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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53587649&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Quartet of Mideast negotiators has called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity and to lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53579076&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Dozens of China's most prominent writers and scholars are calling for the release of a dissident who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political reforms.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53576886&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The de facto U.S. ambassador in Taiwan said Friday the Obama administration will consider the contentious sale of F-16 fighter jets to the island after key American officials are settled into their jobs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53570103&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber blew himself up early Friday near an army vehicle, killing at least two soldiers in the first such assault in Pakistan's part of divided Kashmir, the military said, marking a possible escalation in the militant campaign against security forces.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53556638&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Congressional supporters of an advanced jet fighter won battles Thursday to build more of the aircraft. But with the Obama administration threatening to veto the move, they're a long way from winning the war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53556214&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration has decided to bolster efforts to support Somalia's embattled government by providing money for weapons and helping the military in neighboring Djibouti train Somali forces, U.S. officials said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53552839&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Honduran president vowed Thursday to ignore a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to reinstate the military chief he fired, escalating a showdown that has threatened the leftist leader's hold on power.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53549356&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=53546850&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK SEOUL, South Korea — Punching their fists into the air and shouting "Let's crush them!" some 100,000 North Koreans packed Pyongyang's main square Thursday for an anti-U.S. rally as the communist regime promised a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" for any American-led attack.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53546808&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Despite the thousands of U.S. troops headed to southern Afghanistan this summer, a NATO commander said Thursday they'll fall short of the numbers historically needed to defeat insurgents.