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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43666876&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. restrictions on trade with Cuba and family travel to the island would be eased under legislation passed by the House Wednesday but the changes could encounter trouble in the Senate.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43666741&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Some of the U.S. forces left in Iraq after President Barack Obama fulfills his pledge to withdraw combat troops will engage in operations against suspected terrorists, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43666717&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency cannot meet its 2012 deadline for screening all cargo coming into the U.S. for radiological and nuclear materials.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43666501&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The rebels were known for asking their victims if they preferred "long sleeves" or "short sleeves." They then cut off the hands of those who chose the first option and the full arm of those that picked the second.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43666502&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist rebels battled African Union (AU) peacekeepers and Somali police for a second day Wednesday, taking the death toll in the worst fighting for weeks to 81, witnesses and a rights group said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43664123&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK CAIRO/GAZA, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas exchanged promises on Wednesday to free each other's detainees in Gaza and the West Bank, in a goodwill gesture on the eve of national unity talks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43662250&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah agreed Wednesday to release each other's loyalists from detention, seeking to lower tensions during reconciliation talks, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43662463&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Influential US Senator John Kerry called Wednesday for an urgent boost in Western aid to Pakistan, warning "time is running out" to help the nuclear-armed US ally's civilian government survive.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43659560&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK JERUSALEM, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged Hamas on Wednesday to clinch a prisoner exchange with Israel before he leaves office, saying his successor would be less willing to free jailed Palestinians.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43662064&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has asked the United States to provide unmanned aircraft that would allow Pakistan to strike extremists hiding in rugged terrain along the Afghan border.