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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76884311&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russian experts arrived in Seoul on Monday to review findings of an investigation that blamed North Korea for the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship, as the South sought to build support for U.N. punishment of the North.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76852681&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's Army Radio on Sunday played parts of an interview given by Israel's most famous spy, marking 45 years since his capture and execution.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76850758&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Mohammad Rafiq has worked in Pakistan's weaving factories for 35 years, minding the looms that turn thread into cotton fabric. But lengthy power cuts often leave him and his fellow workers idle and losing wages.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76848478&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Seven men have been arrested over alleged links to the militants who attacked a minority sect in eastern Pakistan, killing 93 people, police said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76841857&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is predicting that it'll be clear by year's end whether a NATO-led counterinsurgency effort in the Afghan Taliban stronghold of Kandahar is successful.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76837936&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expressing concern that North Korea might follow its alleged torpedoing of a South Korean warship with other provocative acts.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76834987&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China's premier expressed no support for proposed U.N. sanctions against ally North Korea over its alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, declining Sunday to join other key nations in blaming Pyongyang.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76834192&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China's premier said Sunday that tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship urgently need to be defused, but did not join other key nations in blaming longtime ally North Korea and gave no indication he would support U.N. sanctions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76829859&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The commander of NATO and U.S. forces stressed Sunday that progress toward real stability in Afghanistan will be slow as international troops painstakingly try to win over a population that includes its enemies and has little trust in the government.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76826493&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A government official says fighter jets pounded militant hide-outs in northwestern Pakistan, killing 18 suspected fighters.