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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65923021&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The secretive U.S. air strike against suspected al-Qaida in Yemen last week is the latest in what has been a fast-growing campaign to better equip and fund Yemeni forces so they can eliminate the expanding al-Qaida safe havens there.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65915604&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Lebanon's drug-producing heartland is back in business with a resurgence of marijuana and poppy fields, challenging the country's underpowered security forces and adding another dimension to Israel's war with Hezbollah militants.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65914508&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea, banned from selling arms by U.N. sanctions, may have gambled and lost when it dispatched 35 tons of weapons by air rather than by sea as it has done in the past. Authorities seized the plane, which may have been bound for Iran, during a refueling stop in Thailand.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65914259&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States is worried that a peace agreement between Northern and Southern Sudan could be jeopardized by a law passed by Sudan's parliament.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65913223&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was deceived by his advisers and still believed Romanians adored him hours before his overthrow, his only surviving child said Wednesday in a rare interview two decades after the fall of the regime.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65912491&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Gaza's scars have been frozen in place since Israel waged war a year ago to subdue Hamas and stop rockets from hitting its towns. Entire neighborhoods still lie in rubble, and traumatized residents can't rebuild their lives.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65911443&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bombs targeted Iraqi Christians and Shiite Muslims Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding more than two dozen before coinciding religious observances that will take place under heavy guard.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65911061&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The State Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday criticized the agency's nearly $2 billion anti-drug effort in Afghanistan for poor oversight and lack of a long-term strategy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65910342&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A plane seized in Bangkok with a cache of North Korean weapons wasn't headed to Iran, a senior Thai police official said Wednesday, contradicting a report from arms trafficking experts.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65910331&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia has failed to fully observe an EU-brokered peace deal that ended last year's war with Georgia, the EU monitoring mission chief says.