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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74035278&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. has ruled out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program any time soon, hoping instead negotiations and United Nations sanctions will prevent the Middle East nation from developing nuclear weapons, a top U.S. defense department official said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74034892&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea may be preparing to carry out a third nuclear test, analysts and a high-ranking defector said Wednesday, citing language in state media hinting of an impending crisis on the peninsula.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74030026&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A U.S. sailor testified Wednesday he saw a Navy SEAL punch an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the killings in 2004 of four U.S. private security contractors, as the court-martial of another member of the elite unit allegedly involved in the incident opened at a military base outside Baghdad.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74028584&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Posing as refugees, a pair of North Korean spies made their way to South Korea with a mission to assassinate the regime's most high-profile defector: a man who once mentored leader Kim Jong Il, authorities said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74024289&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's state TV says the country's elite Revolutionary Guard will begin large scale military maneuvers in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a move likely to heighten tension at a time when the West is at a deepening standoff with Iran over its nuclear program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74021613&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Thousands of Pakistanis continue to flee Taliban-plagued northwest provinces every day, but money is running out to help the 1.3 million people displaced by fighting, aid agencies warned Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73993604&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Kyrgyzstan's ousted president was in exile in Belarus on Tuesday, as the interim authorities controlling the Kyrgyz capital warned he would be imprisoned if he tried to return to the Central Asian country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73993523&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The court-martial of an Army soldier charged with the 2008 killings of a superior and a fellow soldier in Iraq has been postponed until next year.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73982632&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi and U.S. troops killed a regional leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in an early morning raid Tuesday, as security forces continue to put pressure on the terrorist organization following the reported deaths of its two top-ranking figures over the weekend, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73982251&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Islamist politician whose party lost several members in a suicide attack blamed Pakistan's alliance with the U.S. for the violence and urged Islamabad on Tuesday to break ranks in the war on terror.