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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63873471&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out Friday at negative U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many issues.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63870689&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63868846&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63867749&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Army says there will be an outside review of how body armor for its soldiers is tested.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63866398&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63866084&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63862567&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63861784&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan expressed fear Friday that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into its territory and called on the U.S. to factor in that concern as part of its new war strategy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63857137&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63854081&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback.