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President Barack Obama, right, is greeted by Governor Scott Walker (R-WI), left, as he arrives at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Obama will deliver remarks at Laborfest 2014 at Henry Maier Festival Park. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)

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French President Francois Hollande, right, poses for photographers with Defense Minister and Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

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Dawn commemorations to mark the 75rd anniversary of the outbreak of World War II at the 'Westerplatte' memorial in Gdansk, northern Poland, September 1, 2014. World War II began when the German Navy destroyer 'Schleswig-Holstein' opened fire on a Polish military depot in Westerplatte, a part of Gdansk, at 04:45 hrs on 01 September 1939. (EPA/ADAM WARZAWA)

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In this photo provided by the Iraqi government, outgoing prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, is surrounded by residents and security forces after his arrival in Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Al-Maliki praised residents for fending off attacks by Sunni militants who had besieged them for more than two months until security forces backed by Iran-allied Shiite militias and U.S. airstrikes broke the siege a day earlier. (AP Photo/Iraqi Government)

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Master Sgts. Stephen Brown, right, and Emily Edmunds, of the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron loadmasters, attach candy to container delivery system bundles filled with fresh drinking water on a C-17 Globemaster III in preparation for a humanitarian airdrop over the area if Amirli, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. The candy was collected by the squadron to supplement United States government humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

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Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Aid began flowing into the small northern Shiite town in Iraq on Monday, a day after security forces backed by Iran-allied Shiite militias and U.S. airstrikes broke a two-month siege by insurgents in a rare victory by government forces. (AP Photo)

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A police van, right, believed to be carrying Ashya King parents, parks inside the National court garage in Madrid, Spain Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. A critically-ill 5-year-old boy driven to Spain by his parents against doctors' advice is receiving medical treatment for a brain tumor in a Spanish hospital as his parents await extradition to Britain, police said Sunday. Officers received a phone call late Saturday from a hotel east of Malaga advising that a vehicle fitting the description circulated by police was on its premises. Both parents were arrested and the boy, Ashya King, was taken to a hospital, a Spanish police spokesman said. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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Ashya King parents's lawyer, Juan Isidro Fernandez Diaz, right, asks police for directions to the entrance as he arrives at the National court in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014.

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Pakistani protesters hold sticks and chant slogans after intruding the state television building in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Anti-government protesters and Pakistani police have clashed once again as the demonstrators pushed into a sprawling government complex in the country's capital in an effort to try to reach the prime minister's official residence. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Pakistani troops stand guard as supporters of anti-government Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri stage a sit in protest close to Prime Minister's home in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 1, 2014.

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Pakistani protesters beat a police officer during a clash in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014.

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President Barack Obama steps off Marine One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, as he travels to Milwaukee, WI. Obama's speech scheduled today will promote the economy in a state that was the epicenter of a fight over the collective bargaining rights of public employees. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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A British police officer stands guard outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is expected on Monday to expand powers to combat terrorism in hopes of preventing attacks by Islamist militants returning from terror training in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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Germany’s President Joachim Gauck, center, and Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski, right, lay wreaths at the monument to Polish heroes of Westerplatt, during observances marking 75 years since World War II started, at Westerplatte in Gdansk, Poland, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Some of the first shots of World War II were fired on Sept. 1, 1939 by an attacking Nazi German warship on Westerplatte, a Polish munitions depot that held off for many days.More than five years of brutal, global war followed, taking the lives of tens of millions of people. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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Police carry blocks of seized cocaine as they present it to the press at a police base in Lima, Peru, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Police announced that they seized 7.6 tons of cocaine in the northern town of Trujillo on Aug. 26, and that it's the largest seizure of cocaine in Peru's history. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Peru's Interior Minister Daniel Urresti talks with the press during the presentation of seized drugs at a police base in Lima, Peru, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. According to police, Blocks of seized cocaine are part of a 7.6 ton cocaine seizure made in the northern town of Trujillo on Aug. 26, and is the largest cocaine seizure in Peru's history. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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In this photo taken on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014, a security guard, center left, working at the University Hospital Fann, speaks to people inside a car, as a man is treated for symptoms of the Ebola virus inside the Hospital in Dakar, Senegal. The effort to contain Ebola in Senegal is “a top priority emergency,” the World Health Organization said Sunday, as the government continued tracing everyone who came in contact with a Guinean student who has tested positive for the deadly disease in the capital, Dakar. (AP Photo/Jane Hahn)

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A French fireman and his dog search in the rubble of a building after an explosion collapsed it, in Rosny-sous-Bois, outside Paris, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. French authorities say a four-story building in a northeastern Paris suburb has collapsed after an explosion, killing a child. More people are thought to underneath the rubble. Speaking on i-Tele, fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus said around 10 people were evacuated from the building in Rosny-sous-bois that occurred early Sunday morning. Plus said that around another 10 people could still be underneath the rubble, and emergency teams were working hard to rescue people who might be trapped. "We could still find living victims in the hours to come," he said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has arrived at the scene, but couldn't confirm a theory that the explosion was caused by a gas leak. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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Police beat a protester during clashes in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Anti-government protesters stormed Pakistan’s state television building Monday, forcing the channel briefly off the air as they clashed with police and pushed closer to the prime minister’s residence. The violence comes as part of the mass demonstrations led by Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and opposition politician Imran Khan that demand Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Pakistani supporters of cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and Canadian cleric Tahir ul Qadri beat a riot policeman during an anti-government protest in Islamabad on September 1, 2014 (AFP Photo/Aamir Qureshi)

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Pakistani police run from opposition protesters during clashes near the prime minister's residence in Islamabad on September 1, 2014 (AFP Photo/Asif Hassan)

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U.S. President Barack Obama and with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves review the honor guard at Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Obama is in Estonia for a one day visit where he will meet with Baltic State leaders before heading to the NATO Summit in Wales. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Bosnian police officers escort men who were detained during action in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Bosnian police say they have detained 15 people suspected of having fought in Syria and Iraq or of recruiting and funding other Balkan men to join the Islamic militants there. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

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A visitor looks at exhibits on display at the Look into the Eyes of War exhibition, marking the 100th anniversary of World War I in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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Health workers spray the body of a amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus with disinfectant, in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Food in countries hit by Ebola is getting more expensive and will become scarcer because many farmers won't be able to access fields, a U.N. food agency warned Tuesday. An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,500 people, and authorities have cordoned off entire towns in an effort to halt the virus' spread. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

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Jasmine McBride, 23, sister of Renisha, McBride reads an impact statement before the court during the sentencing hearing for Theodore Wafer, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, 2014, in Detroit. Wafer was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Tuesday for killing an unarmed Renisha McBride on his porch. During the trial, he said he shot the 19-year-old because he feared for his life, but a jury rejected Wafer's claim of self-defense. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Clarence Tabb Jr.)

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In this photo taken on May 13, 2014, Conrad Engweiler, 40, is escorted away after he appeared before the state parole board in Salem, Ore. The Oregon parole board announced Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, that they have decided to release Engweiler, who was convicted at age 15 of raping and murdering a high school classmate in the Portland suburb of Beaverton. An inmate at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem, Engweiler has served more than 24 years for the aggravated murder of 16-year-old Erin Tonna Reynolds. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Benjamin Brink)

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A city worker wearing special heat reflecting clothing pushes a bag of cocaine into an incinerator at a police base in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Police say the bag is part of an Aug. 26 seizure of 7.7 metric tons (8.5 tons) of cocaine from the northern town of Trujillo, and that it's the largest seizure of cocaine in Peru's history. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Georgian police officers try to stop a pro-NATO demonstrator wearing a U.S. flag to avoid clashes with anti-NATO protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Several dozens anti-NATO protesters gathered to counterbalance a meeting of supporters to bring Georgia closer to the alliance. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

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In these Sunday Aug. 31, 2014 photo, armed soldiers stand outside the military headquarters in Maseru, Lesotho. Lesotho's prime minister fled to South Africa in fear for his safety and will now meet with leaders of the region there to seek peace, he said Sunday. Prime Minister Thomas Thabane said there had been an attempt to take over Lesotho, a country of about 2 million people that is surrounded by South Africa. Lesotho's Defense Forces deny any attempt at a coup although they say the military exchanged gunfire and disarmed two police stations in Lesotho's capital, Maseru, on Saturday. (AP Photo)

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A Lesotho Defence Force member displays arms and ammunition confiscated from police at army barracks in Maseru, Lesotho, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Southern Africa's regional body said Monday it will send an envoy and an observer team to Lesotho to help restore stability and security in the mountainous kingdom where military actions over the weekend caused the prime minister to flee. (AP Photo)

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Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby arrives for a briefing at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. The Pentagon says the leader of the Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group was the target of U.S. military airstrikes that struck an encampment and a vehicle Monday night. Kirby said the results of the strike are being assessed and he can't confirm if Somali Ahmed Abdi Godane, the rebel leader, was hit. He says the strike against Godane was conducted by special operations forces with manned and unmanned aircraft firing hellfire missiles and precision-guided munitions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Henry McCollum is surrounded by guards as he sits in a courtroom, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014 in Lumberton, N.C. On Tuesday, a judge overturned the convictions of Henry McCollum, 50, and Leon Brown, 46, in the 1983 rape and murder of the 11-year-old girl, citing the new evidence that they are innocent. The ruling is the latest twist in a notorious legal case against the men that began with what defense attorneys said were coerced confessions from two scared teenagers with low IQs. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)

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This Aug. 30, 2014 booking photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Jonathan Koppenhaver. Koppenhaver, the mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine is due to face a Las Vegas judge on felony allegations that he badly injured his porn star ex-girlfriend before fleeing to California last month. Koppenhaver was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 on battery, lewdness, assault and coercion charges in the Aug. 8 attack on adult film actress Christy Mack and her male friend at a Las Vegas home. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

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Lebanese Sunni masked gunmen hold their weapons during the funeral procession of Sgt. Ali Sayid, who was beheaded by Islamic militants, in his home town of Fnaydek, in Akkar north Lebanon, on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Sgt. Ali Sayid went missing around the same time that some two dozen soldiers and police were seized by militants from Syria who overran the border town of Arsal for several days last month. The incursion was the most serious spillover yet of the Syrian civil war and escalated tensions in Lebanon, which is bitterly split over the conflict. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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A British police officers stand guard near the Celtic Manor Resort prior to a NATO summit in Newport, Wales on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. NATO heads of state meet for a two-day summit beginning on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

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Security police walk past military vehicles on the grounds of the Celtic Manor Resort prior to a NATO summit in Newport, Wales on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Lashing out at Russia, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast Moscow's aggression in Ukraine as a threat to peace in Europe. He vigorously vowed to come to the defense of NATO allies that fear they could be Vladimir Putin's next target. NATO heads of state meet for a two-day summit beginning on Thursday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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Full-size models of military vehicles and aircraft are displayed on the golf course of the the Celtic Manor Hotel, ahead of the NATO summit, in Newport, Wales, September 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Leon Neal)

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Armed police officers stand in an inflatable boat, in Cardiff Bay, ahead of the forthcoming NATO summit, Wales September 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Rebecca Naden)

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Pro-Russian fighters sit on top of a tank in Starobesheve, southeast of Donetsk, on August 31, 2014 (AFP Photo/Francisco Leong)

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A Pro-Russian rebel holds a dog named Devka with hand grenade attached to the leash in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. A day ahead of a NATO summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued his own peace plan for eastern Ukraine, calling on the Russian-backed insurgents there to "stop advancing" and urging Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the region. Hours earlier, Ukraine had issued a vague statement about agreeing with Putin on cease-fire steps. The separatists rejected the move, saying no cease-fire was possible without a pullback by Ukraine, while Putin's spokesman claimed that Moscow could not agree to a cease-fire because it was not a party to the conflict. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

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A Pro-Russian rebel holds a mortar shell as they lead suppressive fire at the positions of Ukrainian army, during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept.3, 2014.

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Pro-Russian rebels lead suppressive fire at the positions of Ukrainian army, during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

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Children watch as the Ukrainian soldiers talk to each other in the small town of Shchastya in eastern Ukraine Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. A Ukrainian military official says the bodies of 87 soldiers have been retrieved from southeastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Petro Zadorozhnyy)

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A Lebanese Sunni armed woman carries a machine gun during the funeral procession of Sgt. Ali Sayid who was beheaded by Islamic militants, at his home town in Fnaydek, Akkar north Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Sayid went missing around the same time that some two dozen soldiers and police were seized by militants from Syria who overran the border town of Arsal for several days last month. The incursion was the most serious spillover yet of the Syrian civil war and escalated tensions in Lebanon, which is bitterly split over the conflict. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Rescue workers try to clear the area after a pedesterian bridge collapsed after it was hit by a fuel tanker on a main highway in Istanbul, Turkey September 3, 2014. According to local newspapers two people died and several others injured as traffic was brought to a standstill for hours following the incident. (EPA)

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In this Aug. 22, 2014 photo, a masked National Police officer patrols as residents step back into their homes in the Mejicanos neighborhood as police search for weapons in San Salvador, El Salvador. A truce declared two years ago by the gangs Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street Gang briefly tapered their bloody gang war, but the cease-fire had an unintended consequence: It gave the gangs breathing room to grow even stronger. Now, violence is on the rise again. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Destroyed & abandoned Ukrainian armor is left desolate near the village of Lebedynske, on the highway joining Mariupol and Novoazovsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. After four months of war, eastern Ukraine begins the first full day of an uncertain cease-fire. The truce agreement calls for an exchange of prisoners and establishment of humanitarian corridors, but how quickly those actions will begin is unclear. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Men inspect a burnt out Ukrainian tank in the village of Kominternovo, on the outskirts of the southern coastal town of Mariupol, September 6, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko agreed on Saturday in a telephone call that a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine was generally holding but said further steps were needed to make it more durable. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)

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A first year cadet of the Military University of Communication takes the oath during a ceremony in St.Petersburg September 6, 2014. Some 700 first year cadets of the academy attended the ceremony before starting their studies. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk)

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Pro-Russian separatists talk as they guard the area at a check point on the outskirts of Donetsk September 6, 2014. An uneasy calm prevailed in eastern Ukraine on Saturday after Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists signed a ceasefire as part of a drive to end a war that has triggered a deep crisis in relations between Russia and the West. (REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)

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Residents extinguish a fire caused by what activists say was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Tal Abyad street market in central Raqqa September 6, 2014. (REUTERS)

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First year cadets of the Military University of Communication march during an oath-taking ceremony in St.Petersburg September 6, 2014. Some 700 first year cadets of the academy attended the ceremony before starting their studies. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk)

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Kashmiri volunteers evacuate a child from a flooded area in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Heavy monsoon rains have caused flash floods and landslides that left more than 100 people dead in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and in eastern Pakistan, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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A Palestinian protester uses a sling shot to throw stones towards Israeli troops during clashes following a protest against the nearby Jewish settlement of Qadomem, seen in the background, in the West Bank village of Kofr Qadom near Nablus September 5, 2014. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

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Soldiers of Ukrainian army ride on a tank in the port city of Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. The Ukrainian president declared a cease-fire Friday to end nearly five months of fighting in the nation's east after his representatives reached a deal with the Russian-backed rebels at peace talks in Minsk. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Pakistani soldiers and volunteers rescue villagers in Pindi Bhatian, 105 kilometers (65 miles) northeast of Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Army and air force troops on Monday worked to rescue thousands of people stranded in Indian-controlled Kashmir and northern and eastern Pakistan, where flooding and landslides have caused hundreds of deaths. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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A Kashmiri flood victim, center, pleads to an Indian army officer to rescue her family members after she was airlifted by the army from her flooded neighborhood to the Indian Air Force base in Srinagar, India, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Six days of rains in Indian Kashmir have left more than 120 people dead in the region's worst flooding in more than five decades, submerging hundreds of villages and triggering landslides, officials said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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Indian army soldiers load onto a helicopter relief material for flood victims at an air force base in Srinagar, India, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014.

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Pakistani villagers leave a helicopter after being rescued by army troops in Pindi Bhatian, 105 kilometers (65 miles) northeast of Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Army and air force troops on Monday worked to rescue thousands of people stranded in Indian-controlled Kashmir and northern and eastern Pakistan, where flooding and landslides have caused hundreds of deaths. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Indian laborers carry relief material for flood-affected victims in Poonch, around 276 kilometers (166 miles) from Jammu, India, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014.

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Hawthi Shiite protesters hold pieces of tear gas canisters that were shot, they say, by riot police during clashes in front of the Foreign Ministry at a main road leading to the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Yemeni security forces briefly broke up a sit-in by Shiite rebels blocking the capital's airport road Sunday, only to have protesters return and keep the main highway closed after the first violence of a weekslong anti-government protest. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Yemeni riot police use water canons to disperse Hawthi Shiite protesters during clashes near the Foreign Ministry at a main road leading to the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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A Somali soldier stands near the wreckage of civilian vehicle destroyed by a suicide car bomb attack near the Elasha Biyaha settlement, in the Lower Shabelle region south of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. At least 12 civilians were killed Monday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car next to a convoy of African Union forces moving near two minibuses, followed by a second suicide attacker ramming his car into a convoy escorting the Mogadishu intelligence commander on his way to inspect the scene of the first blast, the first serious assault by suspected Islamic extremists after the killing of al-Shabab's top leader in a U.S. airstrike last week, according to a police and a regional official. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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A picture released on September 8, 2014 by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office shows President Petro Poroshenko meeting servicemen (AFP Photo/Mykola Lazarenko )

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Ukrainian servicemen stand at a checkpoint near Debaltseve, September 5, 2014.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reads on a flight en route to Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Kerry is traveling to the mideast this week to discuss ways to bolster the stability of the new Iraqi government and combat the Islamic State militant group that has taken over large swaths of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski,

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

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Picture released on September 8, 2014 by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko presenting military awards in the gounds of Mariupol airport (AFP Photo/Mykola Lazarenko)

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US soldiers, part of the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, investigate the site of a suicide attack on the outskirts of Jalalabad on August 24, 2014. Afghanistan on Sept 10 accused NATO forces of killing 11 civilians in an airstrike (AFP Photo/Noorullah Shirzada)

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A state trooper helicopter lands near the area where authorities are gathering on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in Camden, Ala. A district attorney says the bodies of five children missing from South Carolina have been found in Camden. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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Firefighters spray water after an explosion in a chemical disposal plant in Ritterhude near Bremen, northern Germany, Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, 2014. At least one man was severely injured. (AP Photo/dpa, Ingo Wagner)

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Firefighters work after an explosion in a chemical disposal plant in Ritterhude near Bremen, northern Germany, Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, 2014. Streets and houses in the neighborhood were seriously damaged. (AP Photo/dpa, Ingo Wagner)

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A woman holds a dog beside a destroyed tank in the courtyard of the local kindergarten in the village of Talakovka, some 22 kilometres northeast of Mariupol, on September 6, 2014 (AFP Photo/Alexander Khudoteply)

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Students march during a military training exercise in a military school in Boyarka, near Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday Sept. 9, 2014. The state order for military experts has doubled this year in comparison with 2013, with 15 percent more young people requesting military education. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Indian tourists rescued from flooded areas rush towards a waiting air force helicopter as Indian army soldiers try to restrain them in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Sept.10, 2014.

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Indian tourists comfort their crying children inside an Indian air force helicopter after being rescued from a flooded neighborhood in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Sept.10, 2014. Raging monsoon floods sweeping across India and Pakistan have killed more than 440 people, authorities said Tuesday, warning hundreds of thousands more to be prepared to flee their homes as helicopters and boats raced to save marooned victims.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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Indian tourists rescued from flooded areas arrive with their children at an air force base in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Sept.10, 2014.

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Indian soldiers carry a rescued flood victim at the Air Force Station in Srinagar, in Indian Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reached 400 on Tuesday and have put more than half a million people in peril and rendered thousands homeless in the two neighboring states. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 photo Israeli border police officer detain a Palestinian teenager during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers that broke after the funeral of Mohammed Sunokrot in Jerusalem's Old City. While the world's attention was focused on the airstrikes and rockets over Gaza and Israel this summer, a wave of violence hit the streets of Jerusalem and is still roiling parts of this divided city at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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