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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62320635&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Dmitry Medvedev told Russians Friday that there can be no justification for the Soviet government's crimes against its own people, lamenting millions of deaths and "maimed destinies" in some of the strongest criticism of the Communist era to come from the Kremlin since Vladimir Putin came to power a decade ago.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62319807&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United Nations demanded to know Friday why it took an hour for Afghan police and NATO troops to respond to a terrorist attack on a guest house filled with U.N. election workers in Kabul.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62318516&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK One man cast 35 votes for female relatives. Others lugged in sacks full of voting cards they said were from women. And in a village of just 250 people, 200 women supposedly voted in three hours.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62318458&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was confronted repeatedly by Pakistanis Friday as she ended a tense three-day tour of the country, chastised by one woman who said a U.S. program using aerial drones to target terrorists amounted to "executions without trial."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62318053&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iranian authorities this week allowed a Swiss diplomat a second visit with three detained American hikers arrested for illegal entry near the Iraq border in late July, the State Department said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62317959&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Seven years ago, a little-known group called Jundallah emerged in Iran with claims to fight for the rights of minority Sunnis in the unruly tribal areas near the border with Pakistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62317840&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Frustrated by Iran's continued defiance of demands to come clean on its nuclear program, the Obama administration is leaning toward imposing new sanctions, even it must act alone.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62317706&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Zimbabwe's foreign minister on Friday sharply criticized as "a provocation of the highest order" an attempt by the U.N. torture investigator to visit Zimbabwe and investigate alleged attacks by thugs linked to the ruling party on its opponents.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62314732&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. spy agencies spent $49.8 billion in fiscal year 2009, $2 billion more than in 2008 and the second such multibillion-dollar increase in as many years.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62309247&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani forces are closing in on a major Taliban base inside the militant stronghold of South Waziristan, the army said Friday, while announcing it had killed 14 militants in a day of fighting.