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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51125317&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will continue to build homes in existing West Bank settlements, defying U.S. calls to halt settlement growth.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51121780&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top U.S. military official says the Pentagon is working to meet President Barack Obama's one-year deadline to close the Guantanamo prison for suspected terrorists.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51119216&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will continue to build homes in existing West Bank settlements, defying U.S. calls to halt settlement growth.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51119019&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The job of rebuilding Afghanistan is shaping up as an ominous sequel to the massive, mistake-riddled U.S. effort to get Iraq back on its feet.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51117396&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's top military adviser says Iran's objective is to obtain nuclear weapons — and that threatens the region.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51117221&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that nearly two dozen wildcat settlement outposts in the West Bank would be torn down, and warned that settlers would be evicted forcefully if they resisted.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51109931&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sri Lanka's president on Sunday rejected a call by the U.N. secretary-general to lift restrictions on aid delivery to overcrowded displacement camps, saying the army must first finish screening the hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51109837&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Gunshots pierced the air as Pakistani troops battled Taliban extremists in the Swat Valley's main city, a trapped civilian said, while helicopter gunships pounded alleged militant hide-outs in a nearby tribal region Sunday, killing at least 18 people.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51106165&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sri Lanka's government has pledged to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon that it will rebuild democracy in territory recaptured from Tamil Tiger rebels and reintegrate child soldiers conscripted into the rebel army before its defeat last week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51102428&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Growing Islamist violence has crippled the economy in northwest Pakistan, made tens of thousands of people unemployed and exacerbated the poverty that breeds fundamentalism, business leaders say.