http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55683511&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan says India's new nuclear-powered submarine is "detrimental" to the region's peace and stability and it will take "appropriate steps" in response.
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Hamas dress code aims to make Gaza more Islamic
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55682679&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police order a lingerie shop to hide its scantily clad mannequins. A judge warns female lawyers to wear head scarves in court. Beach patrols break up groups of singles and make men wear shirts.
Pakistan: Police constable decapitated in Swat
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55681827&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police say the decapitated body of a Pakistani police constable has been discovered in a town in Swat Valley.
Audit finds contractor oversight improving in Iraq
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55680172&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The government has kept a closer eye on U.S. contractors in Iraq since a deadly 2007 shooting by Blackwater guards, but it still needs to do a better job tracking and investigating when private security guards fire their guns, two new Pentagon audits have found.
NKorea says it is open to new dialogue on nukes
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55678487&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea suggested a new dialogue to resolve tensions over its atomic weapons programs — an apparent invitation to the U.S. to engage in one-on-one talks after Pyongyang bolstered its negotiating power with nuclear and missile tests.
7 charged with terror conspiracy in North Carolina
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55675535&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A father, his two sons and four other men living in North Carolina are accused of mililtary-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" abroad, federal authorities said Monday.
Israel on Iran: Anything it takes to stop nukes
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55675494&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel hardened its insistence Monday that it would do anything it felt necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, just the ultimatum the United States hoped not to hear as it tried to nudge Iran to the bargaining table.
7 charged with terror conspiracy in North Carolina
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55674578&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A North Carolina man trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan has been charged along with six of his alleged recruits with conspiring to support terrorism and traveling overseas to participate in "violent jihad," according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
Obama declares new era of cooperation with China
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55667054&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama declared a new era of "cooperation, not confrontation" with China on Monday, even though two days of high-level talks were not expected to resolve differences over the two nations' yawning trade gap and China's unease over soaring U.S. budget deficits.
Court finds Iran minister guilty of fraud
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55664812&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An appeals court found Iran's industry minister guilty of fraud, newspapers reported Monday, in a new embarrassment for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad even as he faces new disputes with his own hard-line camp over his government.