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**FILE** Palestinians yell at a U.S. diplomatic vehicle on Oct. 4, 2011, during a protest against the United States in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wants to cut funds to the U.N. as well as its Population Fund. (Associated Press)
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Angelina Jolie has accepted a position as Special Representative on the Afghan refugee situation, the U.N. announced Tuesday in Geneva. (Associated Press)
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Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema (center) first proposed to UNESCO in 2008 the awarding of a $3 million life-sciences prize, but objections to the central African strongman's involvement have prevented its adoption. (Associated Press)
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In this video grab photo released Oct. 4, 2011, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, A woman claiming that she is Zainab al-Hosni who the Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, and Syrian activists reported last month that was found dead and mutilated after she was detained in her hometown of Homs, shows her ID card during an interview with the Syrian state television, in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks on the department's enforcement of immigration laws on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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President Obama, while speaking at Eastfield College in Mesquite College, Texas, entreats Congress to pass the American Jobs Act. "Right now, he won't even let this jobs bill have a vote," the president said of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican. (Associated Press)
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High school students chant slogans outside the Greek Parliament during a protest in central Athens on Oct. 4, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Syrians and Jordanians carry candles and posters depicting 18-year-old Zainab al-Hosni, believed to be the first woman to die in Syrian custody since the uprising began in mid-March, during a candlelight vigil in front the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Pro-life activists take part Sunday in the 20th annual Life Chain, a nationwide anti-abortion protest, in New Bern, N.C. The protest was one of hundreds held across the country. The state's "Woman's Right to Know" law goes into effect Oct. 26. (Associated Press)
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Mothers arrive to pick up their children from Flowers School in Montgomery, Ala., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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The Obama administration is seeking to extend federal protections to hundreds of animals, including the Texas kangaroo rat. (Associated Press)
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The 1611 King James Bible is the subject of "Manifold Greatness," a new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Seen here are the Genealogies of the Scriptures. Translation began in 1604 at the order of England's King James I. (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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** FILE ** Job seekers stand in line during U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler's "Getting Southwest Washington Back to Work Job Fair" on Sept. 28, 2011, in Vancouver, Wash. (Associated Press)
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Ashley Hendricks, a University of Alabama student from Huntsville, Ala., holds a sign and chants while protesting the state's immigration bill on Sept. 28, 2011. Hendricks was among approximately 40 students who gathered for a protest of the immigration bill on the school's campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Associated Press/Tuscaloosa News)
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A protesting taxi driver carries a Greek national flag in front of the transport ministry during a protest in Athens on Sept 28, 2011. About 2,000 striking taxi drivers gathered to protest against government plans to open up their licensed profession to more competition. (Associated Press)
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George Wright is pictured while in custody in 1963 for the murder of a gas station owner in Wall, N.J., the year before. (Associated Press/New Jersey Department of Corrections)
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Retired CIA disguise specialist Jonna Mendez takes on a different look. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, seen earlier this month with President Nicolas Sarkozy, says her pregnancy is a nonstory to the people of France. "There isn't much to say," Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy said. "So many women are expecting children and giving birth, and it's so uninteresting for French people." (Associated Press)
