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Frank Smith, founder and executive director of the African American Civil War Museum, along with Yvette Alexander (right), cuts the ribbon to the entrance of the museum's new location on Vermont Ave Northwest in Washington on Monday, July 18, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Assistant Commissioner John Yates, Scotland Yard's top anti-terrorist officer, announces his resignation in London on Monday. Mr. Yates insisted he had done nothing wrong. "I have acted with complete integrity," he said. "My conscience is clear." But the government quickly announced an inquiry into police-media relations and corruption. (Associated Press)

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Members of FREED, Female Re-enactors of Distinction, led by Dorothy Stevens (top, far right) and Judy Williams (second from right) get ready to move across Vermont Avenue in Northwest for the reception at the reopening of the African American Civil War Museum on Monday. Soldier re-enactors were part of the program. The District government provided $5 million to help the museum move into the former Grimke School to allow it to expand. Frank Smith, director and founder of the museum, cuts the ribbon to the entrance (above). (Photographs by Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Gen. David H. Petraeus leaves command of U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan to Gen. John Allen during Monday's change-of-command ceremony in Kabul. Gen. Allen assumes responsibility for drawing up exit plans for U.S. and allied forces from the nearly 10-year war zone. (Associated Press)

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"There will be tough days ahead. I have no illusions about the challenges," Gen. Allen said of his new duties. (Associated Press)

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A Cambodian police officer (right) stands near the 11th-century Hindu Preah Vihear temple, near the disputed Cambodia-Thailand border in Preah Vihear province north of Phnom Penh. The U.N.'s highest court on Monday ordered troops from both Thailand and Cambodia to immediately withdraw military forces from disputed areas around the World Heritage temple straddling their border. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from July 9, 2009, London's Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates stands outside the force's headquarters at New Scotland Yard in London. (Associated Press)

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A heavily armed police officer stands guard at a Times Square subway station in New York on July 1, 2011. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the outgoing commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, salutes during a change-of-command ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 18, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Soldiers from New Zealand, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, stand aside during Sunday's ceremony to hand over control to Afghan police in Bamiyan province, one of seven areas that will transfer this month. (Associated Press)

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"To Kill a Mockingbird"

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Smoke rises after a coalition airstrike against a building occupied by Taliban fighters in Kuz Kunar in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, July 17, 2011. Afghan and NATO officials say at least 13 insurgents were killed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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** FILE ** An Afghan man, injured in a suicide attack gestures from an ambulance in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 18, 2011. Men dressed in Afghan army uniforms stormed the police station near the presidential palace and opened fire said Mohammed Honayon, an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Lebanese protesters burn an Iranian flag during a rally in solidarity with Syrian anti-government protesters, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday, July 15, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on protesters in the capital and other major cities Friday, killing at least 14 people as hundreds of thousands gathered for some of the largest anti-government rallies since the uprising began in March, witnesses and activists said. (AP Photo)

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Libyan rebels gather around a captured tank in Kabaw, western Libya, on July 14, 2011. (Associated Press)

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People line up to stitch the National 9/11 Flag during a special ceremony Thursday at the Russell Senate Office Building. The flag is on tour countrywide to be mended in time for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Smoke from a burning effigy of India's home minister floats by a man in Allahabad during protests Thursday of the Mumbai bombings. (Associated Press)

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Indian police officers look over debris, covered by blue tarps, at the Mumbai Opera House, one of three sites where bombings killed 18 people and wounded 131 on Wednesday. Residents reacted with anger over the lack of security. "Our life is cheap," one said. (Associated Press)

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People walk near the site of Wednesday's explosion at Dadar in Mumbai, India, Thursday, July 14, 2011. No terror group has claimed responsibility for the triple bombings that killed 17 people on Wednesday in India's financial capital, and investigators have no immediate suspects in the attacks that came without warning, the country's top security official said Thursday. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)