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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69814547&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69813534&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Darfur's most powerful rebel group has initialed a truce with the Sudanese government, officials said Saturday, marking the rebel group's return to peace talks aimed at ending the Darfur conflict.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69810157&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top Sunni Arab lawmaker banned from running in Iraq's March 7 election withdrew his entire party from the campaign Saturday and called on other groups to join the boycott, a move that threatened to undermine the credibility of the vote and raise sectarian tensions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69808763&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's police chief on Saturday accused the Voice of America and the BBC of being the arms of U.S. and British intelligence agencies, and warned of severe repercussions for journalists and activists caught having contacts with them, state media reported.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69807679&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A furious dispute over the war in Afghanistan brought down the Dutch government Saturday, bitterly divided on whether its forces should stay or go as NATO deepens its engagement against the Taliban.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69805373&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top Sunni Arab lawmaker banned from running in Iraq's March 7 election withdrew his entire party from the campaign Saturday and called on other groups to join the boycott, a move that threatened to undermine the credibility of the vote and raise sectarian tensions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69800632&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday that he hoped peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will resume in the coming weeks after negotiations stalled over Jewish settlements on occupied lands.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69796668&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Pakistani army airstrike killed 30 militants in a northwest tribal area bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, while suicide attackers struck two police stations elsewhere in the troubled region, killing a police chief, authorities said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69794818&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Embattled Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday withdrew her legal challenge to the presidential runoff vote, claiming she could not win because the court refused to consider documents that she said showed election fraud.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69793537&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK With tempers high ahead of Iraq's national elections next month, even tearing down a campaign poster is a flash point between Sunnis and Shiites.