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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75819379&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A young French academic who battled spying charges in Iran for more than 10 months returned to France on Sunday and thanked President Nicolas Sarkozy and other officials for insisting on her innocence and pressing for her release.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75809267&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Yemeni security officials say tribesmen have kidnapped two Chinese engineers and their government escorts in the country's volatile south.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75808390&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Hamas police wielding clubs beat and pushed residents out of dozens of homes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Sunday before knocking the buildings down with bulldozers, residents said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75802887&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The leader of an al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen vowed Sunday to protect a U.S.-born Muslim cleric who has been placed on a CIA list of targets to be captured of killed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75800881&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Accepting two Muslim detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention center will bring goodwill and honor to the Maldives, the country's president said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75789632&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraq's electoral commission on Sunday affirmed the victory of a Sunni-backed bloc in the March election a partial recount of votes in Baghdad failed to back up the Shiite prime minister's claims of fraud.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75780870&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Thousands of Japanese linked hands and encircled a Marine Corps base in Okinawa on Sunday to protest its presence on the island, putting more pressure on Tokyo to resolve an impasse over the base's future.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75776904&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The platoon's visit to a riverside village was a slog in and out: hours of hiking in body armor under the sun over rock-strewn hills, through rustling wheat fields and sweltering pomegranate groves. U.S. soldiers waded across an irrigation canal, holding rifles above chest-high water and grabbing tree roots to pull themselves out [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75770598&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Maoist rebels kidnapped and killed six villagers in a thickly forested part of central India, alleging that the men were police informants, an official said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=75770080&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two North Korean naval boats briefly crossed the tense western sea border with South Korea in the first violation since a South Korean warship sank in the area following a mysterious explosion in March, the South's military said Sunday.