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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66099908&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Lebanese military says its troops have fired on Israeli warplanes flying low over south Lebanon but no hits were reported.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66099214&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A consortium led by Russia's private oil giant Lukoil on Tuesday signed an initial deal with Iraq to develop one of its biggest oil fields, an agreement key to the war-ravaged nation's efforts to boost the output of a resource crucial to its postwar reconstruction efforts.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66099155&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill banning the jailing of people suspected of tax crimes and has fired another senior prison official following the death in custody of a tax lawyer in November.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66098493&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea announced Tuesday that it has custody of an American who entered the country illegally last week — the first possible word from Pyongyang about an Arizona man who activists say wanted to bring international attention to the reclusive country's dire human rights situation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66098317&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iranian security forces made a wave of new arrests Tuesday, including Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's sister and a relative of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, pressing forward with a broadening crackdown on the reformist movement in the wake of deadly protests this week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66098170&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says the government needs to do a better job of telling Americans about the threat from terrorism.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66095220&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Limited Internet services slowly began to return to far western China on Tuesday, almost six months after ethnic rioting led the government to shut down Web and phone links to the outside world.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66091101&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The death toll from an overnight suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession in Pakistan's biggest city rose Tuesday to 33, in violence blamed on extremists trying to hamper the fight against militants by sparking a sectarian war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66082540&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The State Department says counterterrorism agencies were warned that the Nigerian man who allegedly tried to blow up an airliner Christmas Day may be under extremists' influence.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66082278&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iranian national who pleaded guilty to plotting to ship sensitive U.S. military technology to Iran is appealing his prison sentence.