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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53097994&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A U.N. commission will begin a six-month investigation on July 1 into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the U.N. announced Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53086709&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Colombia's coca crop shrank by nearly a fifth last year while cultivation of the bush that is the basis of cocaine rose for a third straight year in Peru and Bolivia, the world's two other coca-producing nations, the United Nations said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53077905&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan killed two U.S. troops Friday, the U.S. military said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53076689&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani ground troops moved into Taliban-controlled areas Friday and engaged in the first gunbattle of a new offensive in the volatile northwest, as an aerial and artillery bombardment pounded other targets.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53073124&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK They are still on a tropical island, far from their homeland. They remain in a kind of limbo, awaiting the next chapter in their lives.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53071434&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The BBC is using two extra satellites to broadcast its Farsi-language service after days of jamming it blamed on Iran.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53064775&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain's Foreign Office said Friday it had told an Iranian diplomat it was concerned by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's criticism of Britain, which he called evil.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53061330&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand must stop the "sickening trend" of attacking teachers, 115 of whom have been killed since the outbreak of the separatist rebellion five years ago, a human rights organization said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53060685&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani jet fighters flattened at least three suspected Taliban training facilities in the volatile South Waziristan tribal region Friday, killing or wounding several insurgents, two senior intelligence officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53049868&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea's quest for nuclear weapons could spawn a destabilizing arms race in Asia that would threaten world security, South Korea's president warned Friday.