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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73889193&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran has sentenced three prominent political activists to six years in prison each for involvement in the country's post-election turmoil, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73887529&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH'-hoo) says he will not accept Palestinian demands that Israel stop building settlements in East Jerusalem.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73886134&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An emotional President Lee Myung-bak vowed Monday that South Korea would respond "resolutely and unwaveringly" against those behind the deadly sinking of a naval ship near the tense maritime border with North Korea.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73853030&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Taliban are moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73840241&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A security official in Yemen says soldiers killed two suspected members of al-Qaida wanted by police and arrested a third in an exchange of fire at a highway checkpoint near the country's Red Sea coast.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73837352&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Iran plans to hold talks with all 15 members of the UN Security Council in an effort to break a deadlock over a nuclear fuel deal, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73834187&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran is a danger to the whole civilized world, not just Israel, President Shimon Peres warned Sunday, setting an especially somber tone for his nation's annual memorial day for soldiers and civilians killed in wars and terror attacks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73833731&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iranian-hosted international disarmament conference concluded Sunday with a demand that Israel join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to assure a nuclear weapons-free Middle East.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73832956&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan authorities released on Sunday three Italian medical workers who had been detained for a week, clearing them of allegations they were part of a Taliban plot to kill a provincial governor, Italian and Afghan officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73830507&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The planned withdrawal of nearly 45,000 U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of August is on track in spite of a recent increase in attacks by militant forces, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Sunday.