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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72022307&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly Thursday over the planned launch this summer of Iran's first, Russian-built nuclear power plant, highlighting a split in views over how to steer Iran away from nuclear weapons.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72020470&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday it's time for the international community to take "concrete steps" to allow Afghans to take charge of their future — and to ensure that "Afghanization" becomes more than a slogan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72020424&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal appellate court said Thursday it wouldn't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witness statute after the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72018000&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Dozens of Iraqi journalists waited hours for results in Iraq's election. What they finally got was a single CD containing all the information and instructions to make copies themselves, prompting a mad dash to the nearest Internet cafe where they paid $1.20 each to find out who was ahead in the ballot count.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72017709&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" while she cared for her boyfriend's father denied in court Thursday that she sought to kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72016515&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Crouched on packed earth at a barricaded Marine encampment, the village elders issued their complaint: U.S. troops had killed an innocent 14-year-old boy. Secretly, the Marines didn't believe them. No matter. They apologized, called the death a tragedy and promised to offer a condolence payment to the boy's family.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72016358&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Defense Department official under investigation for allegedly running an off-the-books spy operation with private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan said the program was authorized by military commanders and saved lives.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72015232&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Iran's new Russian-built nuclear power plant will begin operating this summer, even as the United States called for Russia to delay the startup.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72011484&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Hundreds of government supporters surrounded a small group of Cuban dissidents as they marched through Havana on Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the arrests of their loved ones, screaming abuse but otherwise allowing the protest to proceed peacefully.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72002887&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in combat in Baghdad.