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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114936370&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The UN rights body on Monday urged Syria to halt a deadly crackdown on dissent that has cost more than 2,200 lives, after its defiant President Bashar al-Assad scoffed at Western calls to step down….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114929402&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Delta Air Lines confirmed Monday it was in negotiations to buy new aircraft, but declined to comment on a report that it was planning to buy 100 Boeing 737 planes….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114921234&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK A US drone strike targeting a vehicle in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Monday killed at least four militants, local security officials said….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114890839&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK North Korea seized all South Korean-owned assets in a jointly-run resort in the North on Monday and ordered all South Koreans to leave, state media said, in a move that will raise already simmering tensions….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114888383&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Anjali Yadav's distress over India's rampant corruption culture reached a peak when she was forced to bribe a government official to provide a death certificate for her mother….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114808277&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK A UN humanitarian team has arrived in Syria to assess crisis needs as President Bashar al-Assad prepared to speak to the nation Sunday, amid global pressure to end a brutal crackdown on protesters….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114806296&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK An Indian army lieutenant and a dozen suspected militants were killed Saturday in a clash along the de facto border that splits Kashmir between India and Pakistan, the army said….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114462875&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK The United States expressed disappointment Friday over the suspension of plans to eliminate highly enriched uranium from Belarus amid an escalation of a human rights row….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114158438&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Two women washed clothes in the dark water of the Rio Negro as a boat glided past with a camera-laden Google tricycle strapped to the roof, destined to give the world a window into the Amazon rain forest….

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=114158494&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber struck a crowded Pakistan mosque on Friday, killing 48 people and wounding more than 100 during Ramadan prayers, in the country's deadliest attack for three months….