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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53230067&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A backstage struggle among Iran's ruling clerics burst into the open Sunday when the government said it had arrested the daughter and other relatives of an ayatollah who is one of the country's most powerful men.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53229998&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Rev. Tim Vakoc, a Minnesota priest who was gravely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq five years ago, has died, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Sunday. He was 49.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53220495&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama says the United States is "prepared for any contingencies" involving North Korea — including the regime's reported threat to launch a long-range missile toward Hawaii.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53219516&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military sent search dogs Sunday to help find more than a dozen people still missing and feared dead after the country's worst bombing this year devastated a northern Iraqi town just over a week before U.S. troops are due to leave Iraq's cities.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53218494&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Mexico has deployed 1,500 more troops to the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, where homicides related to the drug trade have surged in recent weeks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53214958&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran spent nearly twice as much on U.S. imports during President Barack Obama's first months in office as it did during the same period in 2008, showing that despite trade penalties and tense relations, the two countries are still doing business.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53214168&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Missiles, machine guns and strafing runs from fighter jets destroyed much of a Taliban compound, but the insurgents had a final surprise for a pair of U.S. Marines who pushed into the smoldering building just before nightfall.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53214170&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In his first major test of international leadership, President Barack Obama is struggling for the right stance in the face of Iran's postelection upheaval as political opponents at home accuse him of inaction.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53214024&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's government said Sunday it arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the country's most powerful men, in a move that exposed a rift among the ruling Islamic clerics over the disputed presidential election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53213017&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two years after Hamas seized power, the Gaza Strip is a jumble of absurdities: an economy sustained by smuggling through tunnels, a civil service that gets paid on condition it doesn't work, and a population no longer fearful of gangs but feeling muzzled under the thumb of Hamas.