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Protesters gather during a new rally after clashes at Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades on the square and fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Turkish riot police fire tear gas during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades and pushed many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Protesters run to avoid tear gas during clashes at Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades at the square and fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A protester throws tear gas at police as a bulldozer blazes during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades on the central square and fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A protester gestures to riot police as he walks in front of a burning barricade during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades and pushed many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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A girl is evacuated on a stretcher after riot police flooded the Gazi Park with tear gas during clashes at Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Riot police entered the central square after defiant protesters swarmed back in by the thousands. Massive plumes of tear gas billowed upward, and police fired water cannon. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A protester throws back a tear gas canister toward riot police during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades and pushed many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Police stand amid tear gas during clashes with protesters in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades and pushed many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A gasoline bomb explodes in front of riot policemen during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades and pushed many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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A protester throws a tear gas canister back to police during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades and pushed many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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A protester tries to remain standing against the force of a police water cannon during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades and pushed many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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B. Todd Jones, President Obama's nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was conducting his nomination hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers stand guard at a scene of two explosions in the central district of Marjeh, Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. State TV said the blasts were caused by suicide bombers, while activists said they were bombs planted there in advance. (AP Photo/SANA)

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A demonstrator is taken to a police vehicle after he was detained during a protest in London on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The protesters were railing against the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland next week. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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Afghan men rush a wounded woman to receive treatment, after a suicide car bomber struck outside the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)