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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53773899&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK After repudiating negotiations on dismantling its plutonium-based nuclear program, North Korea admitted this month to having an even more worrying way to make bombs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53772235&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Albanians were voting Sunday in parliamentary elections seen as a crucial test of democracy to prove the Balkan country is ready for EU membership.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53771124&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The European Union wants to restart talks on Iran's nuclear program, the bloc's top foreign policy official said Sunday, even as its foreign ministers condemned the country for its crackdown on demonstrators and rights groups.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53773735&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53769623&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan ramped up its campaign against Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Sunday, placing a bounty on the chieftain's head and launching air strikes on his stronghold in the country's northwest.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53756966&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the U.S. is keeping close tabs on a suspected North Korea arms ship.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53753360&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghanistan's counternarcotics minister said Sunday that his country's drug policy is "perfect," a day after the United States changed course and announced it would no longer support efforts to eradicate opium poppy plants.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53751291&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain's foreign secretary on Sunday described the detention of British Embassy employees in Iran as "harassment and intimidation," calling it unacceptable.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53751248&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53751220&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A heavy sandstorm has blanketed Iraq's capital, closing the Baghdad airport and delaying the country's first oil bidding process in 30 years.