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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45940225&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=45940050&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK BAGHDAD, March 27 (Reuters) – The results of Iraq's January provincial elections are final and complaints have been rejected, the country's election watchdog said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45918353&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * Obama to unveil Afghan review on Friday

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45918129&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Concerned about the faltering war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers on top of the 17,000 fresh combat troops he's already ordered, people familiar with the forthcoming plan said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45914604&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton promised Thursday to help Mexico end soaring drug-related violence along the border that she called "intolerable," but she said Mexico must do its part in cleaning up its police and judicial systems.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45914466&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea's positioning of a rocket on its east coast launchpad ratcheted up tensions Thursday with Washington, which warned that pushing ahead with the April launch would violate a U.N. ban and have serious consequences.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45912471&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK When Israeli soldiers expelled Abir Hijeh, her five children and their neighbors from homes in a Gaza war zone, she said they warned her in broken Arabic: Go south or you might get shot.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45912455&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK GAZA, March 26 (Reuters) – A Palestinian official said on Thursday Israel had revised a list of Palestinian prisoners it might release in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45909700&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thirty years after Egypt signed a historic peace treaty with Israel — the first Arab country to do so — many here still question whether the 1979 deal with the Jewish state delivered the benefits Egyptians believed it was supposed to.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45909680&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama plans to dispatch additional U.S. troops plus hundreds of civilian advisers in hopes of turning around a faltering war in Afghanistan and will recommend increasing aid to neighboring Pakistan so long as leaders there confront militancy, people familiar with the forthcoming plan said Thursday.