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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94228143&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The European Union, Norway and Iceland kicked off new talks in Oslo Wednesday in a bid to put an end to the so-called mackerel war that emerged after Iceland unilaterally hiked its fishing quota, Norway said….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94226340&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The pace at which the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting is "accelerating rapidly" and raising the global sea level, according to findings of a study financed by NASA and published Tuesday….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94185157&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK US actor and Africa advocate Ben Affleck urged US lawmakers to step up aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo or risk seeing rampant violence driven by minerals trafficking plunge the vast country back into war….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94182684&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK More deadly violence erupted in Ivory Coast Tuesday after a rally by followers of the internationally recognised president, as his defiant rival Laurent Gbagbo snubbed an African Union mediation bid….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94179348&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Police in Germany and Italy arrested 35 alleged mafia members on Tuesday and five warrants have been issued in Australia and Canada in what is seen as a major blow to the 'Ndrangheta syndicate….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94174098&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Swedish music streaming service Spotify said Tuesday it had reached one million paying users, a number that has doubled in under a year but still represents fewer than one out of six Spotify users….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94174136&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK North Korea is hoping to sell UN-backed carbon credits from hydropower plants now being built, an aid group said Tuesday, as the isolated communist state struggles to secure more sources of hard cash….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94160315&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Small-scale "eco-farming" could double food production in many of the world's poorest regions and also help fight climate change, according to a United Nations report unveiled Tuesday….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94131041&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo on Monday ordered his government to take control over the country's key cocoa sector, so far dominated by multinational companies….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=94125134&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Iceland is considering building the world's longest sub-sea electric cable to allow it to sell its geothermal and volcanic energy to Europe, the country's largest energy company said Monday….