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The National Shooting Sports Foundation is issuing "Proud to Be a Firearms Owner" pocket cards to arm gun owners with 13 "bullet points" about their identities as law-abiding, safety-minded citizens. (National Sports Shooting Foundation)
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Analysts point to the release of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a significant sign that the military is preparing for long-term authoritarian rule. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Aug., 21, 2013. "The United States strongly condemns any and all use of chemical weapons," Earnest said in a statement. "Those responsible for the use of chemical weapons must be held accountable." (Associated Press)
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A citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian boy holding an Arabic placard that reads: "if Syria's children bled petrol, the entire world would have intervened," during a demonstration against the alleged chemical weapons attack at the suburbs of Damascus, in Aleppo on Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian anti-government activists accused the regime of carrying out a toxic gas attack that killed at least 100 people, including many children as they slept, during intense artillery and rocket barrages on the eastern suburbs of Damascus, part of a fierce government offensive in the area. (Associated Press/Aleppo Media Center)
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A U.S. soldier talks on the phone as Afghan children wait to receive Afghan National Army's humanitarian aid in the Andar district of Ghazni province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on June 22, 2007. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Coptic Christians demonstrate on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn., to show their support for the Egyptian military and to denounce Islamist violence against Christians in Egypt. The demonstration came amid increasing pressure on the Obama administration to take some sort of action against the military for what many see as a coup d'etat against deposed President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Travis Loller)
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In this courtroom sketch, Haji Mohammad Naim testifies Aug. 20, 2013, in a courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle. Naim, an Afghan farmer shot during a massacre in Kandahar Province last year, took the witness stand at a sentencing hearing for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who attacked his village and one other in pre-dawn raids on March 11, 2012, killing 16 civilians. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Egyptian soldiers stand guard on an armored vehicle outside the main Christian Orthodox Cathedral in the southern city of Assiut. (Associated Press photographs)
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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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Egyptian military and policemen carry coffins covered with national flags of bodies of off-duty policemen who were killed near the border town of Rafah, North Sinai, upon their arrival at Almaza military airport in Cairo on Aug. 19, 2013. (Associated Press)
