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Congo in Crisis - Congo rebels M23 announced they will withdraw from Goma by Friday. Separately, the U.N.'s special representative for the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that multiple rebel militias in the eastern part of the country are stretching the 19,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force present in the country thin. (Photo: EPA/DAI KUROKAWA /LANDOV)

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Egyptians Renew Protests - Hundreds of demonstrators took to Cairo's Tahrir Square this week to demand that President Mohamed Mursi cancel a presidential decree that protesters say grants him near absolute power. (Photo: AMR ABDALLAH DALSH /LANDOV/REUTERS)

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Chris Brown Cancels Guyana Concert Over Protests - Chris Brown canceled a performance scheduled to take place next month in Guyana in light of widespread protests here over his 2009 beating of singer Rihanna.(Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

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Pope Benedict Names Diverse Class of New Cardinals - Pope Benedict XVI named six new non-European cardinals in a move to diversify the Church amid criticism that it had become increasingly euro-centric under Benedict. The cardinals hail from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States and will be part of the group that chooses the next Pope. (Photo: Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

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Kim Jong-un Style - It seems another international newspaper has fallen victim to U.S. spoof-paper The Onion. The Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper ran a 55-page photo spread of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un based on an Onion article naming him its Sexiest Man Alive for 2012."With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-born heart-throb is every woman's dream come true," the People's Daily quoted from The Onion.(Photo: AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, File)

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Hamas Rejects E.U. Monitors in Gaza - Hamas officials told Egyptian negotiators that European Union observers are welcomed along Gaza's Rafah border point with Israel, instead favoring a Palestinian-Egyptian force. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Brazil Gets First Black Supreme Court President - Joaquim Barbosa became Brazil’s first Black person to serve as president of the country’s supreme court when he was sworn in Thursday. Barbosa was also the first Black person to ever serve on the court when he joined it in 2003. Brazil is home to the largest population of Black people in the Western hemisphere. (Photo: ANDRE DUSEK/ESTADAO CONTEUDO DPA /LANDOV)

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India’s Gay Rights Parade Demands Tolerance - Gay rights activists marched through New Delhi on Sunday to demand greater tolerance of LGBT people India's deeply conservative society. (Photo: Adnan Abidi, REUTERS/ADNAN ABIDI /LANDOV)

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U.N. to Launch New Global Warming Talks - Nearly 200 countries will meet in Qatar Monday for a round of United Nations sponsored talks on slowing global warming. One of the main challenges will be raising climate aid for poor countries at a time when budgets are strained by financial turmoil. (Photo: Xinhua/Li Muzi/XINHUA /LANDOV)

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Quickening Conflict - Car bombs and a rebel attempt to take over Damascus airport mark Syria's entrance into wartime overdrive as the lengthy conflict picks up its deadly pace.  (Photo: Sana/LANDOV/REUTERS)

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British Man Killed in South Africa Farm Robbery - Police in South Africa say a British man who ran a nature reserve on a rural farm was killed in a robbery when three men attacked him with machetes. (Photo: EPA/JON HRUSA /LANDOV)

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U.K. Fines UBS Over Rogue Trader - Britain's financial regulator fined banking giant UBS $47.6 million for failures that allowed a rogue trader to lose $2.3 billion in the country's biggest-ever bank fraud case. Last week, former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of two counts of fraud. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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Ernest Bai Koroma Wins Sierra Leonian Presidential Election - The results are in. Sierra Leone's incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma won the country’s presidential election. (Photo: Penny Bradfield-CHOGM via Getty Images)

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Gaza Ceasefire Goes Into Effect - After days of diplomatic meetings last week, Israel and Hamas agreed to end attacks and a ceasefire went into effect in and around the Gaza Strip. (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Caribbean HIV Rate Declines - UNAIDS’ 2012 report showed a significant decline in the number of Caribbean children born with HIV between 2009 and 2011. (Photo: EPA/SALVATORE DI NOLFI /LANDOV)

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“Africa for Norway” Takes Jab at European Aid Drives - A satirical Norwegian group calling itself Radi-Aid has launched a farcical aid campaign that seeks to help chilly Norwegian children by sending radiators from Africa to Norway.(Photo: courtesy africafornorway.no)

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Ugandan MPs Remove Death Penalty From Anti-Homosexuality Bill - Uganda’s controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been endorsed by a committee in parliament, but its members dropped the provision that makes certain homosexual acts punishable by death.(Photo: MICHELE SIBILONI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Nigerian Jailbreak - Boko Haram has been blamed for an attack on a police station that freed prisoners and killed two officers Monday.Several members of the group were being held at the facility when the attack occurred. (Photo: REUTERS/Stringer)