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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61580459&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A powerful Islamist group linked to al-Qaida on Wednesday ordered two radio stations in southwestern Somalia to stop broadcasts indefinitely.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61580370&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration says U.S. officials plan to travel to Myanmar in the next few weeks to talk with representatives from the military-run government, ethnic minorities and the democratic opposition.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61580320&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's police chief says security officials have arrested suspects in a suicide bombing that killed five senior Revolutionary Guard commanders and dozens of others.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61579882&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iraqi police official says a bomb has killed one journalist and wounded another in northern Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61578312&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Top American defense officials maintained a tough stand Wednesday against North Korea, calling its threat more lethal than ever even as an envoy from the communist regime was headed to the United States to discuss nuclear programs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61578166&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Military relations between the United States and China have begun to thaw after a year of limited contact, the admiral in charge of the U.S. Pacific Command said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61577648&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pirate attacks worldwide in the first nine months of 2009 exceeded the whole of last year's total because of more frequent raids in the Gulf of Aden and off the east coast of Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61576909&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Top American defense officials maintained a tough stand Wednesday against North Korea, calling its threat more lethal than ever even as an envoy from the communist regime was headed to the United States to discuss nuclear programs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61576901&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three alleged militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61574629&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korea is providing North Korea with optical cables and other equipment to help modernize military hot lines between the two nations, officials in Seoul said Wednesday.