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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74516414&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK A suicide car bomb attack hit a Pakistani police checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar before dawn Wednesday, killing four police and wounding 11 people, including a woman and a cleric.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74513461&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The father of a Yemeni suicide bomber who blew himself up in an attack on the British ambassador this week says his son went missing a month and a half before the bombing.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74513028&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Japan and the European Union plan to step up joint efforts to help Afghanistan and combat piracy off Somalia and will start talks to improve their trade ties, their leaders said at a summit Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74511086&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi men held for months at a secret prison outside Baghdad were systematically tortured and forced to sign confession statements that in at least some cases they were forbidden to read, according to a new report by a human rights group released Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74506252&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Hezbollah official on Wednesday slammed comments by the U.S. defense secretary accusing the militant group of having more weapons than most governments in the world, and pledged to continue arming.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74504449&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Officials say Pakistani security forces have killed seven suspected insurgents in the Orakzai tribal region near Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74497038&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Egyptian court has convicted and sentenced to life in prison three suspected Hezbollah members from among more than two dozen accused of spying for the Lebanese militants and plotting attacks in Egypt.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74491619&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed by a roadside blast in the Diyala province in northern Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74491581&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan triggered a spike in the number of civilians killed or wounded there last year, pushing South Asia past the Middle East as the top terror region in the world, according to figures compiled by a U.S. intelligence agency.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74491259&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli claims that Hezbollah has obtained Scud missiles have revved up fears another war may break out soon. So it might not be the best time to try to turn the two nemeses' battlefield, south Lebanon, into a tourist destination.