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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46143564&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghanistan's state TV says the country's Supreme Court has ruled that President Hamid Karzai should remain in office until a new leader is chosen in a late summer election, even though the country's constitution says his term expires May 21.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46143422&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. can do nothing about North Korea's plans to launch a rocket even though it's a step toward developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that could carry a nuclear warhead, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46142898&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea is preparing to launch a short- or medium-range missile, possibly right after it carries out its plan to fire a long-range rocket in early April, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46140503&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * Nearly 90 countries, organisations to attend

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46140425&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Human rights groups welcomed the long-awaited start Monday of Cambodia's first genocide trial, but urged the U.N.-backed tribunal to bring many more Khmer Rouge leaders to justice.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46140359&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the short-term objectives for U.S. forces in Afghanistan have narrowed under President Barack Obama's new strategy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46138427&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi troops using loudspeakers ordered members of an armed Sunni neighborhood group in Baghdad to turn in their weapons Sunday after the arrest of their leader sparked fierce gunbattles with American and Iraqi troops.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46138305&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A prisoner swap deal with Hamas is all but impossible before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert leaves office this week and will have to wait for the new government to be sworn in, a top aide to the Israeli leader said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46136680&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Seeking to head off an explosion of ethnic violence, the United Nations will call for a power-sharing system of government for Iraq's deeply divided region of Kirkuk in the oil-rich north.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46137359&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * Proposal denies inmates leisure, educational privileges