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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70238387&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Venezuela's highest court on Wednesday annulled the election of an opposition mayor, replacing him with a supporter of President Hugo Chavez until a new vote is held.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70213317&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama weighed in Wednesday to try to hasten the conclusion of a new nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, urging President Dmitry Medvedev to help accelerate its completion.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70209167&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sudan released 57 Darfur rebels on Wednesday, including 50 who had been sentenced to death, under a new truce agreement between the government and the most country's powerful rebel group.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70208341&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK American troops knocked on the door, and before the Afghan family could find the key to let them in, the soldiers broke it down.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70205178&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran's continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70205174&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States got help from Europe on Wednesday in its troubled drive to shut down Guantanamo Bay, as Spain accepted a former inmate from the prison for terror suspects and the tiny Balkan nation of Albania took in three more.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70203496&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Claims by the son of a Hamas founder Wednesday that he was a long-term spy for Israel exposed a new side of the Islamic militant group's vulnerability and punched a hole in its meticulously groomed image of secrecy and discipline.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70203113&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration's decision to send an American ambassador to Syria after a five-year absence does not mean U.S. concerns about the country have been addressed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70202937&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Associated Press and Newsday are asking a federal judge to make public a plea agreement between prosecutors and a man who says he was plotting to attack New York subways.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70200555&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The political movement of Iraq's best-known anti-American cleric has emerged as a major contender in next month's national elections, raising the possibility that the next prime minister could be openly hostile to the U.S. and friendly toward Iran.