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Legionnaires of France's 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, based in Orange, France, deploy at the airport in Bamako, Mali. An official at France's Defense Ministry says the country will "gradually deploy" a total of 2,500 troops to Mali, and the French president says the military operation will last until security has been restored and African forces are ready to take charge. (AP Photo/Arnaud Roine, French Army Communications Audiovisual Office [ECPAD])

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (center) speaks during a news conference announcing an agreement with legislative leaders on New York's Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in the Red Room at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Also pictured are Secretary to the Governor Larry Schwartz (left) and Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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British soldiers gather next to a French army truck inside a British transport plane at a base in Evreux on Monday, part of Britain's authorization over the weekend to send two C-17 transport planes to help France get more troops to Mali. (Associated Press)

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All U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Afghanistan in 2014. Whether any will remain to train local forces and conduct missions against al Qaeda remains a point of contention between the two countries' governments. (Associated Press)

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Malian soldiers drive toward the garrison village of Diabaly, on the road near Markala, approximately 25 miles outside Segou in central Mali, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. Despite intensive aerial bombardments by French warplanes, Islamist insurgents grabbed more territory in the West African country on Monday and got much closer to the capital, French and Malian authorities said. In the latest setback, the al-Qaeda-linked extremists overran Diabaly, France's defense minister said in Paris. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)

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A carpet with an image of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is displayed by backers in Cairo after a court ordered a retrial Sunday on charges that he failed to prevent the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime. (Associated Press)

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French soldiers of the 21st Marine Infantry Regiment board a plane for Bamako, the Mali capital, at N'Djamena's airport in Chad on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. The battle to retake Mali's north from the al-Qaeda-linked groups controlling it began in earnest Saturday, after hundreds of French forces deployed to the country and began aerial bombardments to drive back the Islamic extremists from a town seized earlier this week. (AP Photo/ R.Nicolas-Nelson, French Army Communications Audiovisual Office [ECPAD])

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Israeli border police evict a Palestinian activist from an area known as E-1 near Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Palestinian activists erected tents in the area on Friday, saying they wanted to "establish facts on the ground" to stop Israeli construction in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

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Villagers stand near the bodies of men killed in an explosion in Sayedabad, in Afghanistan's Wardak province, southwest of Kabul on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. The explosion killed seven Afghan villagers as they tried to pull bodies of insurgents killed from the rubble of a village mosque after a night raid by NATO and Afghan troops in the country's east, officials said. Four insurgents and an Afghan soldier also were reported to have been killed. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)