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![Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/000_Nic6278539.jpg?itok=M4krqibQ "Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]")
![President Barack Obama urged Congress Friday not to enact new sanctions on Iran in the near future. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/91308190.jpg?itok=vPcEPhAh "President Barack Obama urged Congress Friday not to enact new sanctions on Iran in the near future. [Getty Images]")
![White House Press Secretary Jay Carney warned that if the new legislation to impose fresh sanctions on Tehran is enacted, “the president would veto it.” [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/183956556.jpg?itok=_THo009n "White House Press Secretary Jay Carney warned that if the new legislation to impose fresh sanctions on Tehran is enacted, “the president would veto it.” [Getty Images]")
