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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55827113&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The British Broadcasting Corp. has resumed broadcasting from Zimbabwe for the first time since it was banned in 2001 and the five-month-old coalition government said it also was considering allowing CNN back.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55826226&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen takes over as NATO's new secretary general on Monday as part of a team assembled by President Barack Obama to lead the war effort in Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55825787&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United Nations said Thursday it has scaled back operations in Baluchistan province after a threat made by separatists who kidnapped an American aid worker earlier this year — adding to Pakistan's security woes.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55825026&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The head of a British inquiry into the Iraq war said Thursday he will call former Prime Minister Tony Blair to testify about the run-up to the conflict, but acknowledged it is unlikely that senior Bush administration officials would give evidence.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55824870&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A leader of a Chinese legal rights group was detained by police ahead of a meeting he arranged with tax authorities to discuss hefty fines recently imposed on its research center, the group said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55823630&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police and hospital officials say a bomb has exploded in a building used by a Sunni-backed political group north of Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 10.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55820677&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Nearly two decades ago, an Islamic court sentenced Daniel Patrick Boyd to lose a hand and foot as punishment for robbing a bank in Pakistan's rough-and-tumble northwest.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55820171&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Chinese dissident who criticized the government's response to a massive earthquake last year that left almost 90,000 people dead or missing will plead not guilty in a state secrets trial that opens next week, his lawyer said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55818022&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China dismissed an exiled activist's claim that 10,000 minority Uighurs disappeared during a recent crackdown after ethnic riots erupted in its far west, calling the figure "completely fabricated" on Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55811967&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China released a most-wanted list Thursday of 15 people it is seeking for their alleged roles in the worst ethnic violence to hit the country in decades.