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** FILE ** In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News and accessed Saturday, May 5, 2012, a U.N. observer, right, inspects what residents of the town of Taftanaz, Syria, tell him is a mass grave. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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** FILE ** This March 9, 2012, file photo shows Oprah Winfrey at the Third Annual DVF Awards held at the United Nations. Winfrey's OWN cable channel and her magazine are bringing back her book club, starting with the memoir "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
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Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, speaks June 1, 2012, during a press conference after his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the governmental palace in Beirut. (Associated Press)
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In this citizen journalism image taken on May 29, 2012, and provided by Edlib News Network ENN, a Syrian girl sits atop of a U.N. observers vehicle during a demonstration in Kfarnebel, Idlib province in northern Syria. (Associated Press/Edlib News Network ENN)
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In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets May 29, 2012, with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)
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Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets with former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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** FILE ** In this picture taken during a U.N. observer-organized tour, the head of the advance team of U.N. observers, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, center left, shakes hands with a Syrian security officer during their visit to Hama city, central Syria, on Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, herself a naturalized citizen, recites the oath of allegiance with 12 newly naturalized citizens during a naturalization ceremony Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Afterwards Albright donated objects from her diplomatic career, including the red suit she was wearing when she was named the first female secretary of state, a UN peacekeepers hat and a briefcase, to the museum. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed May 22, 2012, purports to show U.N. observers being welcomed in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, center, a U.N. security guard, right, and member of his defense, left, are seen at the start of his trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Toussaint Kluiters, Pool)
