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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50990270&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The court trying Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi agreed Friday to accept the charge she violated the terms of her house arrest after an American man swam to and entered her lakeside home.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50975319&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Pentagon wants more time before the ban on gays serving openly in the military is reversed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50972630&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Nigeria's foreign minister said Friday that the military has rescued 12 hostages — eight Filipinos and four Ukrainians — from militants being targeted by the armed forces in the southern oil region. The military said a dozen troops had gone missing in the region.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50966208&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Israeli tourism poster is being pulled from the London subway after the Syrian Embassy complained that the map on it appeared to show the Golan Heights and Palestinian territories within Israel's boundaries, officials said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50966191&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The four men accused of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes with missiles are down-and-out ex-convicts living on the margins in a faded industrial city.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50963940&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Hundreds of Somali government troops attacked insurgent-held positions north and south of the capital on Friday and the heart of the city was heavily shelled, witnesses said. One said a busload of fleeing civilians was hit.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50963912&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Troops are encircling Taliban militants in their mountain base as well as the main town in the Swat Valley, a Pakistani general said Friday, as the U.N. appealed for 3 million to ease the suffering of nearly 2 million refugees from the fighting.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50963010&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top U.N. official appealed to Sri Lanka on Friday to begin a process of national reconciliation following its war with the Tamil Tiger rebels, but also cautioned that investigations into war crime allegations remain possible.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50962433&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli troops crossed into Gaza and killed two Palestinian militants who were planting a bomb along the border fence before dawn Friday, the Israeli military said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50962233&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Troops are encircling Taliban militants in their mountain base as well as the main town in the Swat Valley, a Pakistani general said Friday, as the U.N. appealed for 3 million to ease the suffering of some 2 million refugees from the fighting.