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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45960131&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK HLUBOKA, Czech Republic, March 27 (Reuters) – European Union countries said on Friday they were ready to step up their presence in Afghanistan to complement a new U.S. plan aimed at ending a deepening insurgency there.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45959134&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Algeria's president mingled with crowds of potential voters as he campaigned Friday for re-election in the restive Kabylie region of Algeria, a hotbed of terrorists and a stronghold of the leftist opposition.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45959034&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Myanmar's junta chief set some ground rules Friday for elections scheduled for 2010, calling on political parties to avoid smear campaigns and to remember it will take awhile to establish a "mature" democracy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45958670&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Gunmen killed a Sunni Arab cleric and wounded his son at a town northeast of Baghdad where a suicide bomber struck a Kurdish funeral this week, security officials said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45954775&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK KHESUM, China, March 27 (Reuters) – Lots of salty yak butter tea and an end to harsh beatings marked the start of the 1960s for farmer Kigya, who grew up shackled to the estate of a local nobleman by the inherited ties that once bound most Tibetans.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45953142&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK LANDI KOTAL, Pakistan, March 27 (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people when he blew himself up in a crowded Pakistani mosque near the Afghan border on Friday, government officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45944558&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A senior U.S. official said Friday that Kyrgyzstan and Washington have agreed to continue talks over a key American air base that American forces had been told to leave within six months.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45944399&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK March 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama plans to announce on Friday the United States will deploy 4,000 extra troops to train Afghan security forces in a strategy to disrupt al Qaeda and roll back Taliban advances.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45941870&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * N. Korea should abstain from launch, Russia says

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45941720&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China's government applauded itself Friday for overturning Tibet's feudal hierarchy 50 years ago and bringing in economic development with a celebration of a newly created anniversary that has added to tensions in Tibetan areas.