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Seen through the barred window of the mosque, people arrive to a mosque for sunset prayer on the outskirts of Idlib, north Syria, Thursday, March 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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The White House is selling special-edition souvenir eggs ahead of its Easter Egg Roll on April 9. A single egg costs $7.50 while a set is $30, and the commemorative red egg features the first dog's paw print. (White House photo)
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Yemenis burn the U.S. flag on March 1, 2012, to condemn the reported burning of holy Korans in Afghanistan by U.S. troops during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A member of the Muslim community performs a call to prayer during a rally in New York on Feb. 3, 2012, to demand the resignation of police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police department spokesman Paul Browne. Thirty-three civil rights groups from around America complained to the New York attorney general about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. (Associated Press)
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a Republican presidential candidate, greets supporters after speaking at Temple Baptist Church in Powell, Tenn., on Wednesday. Mr. Santorum won 15 delegates in the Michigan primary. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, accompanied by his daughter, Elizabeth, speaks at Temple Baptist Church in Powell, Tenn., Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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An Afghan protestor holds a copy of Islam's holy book Koran as he shouts slogans during an anti-U.S. demonstration on Feb. 22, 2012, in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Police enter a building Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, where a gunman held two employees hostage inside the Urological Associates office in Colorado Springs, Colo. The gunman has life-threatening injuries after being shot by a police officer. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signs autographs outside his campaign bus after a campaign rally at Tri-City Christian Academy in Chandler, Ariz., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Pakistani protesters burn representations of U.S. flags in Lahore on Monday to condemn the reported burning of Korans in Afghanistan by U.S. troops. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged calm, calling on his countrymen not to allow insurgents to capitalize on their indignation to spark violence.
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People camp in protest next to ruins on the outskirts of Amecameca, Mexico. The protesters have filed complaints with state and federal officials to demand that a highway under construction be rerouted after pre-Hispanic ruins were detected. (Associated Press)
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Afghans burn tires in Muhammad Agha in Logar province, which is south of Kabul, on Saturday during an anti-U.S. demonstration over burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. Despite a week of attacks and violent protests, there are no plans to accelerate withdrawal from the country. (Associated Press)
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Russian protesters hold hands as part of a 10-mile-long human chain along the Garden Ring in Moscow during a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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An Afghan policeman calms down a protester in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, during an anti-U.S. demonstration prompted by the burning of Korans and other religious materials by U.S. forces at the Bagram Airfield earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Ezatullah Pamir)
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Afghan policemen run toward an anti-U.S. demonstration in Mehterlam, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. Protesters threw rocks at police, government buildings and a U.N. office in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, kicking off a fifth day of riots sparked by the burning of Korans at a U.S. base, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Pro-Syrian demonstrators protest Feb. 24, 2012, outside the Cartago Hotel where the Conference on Syria is held in Tunis, Tunisia. (Associated Press)
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Afghans walk past tires that were burnt by protesters during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 22, 2012. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control on Feb. 10, 2012, at the White House. (Associated Press)
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Testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in Washington are (from left) Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn.; the Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; C. Ben Mitchell, Graves professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.; Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center of Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University in New York; and Craig Mitchell, associate professor of ethics of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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A Jewish settler woman waits Feb. 22, 2012, for a ride outside the Jewish West Bank settlement of Shilo. Israel gave preliminary approval to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew a rebuke from the United Nations and Palestinians and threatened to raise new tensions with the U.S. as the prime minister prepares to head to the White House. (Associated Press)
