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Associated press photographs Syrian military intelligence appears to be providing assistance to the U.N. special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to shield Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (above) from blame.
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An Afghan woman injured in a Taliban bombing cries for help near the site where a suicide bomber attacked an Italian military convoy on a road in Kabul in this September 2009 photo. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called Israel's plan to construct new housing units in West Bank settlements despite U.S. calls for a building freeze “completely unacceptable.” (Associated Press)
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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP -In this file photo, masked Hamas militants march during a demonstration supporting Hamas' Spiritual Leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin on January 16, 2004, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza Strip towns and refugee camps after the Israeli deputy defense minister stated that "Yassin is marked for death" following a suicide bombing that killed three Israeli soldiers and a security officer in Gaza. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
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**FILE** An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Gulf of Alaska. Production will be stopped at 187 Raptors. (Associated Press/U.S. Navy)
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Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Monday he fears that artificial intelligence will empower America’s enemies to engage in biological warfare. (AP, file)
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** FILE ** Gary McKinnon, shown in this file photo from 2009, is charged with breaking into computers belonging to NASA, the Department of Defense and several branches of the U.S. military. (Associated Press)
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President Obama outlined his nuclear policy in a landmark speech in 2009 in Prague, proclaiming he would seek a "world without nuclear weapons." The forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review says his administration's calculation of setting the conditions for further cuts in global nuclear arms was a failure. (Agence France-Presse/File)
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Since 2004, Muslim separatists in the three provinces bordering Malaysia have been waging a fierce insurgency that has claimed more than 7,000 lives. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Camp Justice is the site of the U.S. war-crimes tribunal compound on U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Prosecutors are moving forward with investigations and trial preparation while waiting for the completion of case reviews ordered by President Obama in January.
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U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines watch as a helicopter drops an emergency water resupply outside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Opposition supporters participate in a mass protest in Tbilisi against Mr. Saakashvili late last month. The embattled leader faces pressure to resign amid efforts to rebuild the country following a brief war with Russia last year. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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Georgian protesters wearing cowls rally in Tbilisi last week to demand the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili, who led his nation in a war with Russia in 2008 in a failed effort to keep control of breakaway provinces South Ossetia and Abkhazia. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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getty images photographs More than 2.5 million people have been driven into refugee camps as a result of the Sudanese government's scorched-earth policy in the troubled Darfur region. The policy has flattened villages and killed about 300,000 people.
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A Tiananmen rebel exiled in Taiwan, renowned for his courage, charisma and extraordinary personal narrative, has declared his candidacy for a seat as an independent in the island democracy's parliament called the Legislative Yuan.
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Actor Gary Sinise met with The Washington Times on Monday, May 25, 2009 before emceeing the Memorial Day parade downtown. Mr. Sinise discussed his active role in supporting the troops. He said he doesn't consider himself a political activist, but rather a concerned citizen who wants to help. (Barbara L. Salisbury / The Washington Times)
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This cross was erected in the Mojave Desert in 1934 as a memorial to the war dead. (Photograph courtesy of Liberty Legal Institute)
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The African-American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest marks the service of more than 200,000 black troops in the Civil War.
