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Men carry out the body of a victim the day after the bombing at Our Lady of Salvation. Increasingly targeted by Sunni Muslims, Christians are fleeing to Kurdistan and seeking asylum elsewhere.
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Pictures of slain Iraqi Christians are displayed during Mass Dec. 10 at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad. Sixty-eight persons died in a bombing there on Oct. 31, and days later, a string of bombs went off outside Christian homes in the city. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS ON PATROL: The South Korean military patrols on Yeonpyeong Island on Tuesday. Yeonpyeong straddles the disputed maritime border between the Koreas.
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British police, headquartered at New Scotland Yard in London, on Monday arrested a dozen men suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack. (AP Photo)
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An assistant commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service, the headquarters of which is known as New Scotland Yard, said on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, that the police investigation into an alleged terror plot is in its early stages. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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An opposition supporter appeals to riot policemen during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, late Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Thousands of opposition supporters in Minsk, the capital, tried to storm the main government building to protest what the opposition claims was large-scale vote-rigging in Sunday's presidential election. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is trying to move a mosque project away from ground zero in New York City.
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** FILE ** Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (right) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in Cairo on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. The talks came within the framework of efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Afghan policemen carry away a wounded colleague during a gunbattle in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Teams of Taliban militants assaulted the Afghan army in the north of the country and in the capital, killing at least 13 members of the security forces, officials said. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard)
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Sunni lawmaker Saleh al-Mutlaq speaks to reporters in Baghdad on Feb. 25, 2010. Iraq's parliament on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, lifted a ban on Mr. al-Mutlaq and two other Sunnis Muslim politicians. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
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A scene in Turkey in 1915 when Armenians were marched long distances and said to have been massacred. The U.S. House of Representatives staffers said Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, that the House may vote next week on a resolution declaring the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide that could damage U.S. relations with critical ally Turkey. (AP Photo, File)
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Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, talks with Vice Adm. Mark Fox, commander of U.S. naval forces Central Command, following a press conference at the U.S. military base in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Protesters hold signs at a rally against U.S. drone attacks on Pakistani tribal areas in Islamabad, Pakistan on Dec. 10, 2010. Three American missile attacks killed 54 suspected militants Friday Dec. 17, 2010 close to the Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims that included commanders of a Taliban-allied group that were holding a meeting, Pakistani officials said. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2008, file photo, the only surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. Pakistani officials are "hypnotically obsessed" with India's military, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told U.S. officials in comments made public in a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable released Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. India accuses Pakistan's intelligence agencies of supporting militants who carry out attacks in India, including the Mumbai attacks. (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza, File) INDIA OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Terrorism suspect Abu Zubaydah was among those who faced a severe CIA investigation technique known as waterboarding. (AP Photo/U.S. Central Command, File)
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In this Oct. 28, 2007, file photo, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tanks rumble during a military parade, marking the 57th anniversary of the founding of the Japan Self-Defense Forces at Asaka Base, north of Tokyo. Japan should refocus its defense strategy on the rise of China and not on the Cold War threat of Russia, according to new guidelines announced Friday Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Shiite men walk in a massive procession Thursday in Nabatieh, Lebanon. Many cut themselves with swords or lash themselves with chains to mourn the seventh-century death in battle of the beloved Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
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Then-Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, in Pristina on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu) ** FILE **
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Shi'ite Muslims touch a horse, a symbol of Imam Hussein's horse that carried him through a battlefield, to pay tribute during a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Muharram is observed around the world for ten days as mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Paramilitary soldiers stand guard near the the Muharram procession in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Muharram is observed around the world for ten days as mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
