http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101303513&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Brazil's former food security minister Jose Graziano da Silva became the first Latin American to head the UN's food agency, a move hailed by aid groups and the United States….
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Brazil’s Jose Graziano da Silva elected UN food agency head
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101299077&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Brazil's former food security minister Jose Graziano da Silva on Sunday became the first Latin American to head the UN's food agency, a move hailed by aid groups and the United States….
Social gaming a big winner in smartphone boom
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101265551&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK More virtual livestock looks set to be traded and petulant fowl hurled at targets as social gaming takes hold in the booming mobile phone market, industry experts say….
Burqa-clad Taliban kill 10 police in Pakistan siege
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101247891&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK At least 10 policemen were killed Saturday when Taliban militants in suicide vests, some of them clad in burqas, laid siege to a police station in northwest Pakistan, officials said….
Burqa-clad Taliban kill 10 police in Pakistan siege
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101240845&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK At least 10 policemen were killed Saturday when Taliban militants in suicide vests, some of them clad in burqas, laid siege to a police station in northwest Pakistan, officials said….
Indian family in Mumbai ‘Trump Tower’ dispute
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101196811&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK An Indian family are refusing to budge from their home in Mumbai to make way for a new luxury apartment block being built by billionaire US property tycoon Donald Trump, they told AFP on Friday….
BlackBerry maker upbeat on Asian growth markets
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101180275&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is banking on Indonesia and other populous markets for growth in Asia, while it faces intensifying competition worldwide from rivals like the iPhone….
Indian family resists Mumbai’s ‘Trump Tower’
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101173325&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK An Indian family is refusing to budge from their home in Mumbai to make way for a new luxury apartment block being built by billionaire US property tycoon Donald Trump, a city newspaper said on Friday….
Danger heats up for Australia’s platypus
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101168268&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Global warming could shrink the habitat of Australia's duck-billed platypus by a third, researchers warned Friday, with hotter, drier temperatures threatening its survival….
Kimberley Process ends ban on Zimbabwean diamonds
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101144389&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The Kimberley Process has decided to lift a freeze on the sale of diamonds from Zimbabwe's disputed Marange fields, the head of the global "blood diamonds" monitor told AFP….