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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53750814&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Warplanes and helicopter gunships pounded suspected militant positions in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Sunday, killing 11 Taliban fighters, intelligence officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53749805&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration's recent move to increase aid to Somalia takes aim at Islamic extremists' safe havens, pouring resources into a government that analysts say may not be worth salvaging.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53749796&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Intelligence officials say six soldiers have been killed in a rocket attack on an army convoy in northwest Pakistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53749751&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants killed seven policemen in an ambush Sunday after their comrades shot to death two government soldiers in a separate attack in the southern Philippines, security officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53726880&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thousands of Venezuelans held separate protests Saturday to support and condemn an opposition-aligned TV station that President Hugo Chavez's government has threatened with closure.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53722886&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thousands of Venezuelans held separate protests Saturday to support and condemn an opposition-aligned TV station that President Hugo Chavez's government has threatened with closure.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53721020&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=53716391&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Dozens of small white scars mark the inside of Li Yuzhou's left arm, where he slashed himself repeatedly with a piece from a broken tea cup. The scars speak of his terror of being deported from Thailand back to China.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53706484&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for PC makers to supply controversial Internet filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53686726&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The White House is considering whether to issue an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, concerned that Congress might otherwise stymie its plans to quickly close the naval prison in Cuba.