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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41042620&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK JERUSALEM, Jan 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to the Middle East is expected to arrive in the region next week, bringing a quick start to the new administration's efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41042568&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Diplomacy now trumps defense as the main instrument of American foreign policy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41040659&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said no nation is more important to the United States than China. But ties between the two powers may be off to a rocky start just days into the Obama administration.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41040388&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. coalition in Afghanistan opened an investigation into an overnight raid early Saturday that American commanders say killed 15 armed militants but that two Afghan officials say killed 11 civilians.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41038216&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The death toll from two suspected U.S. missile attacks on al-Qaida bases in northwest Pakistan has risen to 22, officials and residents said Saturday. Eight suspected foreign militants were among the dead.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41038179&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq will reopen the notorious Abu Ghraib prison next month, but it's getting a facelift and a new name, a senior justice official said Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41040082&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK GAZA, Jan 24 (Reuters) – An unofficial truce between Israel and the Islamist Hamas group which controls the Gaza Strip will hold as long as Egyptian mediation continues, a Palestinian official close to Egyptian-sponsored talks said on Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41038204&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The British government urged the BBC on Saturday to drop its refusal to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for victims of the war in Gaza.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41036799&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Tens of thousands of children wearing uniforms and carrying satchels flocked back to schools in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, days after Israel ended its fierce military operation against the territory's militant Hamas rulers.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41036066&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide car-bomb attack near an African Union peacekeepers' base killed 14 people in the Somali capital on Saturday, the mayor of Mogadishu said.