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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76657151&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thailand's government urged former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to come out of hiding Thursday and face the terrorism charges that accuse him of fomenting the violent unrest that scarred the capital and exposed deep rifts in society.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76656893&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday it's time to move to direct talks with the Palestinians and that he will raise the issue with President Barack Obama in Washington next week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76656867&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korean warships fired guns and dropped anti-submarine bombs in a large-scale military exercise Thursday, a week after Seoul accused North Korea of shooting a torpedo that sank a navy frigate in March.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76656864&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel has denied entry to a Detroit university student of Palestinian descent traveling there for a study-abroad program. Arab-American and civil rights groups plan to protest the decision Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76656152&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate have repelled a move by presidential rival John McCain to send an additional 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S-Mexico border.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76655989&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel set up three massive white tents at its main southern seaport on Thursday to hold hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists who hope to breach Israel's 3-year blockade of the Gaza Strip.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76653900&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A U.N. investigator says he has seen evidence that Colombian security forces committed "a significant number" of murders, often for personal profit.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76653897&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan officials said Thursday they were investigating reports that a Pakistani Taliban leader may have been killed in fighting in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76652825&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Palestinian government plans to establish a $50 million fund to help thousands of Palestinians quit work in Israeli settlements by the end of the year, the Palestinian labor minister said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76651861&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The 111 member nations of the International Criminal Court hope to finally agree on how to prosecute illegal attacks by one state on another when they meet next week in Uganda, the conference's leader said Thursday.