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$Lebanese mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the Syrian town of Qusair, during his funeral procession in his hometown of Nabi Sheet in the eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Monday May 20, 2013. Fierce street fighting in Qusair, Syria, near the Lebanese border has killed at least 28 elite members of Lebanon\'s militant Hezbollah group, activists said Monday, as Syrian government forces pushed deeper into the strategic, opposition-held town. The barefaced Hezbollah involvement -- several funerals for group members were held in Lebanon Monday -- edges the war further into a regional sectarian conflict pitting the Middle East s Iranian-backed Shiite axis against Sunnis.$

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$Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota at the State Department in Washington Monday, May 20, 2013. Kerry is heading back to the Middle East this week to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad\'s regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia.$

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$Visitors look at Michael Kamber\'s \'Journalists On War\' exhbiton during the opening of the book\'s launch in New York, May, 15, 2013. Kamber gathered previously unpublished photographs by the world’s top news photographers, presenting a visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East. Michael Kamber interviewed photojournalists from leading news organizations, including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington Post, to create a collection of eyewitness accounts of the Iraq War yet published.$

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Turkish university students, who were protesting the explosions that killed 51 people in Reyhanli near the border with Syria last week, clash with riot police at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

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$Farouk Soussa, Citi\'s chief economist for the Middle East, speaks during the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Authority (DMCC) and Thomson Reuters Spring Energy Forum in Dubai in this April 17, 2012 file photo. One of the world\'s richest countries per capita, Kuwait has struggled for years to get big infrastructure projects off the ground because of bureaucratic red tape and political turmoil. A parliamentary election in December 2012 was the fifth in six years. The election seemed to be a turning point, however, since an opposition boycott of the poll meant members of parliament seen as more willing to cooperate with the government were elected. To match story KUWAIT-POLITICS/ECONOMY.$

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Lebanese mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the Syrian town of Qusair, during his funeral procession in his hometown of Nabi Sheet in the eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Monday May 20, 2013. Fierce street fighting in Qusair, Syria, near the Lebanese border has killed at least 28 elite members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, activists said Monday, as Syrian government forces pushed deeper into the strategic, opposition-held town. The barefaced Hezbollah involvement -- several funerals for group members were held in Lebanon Monday -- edges the war further into a regional sectarian conflict pitting the Middle East s Iranian-backed Shiite axis against Sunnis.

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota at the State Department in Washington Monday, May 20, 2013. Kerry is heading back to the Middle East this week to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia.

ANTIBES, FRANCE - MAY 19: Archie Drury (R) with Karoline Huber, Brand Director IWC Middle East, at the exclusive For the Love of Cinema event hosted by Swiss luxury watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen at the famous Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Cap dAntibes, France, 19 May 2013.

Visitors look at Michael Kamber's 'Journalists On War' exhbiton during the opening of the book's launch in New York, May, 15, 2013. Kamber gathered previously unpublished photographs by the world’s top news photographers, presenting a visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East. Michael Kamber interviewed photojournalists from leading news organizations, including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington Post, to create a collection of eyewitness accounts of the Iraq War yet published.

Turkish university students, who were protesting the explosions that killed 51 people in Reyhanli near the border with Syria last week, clash with riot police at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Farouk Soussa, Citi's chief economist for the Middle East, speaks during the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Authority (DMCC) and Thomson Reuters Spring Energy Forum in Dubai in this April 17, 2012 file photo. One of the world's richest countries per capita, Kuwait has struggled for years to get big infrastructure projects off the ground because of bureaucratic red tape and political turmoil. A parliamentary election in December 2012 was the fifth in six years. The election seemed to be a turning point, however, since an opposition boycott of the poll meant members of parliament seen as more willing to cooperate with the government were elected. To match story KUWAIT-POLITICS/ECONOMY.

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