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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43747727&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A major U.S. effort to erode support for the Taliban and al-Qaida by pumping millions of aid dollars into the violence-wracked Afghan border region is being threatened by attacks on aid workers, corruption and layers of bureaucracy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43746143&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Al-Qaida's North African offshoot claimed responsibility Thursday for the killing of nine security guards near an Algerian power facility, as well as eight other deadly attacks this month.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43745986&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to hold regular three-nation talks on strategy in their war in South Asia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43741993&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to hold regular three-nation talks on the volatile South Asian region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43742697&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Argentina's foreign minister says President Cristina Fernandez has summoned the U.S. to discuss the CIA director's comments about how the world economic crisis could destabilize some Latin American governments.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43741923&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's administration will seek to end Iran's nuclear ambition and its support for terrorism, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday — drawing an immediate rebuke from Iran's U.N. envoy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43741760&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Tanks rolled through the Bangladeshi capital Thursday in a show of force that finally persuaded mutinous border guards to lay down their arms, ending a two-day revolt that threatened to spread across the impoverished South Asian nation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43740447&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As people crowded into the capital for Barack Obama's inaugural celebration, senior counterterrorism officials huddled in the White House situation room, frantically trying to unravel intelligence about a possible attack on Washington.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43737139&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran's U.N. envoy sharply criticized new U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice Thursday, saying she was making the "same tired" accusations against Iran that the previous U.S. administration had made.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43738403&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea lashed out at critics warning it not to test a long-range missile, saying Thursday that it would punish those trying to disrupt its plan to send what it calls a satellite into orbit.