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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74152726&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK US Vice President Joe Biden has said that China will sign on to new UN sanctions on Iran, and predicted new measures to punish Tehran's nuclear program could be agreed by the end of this month.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74138750&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Evangelist Franklin Graham's invitation to speak at a Pentagon prayer service has been rescinded because his comments about Islam were inappropriate, the Army said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74138662&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The United States said Thursday it would resume dialogue with China on human rights next month after a two-year hiatus, pledging to raise concerns about Internet and religious freedoms.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74132178&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A U.S. Navy SEAL was cleared Thursday of charges he covered up the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the grisly 2004 killings of four American security contractors.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74130891&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's prime minister on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to halt construction in disputed east Jerusalem, clouding a new peace mission by Washington's Mideast envoy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74130480&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Armenia is freezing its ratification of an agreement to normalize ties with Turkey and reopen their shared border, the Armenian president said Thursday — dealing a setback to efforts to end the countries' long-standing enmity.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74128860&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi officials are investigating claims that detainees, believed to be mostly Sunnis, were tortured at a makeshift prison in Baghdad, in a case that has outraged the country's Sunni minority, Iraqi officials said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74128779&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday ruled out an early withdrawal of U.S. nuclear forces from Europe, telling a NATO meeting that any reductions should be tied to a nuclear pullback by Russia, which has far more of the weapons in range of European targets.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74127439&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard held war games Thursday in the strategic Persian Gulf oil route, the Hormuz Strait, a show of its military strength at a time when the country's leaders are depicting President Barack Obama's new nuclear policy as a threat.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74123849&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia on Thursday angrily rejected accusations by Georgia's president linking Moscow to a case of attempted uranium smuggling and suggested he was lying, in a new flare-up of tensions between the hostile neighbors.