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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68021294&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili says he has proposed to the United States that his country become a logistics hub for the expanding U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. The Obama administration may not be eager to accept the offer as it seeks to improve relations with Russia.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68020078&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An author and democracy activist who criticized Vietnam's communist government was sentenced Friday to four years in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the state, her lawyer said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68017488&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An author and democracy activist who criticized Vietnam's communist government has been sentenced to four years in prison for spreading propaganda against the state.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68012396&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Honduras' new administration began its term Thursday saying the nation is bankrupt and will likely need international financial assistance to recover from months of diplomatic isolation over its June coup.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67997776&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Venezuela denies one of its military helicopters strayed into Colombia's airspace this week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67997536&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Piracy experts said Thursday that most of the hijacked ships off the coast of Somalia had ignored safety precautions, and at least 25 percent of the commercial ships that pass through the Gulf of Aden continue to do so.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67997375&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Defense Department next week will propose for the first time a "way forward" on lifting the military's ban on gays from serving openly, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67992036&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned Thursday that foreign troops must stay in his country for another decade, as world powers agreed on an exit map including a plan to persuade Taliban fighters to disarm in exchange for jobs and homes.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67991392&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A former Marine cleared of wrongdoing in the deaths of two Iraqis is running for Congress in North Carolina.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67985102&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist being tried on charges she tried to kill American personnel in Afghanistan testified without the jury present Thursday that she was "dizzy all the time" from multiple gunshot wounds when first questioned by the FBI in 2008.