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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60162924&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi lawmakers appear to be snagged again at a familiar impasse: how to settle power-sharing disputes in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk before important national elections.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60162905&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi lawmakers appear to be snagged again at a familiar impasse: how to settle power-sharing disputes in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk before important national elections.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60162261&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Lee Myung-bak said Thursday that South Korea should strengthen its armed forces to cope with a continuing nuclear threat from North Korea despite recent conciliatory gestures.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60158684&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police clashed with Amazon Indians protesting proposed water, oil and mining laws Wednesday, leaving at least 29 police officers and nine Indians wounded, Ecuadorean officials said. Indians said two civilians were killed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60153405&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In a rebuff to both President Barack Obama and his former presidential opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to kill $2.5 billion for 10 new C-17 cargo jets and devote the money to military readiness accounts.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60151893&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A judge cited national security concerns in ruling Wednesday that the CIA does not have to release hundreds of documents related to the destruction of videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations that used harsh methods.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60150173&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK With top commanders and congressional Republicans pushing for more troops, President Barack Obama met Wednesday with key members of his national security team to hash out a response to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's report on the Afghanistan war and his call for more U.S. forces to save the mission.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60148245&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan Wednesday after a widely publicized dispute with his boss over how to deal with widespread fraud charges in the country's presidential election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60146809&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A "handful" of men in New York are possible associates of the chief suspect in a suspected plot to use homemade bombs to attack New York City commuter trains, and investigators have them under heavy surveillance, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60144720&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Marine apologized Wednesday for killing an Iraqi man during a battle to recapture the city of Fallujah after a military judge heard his taped confession describing the executions of four unarmed detainees inside a house.