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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76738322&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Nations criticizing an Iranian nuclear fuel-swap deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey should eliminate their own nuclear weapon stockpiles, Turkey's leader said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76737368&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Robbers stole $5.5 million from a bank near the Iraqi city of Najaf on Friday after a policeman drugged fellow bank guards by slipping sleeping medication into their tea, police and government officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76735921&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Federal prosecutors apparently will not claim that four New Yorkers accused of plotting to bomb synagogues were members of a terrorist group.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76733966&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel's foreign minister says the country is prepared to stop a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists from reaching the Gaza Strip "at any cost."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76733911&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea's most powerful state organ said Friday that South Korea faked the sinking of one of its own warships and warned that the Korean peninsula was edging ever closer to war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76733722&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Somalia's parliament has elected a close ally of the president as speaker, possibly ending divisions that have recently split the legislature.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76733559&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Iran has awarded a business unit of the elite Revolutionary Guards the rights to develop phases 13 and 14 of the giant South Pars gas field, the Mehr news agency announced on Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76730650&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A senior Kenyan government official says unidentified Somali militiamen wounded five people when they attacked a northeastern Kenya village.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76725418&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Washington and Tokyo agreed Friday to keep a contentious U.S. Marine base in Okinawa, with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama highlighting the importance of the Japanese-American security alliance amid rising tension on the nearby Korean peninsula.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76725341&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.N. nuclear inspectors revisiting an Iranian laboratory to follow up on activities that could be linked to a secret nuclear weapons program recently discovered that some equipment believed used in the experiments has disappeared, diplomats said Friday.