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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41030797&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK SEOUL, Jan 24 (Reuters) – North Korea on Saturday denounced military exercises carried out by South Korea in early January as raising tensions that could lead to a war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41030764&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK FALLUJA, Iraq, Jan 24 (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into a police checkpoint northwest of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least five policemen a week before provincial elections, police said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41030445&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK KABUL, Jan 24 (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition forces killed 15 militants, including one woman, during an operation targeting a Taliban commander in the eastern Afghan province of Laghman overnight, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41027111&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bearded Hamas activists on Friday delivered an envelope with five crisp 0 bills to a veiled woman whose house was damaged during Israel's invasion of Gaza, the first of promised relief payments by the militant group.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41026599&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Malaysia offered Saturday to take back two citizens who are prominent terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison after President Barack Obama ordered the closure of the facility.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41021978&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said it was "appalled" by violence against journalists in Sri Lanka, after an editor was stabbed Friday, the third attack on the country's media this month.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41019574&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf complained in an interview Friday that Afghanistan was getting much more US aid than Pakistan, despite its role as a top US ally against terror.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41019459&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Moscow is ready to help stabilize the situation in Afghanistan by allowing the United States and others to cross Russian territory with cargo intended for coalition forces in the war-wracked nation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41019384&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama Friday asked Saudi King Abdullah for support in halting weapons smuggling into Gaza and underscored the importance of U.S.-Saudi ties in his first talks with the Arab ruler since becoming president, the White House said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41018269&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama Friday asked Saudi King Abdullah for support in halting weapons smuggling into Gaza and underscored the importance of U.S.-Saudi ties in a phone call to the Arab ruler, the White House said.