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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64232011&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration on Wednesday welcomed Israel's decision to temporarily freeze new construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank as a step toward resolving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64231456&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Pakistan's television networks are heaping political pressure on an increasingly unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari with critical and influential programming that offers a voice to the poor.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64229540&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools, a report said Wednesday, as hard-liners expand an ideological "soft war" against Western influence.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64229326&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran and Libya, not Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, were Britain's main security concerns before the invasion of Iraq, Foreign Office officials testified Wednesday at an inquiry probing Britain's role in the war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64228220&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The White House says President Barack Obama is placing heavy emphasis on how the United States eventually will withdraw from Afghanistan even as he plans to announce a troop increase next week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64226021&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK India's prime minister said Wednesday that Pakistan must do more to punish the masterminds of last year's terrorist attacks in the Indian financial capital.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64223162&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police patrol. An old woman was beaten by the Taliban after she tried to stop them from taking her son.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64221340&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Assailants broke into a house and killed six family members before dawn Wednesday in an area north of Baghdad that was once a stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraqi officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64220301&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have ordered the resumption of a Serb nationalist's trial almost a year after it was suspended amid claims of witness intimidation, the court announced Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64216208&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Palestinian officials are rejecting an expected offer from Israel's prime minister to partially freeze West Bank settlement construction, even before it is made public.