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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43523070&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK Feb 24 (Reuters) – Pakistani Taliban militants announced on Tuesday an indefinite ceasefire in the Swat valley in the northwest of the country, a day after the army said it was ceasing operations in the region.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43522609&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK JERUSALEM, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu met Roni Bar-On, finance minister in the outgoing Israeli government and a member of the centrist Kadima party, on Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43514131&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK NEW DELHI, Feb 24 (Reuters) – India has been granted a "lifeline" after most Kashmiris voted in landmark elections but the government must avoid complacency and intransigence if it is to bring peace, Indian Kashmir's new leader said on Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43511596&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Taliban militants extended a cease-fire Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan's Swat valley, granting more time for peace talks with the government that the U.S. worries could create a haven for insurgents in the nuclear-armed country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43504804&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK NAIROBI, Feb 24 (Reuters) – The new Somali government's priorities are to stabilise Mogadishu, help the homeless, and build on a lull in violence between local factions in the Horn of Africa nation, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43468814&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday visited the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the Obama administration weighs what is needed to shut the facility.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43466173&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Defense Department effort to help Pakistan secure its border with Afghanistan and root out Taliban fighters is underfunded by as much as 73 percent — a budget shortfall so severe that it could slow down operations next month, according to a report released Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43454326&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Israel and the West Bank next week for her first trip to the region as America's top diplomat, Israeli and Palestinian officials said Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43451502&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq's restored National Museum reopened Monday with a red-carpet gala in the heart of Baghdad nearly six years after looters carried away priceless antiquities as American troops largely stood by in the chaos of the city's fall to U.S. forces.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43448506&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military in Iraq says three US soldiers and an interpreter have been killed in combat north of Baghdad.