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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55945986&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega claimed Honduras' coup-installed government might try to provoke a border military incident "to distract attention" from international efforts to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55945029&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China summoned the Australian ambassador to protest a proposed visit to his country by an exiled Uighur leader whom Beijing accuses of instigating recent ethnic riots that killed nearly 200 people, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55926773&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Six former U.S. attorneys general expressed doubts Friday about the wisdom of launching a federal investigation into whether interrogations of terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks violated the law.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55920528&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Five days of fighting between government forces and a radical Islamist sect left dirt roads soaked with blood, buildings scorched and dozens dead, including the group's leader, but revenge attacks were feared even as the national police claimed victory.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55920372&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Saudi Arabia on Friday bluntly rejected U.S. appeals for improved relations with Israel as a way to help restart Middle East peace talks, saying the Jewish state is not interested in a deal.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55917670&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad begins his second term next week undermined by a deepening feud with his fellow hard-liners and under assault from a pro-reform opposition movement that has shown it can bring out thousands of protesters despite a fierce seven-week-old crackdown.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55917793&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. general put in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign and may include a request for more U.S. forces that the White House is expected to resist.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55914469&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sudan's U.N. ambassador said Friday that his government was pleased with an American envoy's assertion that there is no evidence to support the U.S. designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55911965&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Judges in Myanmar postponed the verdict Friday in pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's trial until Aug. 11 — a sign, activists say, that the ruling junta is hesitating in the face of outrage abroad and fears of unrest at home.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55911486&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A British intelligence officer repeatedly visited Morocco at the same time that a former U.K. resident was allegedly being tortured there, two senior judges said Friday.