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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46181571&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK GAZA, March 29 (Reuters) – There is a strong chance talks resuming this week can help heal a rift between the Islamist Hamas group and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, a senior Hamas leader said on Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46180867&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S.-backed Iraqi forces swept through a central Baghdad slum Sunday, disarming Sunnis from a government-allied paramilitary group to quell a two-day uprising launched to protest the arrest of their leader.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46179580&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * Pakistanis must see Qaeda is a threat to them- Obama

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46176854&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK KIRKUK, Iraq, March 29 (Reuters) – Iraqi politicians from rival Arab, Kurd and Turkman ethnic groups will delay until June recommendations on the disputed city of Kirkuk, as they have failed to resolve a feud over the issue, they said on Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46173431&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Authorities in an impoverished Palestinian refugee camp have shut down a youth orchestra, boarded up its rehearsal studio and banned its conductor from the camp after she took 13 young musicians to perform for Holocaust survivors in Israel, an official said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46173514&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK KABUL, March 29 (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced on Sunday he would stay in office after his term officially ends on May 21 until elections are held in August, after receiving a green light from the Supreme Court.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46170580&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that economic sanctions would be more effective than diplomatic overtures in bringing Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46166238&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Acting on a tip, 30 masked soldiers in combat gear bust down the door of a boarded-up house to find 55 terrified migrants, hostages of the Gulf drug cartel.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46164139&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * British forces starting to leave Basra

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46163286&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK BERLIN, March 29 (Reuters) – Germany said at the weekend it was ready to meet U.S. President Barack Obama's request for more resources in Afghanistan, saying it could step up its training of local police and security forces.