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Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa speaks during a press conference in Tripoli on March 19. Koussa arrived in Britain on March 30, and told the British government that he was resigning from his post.
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Monty has been certified as a therapy dog in both the U.S. and the U.K., where he formerly worked as a rat-catcher in a horse barn.
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday about Operation Odyssey Dawn.
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A view of the Three Mile Island power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. In 1979, a reactor at the plant experienced a partial meltdown, but radioactive material never escaped containment.
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