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Protesters shout anti-Israeli slogans during a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Palestinians, along with other members of Romania's Muslim community, staged a protest against the latest Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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An Egyptian flashes the victory sign during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. More than 200,000 people protested against Egypt's Islamist president in a powerful show of strength by the opposition, who demanded that President Mohammed Morsi revoke edicts granting himself near-autocratic powers. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, exits the room at the Capitol where he and other House GOP leaders met Wednesday to discuss the looming “fiscal cliff.” Amid changes of committee chairmanships, Mr. Ryan retains the Budget Committee gavel. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on the White House campus in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, about how middle class Americans would see their taxes go up if Congress fails to act to extend the middle class tax cuts. The president said he believes that members of both parties can reach a framework on a debt-cutting deal before Christmas. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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**FILE** Anti-abortion advocates stand outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization in Jackson, Miss., the state's only abortion clinic, on June 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, about how Americans would see their taxes go up if Congress fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts. The president said he believes that members of both parties can reach a framework on a debt-cutting deal before Christmas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Musicians from a municipal band play during a protest march to the ministry of Administrative Reform in central Athens, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Several hundred people took part in the peaceful demonstration. Greek municipal workers have occupied hundreds of town halls across the country to protest against government plans to suspend 2,000 civil servants for potential dismissal due to state budget cuts. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Egyptian protesters attend an opposition rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Thousands flocked to the central square for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near-absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters chant slogans at rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Egyptians flocked to Cairo's central Tahrir square on Tuesday for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters carry large national flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Thousands of demonstrators flocked to the central square for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters chant slogans against President Mohammed Morsi in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Demonstrators flocked to the central square for a protest against Mr. Morsi in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters chant slogans against President Mohammed Morsi in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Egyptians flocked to the central square for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)