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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67668700&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's prime minister declared on Sunday that his country would retain parts of the West Bank forever — a statement that infuriated Palestinians and could complicate the year-old peace mission of a visiting U.S. envoy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67665985&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Afghanistan announced on Sunday that it is postponing parliamentary polls for four months, days ahead of crunch talks on the war-torn nation in London, saying it was unsafe to go ahead amid a spiralling Taliban insurgency.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67662590&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has defended an underground steel wall along the border with neighboring Gaza as necessary for his nation's security.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67662429&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Authorities found the bodies of six Pakistani men near the Afghan border Sunday who were killed by militants for allegedly spying for the U.S. in an area that has been hit by a wave of drone missile strikes in recent weeks, said intelligence officials and residents.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67661826&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iraqi official says the country's prime minister has ordered a probe into the use of bomb-detection devices Iraq bought from a British company.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67660264&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration's Mideast envoy pressed on Sunday with a sputtering year-old peace mission, shuttling between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in hopes of breaking a stubborn deadlock over Israeli settlement construction.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67660243&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked — to Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67656857&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK NATO says three U.S. service members have been killed in two bombings in southern Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67656226&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea threatened South Korea with war Sunday after Seoul warned it would launch a pre-emptive strike if the North was preparing a nuclear attack — the latest salvo in a battle of rhetoric despite signs of improved cooperation across the militarized frontier.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67652486&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Human Rights Watch says Iran's post-election unrest is a "full-blown human rights crisis" and calls on Tehran to free government critics detained during the crackdown.