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Date: 5/4/2012 Album ID: 1464339
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A Buddhist temple stands illuminated on the eve of annual Buddhist festival Vesakha in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 4, 2012. Vesakha encompasses the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Gautama Buddha. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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A computer screen shows objects in space monitored by a radar station in real time in the control center of a radar station at the missile defense facility in Sofrino, 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 4, 2012. Participants in the  international conference on missile defense held in Moscow, visited the missile defense facility in Sofrino on Friday. NATO's secretary general says Russia has nothing to fear from a planned missile defense system in Eastern Europe and should cooperate with the Western military alliance.  On Thursday, Russia's top military officer, Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov, threatened a pre-emptive strike on the facilities if NATO goes ahead with its plans.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Russian military officers stand guard at a radar station at the missile defense facility in Sofrino, 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 4, 2012. Participants in the  international conference on missile defense held in Moscow, visited the missile defense facility in Sofrino on Friday. NATO's secretary general says Russia has nothing to fear from a planned missile defense system in Eastern Europe and should cooperate with the Western military alliance.  On Thursday, Russia's top military officer, Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov, threatened a pre-emptive strike on the facilities if NATO goes ahead with its plans.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Mud hand prints of members of the ancient Samaritan community cover a wall during the Samaritan Passover sacrifices ritual in Mount Grizim, overlooking the West Bank town of Nablus, Friday, May 4, 2012. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, the remaining 700 Samaritans live in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank and the Israeli seaside town of Holon, south of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Protesters take shelter during brick throwing clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 4, 2012. Egyptian armed forces and protesters clashed in Cairo on Friday, with troops firing water cannons and tear gas at demonstrators who threw stones as they tried to march on the Defense Ministry, a flashpoint for a new cycle of violence only weeks ahead of presidential elections. (AP photo/Hamada Elrasam)
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Armored Egyptian military vehicles block the road outside of the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 4, 2012. Egyptian armed forces and protesters clashed in Cairo on Friday, with troops firing water cannons and tear gas at demonstrators who threw stones as they tried to march on the Defense Ministry, a flashpoint for a new cycle of violence only weeks ahead of presidential elections.(AP Photo/Ahmed Hammad)
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Egyptian soldiers raise their batons at a protester during clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 4, 2012. Egyptian armed forces and protesters clashed in Cairo on Friday, with troops firing water cannons and tear gas at demonstrators who threw stones as they tried to march on the Defense Ministry, a flashpoint for a new cycle of violence only weeks ahead of presidential elections. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)
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Former Sen. John Edwards arrives at the federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C. Friday, May 4, 2012.  Edwards is accused of conspiring to secretly obtain more than $900,000 from two wealthy supporters to hide his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter and her pregnancy from the media. He has pleaded not guilty to six charges related to violations of campaign-finance laws.  (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)  MANDATORY CREDIT
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France's President  and conservative candidate for re-election in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy, waves out of his car to supporters as he leaves a campaign meeting in Sables d'Ollonne, western France, Friday, May 4, 2012. The final polls before France's presidential election Sunday show a shrinking gap between President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, but still predict a Hollande victory. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)
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Supporters of PASOK hold flares during Greece's socialist leader, Evangelos Venizelos'  speech in central Athens' Syntagma Square on Friday, May 4, 2012. Fewer than 5,000 people turned up at the socialists' final rally ahead of Sunday's election. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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People listen to Greece's socialist leader, Evangelos Venizelos of the PASOK party, speak in central Athens' Syntagma Square on Friday, May 4, 2012, while waving the party flags. Fewer than 5,000 people turned up at the socialists' final rally ahead of Sunday's election. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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A limousine bearing the names of seven family members who died in a horrific highway accident, and two hearses, wait   outside the Church of St. Raymond, after the funeral in the Bronx borough of New York, Friday, May 4, 2012. Killed in Sunday’s wreck were Jacob Nunez and Ana Julia Martinez, who were visiting from the Dominican Republic community of Manuel Bueno; their daughters, Maria Gonzalez and Maria Nunez, and three grandchildren.  The children were Jocelyn Gonzalez, 10, the daughter of the driver, and Niely Rosario, 7, and Marly Rosario, 3, both daughters of Nunez.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Anti-government protesters carry symbolic coffins draped in Bahraini flags Friday, May 4, 2012, during a mass march in Barbar, Bahrain, west of the capital of Manama, in memory of those who have died in the past year's pro-democracy uprising. Protesters called for political prisoners to be freed and the opposition parties that organized the march said in a statement that newly approved changes to the nation's constitution are merely cosmetic and prove an ignorant mentality toward reforms and change.(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Anti-government protesters carry posters saying freedom for prisoners Zainab al-Khawaja, top left sign, Masouma Sayed, center sign, and Mariam al-Khazaz, right sign, during a mass march Friday, May 4, 2012, in Barbar, Bahrain, west of the capital of Manama. The three women activists have been jailed during recent protests. The opposition parties that organized the march said in a statement that newly approved changes to the nation's constitution are merely cosmetic and prove an ignorant mentality toward reforms and change.  (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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Iranians fill in their ballots for the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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The sailors of the MS Turanor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar boat ever built, stand on the deck after they have achieved the first around-the-world journey using solar energy in 585 days, off the Monaco's harbour, Friday, May 4, 2012. The five sailors are : Raphael Domjan of Switzerland, founder and expedition leader, Patrick Marchesseau of France, Erwann le Rouzic of France, Jens Langwasser of Germany and Christian Oechsenbeim of Switzerland. (AP Photo/Bruno Bebert)
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A Bahraini family passes a billboard as they head out Friday, May 4, 2012, from participating in a mass anti-government march in Barbar, Bahrain, west of the capital of Manama. Protesters called for political prisoners to be freed and the opposition parties that organized the march said in a statement that newly approved changes to the nation's constitution are merely cosmetic and prove an ignorant mentality toward reforms and change.  (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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A man representing Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, stands symbolically chained as Palestinians and pro-Palestinian Turks stage a protest outside the Israeli embassy residence in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, May 4, 2012.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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In this Thursday, May 3, 2012, photo provided by the Tennessee National Guard, Ashley Edens puts her head against the casket of her late husband, Spc. Jason Edens, in Smyrna, Tenn. Spc. Edens was killed April 15 during combat in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The Tennessee National Guard, Capt. Darrin Haas)
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The words of the U.S. Constitution are written on the windows in the atrium of Buffalo's recently opened federal courthouse during a formal dedication in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, May 3, 2012. The 10-story, $137 million building in the center of downtown has been open since late last year, housing the U.S. District Court, Court of Appeals, U.S. Marshals and other federal agencies.  (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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