted by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty after a previous contract award to Interlot, said D.C. Attorney General Peter J. Nickles. (The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican Party chairman Michael Steele, center, talks with Republican state leaders and volunteers during a visit to the Colorado GOP headquarters in the Greenwood Village south of Denver on Thursday, July 8, 2010.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama discuss BP and the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the British Embassy in Washington on Tuesday. "The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a catastrophe for the environment, for the fishing industry, for tourism. I've been absolutely clear about that," Mr. Cameron said.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel and her husband, Steve, leave a polling spot in Roswell, Ga. Sarah Palin has endorsed Mrs. Handel, who has recently surged to the top of polls. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Charles E. Grassley hears out fellow Republican Lindsey Graham on Tuesday before a Judiciary Committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.
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Director of National Intelligence nominee James R. Clapper Jr., a retired Air Force lieutenant general, testifies at his hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on July 20, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (right), West Virginia Democrat, escorts Carte Goodwin on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, before Mr. Goodwin, also a Democrat, is sworn in as the Mountain State's junior senator. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Obama, right, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, talk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, laughs as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and rest of the foreign ministers prepare to pose for a group photo after the Kabul International Conference at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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(Front row, from L to R) U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pose for photos in Kabul on July 20, 2010. A major international conference in Kabul ended on July 20 calling for at least 50 percent of development aid for the country to be channeled through the Afghan government's budget within two years. UPI/Hossein Fatemi
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, gestures as Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, prepare to pose for a group photo after the Kabul International Conference at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center right, tour a crafts bazaar in Kabul on Tuesday July 20, 2010, as they attend an international conference on Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Paul J. RICHARDS, Pool)
