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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72329877&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A car bomb exploded in the administrative center of Colombia's Pacific port of Buenaventura on Wednesday, killing six people and wounding more than 30, authorities said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72329647&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Zimbabwean rights group that organized a photo exhibit documenting human rights violations scrambled to re-hang its scratched and damaged displays just minutes before the show was slated to begin Wednesday, a day after police confiscated the photos.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72326888&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Muslim cleric in Kenya says police are deporting three men from the United Arab Emirates and one from Oman because they suspect them of having links to terror groups, though the four say they are tourists.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72326823&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Ethiopia's government is waging a coordinated attack on rights activists, journalists and political opponents ahead of the country's national elections in May, a leading human rights group said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72324840&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it is probably too early for the Afghan government to be able to persuade senior Taliban leaders to lay down their arms.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72324828&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley — the Northern Ireland naysayer turned peacebroker — made a final appearance Wednesday in Parliament, capping a 40-year career by lauding a peace process that he long opposed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72322949&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Pentagon's top leaders credit Pakistan's "extraordinary" military campaign against Taliban insurgents for helping to improve ties with the United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72322674&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK On the anniversary of the uprising that toppled this former Soviet republic's hardline leader, the same revolutionaries who came to power promising a new era of freedom announced they have given up on Western-style democracy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72322184&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Saudi Arabia says it has arrested 101 people suspected of planning terrorist attacks on the country's oil installations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72321459&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani security forces backed by jets pounded militant hide-outs near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing 23 suspected Islamist insurgents, a government official said.