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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57593263&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Fighting reportedly broke out Thursday between an ethnic militia and government security forces in northeastern Myanmar, breaching a two-decade cease-fire.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57590736&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration — champion of engaging adversaries — that does not.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57590647&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has raised the stakes for Friday's meeting of South American presidents by threatening to break relations with Colombia over plans to give U.S. troops a 10-year lease on its bases.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57590414&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber attacked the main border crossing for convoys ferrying supplies to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 19 security officers, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57588259&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A roadside bomb and gunfire attack killed a U.S. service member in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as the deadliest months of the eight-year war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57587469&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK American authorities are pressuring Yemen to counter a rising internal al-Qaida threat more aggressively and improve intelligence-sharing amid growing worries that the country could become the next significant terrorist staging ground.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57584908&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The American Civil Liberties Union has written a letter in support of an autistic British man fighting to avoid extradition to the United States to face trial for hacking into military computers.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57576651&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Authorities in the art world cast doubt Thursday on the authenticity of an alleged Picasso painting that was seized by Iraqi police south of Baghdad.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57576461&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North and South Korea worked Thursday to finalize a schedule for reuniting families long separated by the Korean War and to close a rift over whether the deal should include prisoners of war Seoul says are still held in the North.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57576177&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thousands of Iranians prayed and wept Thursday during a memorial for Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the start of a two-day tour of mourning that will take his body through his country's Shiite heartland, apparently in hopes of rallying large crowds of supporters.