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Camden, N.J., Fire Chief Mike Harper celebrates with police officers and firefighters outside the Camden Police Administration building Thursday after Mayor Dana Redd announced the city will rehire 50 of the police officers and 15 firefighters laid off earlier this year amid a budget crisis in the city. (Associated Press)

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Before World War II forced their departure, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor lived in France where they were photographed early in 1939 in Cannes. The duke, who abdicated the British throne in 1936, died in 1972 and his wife in 1986. (Associated Press)

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Exiled Tibetans light candles to honor the monk who set himself on fire in protest against China's government. (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, the nation's capital, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. Witnesses said government supporters have attacked protesters camped out at a square in Sanaa. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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An Afghan woman walks past a shrine at a grave yard in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before, and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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A Shiite Bahraini youth holds a piece of wood in the streets of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, where he and others hauled out debris for barricades and found sticks to use as clubs in preparation for government-supporting forces they expect will role into their Shiite Muslim village southwest of the capital of Manama. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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Gen. David H. Petraeus (center) arrives on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify before the House Armed Service Committee. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a Fatah central council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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Libyan soldiers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi's regime pause at the western entrance to Ajdabiya. (Associated Press)

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A fighter opposed to Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power displays the amulets he wears to protect himself from enemy fire, in the Abobo district of Abidjan. Civilians, former rebels and defecting security forces have united to try to force the president out. (Associated Press)

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Shiite Bahraini youths haul debris into the streets of the western village of Malkiya on Wednesday in preparation for government-supporting forces they expect will roll into their Shiite Muslim village southwest of the capital of Manama. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan. At left is Defense Under Secretary for Policy Michele Flournoy. (AP Photo)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a Fatah central council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Abbas said Wednesday he will not run for re-election. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Members of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment pay respects at the casket of Frank W. Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, in the Memorial Amphitheater Chapel at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday. Buckles died Feb. 27, 2011, in West Virginia at age 110. (Associated Press)

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Mayor Eddie Espinoza of Columbus, N.M., was among 11 people named in an indictment following an investigation into a firearms-trafficking ring that operated across from a Mexican border town where drug gangs are warring. (Associated Press)

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Police Chief Angelo Vega of Columbus, N.M., was among 11 people named in an indictment following an investigation into a firearms-trafficking ring that operated across from a Mexican border town where drug gangs are warring. (Associated Press)

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Three supporters of Col. Moammar Gadhafi celebrate on Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, after an announcement on state TV that pro-Gadhafi troops had taken the eastern city of Ajdabiya. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," changes the guard as the body of former Army Cpl. Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, lies in honor in the Memorial Amphitheater Chapel at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. He died on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at his West Virginia home at age 110. Mr. Buckles enlisted in the Army on Aug. 14, 1917, at the age of 16; he was discharged in 1920. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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This photo provided by the Buckles family shows Frank Woodruff Buckles when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in August 1917. Mr. Buckles was the last known living American veteran of World War I. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Buckles family)

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The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," changes the guard as the body of former Army Cpl. Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, lies in honor in the Memorial Amphitheater Chapel at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)