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U.S. veterans who fought in the Korean War salute during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. The United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Foreign Korean War veterans and their family members look at a map of the two Koreas' borderland on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at an observation post in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. During the war, the United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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New Zealand Korean War veteran James Arthur Newman, right, pins a badge on Ethiopian Korean War veteran Habtemichael Genet on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at an observation post in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. The United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops during the Korean War. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Robert James Cummiskey from Chesterfield, Missouri, a U.S. veteran who fought in the Korean War, right, carries a wreath of flowers with South Korean Army soldiers during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. During the war, the United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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In a file photo, detained American Muslims, center, are escorted by Pakistan police officers as they leave after appear in an anti terrorist court in Sargodha, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. The five American men were convicted Thursday on terror charges by a Pakistan court and sentenced to 15 years in prison each, a prosecutor said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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U.S. President Barack Obama makes remarks on the resignation of Army General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, while Army General David Petraeus listens at right, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Obama said McChrystal will be replaced by Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia and the architect of the counterinsurgency strategy the U.S. is pursuing in Afghanistan. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 20, 2010, file photo, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then-commander of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and commander of United States Forces in Afghanistan arrives to attend at the 13th Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) Meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron confers by phone with President Obama. Mr. Cameron announced on Wednesday that British Lt. Gen. Nick Parker would temporarily assume Gen. McChrystal's role as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. (Bloomberg)
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President Barack Obama speaks about the resignation of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, at the White House as Gen. David H. Petraeus listens. Mr. Obama said Gen. Petraeus, previously the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, will replace Gen. McChrystal. (Bloomberg)
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"Sesame Street" characters (from the left) Cookie Monster, Zoe, Rosita, Elmo and Grover are touring 40 U.S. military bases to entertain and offer advice to children with deployed parents. The tour is a joint project of the USO and Sesame Workshop. (Photograph provided by USO)
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A damaged bus with shattered windows and a damaged trunk is seen in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 22, 2010, after a roadside bomb attack. Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb in Istanbul Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 12 on a bus carrying military personnel and their families, the governor said. (AP Photo )
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** FILE ** In this May 10, 2010, file photo, Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry brief reporters ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit at the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Iraqis protest power cuts in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, for a second day on Monday. Riot police in southern Iraq used water cannons to disperse protesters who were pelting them with stones. (Associated Press)
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A protester holds a flyer depicting Iraq's Electricity Minister Karim Waheed, top left, and Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, bottom left, during a demonstration against electricity shortages in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2010. Riot police in southern Iraq used water cannons to disperse protesters pelting them with stones Monday during a demonstration against power cuts as anger spread over the lack of basic utilities to fend off the country's searing summer heat. In Arabic, the flyer reads, "Karim Waheed and Zarqawi are two sides of the same coin." (AP Photo)
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The casket is carried into the funeral for Marine Cpl. Jacob Leicht, the 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan, at the Impact Christian Fellowship church Saturday, June 5, 2010, in Kerrville, Texas. Cpl. Leicht, who was born on the Fourth of July, died several days before Americans honor fallen troops on Memorial Day. . (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel)
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Palestinian and Lebanese flags wave over fishing boats off Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Monday, June 21, 2010, during a demonstration supporting Lebanese ships planning to sail from Lebanon in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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A Palestinian child stands on a side street in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Monday, June 21, 2010. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat pressed ahead Monday with a contentious plan to raze 22 illegally built Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center that Palestinians fear would tighten Israel's grip on the city's contested eastern sector. The site, called al-Bustan, is a section of the larger neighborhood of Silwan, which is home to some 50,000 Palestinians and 70 Jewish families. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Medics treat a wounded Afghan boy in a hospital in Herat after he was injured in a clash between the police and Taliban in Afghanistan's Badghis province, Sunday, June 20, 2010. Three Taliban militants were killed and 33 others were wounded in the clash with police Sunday morning, according to Sharafudin Najebi, a Badghis province governor spokesman said. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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**FILE** A Chinese clerk counts U.S. dollars in exchange for the Chinese renminbi at a bank in Hefei in central China's Anhui province on June 20, 2010. (Associated Press)
