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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61802688&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Japan's new government appeared to bow to intensifying pressure from visiting top U.S. military officials, saying Friday it supports keeping a major U.S. Marine airfield on the southern island of Okinawa.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61797033&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A delay in the January parliamentary election could lead to chaos, a top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader warned Friday, as lawmakers remained deadlocked over legislation that would regulate the crucial national vote.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61792624&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. military surveillance drones based in the Seychelles islands are patrolling off Somalia's coast in hopes of stemming a rising piracy trade.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61792496&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A U.S. army official in Romania says an American military base near the Black Sea port of Constanta will become a permanent facility in the spring and be jointly used with Romanian forces.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61787308&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A look at the major attacks in Pakistan this month

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61786712&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan on Friday, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61761364&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber struck near a major air force complex in northwestern Pakistan Friday, killing seven people as the army pressed ahead with a major anti-Taliban in close to the Afghan border.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61758204&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Ousted President Manuel Zelaya on Thursday rejected a new settlement proposal from Honduras' interim government and said the only way to resolve the country's political standoff is to reinstate him.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61712733&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Jose "Pepe" Mujica, Uruguay's most popular politician going into Sunday's presidential election, is no ordinary front-runner.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61711047&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The White House on Thursday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans that President Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision is taking too long.