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Ethnic Uzbek men push a truck as they build a barricade in the Uzbek district in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a refugee crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful people without enough food and water in grim camps along the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men run during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish grave sites. Five police officers and ten demonstrators were lightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pause during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish gravesites. Five police officers and 10 demonstrators were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men scuffle with mounted police officers during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish gravesites. Five police officers and 10 demonstrators were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lies on the ground with blood on his face after a scuffle with border police officers during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish gravesites. Five police officers and 10 demonstrators were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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In this Oct. 30, 2007, file photo, employees are silhouetted at the Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical factory in Ingelheim, central Germany. Boehringer Ingelheim has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its drug flibanserin for women who report a lack of sexual desire, a market that drugmakers have been targeting for more than a decade since the success of Viagra in men. Federal health regulators said Wednesday, June 16, 2010, the first pill designed to boost the female sex drive failed to make a significant impact on libido in two studies.(AP Photo/Michael Pobst, file)

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Uzbeks who fled Kyrgyzstan live in a refugee camp on the border at the Uzbek village of Erkishlok on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Many thousands of refugees have fled the pogrom that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)

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A Romanian woman holds up her bloodied hand after being injured in scuffles with riot police outside the parliament building, during protests in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanian protesters hold up impaled effigies depicting the country's president and government members during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A protester steps on an effigy depicting Romanian President Traian Basescu during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanian lawmakers vote on procedures before a no-confidence vote in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanians scuffle with riot police outside the parliament building in Bucharest during protests Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, left, and Labor Minister Andreas Loverdos talk to reporters as they leave the prime minister's office in Athens after talks on draft reforms to the country's pension system, on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. On Monday, JUne 14, 2010, Moody's Investors Service slashed Greece's credit rating to junk status, the latest blow to the debt-ridden nation. This led to fears Greece and other European governments could default on their debts and drove up gains in U.S. Treasury securities holding by China and other governments. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says fees have to be raised to cover the budget for processing requests for immigration benefits. But proposed increases are being kept as low as possible, he says.

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This photo provided by his family shows Darren James LaBonte, 35, in Afghanistan in 2007. Mr. LaBonte was one of seven CIA employees who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a U.S. base in Khost, Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Courtesy of LaBonte's Family) ** FILE **

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**FILE** Judy Schulz (front) and her husband, Richard Schulz (left), both of Glendale, Ariz., joined hundreds on June 5, 2010, for a rally near the capitol in Phoenix supporting Arizona's new law on illegal immigration. (Associated Press/Ross D. Franklin)

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A photojournalist (left) runs Friday June 4, 2010, as Israeli soldiers try to stop a vehicle decorated in a shape of a ship by Palestinian, Israeli and international protesters. The vehicle depicted one of the ships of the humanitarian flotilla that tried to get to Gaza, during a protest against Israel's separation barrier, in the outskirts of the West Bank village of Bilin, near the city of Ramallah. Tensions are high in the aftermath of an Israeli naval raid targeting the aid flotilla to Gaza that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, mostly Turks, in the ensuing clash. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A family stands next to a statue depicting a typical Chinese family with one child in Shanghai in 2008. (Associated Press)

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Sen. John McCain, seen at a May 17 Senate hearing, disagreed Thursday with objections to boosting a program that jails illegal immigrants briefly rather than immediately releasing them across the border. (Associated Press)

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In this image made from video the U.S. Senate passes the health care overhaul bill Thursday Dec. 24, 2009. (AP photo/CSPAN)