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Sinodefence.com China is developing warheads for its new JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile for use in anti-satellite weapons.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton shared a laugh yesterday with Hazel Dukes, president of the New York chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Manhattan at an event honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

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** FILE PHOTO ** Senate Democratic Leader Richard L. Saslaw (right), Fairfax Democrat, talks with Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr., James City Republican. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, confided to friends in 2008 that he was not ready to take up his mother's political reins. (Associated Press)

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.,left, accompanied by daughter Chelsea and husband former president Bill Clinton attends a New Year's Eve rally, Monday, Dec. 31, 2007, in Des , Monday, December 31, 2007. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)

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Associated Press Garry Kasparov, former chess champion and Russian opposition leader, was at the helm of a movement of people who refused to vote in Sunday's elections.

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Associated Press photographs Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is positioned to give fellow senator Hillary Rodham Clinton a run for the campaign money in his bid for the presidency in 2008.

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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama waves after delivering Howard University's convocation address. In his speech, the Democratic presidential hopeful said he would end the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. (Antonio Franco/The Washington Times)

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Director David Cronenberg takes time for a portrait following an interview in Washington, D.C., Friday Aug. 17, 2007.

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Heiko Schuster, development engineer of the solar technology company Sulfurcell cleaned solar panels atop the company's headquarters in Berlin. The Algerian government's solar energy project is in its early stage and faces daunting financial and technological obstacles.

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Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, answers journalists' questions Nov. 12 at Ri-Kwamba in Southern Sudan following a meeting with U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland.

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Bloomberg News President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared comfortable with each other yesterday in Kennebunkport, Maine. On their second day together, the leaders discussed a planned U.S. missile defense system and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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Sen. Patty Murray (second from left) was a staunch supporter of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy despite his reputation for sexual harassment. Pictured with them are other Democratic senators, Harry Reid (left) and Charles E. Schumer. (The Washington Times/File)

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CBS News anchor Dan Rather waits for a news conference to begin at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 18, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

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Then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, was booed over the war in Iraq by attendees at the Take Back America conference in Washington when she praised the troops. (Rodney Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)