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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67376272&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Part of Munich airport was closed Wednesday as officials searched in vain for a man who left a security checkpoint with a bag containing a laptop after it had triggered an alert for possible explosives.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67375683&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An upcoming election intended to ease Iraq's sectarian rifts is instead dredging up old hostilities — with the White House sending Vice President Joe Biden to smooth tensions between the Shiites who hold power and the Sunnis who want a greater slice of it.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67373651&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An upcoming election intended to ease Iraq's sectarian rifts is instead dredging up old tensions — with the White House sending Vice President Joe Biden to smooth tensions between the Shiites who hold power and the Sunnis who want a greater slice of it.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67373462&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The FBI used a variety of informal methods, from requests by e-mail to Post-it notes, that circumvented the law to obtain thousands of phone call records for terrorism investigations, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67372319&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel must have a presence in the West Bank to stop rockets from being imported even after a peace agreement is achieved — the first time such a demand has been spelled out.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67370242&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq's president says Vice President Joe Biden is coming to Baghdad amid tensions over upcoming parliamentary elections.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67370241&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain's government said Wednesday it would create a new terrorist no-fly list, target specific airline passengers for tougher security checks and suspend some international flights in response to a growing terrorism threat posed by Yemen and Somalia.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67368186&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In a sign that a new arms deal with Russia may be close, President Barack Obama is sending two top national security aides to Moscow to work on clearing the last obstacles.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67368063&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Congo conflict has been dubbed the world's deadliest since World War II, causing 5.4 million deaths, in a widely cited study. But a research group is challenging those figures, saying proper survey techniques would cut the number in half.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=67360995&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A brazen robbery attempt in Baghdad and a series of attacks on security forces in the north killed six people and wounded dozens more Wednesday, raising tensions in the run-up to parliamentary elections.