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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64001111&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Hugo Chavez is hailing the forthcoming arrival of 300 Russian-made tanks and armored vehicles, and urging civilians to join government-organized militias to be ready to defend Venezuela from a foreign invasion.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64000950&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Palestinian nun who co-founded a charity dedicated to educating Arab girls on Sunday took an important step toward sainthood.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63998709&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran released a former vice president on a $700,000 bail Sunday after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63998358&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Three jailed suspects in Oct. 25 bombings that killed more than 150 people in Iraq said they filmed the targeted buildings before the attack and escorted the car bombs in a convoy into Baghdad, according to confessions shown on Iraqi television Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63997947&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63997923&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63997239&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Egypt's president on Sunday criticized Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlement activity in the disputed sector of the holy city threatens to anger the entire Muslim world.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63994055&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani troops killed nearly 40 suspected militants Sunday in a series of operations in northwestern tribal areas near the Afghan border, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63992601&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A former vice president has been released on bail in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the country's post-election unrest, official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63990564&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Dalai Lama defended President Barack Obama from criticism that he has been too soft on China, saying Sunday that the U.S. leader just has a different approach to dealing with the Asian giant.