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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66197263&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Pakistan share prices gained more than 60 percent in 2009 after an abysmal 2008 which saw the once-promising market battered by political turmoil, militancy and the global recession.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66197053&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suspected U.S. missile struck a car carrying alleged militants in a northwest Pakistan tribal region Friday, killing three men in the second such attack in less than a day, intelligence officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66195582&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK About 200 people gathered outside the Brazilian Embassy to show support for ousted President Manuel Zelaya inside while they celebrated New Year's Eve with food and music.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66192732&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family's furniture store.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66187481&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea reaffirmed its commitment to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula in a New Year's message Friday, brightening the prospect that Pyongyang may rejoin the stalled international talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons programs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66186778&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Transportation Security Administration backed down Thursday from its demand that an Internet travel writer immediately provide information on how he obtained an airline security directive.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66184199&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Nigerian suspected of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner with explosives might have used Arabic studies as a pretext for entering Yemen before disappearing for months, perhaps into one of the lawless country's al-Qaida strongholds, fellow students and teachers said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66183646&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police detained dozens of people at an anti-Kremlin protest on Thursday, including 82-year-old Lyudmila Alexeyeva, one of Russia's most respected rights activists.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66182983&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Venezuela's government said Thursday that U.S. military counter-drug flights from nearby Dutch islands are violating its airspace in preparation for an attack. A U.S. official denied the allegation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66181754&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a suicide bombing at a base in Afghanistan. The Associated Press has learned that one of them was the chief of the CIA's post in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost Province.