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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43822965&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Responding to calls for an accounting of prisoner abuses in the war on terrorism, the head of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee said Friday her panel would investigate the CIA's treatment of suspects.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43818636&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia's foreign minister said Friday he will focus on arms control talks during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next week, while Moscow has demonstrated its revived military might by sending a bomber on patrol near Canada and putting a new military radar on duty.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43818414&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States has decided not to participate in a U.N. conference on racism in April unless the final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and its criticism of religion, a senior U.S. official said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43814375&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan soldiers battled Tamil Tiger rebels house-to-house in the last town the separatist rebels control, seizing more territory and pushing them closer to a final standoff, the military said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43809035&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK KINSHASA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Most of the members of Democratic Republic of Congo's top parliamentary committee have quit in a deepening dispute over the presence of Rwandan forces in the country's violent east, lawmakers said on Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43814050&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK While President Barack Obama's determination to get the U.S. out of Iraq has been a constant theme, his timetable has been a moving target.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43812984&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A ranking Algerian diplomat suspected in the 1987 murder of a dissident in Paris is free to go home, three months after Algeria called him a hostage of France.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43808931&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Firefighters searching the headquarters compound of Bangladesh's border guards on Friday uncovered the grisly results of the force's two-day mutiny — dozens of senior officers massacred, their bodies hurriedly dumped into shallow graves and sewers.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43808837&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he thinks it would be a good idea to keep a small number of U.S. forces in Iraq past a deadline agreed to by the U.S. and Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43808646&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia's U.N. ambassador accused the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Friday of not doing enough to prevent last year's war in Georgia which resulted in a full-scale Russian invasion.