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A Bari community member holds the flag of southern Sudan during celebrations on the eve of their declaration of independence in Juba, southern Sudan, Friday, July 8, 2011. Southern Sudan is set to declare independence from the north on Saturday. (AP Photo/David Azia)

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A Lebanese Salafist protester shout anti-Syrian regime slogans during a sit-in on July 8, 2011, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, after the Friday prayer to support Syrian protesters. (Associated Press)

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An elderly Egyptian protester chants anti-military ruling council prayers during a demonstration on July 8, 2011, following the Muslims' weekly Friday prayers, part of nationally organized protests called "The revolution first" at the main Arba'in square in Suez, Egypt. (Associated Press)

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The wreckage of a small plane sticks out of the side of an unoccupied office building at Watsonville Community Hospital on July 7, 2011, in Watsonville, Calif. The plane had just taken off from the Watsonville Municipal Airport. Two people were killed in the crash. (Associated Press/The Sentinel)

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A member of a Pakistani tribal militia stands with locals outside a school gutted by militants in Nusrat Dara in Dir, Pakistan on July 7, 2011. (Associated Press)

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More than 200 artifacts were returned to the government of Iraq during a repatriation ceremony Thursday at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington. Federal investigations turned up silverware from the Saddam Hussein era, a 4,000- to 5,000-year-old necklace and other cultural treasures that had been taken as mementos by U.S. troops and contractors. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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More than 200 artifacts were returned to the government of Iraq during a repatriation ceremony Thursday at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington. Federal investigations turned up silverware and a teapot from the Saddam Hussein era, a 4,000- to 5,000-year-old necklace and other cultural treasures that had been taken as mementos by U.S. troops and contractors. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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Iraq's ambassador to the United States, Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie, speaks during a repatriation ceremony of Iraqi antiquities at the Iraqi Cultural Center. Mr. Sumaida'ie will fly to Baghdad with the collection to present it to Iraq's Foreign Ministry, which will place the objects in national museums.

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Residents of Jonglei state gather Thursday for a rehearsal of independence celebrations in Juba, southern Sudan. The new country is set to officially declare its separation from the north on Saturday. Sudanese President Omar Bashir, indicted for alleged war crimes, is expected to attend. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from July 6, 2011, rebels are seen on their way back from the front line after a six-hour battle in which they succeeded to liberate al-Qawalish, 60 miles southwest of Tripoli, Libya. (Associated Press)

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The Israeli police force has a presence in the arrival hall at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, July 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Canadian soldiers pay tribute to their fallen comrades during a transfer-of-command ceremony at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on Thursday, July 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen listens to a question during a media conference at the Residence Palace in Brussels on Wednesday, July 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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Nuer men perform for a crowd gathered Tuesday for independence celebration rehearsals in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, which becomes a nation on Saturday. Two decades of a north-south civil war left at least 2 million people dead. (Associated Press)

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Somalis carrying their belongings wait outside a camp for displaced people in the capital city of Mogadishu after leaving their homes in southern Somalia to seek help. Thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu over the past two weeks and the number is increasing daily. The worst drought in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition. Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda all have drought-stricken areas and the situation is deteriorating, (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), speaks at a news conference in Houston in April 2009. (Associated Press)

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Protesters in Martyrs Square in Suez, Egypt, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, demonstrate with placards that read in Arabic, "Open strike there is retribution" (center); "I'm a thug" (right), which ridicules official accusations that protesters are violent thugs; and "Revolutionaries but they call us thugs." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)