Antiwar Newswire

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45871356&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Israeli military is disputing Palestinian claims that most of the people killed in the recent Gaza Strip war were civilians.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45868749&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Egypt is still mediating talks between Israel and Hamas on a prisoner swap that would include the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, an Egyptian government official said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45868688&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The people of Iraq are probably freer now than at any time in their history, the British government said Thursday in an upbeat assessment of the country's human rights record.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45868736&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK (Recasts with government comment)

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45868625&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45868546&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. and South Korea warned of serious consequences Thursday if North Korea forges ahead and fires a rocket that American officials say is now positioned on a launchpad in the northeast for fueling.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45868520&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sudan's president visited his third country in four days Thursday, this time touching down in Libya, the latest country to welcome the leader who's wanted by an international court on war crimes.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45868434&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's first meeting next week with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is a historic opportunity to set a course for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide, a group of some 100 international leaders said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45865847&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghanistan's intelligence chief accused Pakistan's spy agency of helping Taliban militants to carry out attacks in his country like the ones that killed 10 policemen Thursday and wounded eight others.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45865736&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sri Lanka's military said Thursday it has repulsed a Tamil Tiger counterattack in the north of the island and killed at least 30 of the rebels.