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The body of a man killed in a bombing is loaded on the back of a truck in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. A pair of bombs blasted through security checkpoints ringing the Iraqi holy city of Karbala Thursday and killed scores of people, many of whom were Shi'ite pilgrims headed to observe yearly religious rituals. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)
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Men grieve after a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. A pair of bombs blasted through security checkpoints ringing the Iraqi holy city of Karbala Thursday and killed scores, most of whom were Shi'ite pilgrims headed to observe yearly religious rituals. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)
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A swath of paddy fields is submerged by floodwaters in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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In this photo released by the South Korean Army via Yonhap, South Korean Army soldiers run out from a Black Hawk helicopter during an exercise to prepare for possible aggression by North Korea in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. South Korea has welcomed an agreement between leaders of the United States and China on the need to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and achieve its denuclearization. (AP Photo/South Korean Army via Yonhap)
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An election official in Juba, southern Sudan, holds up a pro-independence ballot as votes are counted at a polling station in the southern capital, Juba. Weeklong balloting ended Saturday; most observers expect the south to secede from the north. (Associated Press)
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An Iraqi soldier and a U.S. Army soldier (foreground) stand guard during a patrol in Mosul, northwest of Baghdad, in 2009. Two U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday by an Iraqi soldier during a training exercise, raising fresh concerns about Iraq's security forces. (Associated Press)
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Sedaqalluh Haqiq, who heads a tribunal set up by Afghanistan's Supreme Court, prays at the end of a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The tribunal called Wednesday for a one-month delay in the opening of the parliamentary session to further investigate charges of electoral fraud. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Lebanese soldiers man armored vehicles to keep order in Beirut as Hezbollah party supporters gather in the streets early Tuesday after a U.N. tribunal filed indictments in the assassination of a former prime minister. (Associated Press)
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Haiti's ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier (center) arrives to court surrounded by police in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday. Haitian police led him out of his hotel and took him to court Tuesday without saying whether he was being charged with crimes committed under his brutal regime. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Protesters run as riot police officers use tear gas during a demonstration in the center of Tunis on Jan. 18. (Associated Press)
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Protesters push riot police officers during a demonstration against the Constitutional Democratic Rally party of deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the center of Tunis on Tuesday. Clashes broke out in central Tunis as police fought off protesters demanding that the new Cabinet be purged of the old guard that served Mr. Ben Ali. (Associated Press)
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Police officers take ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier out of his hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Jan. 18, 2011. Haitian police took Mr. Duvalier, who abruptly returned to Haiti on Sunday, out of his hotel to a waiting SUV without saying whether he was being detained for crimes committed under his brutal regime. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Injured Iraqis receive treatment at a hospital in Tikrit, Iraq, after a suicide bomb attack that left more than 50 dead in this image taken from TV Tuesday, Jan. 18. 2011. (AP Photo/Salah Al-Din via APTN)
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**FILE** One of the 1,800 Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers being sent to the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia participates in a Dec. 21 drill at Singo Military training camp, about 100 kilometers north of Kampala. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Victims of the April 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech are carried out of Norris Hall. The mass shooting caused many colleges to reassess security measures, but dealing with troubled students remains a difficult issue. (AP Photo)
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Protesters embrace soldiers during a demonstration against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the center of Tunis, Tunisia, on Monday. Police were seen using tear gas to break up a demonstration on the main avenue in central Tunis on Monday, and helicopters were circling overhead. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak plans to form a new parliamentary faction inside the governing coalition. (Associated Press)
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A man walks past a picture of Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarik Jdideh, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. A U.N. tribunal filed the first indictment Monday in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Protestors shout slogans against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the center of Tunis, Monday, Jan. 17. 2011. Police were seen using tear gas to break up a demonstration on the main avenue in central Tunis on Monday, and helicopters were circling overhead. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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People take food and other goods from a destroyed store in Tunis, Saturday, Jan. 15. 2011. Unrest engulfed Tunisia on Saturday after a popular rebellion forced the president to flee. Dozens of inmates were killed in two prison fires, looters emptied shops and torched the main train station and gunfire echoed through the capital. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
