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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76518931&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A government airstrike on what was believed to be an al-Qaida hide-out in a remote Yemen province accidentally killed a provincial councilman and his two bodyguards, a security official said Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76508029&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Al-Qaida in Iraq has denied government allegations that suspected militants in Iraqi custody were planning to attack the World Cup in South Africa.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76506338&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK More than 500 Israeli academics have denounced the government decision banning famed Jewish-American linguist Noam Chomsky from entering the West Bank last week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76502101&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday stepped up pressure on China to back international action against North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship, calling peace and security on the Korean peninsula "a shared responsibility" between Washington and Beijing.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76502097&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A semi-official news agency says Iran's security forces have warned they will confront any opposition protests on the anniversary of the country's disputed June presidential election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76486123&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Tuesday that military ties with China are lagging behind the two countries' other dealings in maturity and sophistication.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76482732&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK About 10 members of an Army unit based at Fort Lewis, Wash., are under investigation for as many as three civilian deaths in Afghanistan, along with other potential wrongdoing, a senior military official said Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76459298&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Peter Galbraith, the former U.N. diplomat in Afghanistan who was fired over his cries of fraud following last year's presidential election there, is running for the Vermont state Senate.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76459135&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday announced plans for two major military exercises off the Korean peninsula in a show of force aimed at North Korea, which has been blamed by investigators for a deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean warship.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76455400&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK More U.S. forces are serving in Afghanistan than in Iraq, the Pentagon said Monday, a first since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and a reflection of the new primacy of the nine-year Afghan war.