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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76724083&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK China told South Korea on Friday that it will not defend whoever it determines was responsible for the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors, the South Korean government said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76719537&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Dmitry Medvedev asked the Russian parliament Friday to ratify the new arms control treaty with the United States, but warned lawmakers to do it no earlier than the U.S. Senate does.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76717471&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques packed with hundreds of people from a minority sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday, laying siege to one center in a standoff with police, officials and witnesses said. At least 39 people died.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76711895&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan forces battled militants in a remote region near the Pakistan border for a sixth day Friday, and officials were trying to confirm reports that a key Pakistani Taliban leader was killed in the fighting.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76711790&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Military bureaucrats enforcing Israel's blockade of Gaza allow frozen salmon filet, facial scrub and low-fat yogurt into the Hamas-ruled territory. Cilantro and instant coffee are another matter — they are banned as luxury items.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76710250&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea's neighbors ramped up efforts to take Pyongyang to the U.N. Security Council for sinking a South Korean warship, with South Korea's president seeking China's support during a summit Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76705067&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea is exporting nuclear and ballistic missile technology and using multiple intermediaries, shell companies and overseas criminal networks to circumvent U.N. sanctions, U.N. experts said in a report obtained by The Associated Press.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76701946&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Japan said Friday it is slapping new sanctions on North Korea by clamping down on money transfers, while the leaders of Japan and the U.S. pledged cooperation in taking the North before the U.N. Security Council over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76700880&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military suffered its 1,000th death of the Afghan war Friday, according to an Associated Press count, when NATO reported a service member was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76699466&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Pakistani college student living in Texas was convicted Thursday of conspiring to help the Taliban and fight U.S. troops.