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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72623004&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Nearly one out of every two Israelis thinks the country's international standing is poor following Israel's most serious crisis with the United States in decades, according to a poll published Monday on the eve of the Passover holiday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72622845&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes the podium at Columbia University on Monday determined to remind the United States that France is a crucial ally — sometimes a noisy one, but a friend nonetheless.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72622500&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Several prominent Iraqi politicians — long considered untouchable — failed to win seats in the country's March 7 election, according to lists published Monday, reflecting voter dissatisfaction with the country's political class.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72614162&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's nuclear program is of "critical concern" and will top the agenda when foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations meet Monday to discuss global security, Canada's foreign minister said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72613011&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi police say a pair of car bombs in the holy city of Karbala killed at least four people and wounded 22, with the second blast detonating near the provincial governor's home.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72612898&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A NATO helicopter crashed Monday in southern Afghanistan, injuring 14 people, the international force said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72607462&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The wife of a dissident Chinese lawyer missing for more than a year said she was relieved to learn he is alive and appealed Monday to the government to allow him to leave China and join his family in the United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72607367&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two young American soldiers in combat gear sit at a small table in a concrete block building, politely but insistently questioning a 66-year-old Afghan actor playing the role of a village elder.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72603590&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Under elaborate secrecy, President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan on Sunday near the front lines of the increasingly bloody 8-year-old war he is expanding and affirmed America's commitment to destroying al-Qaida and its extremist allies in the land where the 9-11 plot was hatched.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72601389&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In a tiny workshop on the roof of his home in a Baghdad slum, Farhan Hassan works in secret, lovingly curving wood and tightening strings to make his ouds — a traditional Arabic instrument.