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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72602193&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Venezuela's highest court on Sunday barred an outspoken opponent of President Hugo Chavez from talking to news media about criminal charges alleging he struck a police official.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72574054&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Several bombs exploded Sunday near a house linked to a prominent Sunni figure who ran in this month's parliamentary elections in Iraq, killing five people and wounding 26 others, a police official said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72568240&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Fed up with federal ownership of more than half the land in Utah, Republican Gov. Gary Herbert on Saturday authorized the use of eminent domain to take some of the U.S. government's most valuable parcels.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72555569&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama told Afghan leaders on Sunday to do more to rein in rampant corruption and improve their government as he made an unannounced visit to the capital for a firsthand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72546173&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday for a firsthand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72540312&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72540153&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Top advisers to President Barack Obama say the relationship between the U.S. and Israel remains strong despite sometimes blunt talk and disagreements between the two countries.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72540134&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Hundreds of Afghans have protested a NATO airstrike in the country's north that killed seven policemen. Separately, the government says six civilians were killed in weekend explosions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72539949&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Syria and Libya teamed up Sunday to pressure the Palestinian leader to quit peace talks with Israel and return to violence, delegates to an Arab leadership summit said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72539887&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top White House adviser says the U.S. is making progress in its efforts to find allies to hold the line on Iran's nuclear ambitions.