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**FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press/SANA)

Syrian activists: Explosion in Aleppo kills 5

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

At least 4 killed in Syrian raid on campus

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Suicide car bombs kill 9, injure scores in Syrian city

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters during a press conference at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party on Monday, April 30, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo)

Suu Kyi, her party to attend parliament Wednesday

Associated Press

A Syrian man (left) stands in front of a building that was damaged after two bombs exploded near a military compound in Idlib, Syria, on Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Suicide blasts kill 9 in Syrian city of Idlib

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Aung San Suu Kyi discusses her talks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle after their meeting at her house in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday.

World Briefs: U.N. chief arrives to promote reforms

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Norwegian Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, head of the U.N. observer team in Syria, is seen next to a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Head of U.N. mission in Syria urges halt to violence

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Friday, April 27, 2012, purports to show the head of the U.N. observer team, Col. Ahmed Himmiche, center, walking in Daraa, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syria accuses U.N. chief of encouraging ‘terrorists’

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Thursday, April 26, 2012, a Syrian man holds the Syrian revolutionary flag during a demonstration in Hama, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syria says suicide bomber kills 10 in Damascus

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

** FILE ** An abandoned U.N. World Food Program vehicle sits amid the devastation from Sri Lanka's civil war in the conflict zone on the country's northeast coast in May 2009. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

U.N. finds cluster bombs in Sri Lanka

By Ravi Nessman - Associated Press

Syrian protesters gather around U.N. observers during their visit to the restive suburb of Douma, outside Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo)

Activists: Syrian forces resume shelling

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

World Briefs: 1 billion tourists expected this year

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Charles Taylor

VLASIC: Charles Taylor verdict: End to impunity

By Mark V. Vlasic

A U.N. observer and a Syrian army officer (left) listen to citizens during a visit to pro-Syrian-regime neighborhoods in Homs province of central Syria on Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian rebels target security officials in Damascus

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Syrian security forces raid a neighborhood in Daraa, Syria, in this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and accessed on Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)

Activists: Dozens killed in Hama after U.N. visit

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Angelina Jolie visits Ecuador as UN envoy

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

A United Nations vehicle passes under a Syrian flag held by supporters of President Bashar Assad in Homs on Monday. Syrian troops armed with heavy machine guns killed dozens in the central city of Hama after the U.N. visit. (Sana via Associated Press)

Activists: Dozens killed after U.N. visit to monitor Syrian cease-fire

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video purports to show a Free Syrian Army solider accompanying U.N. observers in Rastan town in Homs, Syria. (Associated Press)

U.N. monitors tour Syrian town; troops pound suburb

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

This image made from video and supplied by Syrian TV shows U.N. observers during a visit to Homs, Syria, on Saturday, April 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Syria TV via AP Video)

U.N. observers tour rebel-held Syria town

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

**FILE** Afghan farmers work in an opium poppy field in Nawa district of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2009. (Associated Press)

Doubts of victory surface in war on Afghan poppy crops

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times