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**FILE** In this photo from Oct. 7, 2011, Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in this television image broadcast. (Associated Press)
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CHARLOTTE OBSERVER A crowd in Concord, N.C., gathers to honor Sgt. 1st Class Donald Shue. Sgt. Shue disappeared in November 1969 while fighting in the Vietnam War, but his remains were only recently repatriated.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama finishes introducing a reshuffled national security team on Thursday. From left are: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan-designate Ryan C. Crocker; top commander-designate for U.S. forces in Afghanistan Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John Allen; CIA Director-nominee Gen. David H. Petraeus; Defense Secretary-nominee Leon E. Panetta; outgoing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates; the president; Vice President Joseph R. Biden; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and National Security Adviser Thomas E. Donilon.
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Activist Anna Hazare, 73, stages a hunger strike against corruption in New Delhi. He has called for a panel to investigate corruption.
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FILE - A Jan. 26, 2000 file photo shows the exterior of the West Virginia Independence Hall in downtown Wheeling, W.Va. Independence Hall is one of 150 lesser-known destinations The Appalachian Regional Commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map it hopes will get heritage tourists beyond the well-trod battlefields and into "The Home Front." (AP Photo/The Wheeling News Register, Scott McCloskey, File)
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The Belle Boyd House in Martinsburg, W.V. is seen in an undated photo provided by the Berkeley County, W.V., Historical Society. The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting tourists will want to visit the Martinsburg, W.Va., home of the notorious "siren of the South" who used her feminine charms to spy on Union soldiers for the Confederacy. The Belle Boyd House in the Eastern Panhandle is one of 150 lesser-known Civil War destinations the commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map that was released Thursday, April 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Berkeley County, W.V., Historical Society)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Azzam al-Ahmed, the chief Fatah negotiator in the reconciliation talks (left), sits next to Hamas leaders Moussa Abu Marzoug (center) and Mahmoud Al Zahar (right) in Cairo. Palestinians have reached initial agreement on reuniting their governments in the West Bank and Gaza, a step that, officials say, would remove an obstacle in the way of peace efforts with Israel.
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Associated Press photographs Ugandans march in Kampala in an April 21 demonstration sparked by the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye.
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associated press Katherine Miller, a lesbian, left the U.S. Military Academy after two years because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. She reapplied this year but was rejected because repeal of the ban is not yet in effect.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A volunteer village guard holds a gun behind a bunker at a school in Surin province, northeastern Thailand, on Tuesday. Officials said Tuesday the worst fighting between Thai and Cambodian forces in years has spread, with both sides exchanging artillery and rifle fire near another temple in a disputed zone along the border.
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ROYAL BASH: Prince William and Catherine Middleton will marry Friday, but many Britons don't care. (Associated Press)
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A commander of the Cambodian Royal Armed Forces gives instructions at a camp in the border disputed area in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia. (Associated Press)
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Displaced Cambodian villagers wait for assistance from government at a shelter in Oddar Meanchey province. A border clash between Cambodia and Thailand marks an escalation of a dispute over a holy site claimed by both. (Associated Press)
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A convoy takes Sen. John McCain from the Tebisty Hotel in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday before meeting with rebel leaders. Mr. McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the United States and other nations should recognize the opposition's political leadership as the "legitimate voice of the Libyan people." (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Holding a poster of their leader, supporters of Moammar Gadhafi chant slogans following a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Saturday, April 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
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A Libyan rebel on horseback holds his weapon up during a march on behalf of prisoners of war and the missing in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Alaguri)
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** FILE ** Army Maj. Sequana Robinson models a woman's combat uniform on Saturday, March 31, 2011, at Fort Belvoir, Va. (Associated Press)
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Ugandan military police arrest a demonstrator during Monday's "walk to work" protest against the high cost of fuel and food in Kampala. The same day, police arrested Kizza Besigye, the country's top opposition leader, for the third time in a week. Mr. Besigye and about a dozen members of parliament were arrested while they were trying to walk to work. (Associated Press)
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Syrians pray in Clock Square in the center of the city of Homs on Monday. Syrian security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition Tuesday at hundreds of anti-government protesters who took over a main square in Homs, the country's third-largest city, witnesses and activists said. (Associated Press)
