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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates pats Army veteran Craig Gerhartz on the back prior to speaking at the Rolling Thunder rally Sunday. Mr. Gerhartz, from South River, N.J., served in the Army during the Vietnam War. Mr. Gates gave him two military "challenge coins." (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Pakistani officials visit the site of a suicide bombing in Peshawar. Conspiracy theories alleging Indian or American agents are behind recent attacks underscores the United States' challenges as it attempts to convince Pakistan's population that it faces a shared enemy in the Taliban. (Associated Press)
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Chyba, a 12-year-old former military dog who served in Iraq with the U.S. Army, was adopted by Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, last year. (Associated Press)
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Dinka Ngok civilians needing medical assistance, some suffering from gunshot and machete wounds, who were internally displaced as a result of the recent Sudanese conflict, arrive in the town of Turalei after being airlifted from Abyei by U.N. helicopter. (Associated Press)
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Homesteads continue to burn in the center of Abyei, a Sudanese border town, on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Sudanese are fleeing from the contested north-south border region of Abyei, and the top U.S. official in the region warned Friday of a humanitarian crisis over the north's invasion. (Associated Press)
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Afghan security forces stand at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the provincial governor's compound in Taloqan, Takhar province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, May 28, 2011. The German military said its top commander in Afghanistan was wounded in the blast. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard )
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A Palestinian family waits before crossing into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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In this photo provided by Press newspaper, Saturday May 28, 2011, the Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested Thursday, May 26, 2011, is seen at an undisclosed location at an unknown time after his arrest in Serbia after years in hiding. (AP Photo/ Press Newspaper)
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An Afghan youth looks at the wreckage of a motorcycle used by a suicide attacker in Qarghayi, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, May 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Palestinians wait before crossing into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 28, 2011. After four years, Egypt on Saturday permanently opened the Gaza Strip's main gateway to the outside world, bringing long-awaited relief to the territory's Palestinian population and a significant achievement for the area's ruling Hamas militant group. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev adjusts his earpiece during a press conference at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, Friday, May 27, 2011. Medvedev says he's sending his special envoy to hold talks with Libyan rebels in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Associated Press Libyan rebel fighters cross the front line between their forces and those of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, about 15 miles west from Misrata, Libya, on Thursday. Tripoli has proposed a cease-fire.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Riot police oversee arrested protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Thursday. The activists' demonstration had been intended to prevent an Independence Day military parade before police moved in with a water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the protest.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Hafiz Saeed (center), the leader of banned Islamic group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, sits among religious leaders during a rally against India and the United States in Lahore, Pakistan. Accounts gathered by the Associated Press add to suspicion that Pakistan is accepting U.S. aid to fight militants while tolerating and in some cases encouraging extremism.
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Ratko Mladic (center) enters court in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Serbian Government)
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**FILE** In this photo from June 12, 2007, Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
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JosŽ Emmanuel Piaggessi (left), 23, an Argentinean that fights with rebel forces, collects ammunition on May 26, 2011, from a pick-up at the front line between them and Moammar Gadhafi forces, 25 kilometers west from Misrata, Libya. (Associated Press)
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A Somali official of the central bank in Mogadishu arranges bank notes. Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a new report and an Associated Press investigation found that $80 million given to government officials that could have been used to fight terrorism, piracy or hunger is missing. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Feb. 18, 2011, Palestinians collect their belongings as they come back from Egypt at the Rafah border crossing the Gaza Strip. (Associated Press)
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Pakistan soldiers surround the area near a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, May 25, 2011. A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden pickup truck leveled a police building in northwest Pakistan Wednesday, killing five officers and wounding 30 other people in the latest attack to rattle the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
