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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=48955009&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain's government ratified a prisoner transfer deal with Libya Wednesday that could allow the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to serve out the remainder of his sentence in the North African country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=48954962&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK About 30 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared for release, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday as he tried to persuade European allies to take some of them.

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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=48948588&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A judge at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Wednesday rejected challenges by Radovan Karadzic and said the U.N. court had jurisdiction to try him on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=48947724&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The American military says a U.S.-Iraqi patrol has been ambushed while distributing grants to Iraqi businesses near the northern city of Kirkuk.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=48947175&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top Taliban commander warned Wednesday that militants would unleash a wave of ambushes, roadside bombs and suicide attacks in a new spring offensive. In a possible harbinger of coming violence, coalition and Afghan troops killed 42 militants in three operations, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=48946284&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea threatened Wednesday to conduct nuclear and missile tests unless the U.N. apologizes for criticizing its April 5 rocket launch, dramatically raising its stake in the worsening standoff over its atomic programs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=48945748&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of Taliban fighters in a fierce struggle to drive them from a district near the capital, while the militants took over police stations and kidnapped more than 50 security forces, the army said.