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A rusted car sits on blocks in run-down surroundings in Juba. Decades of war have kept southern Sudan poor and decrepit. (Associated Press)

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Security forces, emergency responders and civilians stand near a destroyed building after a car-bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq, 180 miles north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

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Anti-Mubarak protesters are seen next to Egyptian army tanks and armored vehicles near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff, turning the square into a makeshift village with tens of thousands coming every day, with some sleeping in tents made of blankets and plastic sheeting. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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A march through the village of Whistler, British Columbia, on Saturday protests the slaughter of 100 sled dogs owned by Howling Dog Tours Whistler. The owner's claim that the dogs were old and sick is challenged. (Associated Press)

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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party say Western sanctions against Myanmar hurt the military junta, not the people, and should continue. (Associated Press)

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his war crimes trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool)

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An Afghan policeman runs to the scene of an explosion in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Police say the bomb exploded in a crowded intersection, but there were no reports of any fatalities. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Cambodian armed vehicles stand by Sunday in Preah Vihear province, 300 miles northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Associated Press/Xinhua)

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Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil (right), chief of the referendum office, hands the final results of the vote on southern Sudan's independence to Salva Kiir, president of the semiautonomous south. (Associated Press)

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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a media conference in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Mr. Fogh Rasmussen warned that continuing unrest in the Middle East could cause economic hardships and increased illegal immigration to Europe. (AP Photo/Elisa Day)

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Anti-government protesters squat on the tracks of Egyptian army tanks Sunday to prevent them from moving near Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Egyptian protesters display a saddle as a trophy they seized in violence last week when pro-government combatants, some on horseback, attacked demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Medical workers treat one of several Thai soldiers injured Sunday as fighting continued for a third day along a disputed border near an 11th-century temple, shattering a shaky cease-fire.

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Anti-government protesters sit on and lie inside the tracks of an Egyptian army tank, both to prevent the tank from moving and to shield themselves from the rain, at a protest site opposite the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Pakistani displaced people arrive at a camp set up in Naghi, 11 miles northwest of the Afghanistan border in the Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand on Jan. 31, 2011. About 22,000 Pakistani villagers have fled military operations against Islamist militants in a tribal region near the Afghan border, a government administrator and the army said on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan)

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Egyptian protesters perform Friday prayers during a protest in Tahrir or Liberation Square in Cairo, Egypt Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. Protesters demanding President Hosni Mubarak's ouster packed Cairo's central square by the tens of thousands Friday, waving Egyptian flags, singing the national anthem and cheering, appearing undaunted and determined after their camp withstood two days of street battles with regime supporters trying to dislodge them. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali)

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Anti-government protesters rise their hands in the victory sign in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)