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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57172311&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama will visit China for the first time in November, the new U.S. ambassador said Saturday, a day after he arrived in the country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57171227&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The lawyer for two Pakistani students who returned home Saturday after being detained in Britain during a series of terrorism raids said they were frequently strip-searched and served tainted food — a claim the British embassy rejected.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57142774&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration expects the federal deficit over the next decade to be $2 trillion bigger than previously estimated, White House officials said Friday, a setback for a president already facing a Congress and public wary over spending.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57134850&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Some worshippers stayed away from mosques Friday, offering their traditional prayers at home. Markets had fewer-than-usual shoppers. Parks were strangely uncrowded — unusual for a hot August day.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57134758&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says pressure from fellow Cabinet members to raise the nation's terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election helped convince him it was time to quit working for President George W. Bush.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57134690&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama congratulated the Afghan people Friday for pulling off a presidential election in the midst of violent intimidation by Taliban militants but cautioned that more difficult days lie ahead for the war-weary nation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57133471&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Senior Iraqi officials and lawmakers recommended a review of security leadership, better coordination on intelligence and firmer treatment of detainees Friday as anger mounted over truck bombings against key government institutions that killed nearly 100 people.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57131902&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Moscow court has formally arrested eight people suspected of hijacking a freighter at the center of a monthlong high-seas mystery, according to Russian news agencies.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57129704&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The man Iran's president has named to be defense minister is wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and his nomination drew an outcry Friday from Argentina and Jewish groups.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57129098&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A 21-year-old Navajo soldier killed in Afghanistan was described by his mother as someone who made everyone smile and his father remembered him as an outgoing man with an interest in the outdoors and art.