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The crowd watches as the tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night, Nov. 26, 2010 to the music of Pink Martini and with Santa Claus. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody. He was arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He's scheduled for a court appearance Monday. (AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand - The Oregonian)
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The tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night Nov. 26, 2010 to the music of Pink Martini and with Santa Claus in front of a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd singing holiday music in the square. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody, federal prosecutors said. He was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand - The Oregonian)
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U.N. soldiers helped Haitian police guard polling places, where thousands demonstrated Monday after 12 of 18 candidates called for protests to demand the election be voided.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A protester stands next to a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with a red "no" cross drawn on it as she attends a small demonstration of about 100 opposition activists in downtown Cairo on Monday. Protesters clashed with police Monday, setting fire to cars, tires and two schools used as polling stations in riots sparked by alleged widespread fraud by the ruling party in Egypt's parliamentary elections.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a 2005 bombing in Beirut along with 22 others.
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Demonstrators run to protest against the general elections after a news conference by twelve of the nineteen presidential candidates in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Nearly all the major candidates endorsed a joint statement denouncing Sunday's voting as fraudulent and calling on their supporters to show their anger with demonstrations against the government and the country's Provisional Electoral Council. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Ballot papers lie on the floor of a polling station after being destroyed by demonstrators allegedly accusing the government of fraud in Grande Riu Du Nord, Haiti, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Twelve of the 19 candidates endorsed a joint statement denouncing Sunday's general elections as fraudulent and calling on their supporters to show their anger with demonstrations against the government and the country's Provisional Electoral Council. (AP Photo)
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U.S. Army and Afghan army soldiers attached to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, congratulate each other during a training program graduation in Panjwai district in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS South Korean ships stage off of the coast of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island on Sunday. The U.S. and South Korea prepared for war games Sunday as South Koreans demanded vengeance.
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Imam Yosef Wanly (upper center) leads a prayer service at the Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, Ore., on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a former Oregon State University student who allegedly planned a bombing in Portland, Ore., during Friday's Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony, attended the center, which was struck by fire on Sunday. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
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South Korean soldiers take part in a military drill on scenic Mallipo Beach in western South Korea on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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** FILE ** U.S. soldiers walk past the scattered parts of a vehicle used in an explosion on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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This image provided by the Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office shows Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Officials say he tried to detonate a vehicle bomb at Pioneer Courthouse Square during the tree-lighting ceremony on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. They said the bomb was a dummy that FBI agents supplied him. (AP Photo/Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office)
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Police officers patrol near houses destroyed by North Korean shelling on the Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. North Korea warned Friday that planned U.S.-South Korean military drills are pushing the peninsula to the brink of war. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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In this Nov.23, 2010 photo, Kashmir rapper MC Kash poses for a photograph in Srinagar, India. MC Kash, whose real name is Roushan Illahi, calls himself a rebel who uses sharp rhymes and beats instead of stones or guns to protest India's rule over the mostly Muslim region in the Himalayas. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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Members of the New York Police Department stand by as the Shrek balloon makes its way across 42nd Street during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday in New York. (Associated Press)
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Khan Agha is taking a literacy class as part of the NATO training mission. Only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared with 35 percent for noncommissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. (Associated Press)
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A South Korean marine helps a woman disembark from a ferry ship Thursday as she returns to her home on Yeonpyeong Island. South Korea's president vowed to boost troops on the island targeted by a North Korean artillery barrage, while the North stridently warned of additional attacks if the South carries out any "reckless military provocations." (Associated Press)
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The Kermit the Frog parade balloon floats before the start of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Destroyed houses are evident from the air Wednesday on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. Officials say they found the burned bodies of two islanders killed in the North Korean artillery attack, marking the first two civilian deaths in the crisis. (Associated Press/Yonhap)
