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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53685102&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK NATO and Russia are set to resume military ties Saturday and agree to cooperate on Afghanistan, counterterrorism and anti-piracy patrols at their first high-level meeting since last year's war between Russia and Georgia, Western officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53683874&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=53683317&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Lebanon's president appointed parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri Saturday to become prime minister after his pro-Western coalition defeated a Hezbollah-led alliance in this month's election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53681828&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea threatened Saturday to shoot down any Japanese planes that enter its airspace, accusing Tokyo of spying near one of its missile launch sites.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53681352&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Hamid Karzai on Saturday called on Taliban and other militants to "vote for the president they want" in Afghanistan's presidential election, while a Taliban spokesman said militants would "disrupt" the vote without harming civilians.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53679242&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Japan and South Korea have agreed to team up to nurse their economies back to financial health, Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano said Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53679126&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq's prime minister appealed for national unity on Saturday and the country's vice president said he was worried about deteriorating security after more than 250 people were killed in the week before a U.S. withdrawal from cities.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53676898&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police killed five suspected militants Saturday in an overnight raid on a Karachi apartment housing insurgents loyal to the Pakistani Taliban leader blamed for a wave of suicide attacks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53676821&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=53675321&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.