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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69692668&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iranian state TV is reporting that the country has launched its first domestically built destroyer, calling it a major technological leap for its naval industries.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69629621&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Renegade soldiers in armored vehicles stormed Niger's presidential palace with a hail of gunfire in broad daylight Thursday, kidnapping the country's strongman president and then appearing on state television to declare they staged a successful coup.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69621893&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United Nations closed its main dining room and staff cafeteria Thursday after "a suspicious envelope" was found, U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69621216&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S.-led forces control the main roads and markets in the besieged Taliban stronghold of Marjah, a Marine general said Thursday, even as fighting raged elsewhere in the southern farming town.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69617575&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The death of a Hamas operative in Dubai at the hands of a squad of burly hit men conjures up images of the string of killings that followed the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and a bungled attempt to poison a Hamas leader in Jordan 13 years ago.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69616052&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The last time U.S. diplomats traveled to Havana, they held secret talks with their Cuban counterparts that were hailed as the most significant in decades. Almost nothing has gone right for U.S.-Cuba relations in the five long months since.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69607893&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia urged the U.N.'s top human rights body on Thursday to suppress a report on secret detention centers that includes interviews with unnamed Chechens alleging they were tortured in covert prisons operated by Moscow as part of its fight against Caucasus separatists.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69606337&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia's president fired two top Interior Ministry officials and said he would slash thousands of ministry jobs Thursday in an attempt to reform a police force widely criticized for corruption and abuse.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69601066&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghanistan's military and security forces are on track to meet their goal of recruiting 300,000 troops by the end of 2011, though retaining those troops has been a challenge, NATO's top military officer said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69600559&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Witnesses say armed soldiers have stormed the presidential palace with guns blazing and left with the president, whose whereabouts are unknown.