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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55725720&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal appeals court on Tuesday kept alive a wrongful death lawsuit against Iran over Hezbollah's assassination of the former chief of the country's armed forces 25 years ago.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55719038&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Attorneys for a young Guantanamo Bay detainee being considered for prosecution in the United States said Tuesday that the government has no authority to continue holding him in Cuba and Afghanistan is ready to pick him up.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55718229&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. is hearing only silence from Iran on its offers of dialogue. Iran's leaders, who initially seemed to welcome engagement, are turning inward to deal with the post-election crisis.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55717320&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The coup in Honduras has shown the limits to Hugo Chavez's power in the region, as Latin America looks to Washington to resolve the ordeal.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55714552&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In the four months since hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to power, West Bank Palestinians have enjoyed an economic recovery and Israel has experienced a period of relative calm.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55714380&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday that Iran is still training and equipping Iraqi insurgents but is shifting its focus to influence the upcoming Iraqi elections and exerting "soft power" over its majority-Shiite neighbor.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55708181&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thousands of Somalis fleeing fighting around the capital have massed in a northern town, trying to cross the Gulf of Aden and sneak into Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55698857&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki discussed plans Tuesday to leave U.S. weapons behind after American troops leave, but Gates sidestepped media questions about whether any of his country's forces might stay beyond a planned 2012 departure date.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55693578&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Federal authorities were searching Tuesday for a U.S. citizen charged with plotting "violent jihad" as part of a North Carolina group suspected of international terrorist aspirations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55689861&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.N. agencies and two dozen international aid groups urged Israel on Tuesday to lift its blockade of Gaza or at least allow in construction materials to repair war-damaged schools.