War_Conflict

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Mexican soldiers prepare to leave after inspecting a home in Ciudad Mier in mid-November. State and federal governments say it's safe to return, but those who fled are staying away.

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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of two suicide bombings in Ramadi, Iraq, 70 miles west of Baghdad, on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo)

An Afghan policeman inspects a police vehicle damaged by a car-bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, south of Kabul, on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. The bombing killed three people, an Afghan policeman at the scene said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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Associated Press photographs Members of the Islamic community pray at the market square in downtown Moenchengladbach, western Germany, in September. The Islamic fundamentalist group 'Invitation to Paradise' was performing public prayers to fight back against weeks of protests by locals against its plan for building a Koranic school.

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Victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a hospital in Khar, the main town of Pakistan's Bajur tribal region along Afghan border, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest, killing scores of people at an aid distribution center, officials said. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan)

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Communist New People's Army militants march in unison past local residents and supporters during the celebration of the 42nd anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, on Mount Diwata in the southern Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

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Gen. David H. Petraeus (left), top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, greets U.S. Marines during a visit to Marjah, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Gen. Petraeus crisscrossed Afghanistan on Saturday to visit coalition troops on Christmas at some of the main battle fronts in a show of appreciation and support in the 10th year of the war against the Taliban. (AP Photo/Elena Becatoros)

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Philippine National Police investigators inspect the damage at the Sacred Heart Catholic Chapel following an explosion during a Christmas Day Mass on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, on the volatile island of Jolo, Sulu province, in the southern Philippines. (AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan)

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Pictures of slain Iraqi Christians are displayed during Christmas Mass at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Iraqi Christians are marking a somber holiday in the face of repeated violence by militants intent on driving their beleaguered community from Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Victims injured in a suicide bombing are treated at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A woman detonated an explosives-laden vest in a crowded aid distribution center in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens waiting for food stamps, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Indian police officials frisk pedestrians outside the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Police searched India's financial capital on Friday for four men who authorities believe entered Mumbai to carry out a terrorist attack, a top police official said. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade).

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** FILE ** A man pays homage in front of portraits of police officers killed in the Mumbai terror attack outside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, one of the sites of the attack, on the second anniversary of the attack in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Associated Press photographs Demonstrators clash with soldiers Thursday outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Students protested against a law that increases government powers over the country's universities.

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A university student shouts at national guard soldiers outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets in a bid to quell the demonstrations.

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Police officers and a firefighter stand outside the Chilean Embassy in Rome on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, after a pair of package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies, injuring the two people who opened them, officials said. Police ordered checks at all embassies after a false alarm also was reported at the Ukrainian Embassy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)