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In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 8, 2015, a U.S. military fighter jet participates in a NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission practice mission in the Tapa training area, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Tallinn, Estonia. Russia is so close that the F-16 fighter pilots can see it on the horizon as they swoop down over a training range in Estonia in the biggest ever show of U.S. air power in the Baltic countries. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
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Firearms industry backers say they aren't surprised firearms buyers and manufacturers alike have responded to the national gun control debate by making and purchasing more. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this April 24, 2014, file photo provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk stand in line to receive aid food distributed by UNRWA on the southern edge of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Conditions in the camp have deteriorated since Islamic State militants muscled their way into it in early April 2015. The militants are trying to consolidate their hold on the camp. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File)
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Palestinian residents of the besieged refugee camp of Yarmouk wait at the gate of the camp to receive aid supplies from the United Nations on the southern edge of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The deteriorating situation brought on by Syria's civil war prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an emergency meeting Monday, April 6, 2015, to discuss Yarmouk, calling for safe evacuation for the Palestinians, protection for the refugees, and humanitarian access to the camp. (AP Photo/SANA, File)
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Afghanistan's security personnel look at the body of an Afghan national army soldier who was killed after he opened fire on U.S. troops, in the compound of the provincial governor, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 8, 2015. The Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. troops on Wednesday, wounding three before he was shot dead by American troops, an official and an eyewitness said. The incident happened after a meeting between Afghan provincial leaders and a U.S. Embassy official. (AP Photo)
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In this Tuesday, April 7, 2015 photo, Iraqi forensics experts collect human remains from a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State group militants when they overran Camp Speicher military base last June, in Tikrit, Iraq. Forensic teams in the newly recaptured city of Tikrit have started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain some of the hundreds of soldiers killed by Islamic State militants last year, a government spokesman said Tuesday. (AP Photo)
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Members of Pakistan's civil society chant slogans against the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen in Lahore. Pakistan's defense minister confirmed a request for soldiers Monday, raising the possibility of a ground offensive (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen celebrate March 31, 2015, as they hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants holed up in downtown Tikrit, going house to house Tuesday in search of snipers and booby traps, and the prime minister said security forces had reached the heart of the city. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this April 2, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The framework nuclear deal sealed by world powers and Iran leaves major questions: Could Iran cheat? Possibly. Would the U.S or anyone else be able to respond in time? In theory, yes. Are they prepared to use military force? Questionable. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**
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In this Thursday, April 2, 2015 photo, Archbishop for northern Iraq, Saliba Shimon, leads a ceremony at the Mar Matti monastery outside the town of Bashiqa in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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In this Sunday, July 29, 2015, file photo, pro-Russian rebels ride on a tank flying Russia's flag on a road east of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
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In this Wednesday, March 11, 2015, file photo, pro-Russian rebels line up in front of their commander during a military training exercise near Yenakiyeve, eastern Ukraine. AP reporting, based on dozens of conversations with rebel fighters and visits to their training grounds, has revealed the extent of the involvement of Russian troops in the yearlong conflict. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)
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A pro-Russian rebel looks up while riding on a tank flying Russia's flag, on a road east of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in this Sunday, July 29, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
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"Allowing Iran to retain thousands of centrifuges, keeping facilities such as Fordow open and not limiting Iran's ballistic missile program indicate to me that this deal is a colossal mistake," said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. (Associated Press)
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Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Thursday night after a nuclear agreement with world powers was announced in Lausanne, Switzerland. A preliminary agreement aimed at curbing nuclear activities that Tehran could use to make nuclear weapons likely would provide relief from economic sanctions that have gripped their country.
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Orphans aboard the first babylift flight at the end of the Vietnam War crowd the windows of World Airways DC 8 jet as it flies them to the United States in April 1975. (AP Photo)
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U.S. Navy Commander John S. McCain 3rd, a guest of the South Vietnamese government, visits the Holt orphanage in Saigon, Vietnam, on Oct. 30, 1974. The institution cares for many youngsters fathered by American G.I.s. McCain, son of the admiral who commanded U.S. forces in the Pacific at the height of the Vietnam War, was shot down over Hanoi and spent several years as a POW. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc)
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Medics help an injured person at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, April , 2, 2015 , after an attack by gunmen at Garissa University College. Al-Shabab gunmen targeted Christians, killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others. (AP Photo)
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Shiite clerics inspect one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 2, 2015, a day after Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite militiamen took control of the city from Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)