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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72217791&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Hamid Karzai has met with representatives of a major Taliban-linked insurgent group in a step toward national reconciliation, presidential spokesmen said Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72215167&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington for talks with the Obama administration.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72209913&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi police and hospital officials say gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead two municipal officials in Baghdad.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72209907&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iranian news agency says authorities detained the grandson of influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72205142&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel will not restrict construction in east Jerusalem, Israel's prime minister said Sunday hours before he left for Washington, despite a clear U.S. demand that building there must stop and a crisis in relations between the two longtime allies.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72191924&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq's president on Sunday demanded a recount in this month's historic parliamentary elections, intensifying the political conflict over the not-yet-completed tally and increasing the chances that the vote will be a long, chaotic test of the nascent democracy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72188168&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel will not restrict construction in east Jerusalem, Israel's prime minister said Sunday hours before he left for Washington, despite a clear U.S. demand that building there must stop and a crisis in relations between the two longtime allies.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72185634&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Dr. Abbas al-Sahan's patient wasn't a war victim. She didn't have a scar that needed cosmetic surgery. All she wanted was a cute nose. And she got it.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72181139&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Nigerian police spokesman says 164 people will be charged with a variety of offenses, including terrorism, for their suspected roles in the slaughter of more than 200 people in central Nigeria this month.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72180567&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thirteen Afghan civilians died in violence Sunday as the nation's hard-line vice president expressed hopes for reconciliation and representatives of a militant group with ties to the Taliban brought their own draft of a peace deal to the capital.