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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74123894&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Pakistan's security forces on Thursday killed 26 militants, while two soldiers also died in fighting in the northwest, a bastion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74122887&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran is trying to provoke a war between Israel and Syria.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74119272&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The targeted killings of a handful of anti-Taliban leaders has shaken Pakistan's Swat Valley and raised fears that the militants are re-emerging in the former tourist haven despite a largely successful army offensive against them.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74119240&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration is seeking to block further court review in the case of five Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay who want to come to the United States to live.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74119100&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Colleagues and relatives of a British citizen kept in solitary confinement in Kyrgyzstan demanded Thursday that his human rights be respected, in a case that is adding to concerns about the new government's commitment to democracy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74117900&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's foreign minister will visit Austria this week, the first stop of an international campaign aimed at weakening a U.S.-backed push for new U.N. sanctions because of Tehran's defiance of Security Council demands that it curb its nuclear program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74115873&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Russian-designed missile struck a refrigerated warehouse in Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba, the Jordanian information minister said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74115293&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to drum up support for Germany's military mission in Afghanistan on Thursday in an uphill battle against growing public resistance.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74108618&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration is still committed to improving relations with Syria despite its "deeply troubling" moves to aid the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in neighboring Lebanon, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74108505&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Military intelligence officers warned earlier this year that North Korea was preparing a suicide submarine attack on a South Korean vessel in retaliation for an earlier defeat in a sea battle, a newspaper said Thursday.