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Female anti-government protesters gesture while chanting slogans during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, April 17, 2011, to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The country's anti-government movement took up the issue of women's rights in the conservative Muslim nation as thousands of demonstrators seeking the president's ouster denounced his comments against the participation of women in protest rallies. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Pope Benedict XVI carries a palm branch as he arrives to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, April 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Mary and their children, Prince Christian, partially obscured, and Princess Isabella with Copenhagen Bishop Erik Normann Svendsen, at the Copenhagen Navy Church, Holmens, Thursday, April 14 2011, during the baptism of their 3 month old twins. Denmark's royal family has celebrated the baptism of baby twins Prince Vincent Frederik Minik and Princess Jospehine Sofie Ivalo Mathilda. In line with royal tradition, the names remained secret until Thursday's ceremony at the Holmen church in downtown Copenhagen. (AP Photo/Tariq Mikkel Khan/Polfoto, Pool) DENMARK OUT
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Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Mary and their children, Prince Christian, and Princess Isabella, at the Copenhagen Navy Church, Holmens, Thursday, April 14 2011, during the baptism of their 3 month old twins. Denmark's royal family has celebrated the baptism of baby twins Prince Vincent Frederik Minik and Princess Jospehine Sofie Ivalo Mathilda. In line with royal tradition, the names remained secret until Thursday's ceremony at the Holmen church in downtown Copenhagen. (AP Photo/Tariq Mikkel Khan/Polfoto, Pool) DENMARK OUT
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**FILE** Debbie Johannes (right) and Luis Linares (second from right), a missionary from El Salvador, pray during the annual National Day of Prayer in the House Cannon building on Capitol Hill in 2006. (The Washington Times)
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Beef cheek stew with cilantro and cumin is an Algerian-style main course for Passover Seder. The Jewish holiday presents an opportunity to bring together different elements of food from each family's history. (Associated Press)
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Egyptian Abdallah Hassan, 7, demonstrates Wednesday with his family (holding the national flag) in front of the Sharm-el-Sheikh hospital where ex-President Hosni Mubarak is being detained as criminal charges against him are investigated. (Associated Press)
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Policemen on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, guard a convoy carrying Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, sons of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, outside the courthouse in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where they were questioned by prosecutors. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Muslim men gather at the shrine to Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Cairo, on April 4. The shrine is a leading pilgrimage site for Sufis, whose shrines have come under attack from members of the extremist Salafi movement in Egypt. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this image made from television, demonstrators march in Daraa, Syria, Friday, April 8, 2011. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Daraa on Friday, a city in the south of Syria that has become a flashpoint for anti-government demonstrations. (AP Photo)
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Buddhist monks pray at a tsunami-destroyed area in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, April 11, 2011, one month to the day after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the city. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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The Smithsonian Kite Festival may not take off as planned this year because of the winds of politics in Washington. The kite festival traditionally kicks off festivities for the National Cherry Blossom Festival, which also would be canceled by a federal government shutdown. (The Washington Times)
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The "secret garden" bedroom was transformed from an office by Samantha Friedman of Samantha Friedman Interior Designs.
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"If Arab people see a Jewish person can do this, they might think, 'Maybe there's somebody on the other side we can talk to,'" director Julian Schnabel has said of his new film "Miral." Based on a work by Rula Jebreal (left), it looks at Israeli treatment of Palestinians through the eyes of Palestinians. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Protesters demonstrate in Laghman, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 4, 2011, against a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran, making four straight days of demonstrations, some deadly. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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NEXT LEADER?: Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, a son of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, has offered to lead a transitional government. (Associated Press)
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Pro-Islamic demonstrators in Istanbul support protesters in Egypt during a rally in February. Turkey has indicated a goal to be a power broker on the world stage with its responses to recent unrest in the Middle East. (Associated Press)
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Afghan protesters beat a burning effigy of President Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstration in the major eastern Afghan city, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Illustration: Shuttered Congress
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A Wisconsin State Patrol officer monitors protesters during Gov. Scott Walker's appearance in Menasha, Wis. Protests continue against the governor's budget plan. He wants to implement a law that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights and cut their pay. (Associated Press)
