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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57069833&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Fighting between government soldiers and Islamic insurgents killed at least 40 people in central Somalia on Thursday as the warring sides tried to gain ground in strategic towns.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57067435&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater monitoring rights at another atomic site, diplomats said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57067332&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK For close to a year, diplomats say, a report on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons experiments has been sitting in a drawer of a U.N. nuclear monitoring agency, with access limited to only a few top officials.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57062894&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Diplomats say Iran has lifted a ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater monitoring rights at another atomic site.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57061206&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A bicycle bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad Thursday killing two people in a deadly reminder of Iraq's security problems as the death toll rose to at least 101 from a string of blasts the day before that mainly targeted heavily guarded government buildings.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57060802&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Lawmakers criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominees for his new government as inexperienced cronies and threatened on Thursday to reject some of them, setting the stage for a new fight between the hard-line leader and rivals with his conservative camp.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57058544&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China's Defense Ministry launched its first official Web site Thursday, part of an effort by the normally secretive military to be more transparent.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57058176&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Rights workers have discovered several unmarked graves containing about 1,500 unidentified bodies in Indian Kashmir, a prominent rights group said Thursday, alleging that some of corpses were likely innocent people killed by government forces.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57057178&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top Chinese general criticized the U.S. on Thursday for selling arms to Taiwan and accused Washington of only being cooperative when it needs help with international campaigns.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57057272&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Scotland's government freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people.