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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45825992&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's influential parliament speaker on a visit to Iraq is downplaying U.S. President Barack Obama's recent videotaped overture to Iran.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45822448&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Attacks on Iraqi security forces have increased in an area south of Baghdad where the Iraqis are in control, even as violence nationwide has fallen to levels of the first months of the war, U.S. officers said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45818085&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel fired white phosphorous shells indiscriminately over densely populated areas of Gaza in what amounts to a war crime, Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45819997&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran has accepted an invitation to a conference on Afghanistan next week that also will be attended by the U.S., the conference's Dutch host said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45818157&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK PRAGUE, March 25 (Reuters) – Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Wednesday he would ask U.S. President Barack Obama if he is serious about plans for a missile defence shield in central Europe, but he did not expect it to be killed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45814178&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The streets are calmer now. The fighting between Shiites and Sunnis has largely ceased. But this is not a sign of normalcy in the Iraqi capital. It's fear that keeps the peace.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45813193&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Syria's president said indirect peace talks with Israel failed last year because the Jewish state would not make an unambiguous commitment to return all the territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war, according to an interview published Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45810150&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Egypt, one of the strongest U.S. allies in the Middle East, welcomed Sudan's president on Wednesday despite an international warrant seeking his arrest on charges of war crimes in Darfur.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45809005&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK When Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shook hands with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the White House lawn on March 26, 1979, ordinary Israelis saw not only an end to war with their largest neighbor but also the hope of warm relations with the people next door.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45800299&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Yemen's Interior Ministry says it has arrested six men for plotting attacks against foreigners in the country.