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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46134992&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan, March 29 (Reuters) – Taliban militants kidnapped 11 Pakistani policemen on Sunday in an attack on a security post in the Khyber region on the Afghan border, a government spokesman said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46132168&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * Kenyan rights activists go into hiding

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46132166&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK STRASBOURG, March 29 (Reuters) – Strasbourg is shutting schools, sending out up to 15,000 troops and police, and even sealing up the manholes into its sewers as the city readies itself to host NATO's 60th anniversary summit.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46130225&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Insurgent attacks and a roadside bomb killed 10 Afghan security force members in at least four incidents across Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46117663&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Spy satellites have photographed the nose cone of a long-range North Korean rocket on its launch pad but its remains unclear whether it is carrying a satellite or a warhead, a report said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46104892&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The man who energetically led Peru back from the brink of economic collapse and crushed a fanatical Maoist insurgency during his 1990s presidency is now a much diminished figure. The once-leonine Alberto Fujimori shuffles wearily in and out of a courtroom, awaiting what most Peruvians believe will be his conviction on murder and [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46101687&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan relies heavily on civilian efforts, and she is calling for all U.S. diplomats to contribute.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46096273&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The military chief of Kurdish rebels launching attacks into Turkey from hideouts in Iraq said his group will not lay down its arms until there is a political settlement between the Turkish government and the militants, according to an audio tape released Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46098429&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States hopes to engage with Iran on issues related to Afghanistan at an international conference in The Hague Tuesday, a senior White House official said Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46096176&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States is not planning to lift its embargo on Cuba.