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An Israeli soldier sleeps atop an armored medical vehicle as they form a convoy to be driven out of southern Israel, near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signaling a new era of relations between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Pakistani hospital staff treat a person injured in a suicide attack on Shiite mourners in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/C.A. Hussain)
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In this Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, photo, a Syrian woman walks in front of a destroyed hospital where heavy clashes took place between rebel fighters and the Syrian army to seize control over the area, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)
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Israeli reserve soldiers remove detonators from shells in a 155 mm artillery position near Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signaling a new era of relations between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Palestinians celebrate the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza City on Wednesday after eight days of fighting. Egypt is monitoring compliance with the cease-fire. Negotiations on other issues between the two sides could begin in a few days. (Associated Press)
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Voters wait in line Saturday to cast their ballots in presidential, parliamentary and local elections at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A decade after Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, voters had to choose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decried the country’s poverty and pace of economic recovery. (Associated Press)
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Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma (white hat) must get 55 percent of the votes or he will face his main opponent, Julius Maada Bio, in a second round of voting. A decade after Sierra Leone’s civil war, voters went to the polls Saturday. Results are pending. (Associated Press)
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Alissa Williams of Denver holds letters addressed to T.K. Pharmacy in the early 1940s found during renovations at a former Denver pharmacy owned by Japanese-Americans. Some of the letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II asked for cough drop of bath powder; others were just desperate for anything from the outside world. (Associated Press)
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associated press Afghan security men and media members gather at the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. A man wearing a suicide vest blew himself up near a U.S. base in the capital early Wednesday. Two guards were killed.
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A presidential Thanksgiving past: President George W. Bush prepares to serve dinner to U.S. troops in Baghdad after paying a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to Iraq in 2003. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
