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Ahmad al-Qattan (center), Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the League of Arab States, attends the annual Arab League summit in Baghdad on March, 29, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Israeli soldiers and police stand guard outside a house after Israeli settlers entered the house overnight, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Villagers join Afghan Local Police on Thursday, March 29, 2012, for a ceremony in Gizab at which new uniforms were presented. Commanders think the units are capable of holding villages after NATO troops clear out the enemy. (Associated Press)
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Afghan Local Police officers are chosen, based on their loyalty, by village elders who are opposed to the Taliban. The members are geared for defense and trained by U.S. special-operations forces. Each local force is dedicated to one village. (Associated Press)
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A riot police officer clashes with a demonstrator during a general strike in Barcelona on Thursday. Spanish unions angry over economic reforms are waging a general strike, challenging a conservative government not yet 100 days old and joining other troubled European workers in venting their frustration on the street. (Associated Press)
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Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo has led a coup in Mali that has the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS, threatening military force if he doesn't step down. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 24, 2012, photo, Cathy Wright, curator at the Museum of the Confederacy in downtown Richmond, opens an original battle flag from the 3rd Virginia Infantry. The museum is opening a satellite museum Saturday in Appomattox, the first in a regional system of museums. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 24, 2012, photo, Cathy Wright, curator at the Museum of the Confederacy, opens a box in the flag room, which houses hundreds of original civil war battle flags in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
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Demonstrators march along a central street in Bamako, Mali, on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, as thousands rallied in a show of support for the recent military coup. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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** FILE ** Photos provided in 2010 by the U.S. Marshals Service show (clockwise from top left) David Stone of Lenawee County, Mich.; his wife, Tina Stone; sons David Stone Jr. and Joshua Stone; Kris Sickles of Sandusky, Ohio; Michael Meeks of Manchester, Mich.; and Thomas Piatek of Whiting, Ind. The seven, who were members of a Michigan militia, were accused of plotting war against the United States, but a federal judge dismissed the most serious charges against them on Tuesday, March 27, 2011, saying their expressed hatred of law enforcement didn't amount to conspiracy against the government. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)
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Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that budget cuts pose "acceptable" risk levels for U.S. strategic nuclear deterrence against current nuclear-armed enemies. (Associated Press)
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Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, NATO's top military commander, says the expectation of having more than 350,000 Afghan security force members in service by summer puts the turnover ahead of schedule. (Associated Press)
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Greek police have recovered a 2,500-year-old statue of a young woman that was illegally excavated and hidden in a goat pen near Athens. (AP Photo/Greek police)
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Lebanese soldiers search a car during a raid at the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Qaa, in northeastern Lebanon, on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Demonstrators in Fallujah, Iraq, on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, chant slogans in support of the Arab Summit scheduled to start Thursday in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo)
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Canadian soldiers (right), part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), attend a graduation ceremony for Afghan soldiers at a military training center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS People in Mali wait outside a travel agency Tuesday to buy tickets. The country's airport reopened almost a week after a military coup. The body representing nations in western Africa suspended Mali and put a peacekeeping force on standby.
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Soldiers stand guard Tuesday outside the headquarters of coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo at a military base near Bamako, Mali. Already, the U.S., the European Union and France have cut off aid. Additional sanctions from the region would be a further blow to the junta.
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Boxing writer and historian Bert Sugar, known for his fedora and cigar, died March 25, 2012, from cardiac arrest and lung cancer. He was 75. (Associated Press)
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Indian security personnel inspect the wreckage of a police vehicle that was destroyed in an explosion in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra state, India, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (AP Photo/TV9)
