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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63850692&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the country's fractious political blocs to resolve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63843565&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63841891&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63838970&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63837904&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the country's fractious political blocs to solve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63833697&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan police say Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a parliamentarian and powerful former warlord, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt near Kabul.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63830651&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has appointed a British lawyer to represent Radovan Karadzic if the former Bosnian Serb leader continues to boycott his trial when it resumes in March, according to a document released Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63828797&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A passenger train derailed after Maoist rebels blew up a key track in eastern India, killing two people and injuring at least 30 others, a police official said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63814953&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration is shifting the focus of its Iran policy from talk to sanctions, but the prospect of winning early international support for toughened new penalties appears dim.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=63814143&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.