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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57191051&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain on Saturday rejected any suggestion that it had struck a deal with Libya to free the Lockerbie bomber — questions that arose when Moammar Gadhafi publicly thanked British officials as he embraced the man convicted of killing 270 people in the 1988 airline bombing.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57182634&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain on Saturday rejected any suggestion that it had struck a deal with Libya to free the Lockerbie bomber — after questions arose when Moammar Gadhafi embraced the man convicted of killing 270 people and publicly thanked British officials.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57179208&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top militant commander and nearly 1,000 of his followers surrendered to the government Saturday, handing over rocket launchers, gunboats, guns and bullets in the biggest move since a government amnesty began two weeks ago.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57178988&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A French far-right activist has been released from prison seven years after attempting to assassinate then-President Jacques Chirac in a Bastille Day attack, a judicial official said Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57178142&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her support Saturday for a memorial to Germans forced to relocate from eastern Europe after World War II, but said it did not mean Germany was seeking to diminish responsibility for starting the war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57178029&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The army says a suicide bomber has blown himself up to evade capture during a raid in a town in Pakistan's troubled northwestern Swat Valley.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57177987&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A South Korean official says President Lee Myung-bak will meet a delegation of visiting North Korean officials on Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57177927&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As the Justice Department considers whether to investigate alleged harsh interrogation practices sanctioned by the Bush administration, sources say a soon-to-be-released report by the CIA's inspector general reveals that agency interrogators conducted mock executions of terror suspects.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57177901&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Leading Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud has been appointed the new head of the militant group, media reports said Saturday, weeks after Washington and Islamabad said the militants' chief, Baitullah Mehsud, was almost certainly killed by a missile strike.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57174328&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq's foreign minister said Saturday that those who carried out bombings that targeted government buildings in the Iraqi capital received help to pull off the attacks, possibly from Iraqi security forces.