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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69598380&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. and Afghan forces have taken control of the main roads, bridges and government centers of the Taliban haven of Marjah, the top Marine commander in southern Afghanistan said Thursday, though he added that pockets of insurgents remain.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69597494&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A spokesman for the international peacekeeping mission in Darfur says Sudanese authorities have arrested two people in connection with an ambush earlier this week on joint U.N.-African Union forces.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69595936&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft slammed into a militant compound in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least four Islamist insurgents, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69592273&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Norway has granted asylum to an Oslo-based Iranian diplomat who resigned in January to protest his government's violent response to opposition demonstrations in Tehran, officials said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69591326&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A bomb blast at a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt killed 29 people including some militants Thursday, underscoring the relentless security threat here even as Pakistani-U.S. cooperation against extremism appears on the upswing.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69591032&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's president on Thursday said that if the Israelis launch a new war against Lebanon's Hezbollah, the militant group should retaliate strong enough to "close their case once and for all."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69587861&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide car bomb exploded Thursday outside the gate of the main government compound in the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, killing at least 13 people, including four police, a health official said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69587847&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's ambassador to Britain has had a brief meeting at the Foreign Office to answer questions following a diplomatic dispute over the slaying of a Hamas leader.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69587694&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Defying Chinese anger, US President Barack Obama on Thursday meets Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who plans to seek assistance in finding a solution in his homeland.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69584238&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Residents in Somalia say two Islamist insurgent militias have clashed over control of a southern town.