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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74674393&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American imprisoned in North Korea was allowed to speak to his family by telephone Friday, but Pyongyang's state media and his family provided few details and no clues whether he would be released.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74673937&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A former Pakistani intelligence officer sympathetic to al-Qaida and the Taliban was found shot dead Friday in a northwestern tribal region several weeks after he was abducted by a previously unknown militant group, officials and witnesses said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74671561&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Leery of using a mobile phone, the militant tasked with directing some of Baghdad's deadliest recent bombings would get his orders from al-Qaida in Iraq's leadership by meeting a go-between near a grocery store named Mr. Milk.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74662189&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Tough times are ahead for Kandahar in southern Afghanistan where thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan forces are gearing up for the latest offensive of the war, a top U.S. general said in an unannounced visit there Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74662146&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Some walked with canes, others with limps. Their hair stained with streaks of silver, their faces mapped by years of pressure and deadlines.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74657421&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police say a suicidal Manhattan college student caused a brief terror scare by carrying cyanide into a subway tunnel.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74657406&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A bitter dispute over limited water resources is fueling India-Pakistan tensions at a time when the South Asian neighbors are trying to rebuild trust and resume peace talks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74656534&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan late last year called on Muslims to wage jihad and become martyrs in a posthumous message posted on extremist websites Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74656104&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Fifty years ago Saturday, U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down while flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, a dramatic episode of the Cold War that pushed the rival superpowers closer to confrontation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74653363&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday called for "confident and friendly" relations with China as he wrapped up a state visit aimed at putting past tensions over Tibet to rest.