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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55689126&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's prime minister and the top U.S. Mideast envoy said they made progress Tuesday on their dispute over West Bank settlements, but offered no sign of a breakthrough at a meeting in Jerusalem.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55688903&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Chinese customs authorities have seized a stash of vanadium, a strategic metal used to strengthen steel, hidden in fruit boxes on a truck bound for North Korea, an official said Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55688085&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan says Taliban militants are receiving more funding from sympathizers abroad than from Afghanistan's illegal drug trade.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55688021&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A parliament official says 140 people detained in Iran's postelection turmoil have been released from Tehran's main prison Evin.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55687770&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Tuesday in Iraq's capital with the country's political leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as well as Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander there.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55686917&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The visit to Japan of an exiled Uighur activist who China blames for this month's ethnic riots will not affect relations between Tokyo and Beijing because its approval was not politically motivated, the government said Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55686841&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq must do more to stop Kurdish rebels using hideouts in its territory to launch deadly attacks in Turkey, a Turkish minister said Tuesday after meeting with Iraqi and U.S. officials to discuss the issue.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55686706&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's supreme leader ordered the closure of a prison where rights workers say protesters detained in the country's election turmoil have died, officials said Tuesday, as the head of the opposition sharply condemned the wave of arrests.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55686646&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Gunmen killed eight security guards and made off with nearly million Tuesday during an early morning robbery at a bank in central Baghdad that police say is the work of insurgents attempting to finance their operations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55686229&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region Tuesday, causing an explosion that killed two police and wounded five other security officials, authorities said.