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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43662001&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Republican Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that security gains in Iraq could be lost if the new administration pulls troops out too quickly, but he didn't dismiss the feasibility of President Barack Obama's 19-month timetable.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43658947&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK CIA Director Leon Panetta says Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela are in dire economic straits and could be destabilized by the worldwide economic crisis.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43656942&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday the Guantanamo detention center is a well-run, professional facility that will be difficult to close — but he's still going to do it. Holder visited the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday and spoke to reporters about his trip during a news conference Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43656827&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iraqi Airways jet carrying a Sunni lawmaker accused of being a terror boss was ordered back to Baghdad on Wednesday, but authorities could only watch as the combative legislator slipped away before fellow parliament members stripped him of his immunity.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43655100&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s amounted to genocide.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43645528&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Rwandan troops began pulling out of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday after a controversial joint operation with Congolese troops against Rwandan Hutu rebels.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43645604&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Pakistan's human rights record remains poor with serious problems in prison conditions and the treatment of women, although the situation is improving, the US State Department said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43652654&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States on Wednesday scolded China for a litany of human rights abuses last year even though Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested during her recent Beijing visit that the issue would take a back seat to broader concerns like the global financial crisis.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43650736&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Senior intelligence officials told South Korean lawmakers Wednesday that the projectile being prepared for launch in North Korea appears to be a long-range missile, not a satellite as claimed by the communist country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43643904&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s amounted to genocide.