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In this image made from amateur video, a Free Syrian Army soldier Monday points toward a military tank set on fire during clashes with government troops in Aleppo. The Syrian regime acknowledged for the first time Monday that it possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. (Ugarit News via Associated Press)

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Army Pvt. Danny Chen, 19, allegedly was hazed by eight fellow soldiers to the point that he committed suicide in October 2011. (U.S. Army via Associated Press)

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Protesters dance around the burning effigy of Mr. Aquino during a rally at Quezon City on Monday. Mr. Aquino announced that more than 40 military aircraft and other weapons will be delivered in the next two years. (Associated Press)

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Protesters burn an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally at suburban Quezon City northeast of Manila on Monday to protest his third State of the Nation address. Police secured the House of Representatives, where Mr. Aquino spoke. Several people were injured when riot police clashed with thousands of left-wing and trade union protesters who were seeking higher wages, land reform and a halt to alleged human rights violations. (Associated Press)

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In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Monday, July 23, 2012, a Free Syrian Army soldier looks at a Syrian military that caught on fire during clashes with Syrian government troops in Aleppo, Syria. The Syrian regime acknowledged for the first time Monday that it possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and said it will only use them in case of a foreign attack and never internally against its own citizens. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

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People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012. An onslaught of bombings and shootings has killed scores of people across Iraq on Monday, in the nation's deadliest day so far this year. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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This citizen journalist image shows a destroyed car on a street damaged by tank treads after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. This week, fierce fighting between troops and rebels reached the Syrian capital, the central bastion of Bashar Assad's rule, shattering parts of the city and sending thousands of people fleeing to neighboring Lebanon and Iraq. Activists and residents reported a tense calm in Damascus Saturday but said sporadic gunfire and explosions could be heard throughout the night. (AP Photo)

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On the first anniversary of Norway’s worst peacetime massacre, two people Sunday lay down flowers outside the government building in Olso damaged in the bombing by an anti-Musilm killer. Norway’s commitment to face xenophobia with tolerance is being put to the test by hostile reactions to an influx of Gypsies. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, April 20, 2010, file photo, Iraqi policemen search the site of a joint U.S-Iraqi raid that killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, two top-ranking al Qaeda figures, about six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of Tikrit. The first online statement from the new leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq claims that the militant network is returning to the old strongholds from which it was driven by U.S. forces and their Sunni allies prior to the American withdrawal at the end of last year, and that it is preparing operations to free prisoners and assassinate court officials. (AP Photo, File)

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This citizen journalist image shot through a broken car window shows smoke billowing from a building after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. (AP Photo)

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Family and friends attend the funeral of Itzik Kolengi, 28, in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Friday, July 20, 2012. Mr. Kolengi was killed and his wife injured in a suicide bombing near the Burgos, Bulgaria, airport two days earlier. (Associated Press)