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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63674161&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An army shell intended for a militant hide-out accidentally killed six civilians in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63672169&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Dozens of people staged a sit-in on a highway in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday after the army accidentally hit a house with an artillery shell, killing six people, while it was attacking suspected militant hide-outs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63670685&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Germany will extend its mission in Afghanistan for another year, the government said Wednesday, despite the growing unpopularity of the war at home.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63668924&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Attorney General Eric Holder says he was disturbed to learn of contacts between Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan and a radical imam overseas.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63668467&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63666828&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid conflicting reports of a heart attack, a car accident or suicide — raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old was killed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63666216&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's foreign minister has offered a simultaneous exchange of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel as a solution to the impasse over Iran's nuclear program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63662658&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top U.S. commander in Iraq says the timetable for an American troop withdrawal is still on track despite a dispute over a key election law that could delay national elections slated for January.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63662104&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Security forces increased patrols on some streets in the Afghan capital and blocked others entirely Wednesday, bracing for possible militant attacks during the inauguration ceremony that will cement President Hamid Karzai's tumultuous re-election victory.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63629519&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a disbarred civil rights lawyer and ordered her to begin serving her sentence while a judge reconsiders whether he was too lenient in giving her more than two years in prison for passing information between suspected terrorists.