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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65677391&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Three accused al-Qaida associates taken to New York on Friday are charged with plotting to ferry drugs through the Sahara desert to raise money for terror attacks — evidence of what prosecutors say is a dangerous, growing alliance between terror chiefs and drug lords.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65674828&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev struck an optimistic tone even as they conceded that they were unlikely to sign a deal this year on a successor to an expired nuclear arms control treaty, as they had hoped.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65674162&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top U.S. military officer quizzed Iraqi leaders Friday about the influence and motives of next-door Iran as national elections approach, but made no promises when his hosts asked for surveillance equipment and other help to keep an eye on their neighbors.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65670309&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A lack of basic infrastructure in Afghanistan is slowing the U.S. effort to build up the Afghan security forces, a government watchdog said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65668031&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The main suspect in the massacre of 57 people, including about 30 journalists, was angrily mobbed by reporters at a hearing on Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65666167&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK After decades of military rule, coups and strong-armed elections, Africa's most populous nation now finds itself with a seriously ill, and absent, president.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65661748&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A tribunal charged the Khmer Rouge's 78-year-old former head of state with genocide Friday, adding new momentum to long-delayed trials against the brutal regime that ruled Cambodia 30 years ago.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65657225&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korea's military said Friday it was investigating a hacking attack that netted secret defense plans with the United States and may have been carried out by North Korea.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65657210&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Ma Ying-jeou's signature effort to boost ties with Beijing faces a key test next week when Taiwan's pro-independence opposition plans to take to the streets to protest the visit of a senior Chinese envoy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65657123&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a mosque inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 10 people in the latest attack by suspected Taliban militants waging war against the government.