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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=102174686&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Police in Bangladesh fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Sunday at thousands of Islamic activists demonstrating for the restoration of a religious pledge to the nation's constitution….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=102098136&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The phone hacking scandal rocking Rupert Murdoch's News Corp threatened to spread to Australia Saturday with calls for an official inquiry, which could hurt his play for a major television contract….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=102048104&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Australia's influential Greens party called for a government inquiry into the local operations of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp following the scandal which saw News of the World axed….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=102043253&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK China's iconic basketball centre Yao Ming has not announced his retirement, Chinese state media said, amid numerous reports that the All Star millionaire was quitting the game….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101981701&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Pakistan officials said Friday that a four-day air and ground offensive against militants in a key tribal district had left 42 enemy fighters and eight soldiers dead on the Afghan border….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101973447&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK A UN report on a fatal 2010 Israeli commando raid on a Turkish ship seeking to break the Gaza blockade has been delayed to give the countries more time for talks, an Israeli official told AFP on Friday….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101911698&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK China's soaring coal consumption in the last decade held back global warming as sulfur emissions served as a coolant, according to a study that takes head-on a key argument of climate skeptics….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101866298&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK South Korea savoured success Thursday after its eight-year campaign to host the Winter Olympics, a victory which brings the event to Asia for only the third time….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101835101&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Baghdad and Tehran pledged on Wednesday to strengthen ties and put the past behind them, even as Washington accuses Iran of supplying new and more lethal weapons to anti-US militias….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=101833275&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Pakistani troops backed by attack helicopters clashed with Taliban fighters in the main town of the notorious North Waziristan tribal district on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said….