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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59718046&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China is urging Iran to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency looking into a secret Iranian nuclear facility.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59717249&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Brazil's vice president says in an interview published Friday that his country should develop nuclear weapons. Other officials stressed that his comments were not government policy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59716849&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan election officials racing to meet a narrowing window for a possible presidential runoff said Friday they will recount a sample of 10 percent of suspect ballot boxes to speed long-delayed results of the disputed election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59714336&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Oil prices rose for the first time in two days as tensions escalated over Iran's nuclear ambitions and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday he continued to support a federal lending program that could weaken the dollar.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59713932&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Ehud Olmert became the first current or past Israeli prime minister ever to go on trial Friday, insisting in a Jerusalem courtroom that he is innocent of corruption allegations that drove him from office.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59712587&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe slammed the United States and Europe on Friday for what he called "filthy clandestine antics" for keeping economic sanctions clamped on his authoritarian nation, even though he now presides over a coalition government.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59711556&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK More than 100 prison officials and guards have been detained after 16 prisoners, including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execution, made a stunning jailbreak in Saddam Hussein's hometown, a police commander said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59711501&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Taiwan's interior minister said Friday the island will bar a visit by Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, whom Beijing has accused of inciting ethnic violence in China's far west.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59709377&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy says Iran faces possible new international sanctions if it doesn't come clean on its nuclear program by December.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59705785&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan's Taliban movement is stronger than ever despite the killing of its top commander and will stage more suicide attacks if the army launches another offensive against it, a top militant told The Associated Press.