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Muslim protesters burn a U.S. flag during a protest against the film “Innocence of Muslims” that ridicules Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday. The film has spurred widespread protests. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Protesters fill a New York City intersection during an Occupy Wall Street march Monday. More than 100 protesters were arrested, but for the most part, participation was light on the movement’s anniversary. (Associated Press)
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Workers try to repair an electricity tower in Medellin, Colombia, damaged in February by explosives set by leftist rebels who have ratcheted up attacks on the country’s electric grid, pipelines and train tracks. The sabotage is seen as a sign that guerrillas have grown desperate in their ongoing war against the government. (Associated Press)
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Afghan police stand by burning tires during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. Hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base to protest an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (left) listens Sept. 17, 2012, to a question from U.S. military personnel stationed at Yokota in Japan. Panetta, who is on the first official stop of a three nation tour to Japan, China and New Zealand, says that U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to put a second missile defense system in Japan. The exact location has not yet been determined. (Associated Press)
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An Egyptian protester stomps on the roof of a car in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, early Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, before police cleared the area after days of protests against a film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. Egyptian police on Saturday cleared out protesters who have been clashing with security forces for the past four days near the U.S. Embassy as most cities around the Muslim world reported calm a day after at least six people were killed in a wave of angry protests over an anti-Islam film.(AP Photo)
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Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton pay their respects to the war dead of both World War I and World War II in Singapore on Thursday, not long after photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless were published in a French magazine. The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Princess Diana, a St. James Palace official said. (Associated Press)
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Syrians who fled their homes because of fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces, take refuge at the Samiya al-Makhzumi School in the Mezzeh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Opposition protesters react while listening to speakers during a rally in Moscow on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. The first major protest against President Vladimir Putin after a summer lull drew tens of thousands of people, determined to show that opposition sentiment remains strong despite Kremlin efforts to muzzle dissent. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, gives a press conference in Tehran on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. He warned that "nothing will remain" of Israel if it takes military action against Iran over its controversial nuclear program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Afghans burn the U.S. flag in Herat, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, during a protest against an Internet video mocking the Prophet Muhammad that many fear could further aggravate Afghan-U.S. relations. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)