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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43737726&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. and Syrian diplomats met Thursday in an effort to improve strained ties, though Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said it was too soon to say whether relations would improve.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43737241&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is sending her new envoy for North Korea policy to Asia early next week to work on reviving stalled international nuclear talks with an increasingly hostile Pyongyang.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43735979&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama wants only a modest increase in defense spending.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43735978&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday criticized a new U.S. State Department report on human rights as "biased."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43734836&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq took another step toward healing its rift with Kuwait on Thursday as government leaders welcomed the highest-ranking Kuwaiti envoy since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43734297&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Three Americans held captive by Colombia's leftist rebels for 5 1/2 years published a memoir Thursday full of wrenching survival stories and unkind words about Ingrid Betancourt, the most famous hostage who shared their jungle prisons.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43734214&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Ohio man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday over allegations he joined al-Qaida and helped plot terrorist bombings in the U.S. and overseas.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43732034&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.N. chief acknowledged Thursday that a widely expected arrest warrant for Sudan's president in connection with atrocities in Darfur could result in a political fallout and urged him to protect peacekeepers and civilians.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43729787&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Venezuela and Bolivia on Thursday condemned a U.S. State Department report on human rights problems in the South American countries, saying Washington has no right to pass judgment.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43728149&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's next leader sat face-to-face Thursday with a man whose vision of Israeli-Palestinian relations is radically different from his own: the Obama administration's new Mideast envoy.