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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76055082&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine troops in the second Taliban strike at NATO forces in and around the capital in as many days.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76054983&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran on Wednesday dismissed as "illegitimate" a draft U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to impose harsher sanctions against Tehran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76054828&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A lawyer representing three Americans jailed in Iran said Wednesday he hopes a U.S. push for new sanctions against the country will not hurt their case as their mothers arrived in Dubai en route to visit their children.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76052580&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A French academic who was held for months in Iran has denied accusations from a former French intelligence official that she was spying for France.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76052576&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pirates kidnapped two Russian sailors during an attack on a cargo ship off the coast of Cameroon, the latest act of violence along West Africa's increasingly insecure coast, a private security official said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76052565&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and opposition supporter Jafar Panahi has gone on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, according to a pro-reform Iranian website.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76048514&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A lawyer representing three Americans jailed in Iran for nearly nine months says he is hopeful a U.S. push for new sanctions against the country will not hurt their case.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76041786&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States and its Western allies won crucial support from Russia and China for new sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program, but they now face a tough campaign to get backing from the rest of the U.N. Security Council.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76036618&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China could feel compelled to dismantle the more than 1,000 missiles it has pointed at Taiwan as relations between the rivals improve, the island's president said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76036598&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK At least 28 militants and two soliders were killed Wednesday in a gunfight with Pakistani troops in a restive tribal area, officials said.