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An Afghan boy with severe burns is treated in a U.S. Army medevac helicopter en route to a hospital Wednesday. Officials said the Taliban has started its spring offensive of terrorism.

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Afghan soldiers stand guard on hulks of tanks destroyed during the Soviet occupation as part of a training session at Camp Morehead near Kabul. (Associated Press)

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Floodwaters invade downtown Vicksburg, Miss., on Wednesday. The historic city, site of a pivotal Civil War battle, has been one of the hardest hit along the Mississippi River. All along the river's path, residents are worried about the flood's impact on homes and farmland. (Associated Press)

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Rebel soldiers stand guard Wednesday at a checkpoint called the Western Gate on the road leading to the front line and the oil town of Brega, at Ajdabiya, Libya. (Associated Press)

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A young protester runs as others are hit by riot police during clashes Wednesday in Athens. Riot police made heavy use of tear gas and stun grenades to disperse youths throwing stones and petrol bombs during a march attended by 20,000 people to protest the Greek government's harsh austerity measures. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Afghan soldiers and U.S. soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force check inside the Traffic Department building, a Taliban stronghold, after a two-day assault in Kandahar, south of Kabul, on Monday.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Yemenis take a break from protests demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to watch a TV report about the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world suggest that al Qaeda's clenched-fist ideology has little place for a new generation seeking Western-style political reforms.

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Afghan and U.S. soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) check inside the Traffic Department building, a Taliban stronghold, on Monday, May 9, 2011, after a two-day assault in Kandahar, Afghanistan, south of Kabul. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, Libyan government officials and the media move through the ruins of an official building following a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

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U.S. ARMY VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS 'TOO FAST': "Pushing this kind of social agenda in the military, especially during a time of war, is not appropriate," retired Lt. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon says of the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell."

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Iraqi security forces Monday inspect the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad targeting a police patrol, killing and wounding a few civilians, police said. (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters burn a poster showing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a demonstration Sunday demanding the resignation of Saleh in Taiz, Yemen. Security forces backed by army units opened fire Sunday on protesters demanding the ousting of Yemen's longtime president, killing three, an opposition activist said. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani youths view the house (background) of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, May 8, 2011. Bin Laden was killed by a helicopter-borne U.S. military force last Monday in the fortresslike compound. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS An Afghan policeman runs to take up a position Sunday on a rooftop against Taliban fighters hiding in a government building from which smoke is rising in Kandahar on the second day of a major assault.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Crowds rampage through the streets of Cairo in renewed sectarian violence, as groups of Christians and Muslims throw rocks at each other near the city center. The clashes Sunday came hours after ultraconservative Muslim mobs set fire overnight to a church and a Christian-owned apartment building in a frenzy of violence that killed 12 people and injured more than 200.

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Egyptian army forces guard burned furniture from a building belonging to Christians that was set afire during clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo on Sunday, May 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A Pakistani woman looks at an army soldier standing guard near the house of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, May 8, 2011. Bin Laden was killed by a helicopter-borne U.S. military force on Monday in the fortresslike compound on the outskirts of the city. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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An Afghan border policeman fires on Taliban fighters hidden in the Traffic Department building, where smoke rises from the rooftop, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 8, 2011. The Taliban unleashed a major assault Saturday on government buildings throughout Kandahar, Afghanistan's main southern city, an attack that cast doubt on how successful the U.S.-led coalition has been in its nearly yearlong military campaign to establish security and stability in the former Taliban stronghold. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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** FILE ** Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is shown in a video released by the Department of Defense on Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)