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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67641702&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Some groups are calling on the United States to challenge China?s "firewall" before the World Trade Organization, as a bilateral row over cyberattacks on Google adds to trade tensions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67616138&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Tens of thousands of Venezuelans opposed to President Hugo Chavez took to the streets Saturday, blaming him for rolling blackouts, water rationing, widespread crime and other problems they say are making daily life increasingly difficult.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67593726&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security contractors involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67546699&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Vice President Joe Biden brought Washington's concerns about Iraqi political tensions directly to leaders in Baghdad on Friday, but officials appeared to leave little room for outside mediation over whether to ban hundreds of election candidates for suspected links to Saddam Hussein's regime.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67541172&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. officials say a new accord with the United Nations formally gives the American military a supporting role in international relief efforts in Haiti, but keeps them in charge of the Caribbean nation's airspace, ports and roads.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67537086&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A defense contracting firm that had been banned from bidding on government contracts after a kickback scandal has been sold to a Canadian company.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67536703&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Afghan government banned a fertilizer chemical on Friday that was used in the devastating Oklahoma City bombing and in most of the homemade explosives that have killed and maimed hundreds of American soldiers here.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67535668&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Muslim volunteers discovered Friday that sectarian violence in central Nigeria this week extended beyond the long-restive city of Jos and into the burned shell of what used to be a small village near it.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67532532&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States has no designs on Pakistan's nuclear weapons or "a single inch of Pakistani soil," U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Pakistani military officers Friday, adding that fighting terrorists along the Afghan border is in Pakistan's interest as well as Washington's.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67531343&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia and the U.S. will resume stalled talks on a replacement nuclear arms reduction treaty in early February, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday.