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This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners raising their hands and chanting slogans, as they carry the coffins of Syrian citizens who were killed by the Syrian forces shelling, in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday June 26, 2012. Syria's elite Republican Guard forces clashed with rebels just outside Damascus Tuesday in some of the most intense fighting involving the special forces guarding the capital since an uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began last year, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)

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Fans take pictures of Tiger Woods as he signs the We Salute Our Troops wall at Congressional Country Club before the AT&T National, Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. The walls will be available to pros and fans to sign all week and will then be distributed for service members to view in a variety of military locations. (Ryan M.L. Young/The Washington Times)

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Tiger Woods signs the We Salute Our Troops wall at Congressional Country Club before the AT&T National golf tournament, Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. The walls will be available to pros and fans to sign all week and will then be distributed for service members to view in a variety of military locations. (Ryan M.L. Young/The Washington Times)

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Tiger Woods walks past fans prior to his signing of the We Salute Our Troops wall at Congressional Country Club before the AT&T National golf tournament, Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. The walls will be available to pros and fans to sign all week and will then be distributed for service members to view in a variety of military locations. (Ryan M.L. Young/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** A Yemeni man walks June 14, 2012, past cars destroyed during fighting with al Qaeda militants in Zinjibar, Yemen. (Associated Press)

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President Obama waves to supporters June 25, 2012, after arriving on Air Force One at Logan International Airport in Boston. (Associated Press)

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Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, said Africa-based terrorist groups are sharing their training, funding and bomb-making materials. They pose a threat to the U.S. and the region, he said. (Associated Press)

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The flags of NATO member countries fly outside the alliance's headquarters in Brussels in June 2007. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Israeli President Shimon Peres (center) leave after the inauguration ceremony of a memorial to Red Army veterans of World War II in Netanya, Israel, on Monday June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool)

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Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, waves the Palestinian and Egyptian flags Sunday in Gaza City during celebrations of the victory of Mohammed Morsi in neighboring Egypt's presidential elections. (Associated Press)

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Fernando Lugo, Paraguay's former president, talks to reporters outside his home in Lambare, on the outskirts of Asuncion, on Sunday, two days after Mr. Lugo was impeached and removed from office. He denounced the action as a "parliamentary coup." He exhorted his followers to remain peaceful as they hold protests. (Associated Press)