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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184393&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan and international troops captured a Taliban district chief in a four-hour gunbattle in the southern province of Helmand, NATO said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184360&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China's biggest national news agency launched its global, English-language television news network on Thursday as part of efforts to expand the communist government's influence abroad.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184343&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK BP's massive oil spill is ready to become the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184342&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Before Vicky Pelaez became a columnist for one of the United States' best-known Spanish-language newspapers, she was a scrappy television reporter in her native Peru who turned her kidnapping by a leftist guerrilla group into a chance to get a scoop.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184310&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, flooded streets and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages as it pushed into northern Mexico.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184309&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bail hearings for nine people charged in a Russian spy case were scheduled Thursday as a U.S. prosecutor said the evidence against them was growing stronger by the day.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184272&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK After back-to-back quarterfinal losses at the French Open and Wimbledon, Roger Federer is suddenly no longer the Grand Slam certainty he used to be.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184271&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Massachusetts lawmakers enthralled with the lure of easy casino cash are having a tough time squaring the 24-hour world of smoke-filled, free-booze gambling haunts with the state's Puritan roots and high-minded liberal reputation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184270&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Wiretap recordings played at Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial depict the former governor as furious one minute, then optimistic and other times unsure about his chances for success in his alleged plan to trade his power to name someone to Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat for a well-paying job.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79184269&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A contract between 900 clerical workers and shipping companies at the nation's busiest port complex has expired without a new agreement.