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FILE - In this file photo taken Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, Chinese police officers ask a journalist, lower right, to leave from an area designated online as a protest site in Beijing, China. Anonymous calls online for pro-democracy protests in China have prompted the Chinese government to launch a sweeping campaign of repression to keep the "Jasmine Revolution" from reaching the country. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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A Libyan rebel (left) looks through his binoculars as his fellow rebel makes a signal as shells explode at a distance on the front line near Brega, Libya, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this image taken during a trip organized by Libyan authorities, hospital staff demonstrate in support of Col. Moammar Gadhafi at the Zawiya Teaching Hospital, where rebels sought treatment during fighting almost three weeks ago, in the coastal city of Zawiya, Libya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 27, 2004, Israeli Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis poses for a photograph in his home in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Mer Khamis was shot five times by one or more militants in the West Bank city of Jenin Monday, according to Jenin police chief Mohammed Tayyim. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. (AP Photo/Alex Rozkovsky) ISRAEL OUT

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A man walks pass a poster showing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and reading "Support for Gadhafi", in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Serb support for the Libyan leader grows amid an escalating war in the country that reminds them of their own suffering under NATO bombs.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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One Libyan rebel keeps a lookout as others inspect two destroyed vehicles of pro-Gadhafi forces that rebels claim were targeted by a NATO strike Tuesday on the front line near Brega. Libya's rebel forces are looking more effective on the front and recovering some territory lost to Moammar Gadhafi's army. (Associated Press)

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About 200 Palestinians and foreign activists gathered next to a large picture of slain actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis flanked by a Palestinian flag and black flag of mourning. "I promise you to catch whomever did this very soon," his business partner Zakariya Zubeidi told the somber gathering. (Associated Press)

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A Harris Poll found less than a third thought a "mock swearing-in featuring Jefferson Davis" was appropriate for commemorating the Civil War. (National Archives via Associated Press)

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Somali refugees at Shousha Camp, located 8 kilometres from the Tunis-Libyan boder at Ras Djir on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Jolie traveled on Tuesday morning to the Tunisian-Libyan border to urge greater international support for people fleeing Libya. (AP Photo/UNHCR, Jason Tanner)

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An injured anti-government protestor gestures as he arrives to a field hospital during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Opposition parties in Yemen have urged the international community, regional powers and human rights groups to help stop the bloodshed in their country. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Libyan rebels inspect a vehicle belonging to pro-Gadhafi forces that rebels claim were targeted by a NATO strike along the front line near Brega, Libya, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Libya's rebel forces are looking more effective on the front and even scrapping back some of the territory lost to Moammar Gadhafi's army, but the rag tag fighters are still a long way from being able to march to Tripoli. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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UNDER FIRE: Two Libyan rebels duck as others take cover when attacked by pro-Gadhafi forces along the front line on the outskirts of Brega, Libya, on Monday. Meanwhile, a government envoy is in Europe for talks about ending the fighting. (Associated Press)

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Analysts say Mr. Humala's close ties with Venezulean President Hugh Chavez (right) - himself the instigator of a failed coup in in 1992 - kept him from the presidency. Now Mr. Humala says he has changed, and he is at the top of a poll heading into Sunday's election. (Associated Press)

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Yemeni army soldiers check anti-government protesters entering the site of a demonstration in Sanaa on Monday. The demonstrators are demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemeni troops opened fire on the crowd. (Associated Press)

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Palestinians gather around the car where Israeli-Arab actor, director and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis was fatally shot Monday outside his Freedom Theater in the West Bank. (Associated Press)

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Israeli-Arab actor, director and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis was fatally shot Monday by one or more militants in the West Bank city of Jenin. (Associated Press)

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Protesters demonstrate in Laghman, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 4, 2011, against a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran, making four straight days of demonstrations, some deadly. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Libyan rebels on an armed pickup truck drive past an Arabic sign with the words "You are welcome" on their way into the Brega, Libya, during an exchange of fire with pro-Gadhafi forces along the front line at the outskirts of the city on Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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A Yemeni army officer raised aloft by anti-government protesters holds a boy and waves a national flag during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, April 4, 2011.

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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, heads that House panel that wants documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the decision to "walk guns to Mexico in order to follow them and capture a bigger fish." (Associated Press)