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** FILE ** Kenan Adams-Kinard, 16, was arrested by police in connection with the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran outside an Eagles lodge in Spokane on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Spokane Police)
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** FILE ** A Lebanese Army soldier stands guard in front of damaged cars at the site of a car bomb explosion outside of the Al-Taqwa mosque, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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A Syrian army soldier walks on a street in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Syrian state media accused rebels of using chemical arms on Saturday against government troops trying to storm a contested neighborhood of Damascus, claiming a major army offensive in recent days had forced the opposition fighters to resort to such weapons "as their last card." (AP Photo)
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People gather outside of the Salam mosque amid charred cars and wide damage, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Aug. 23, 2013. The twin car bombs, which killed dozens hit amid soaring tensions in Lebanon as a result of Syria's civil war, which has sharply polarized the country along sectarian lines and between supporters and opponents of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. It was the second such bombing in just over a week, showing the degree to which the tiny country is being consumed by the raging war next door. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian members from Youth Salafists group chant slogans while waving their black flags during a protest against the Egyptian and Syria regimes in Rafah Refugee Camp, southern Gaza Strip, on Aug. 22, 2013. Arabic on poster reads "Criminals and murderers." Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said the regime had killed more than 100 people the day before in a chemical weapons attack. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta, calling the charges "absolutely baseless." (Associated Press)
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A crater made by a missile from an Israeli warplane is seen at one of the entrance tunnel of the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command base, near the Mediterranean coastal town of Naameh, south of Beirut on Aug, 23, 2013. Israeli warplanes struck the target a day after militants fired four rockets into northern Israel, the Israeli military and a Palestinian official said. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A Lebanese army soldier passes in front of burned cars at the site of a car bomb explosion in an overwhelmingly Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, at the southern suburb of Beirut on Aug. 16, 2013. (Associated Press)
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The Evangelical Church of Malawi was ransacked, looted and burned Thursday as supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi took out their anger at Coptic Christians. (Associated Press)
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This image provided by Shaam News Network on Aug. 22, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show several bodies being buried in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, during a funeral on Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said the regime had killed more than 100 people the day before in a chemical weapons attack. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday as "absolutely baseless." (Associated Press/Shaam News Network)
