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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72449045&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American man of Somali origin arrested in Kenya over suspicions of terrorism says police have released him along with two other men.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72445475&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The International Criminal Court may decide within five days whether to launch an investigation into the perpetrators of Kenya's postelection violence, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72445013&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Climaxing months of hard negotiations, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Friday to sharp cuts in the nuclear arsenals of both nations in the most comprehensive arms control treaty in two decades. "We have turned words into action," Obama declared.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72439483&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A dispute between two former Soviet republics in Central Asia has caused a bottleneck in the shipment of some nonmilitary supplies destined for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, Tajik officials said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72439129&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The White House says the new nuclear arms reduction treaty between the U.S. and Russia imposes no limits on current or planned U.S. missile defenses.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72436821&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Taliban fighters seized a security checkpoint close to the Afghan border, sparking clashes that killed five soldiers and 32 insurgents in a region where the army is pressing an offensive, officials said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72434766&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Japan is still seeking to move a contentious American military base off the southern island of Okinawa and will finalize its proposal for Washington by the end of March, the prime minister said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72416628&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal judge on Thursday said most of the lawsuits filed over deadly ambushes that killed civilian truck drivers in Iraq can go to trial, saying it's unclear if the military contractors being sued knew their workers would come under attack but still sent them into harm's way.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72408602&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The news came at a low point in the war in Iraq and seemed to reflect much of what was going wrong: A Marine squad killed 24 people in the town of Haditha in November 2005, including unarmed women and children in their homes.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72402858&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi election results Friday will likely show a virtual tie between the two top vote-getting blocs led by the prime minister and his chief rival, a political equation that could add up to bitter political wrangling and risk re-igniting violence.