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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76257639&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The mothers of three Americans jailed in Iran for 10 months left for home Friday, getting one last chance to embrace their children but failing to secure their immediate release.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76257618&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Facebook page that was considered offensive to Islam and led to a Pakistani ban on the site has been removed, possibly by its creator.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76253594&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran is throwing its weight behind Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bid for a second term, political insiders say, an endorsement that could seal his hold on power.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76250051&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Taliban say they are not attending peace talks with the Afghan government in the Maldives.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76248324&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israeli troops killed two Palestinian militants who had infiltrated Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, the military said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76243569&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Friday in China, where she will try to convince Beijing to join international condemnation of North Korea, blamed for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76242711&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Citing "overwhelming" evidence that North Korea sank a South Korean warship, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned the communist state Friday of international consequences.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76241758&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. commanders are bolstering their forces in this rural district where Mullah Mohammad Omar organized the Taliban more than a decade ago, hoping to wrest control of an area considered the key to securing the nearby city of Kandahar.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76241615&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK About 8,000 British troops in Afghanistan have been placed under U.S. command as part of a restructuring of NATO forces in the country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76239807&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK When presidential hopeful Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu, returned to Rwanda after a long absence she immediately visited a memorial to Tutsis killed in the 1994 genocide and asked why Hutus who also died weren't remembered. She then told Hutu prisoners she would get them out of chains.