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**FILE** Afghan security forces investigate the scene after two suicide attacks in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 6, 2013. Two suicide bombers penetrated a government compound in the country's south, killing several, Afghan officials said. There were no reports of foreign troops or civilians at the site. (Associated Press)
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Dr. Steven H. Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond was chairman of a study panel on health that found that the United States suffers far more violent deaths than any other wealthy nation, in part because of the widespread possession of firearms and the practice of storing them at home in a place that is often unlocked. (AP Photo)
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More than 2,000 detainees were released Wednesday by the Syrian government as rebels freed 48 Iranians held since August in the first major prisoner swap of the country’s civil war. The uprising against Mr. Assad began in March 2011. (Associated Press via IHH)
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Pakistani truckers who carry supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan chant slogans during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. The truckers have gone on strike in northwest Pakistan to protest lower pay, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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**FILE** An Iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell in Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sept. 2, 2006, after the Iraqi government took over control from U.S. forces. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Syrians inspect the destruction of buildings on Jan. 5, 2013, after heavy shelling by the Syrian Air Force in apparent retaliation for rebel attacks on the nearby Taftanaz military airbase in the village of Binnish, Syria. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Friday, April 20, 2007, file photo, the commander of a tribal militia, Maulvi Nazir, center, flanked by his bodyguards, speaks to journalists at Wana, the main town of Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan, along the Afghan border. Intelligence officials said suspected American drones fired several missiles into three militant hideouts near Afghan border on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, the third suspected strike in five days, killing at least nine Pakistani Taliban fighters. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)
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A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) investigates the scene after two suicide attacks in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Two suicide bombers penetrated a government compound in the country's south Sunday, killing several, Afghan officials said. There were no reports of foreign troops or civilians at the site. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Syrian refugee boys look Jan. 7, 2013, outside their tent at a temporary refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria. (Associated Press/File)
