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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53615635&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=53614028&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As Iraqi security services prepare to take back their towns from the Americans on Tuesday, the sharpest arrow in their quiver is an elite, American-trained force with a reputation that leads many Iraqis to call it "the dirty brigade."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53613026&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. government wants to wait until next week to give the American Civil Liberties Union a 5-year old internal CIA report that criticizes its harsh interrogation program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53606240&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Ugandan rebels this year have killed around 1,200 Congolese civilians and abducted 1,500, mostly children, in a remote region of northeast Congo, a U.N. official said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53594131&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama says the United States and Germany "speak with one voice" about the civil unrest that erupted in Iran in the wake of a disputed presidential election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53591845&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Quartet of Mideast negotiators, taking advantage of a "historic" opportunity for Mideast peace with the new Obama administration, urged Israel on Friday to freeze all settlement activity and to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53590821&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China's planning agency is likely to reject a Chinese company's bid to acquire General Motors Corp.'s Hummer unit, in part because its gas-guzzling vehicles conflict with Beijing's conservation goals, state radio reported.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53588003&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up near an army vehicle Friday, killing at least two soldiers in the first such assault in Pakistan's part of divided Kashmir, marking an escalation in the militant campaign against security forces.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53587761&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned goods, an American official was quoted as saying Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53587665&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.