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Opposition supporters celebrate Monday in Tbilisi, Georgia, after the Georgian Dream coalition won parliamentary elections that will decide the future of President Mikhail Saakashvili’s government. The coalition is led by a billionaire accused of being a Russian puppet. (Associated Press)
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Smoke rises in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday. Hezbollah commander Ali Hussein Nassif’ was killed by a roadside blast in Syria and his body was returned to Lebanon on Sunday. The bodies of other militants also have been returned to Lebanon recently. (Associated Press)
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem accuses the media, international aid groups and other external forces of attempting to destabilize his country. (Associated Press)
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Libyan security forces stand guard as people turn in weapons in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 29, 2012. Hundreds responded to a call from the military to hand over their weapons — some driving in with armored personnel carriers, vehicles with mounted anti-aircraft guns and hundreds of rocket launchers. (Associated Press)
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Police secure the site of a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, after a bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into a patrol of Afghan and international forces, killing more than a dozen people, including three NATO service members and their translator, officials said. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)
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“I was looking at my government, and I wasn’t happy with it. So rather than complain, I decided to run myself. I thought I could do a better job, and I still feel that way.” - Former Marine tank commander Nick Popaditch, who lost his right eye during the April 2004 battle of Fallujah in Iraq, and who is now the Republican nominee in California’s 53rd Congressional District.
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Associated Press A young man helps a woman near the scene of a car bomb that went off Sunday morning in the town of Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad. The rapid-fire explosions while Iraqis were going to work killed and wounded scores of people, police said.
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Kay Cannon (second from left) wrote “Pitch Perfect,” a musical comedy about the competitive world of college a capella singing, starring Brittany Snow, Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson (from left). Full of music and laughs, the story centers on the Bellas, an all-female group of singing misfits. (Invision via Associated Press)
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Muslims protest the video "Innocence of Muslims," which ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Protests have also taken place in Egypt and other regions of the Middle East. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
