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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68034536&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing Friday before a panel investigating the war that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68032820&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police raided the office of Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka and arrested 15 of its workers Friday, his lawyer said, after he disputed this week's election result and the government alleged he was planning a coup.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68032003&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan security forces battled militants close to the Afghan border Friday in fighting that has killed 44 suspected insurgents over the last three days, a government official said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68027998&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Ambassador John Roos defended U.S. troop levels in Japan Friday, saying their presence is essential for maintaining peace and prosperity in the region, and stressed the importance of a key Marine base whose delayed relocation has frayed bilateral relations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68026830&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has accused a minister of making remarks that could prejudice her appeal against an extension of her house arrest, her lawyer said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68025245&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korea's president says he is willing to meet North Korea's leader this year to discuss its nuclear weapons program despite a recent flare-up in border tensions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68024602&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A senior hard-line Iranian cleric has called for more activists to be executed to silence anti-government protests, a day after two men were hanged.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68024516&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A $46 million American aid program aimed at strengthening the government in Pakistan's tribal regions and blunting the appeal of al-Qaida and the Taliban has achieved little since it began two years ago, a U.S. government audit found.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68021903&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A court in military-ruled Myanmar handed down a 13-year prison sentence to a man accused of working illegally for foreign media organizations, a lawyer said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=68021253&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Suspected Muslim rebels ambushed army soldiers early Friday in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, killing two troops, an official said.