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Lawyers and doctors scuffle with riot police during an anti-austerity protest outside the Finance Ministry in Athens on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Civil servants and private sector workers staged a nationwide general strike on Thursday to protest new austerity measures the government is still negotiating with the debt-ridden country's international creditors. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Protesters throw gasoline bombs at riot police during a 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Greece faced its second general strike in a month as workers protested over another batch of austerity measures that are designed to prevent the bankruptcy of the country. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A riot policeman pushes an elderly protester with his shield during clashes during the 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Hundreds of youths pelted riot police with gasoline bombs, bottles and chunks of marble as yet another Greek anti-austerity demonstration descended into violence. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest called by a Portuguese Republican Guard force association against economic austerity measures by Portugal's government in Lisbon on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Portugal's center-right coalition government announced a state budget for 2013 that, if approved, it will mean a significant tax increase and cuts in social services and civil service layoffs. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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A woman with disabilities takes part in a march against the Greek government's new austerity measures outside the Labor Ministry in central Athens on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. Greece is negotiating with its creditors on a new austerity program for the next two years. Until an agreement is struck, Athens will not receive a desperately needed new loan originally scheduled for June. Without it, the government will run out of money on Nov. 16. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Students march in protest against government cuts in education in Barcelona on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The Spanish government has pushed through nine straight months of tough austerity measures that have prompted Spain's 17 regional governments, some of which are heavily indebted, to slash spending in health care and education. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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** FILE ** This Feb. 9, 2005, file photo, shows the suburbs of Las Vegas from atop the Stratosphere tower looking west down Sahara Avenue towards the Spring Mountains. New census data released Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, offer a detailed look at U.S. migration as mobility begins to revive after sliding to a record low last year. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File)

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Protesters demonstrate outside parliament as lawmakers in Madrid debate budget spending cuts for 2013. Spain’s economy continued to shrink in the third quarter. Greece also is still reeling. (Associated Press)

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Planned Parenthood is deceiving millions of American women about the services it provides, says Lila Rose, founder of Live Action. (Photo courtesy Live Action)

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**FILE** A group of Vietnamese sex workers are given a class on safe sex by members of an HIV/AIDS outreach network at a karaoke club in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Oct. 12, 2009. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Guatemalan river-raft worker steers a group of Central American migrants journeying north to the U.S., across the Suchiate river on a makeshift raft at the Guatemala-Mexico border crossing in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on Sept. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A Syrian refugee woman cooks in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo / Manu Brabo)

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Three displaced Syrian children play in puddles in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A displaced Syrian woman and her granddaughter are seen in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A displaced Syrian child runs past tents in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Mustafa, a displaced Syrian man affected by a hiatal hernia, is seen at his family tent in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)