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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51089148&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A prominent Egyptian dissident said Saturday he was attacked by an assailant on a motorcycle who ignited a flammable substance in his face, leaving his head burned.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51086550&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American was found dead in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, the U.S. military said Saturday, the apparent victim of an unprecedented slaying that occurred at a time when blast walls are coming down and Iraqi forces are assuming greater control.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51063027&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In a fresh overture to Cuba, President Barack Obama is asking the communist government to resume talks on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51054615&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The young Muslim man says he watched helplessly as soldiers broke his father's bones and punctured his lungs with vicious kicks. After seven hours of relentless torture, the Muslim religious leader died cradled in his lap.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51052177&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Italy's foreign minister said Saturday he is sending a representative to Tehran to sound out the possibility of a meeting with Iranian officials after he canceled a visit earlier this week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51050714&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Even as the Iraqis are removing some of the concrete blast walls that divide Baghdad, authorities have quietly installed about 100 metal gates near a major Shiite shrine — a clear sign of ongoing security concerns as bombings continue.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51050620&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Lawmakers elected a communist party leader as Nepal's new prime minister on Saturday in a move aimed at ending weeks of political turmoil.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51048951&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Egyptian authorities have arrested seven people for being part of an al-Qaida linked group accused of carrying out an attack on a famed Cairo bazaar that killed a French teenager, said the Interior Ministry Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51043902&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The death toll in a car bombing near a Pakistani movie theater climbed overnight to seven, police said Saturday, as the military surrounded Taliban strongholds elsewhere in the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51042289&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A NATO service member has been killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, the international force said Saturday.