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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67417640&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Washington's Middle East envoy faced a new obstacle Thursday as he launched his latest attempt to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks: Israel wants to keep troops on the West Bank's border with Jordan even if a deal is reached.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67415346&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said his talks Thursday with Pakistan's military and civilian leaders are intended to explain the U.S. war strategy in neighboring Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67403519&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. has begun preparing tents at Guantanamo Bay for Haitians migrants in case of a mass migration spurred by the earthquake, a senior official at the base said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67389689&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed allowing the federal government to borrow an additional $1.9 trillion to pay its bills, a record increase that would permit the national debt to reach $14.3 trillion.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67387213&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The nation's intelligence chief on Wednesday conceded missteps in the government's handling of the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt, but his comments about the failure to use a special federal interrogation team may have amounted to a misstep of his own.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67386642&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Hugo Chavez's foes charged Wednesday that newly announced changes to voting districts in a third of Venezuela will put opposition candidates at a disadvantage in congressional elections.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67384126&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two prominent Muslim scholars once accused of having ties to terrorism can reapply to travel to the United States now that the State Department has concluded they pose no danger to the country, federal spokesmen said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67383952&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The nation's intelligence chief on Wednesday conceded a new misstep in the government's handling of the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt, but his comments about the failure to use a special federal interrogation team may have amounted to a misstep of his own.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67378640&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at increasing online revenue without driving away advertisers that want the biggest possible audience.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67377192&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The trail of the plane busted in Thailand last month for allegedly smuggling North Korean weapons to Iran leads back to a small air freight company housed near an old Soviet airfield on the edge of the Kazakh steppe.