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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55878114&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The latest U.S. missile defense test, conducted Thursday evening in Hawaii waters, was deemed a success as tensions continue with North Korea over that country's missile program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55878296&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's human rights activists say they live in dread of the midnight knock on the door or the car that pulls up next to them on the street, fearing that at any moment they might be arrested in the government's post-election clampdown.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55877461&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Honduran police cracked down on protesters and Congress delayed consideration of an amnesty bill needed to end the standoff, even as the interim leader appeared to back away from his opposition to reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55876965&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK More than one-third of the land in six central Vietnamese provinces remains contaminated with land mines and unexploded bombs from the Vietnam War, according to a study released Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55872865&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal grand jury has indicted two men for allegedly trying to bribe a U.S. Army contracting official with million to win a road construction project in Afghanistan, the Justice Department said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55866225&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot and killed while in police custody, officials said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55864230&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iranian police fired tear gas and beat protesters to disperse thousands chanting "Neda lives!" Thursday at a memorial for victims of post-election violence held at the gravesite of the woman whose death made her an icon of the pro-reform movement, witnesses said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55861756&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The latest U.S. missile defense test in Hawaii is expected to come as tensions continue with North Korea over that country's missile program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55861506&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. diplomat pressing for implementation of U.N. sanctions intended to derail North Korea's rogue nuclear weapons program said Thursday that he was off to "an unprecedented start" in getting governments to enforce the punishing new measures.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55860435&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Hugo Chavez's government on Thursday accused Colombian authorities of trying to justify an intervention in Venezuela with its allegations that anti-tank weapons found in a rebel arms cache originated here.