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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43709730&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK BARDALA, West Bank, Feb 26 (Reuters) – This Palestinian village is about as far as you can get from the Gaza Strip without leaving the West Bank and crossing the river into Jordan — which is forbidden.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43709625&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A former high-ranking CIA official has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for a fraud scheme in which he steered procurement contracts to an old friend.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43709617&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China and the United States have sparred again over human rights, just days after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she hoped the ever-prickly issue would not color relations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43708761&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror against Kosovo Albanians, and ordered him released from custody.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43707546&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Air travelers would probably have to pay more in three years to have their shoes inspected at airports under a spending proposal from the Obama administration.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43706549&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK *Deficit for FY2009 would represent 12.3 percent of GDP

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43706502&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sri Lankan police arrested the editor of a Tamil-language newspaper in the middle of a funeral Thursday, accusing him of aiding a rebel air attack on the capital last week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43706501&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The special U.S. envoy tasked with re-energizing stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians met Thursday with Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, a vocal opponent of the negotiations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43706252&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama says the true costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will no longer be "left off the books."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43705874&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK JERUSALEM, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Differences over Palestinian statehood are likely to scupper Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to forge a broad government with his main rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, an official from his Likud party said on Thursday.