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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; 2013 &#187; May &#187; 26</title>
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		<title>Top North envoy gives Xi letter from Kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Korea nuclear crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A North Korean envoy delivers a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to China's president and tells him Pyongyang will take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks.]]></description>
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		<title>Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. servicemen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Abe assures Myanmar of support from &#8216;whole of Japan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged during an official visit to Myanmar on Saturday that &#8220;the whole of Japan,&#8221; its public and private sectors alike, will support the emerging country&#8217;s reform process to ensure its continued democratic and economic advancement. Abe held talks the same day with Myanmar opposition leader and prodemocracy icon Aung San Suu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan to join TPP talks at next round in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[free trade Japan's participation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 11 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership have agreed to hold the next round of free-trade talks in Kuala Lumpur from July 15 to 25, extending the meeting to include Japan as the 12th member. The United States and the 10 other member nations wrapped up their 17th round of negotiations Friday in Lima. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up to 30 researchers are feared to have suffered internal radiation exposure after an experiment went awry at a Japan Atomic Energy Agency facility.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian regime OKs peace talks amid skepticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syria's government has agreed to attend a U.S.- and Russian-brokered peace conference, Moscow says, but strong skepticism persists on both sides of the country's civil war.]]></description>
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		<title>Artists vie for global exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having taken five Volkswagen Beetles and compressed them into spheres, artist Ichwan Noor was always going to grab attention at the inaugural Hong Kong Art Basel.]]></description>
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		<title>British spy agency MI5 had long tracked suspects in soldier&#8217;s slaying</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both of the suspects accused of butchering a British soldier during broad daylight on a London street had long been on the radar of the nation&#8217;s spy agency, though investigators say it would have been nearly impossible to predict that the men were on the verge of a brutal killing. Still, counterterrorism officials said they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto mayor: &#8216;I do not use crack cocaine&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking a week of silence, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug surfaced. The mayor of Canada&#8217;s largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack. Ford did not take questions from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican drug cartel founder takes plea deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last of the brothers accused of creating an infamous Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty Friday to helping send hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the U.S., marking one of the final milestones in an investigation that began nearly two decades ago. Eduardo Arellano Felix, 56, reached an agreement with prosecutors that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harsher steps taken on Taiwan fish poachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fisheries Agency and the coast guard have been cracking down harder on illegal fishing by Taiwan in Japan&#8217;s exclusive economic zone since a bilateral pact took effect May 10. The deal allows Taiwanese boats to operate in a joint fishing zone set up within the EEZ based on the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two held after U.K. jets escort Pakistan plane</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two men arrested on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane after fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to a London airport remained in custody Saturday for questioning by the police. The men were detained on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after the plane, which was carrying 300 passengers from the Pakistani city of Lahore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roaches lose sweet tooth to survive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People have been getting rid of cockroaches for decades by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations there kept rising. Mystified researchers tested and discarded theory after theory until they finally hit on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ruby&#8217; in Berlusconi case denies own statements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The woman whom prosecutors allege had sex in exchange for money with Silvio Berlusconi while he was Italy&#8217;s prime minister spent her second day on the witness stand Friday, denying her former sworn descriptions of racy escapades at his &#8220;bunga bunga&#8221; parties and of expensive jewelry and watches she had received from the media mogul. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guatemala extradites ex-president to U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guatemala extradited former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States on Friday to face charges of laundering &#036;70 million of swindled government funds through U.S. banks. Portillo, president from 2000 to 2004, thus becomes the first former Latin American leader ever to be extradited to the United States. &#8220;Hasta luego (see you later), people of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shift to rugged land put man on two feet: study</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rugged landscape created by volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts in eastern and southern Africa millions of years ago may be what prompted our human ancestors to start walking on two legs, a study said Friday. The research, published in the journal Antiquity, challenges the commonly held theory that early hominins (members of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit&#8217;s Sanchez loses no-hit bid in ninth against Twins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Mauer is becoming quite the spoiler. For the third time in his career, Mauer broke up a no-hitter in the ninth inning, lining a clean single off Detroit&#8217;s Anibal Sanchez on Friday night. That was the only hit for Minnesota, and the Twins lost 6-0 to the Tigers. &#8220;He&#8217;s nasty, and he had everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TICAD to adopt declaration vowing growth, security, economic equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[African leaders and their development partners will pledge to achieve &#8220;quality growth&#8221; and address security and poverty issues on the continent, according to a draft declaration for the upcoming TICAD conference in Yokohama. The private sector is &#8220;a vital engine of growth&#8221; and the participants in the Tokyo International Conference on African Development will encourage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. judge rules &#8216;toughest sheriff&#8217; profiles Latinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. federal judge ruled Friday that the office of the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The ruling marks a thorough repudiation of the immigration patrols, which have made Joe Arpaio, the sheriff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penguins put away Senators</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pittsburgh Penguins expected desperation. Instead, the listless Ottawa Senators offered little more than resignation. Swarming the Senators from the opening faceoff, Pittsburgh roared to a 6-2 victory Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern conference semifinals to take the best-of-seven series 4-1. James Neal picked up his first postseason hat trick as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jones homers in ninth to carry Eagles past Carp</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andruw Jones broke a ninth-inning tie on Saturday with his eighth home run of the year as the Rakuten Eagles defeated the Hiroshima Carp 2-1 in interleague action. Former Milwaukee Brewer Casey McGehee unlocked a scoreless pitching duel in the seventh inning with his ninth homer, a solo shot off Hiroshima starter Bryan Bullington, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super global English schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One recent proposal likely to have a good effect on English education in Japan is allowing certain high schools to teach subjects such as science or math in English.]]></description>
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		<title>Hakuho moves closer to 25th Emperor&#8217;s Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hakuho proved an impregnable force for ozeki stalwart Kisenosato in an electrifying showdown of undefeated wrestlers Saturday, putting himself within arm&#8217;s length of his 25th Emperor&#8217;s Cup at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. The yokozuna improved to 14-0 while Kisenosato slipped to 13-1 with one day left at the 15-day meet. It was his seventh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LeBron&#8217;s late mistakes help Pacers even series</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LeBron James blamed one person after the Miami Heat let home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals slip from their hands. Predictably, that was himself. The league&#8217;s MVP had two turnovers in the final minute &#8212; both times on passes that were knocked away by David West &#8212; and they proved particularly costly for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singh-Abe talks likely to cover all key issues: official</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart will discuss how to bolster bilateral ties, including on nuclear power, security, high-speed rail technology and trade and investment, when they meet in Tokyo this week, Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Japan on Monday for an annual bilateral summit that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Japanese-Bangladesh pact</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese retailers should join the safety-commitment pact that many of the world's largest retailers signed following the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh.]]></description>
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		<title>Nats&#8217; Zimmermann picks up eighth win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Nationals didn&#8217;t have a close shave, and neither did Davey Johnson. The 70-year-old manager still looked closer to 80 after the Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 Friday night, sporting the scraggly beginnings of facial hair he had vowed to keep until his team started hitting. Five runs weren&#8217;t enough, even though it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan falls to Tonga in Pacific Nations Cup opener</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonga scored four tries on Saturday to beat Japan 27-17 in the opening rugby match of the Pacific Nations Cup. Two early tries by Fetuu Vainikolo and a conversion by Fangatapu Apikotoa saw Tonga take an early 12-0 lead. Takeshi Kizu ran in a try in the 20th minute to give the hosts some life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H.K. leader Leung&#8217;s top aide steps down</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Cheung, the top aide of Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying, said late Friday he has resigned from all his public offices, including a post in Leung&#8217;s Cabinet, as police filed charges against three men in connection with financial irregularities involving a short-lived commodities trading house majority-owned by Cheung. In a statement, Cheung said he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rakhine Rohingyas given two-child limit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities in Myanmar&#8217;s western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with their Buddhist neighbors after deadly sectarian violence. A local official said Saturday that the new measure will be applied to two townships that border Bangladesh and have the highest Muslim population in Rakhine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause of bridge collapse probed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities searched for a temporary span Friday after a key bridge linking the U.S. and Canada collapsed, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into the icy water. All three people who fell into the Skagit River in northwestern Washington state escaped with only minor injuries. The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge collapsed about halfway between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Honduran gangs to sign truce</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honduras&#8217; two largest and most violent gangs will sign a truce in the coming week and ask for a dialogue with the government and police to help them start leaving their gang lifestyle, a Roman Catholic bishop said Friday. San Pedro Sula&#8217;s bishop, Romulo Emiliani, said the Mara Salavatrucha and 18th Street gangs will begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. lawmaker&#8217;s wife&#8217;s tweet libelous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tweet posted by the wife of Britain&#8217;s parliamentary speaker about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was libelous, the High Court ruled Friday. A BBC report last year led to widespread Internet chatter that falsely linked politician Alistair McAlpine to decades-old child sex abuse. The broadcaster didn&#8217;t name McAlpine, but has paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. photographer Leibovitz wins top prize in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spain honored the U.S. photographer Annie Leibovitz, known for her iconic portraits of a naked John Lennon and a pregnant Demi Moore, with its top humanities prize on Thursday. The Prince of Asturias prize jury hailed Leibovitz, 63, as &#8220;one of the driving forces of world photojournalism,&#8221; in a statement naming her the winner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oswald joins race for IOC president</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The race for the IOC presidency is getting crowded, with Switzerland&#8217;s Denis Oswald becoming the fifth declared candidate to succeed Jacques Rogge. Citing his long experience as an Olympic athlete and administrator, the 66-year-old lawyer and president of FISA, rowing&#8217;s world governing body, announced his decision Friday to run for election. &#8220;My 40 years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lakers&#8217; &#8216;Mr. Instant Point&#8217; dies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flynn Robinson, the former NBA guard who played on the Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; 1971-72 championship team, has died after a two-year fight with cancer. He was 72. Flynn&#8217;s wife, Nancy Pitts-Robinson, told the Lakers he died Thursday at Keck Hospital in Los Angeles. Called &#8220;Mr. Instant Point&#8221; by late Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn, the 185-cm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raptors want Nuggets GM Ujiri</title>
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		<title>Bears set to retire Ditka&#8217;s No. 89</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hall of Famer Mike Ditka will have his No. 89 retired by the Chicago Bears next season. The Bears said Friday the number will be retired at halftime of their Monday night game against the Dallas Cowboys at Soldier Field on Dec. 9, a fitting tribute for a player who revolutionized the tight end position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mazzarri named Inter Milan coach</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inter Milan fired coach Andrea Stramaccioni on Friday and hired Walter Mazzarri as his replacement, five days after concluding the Serie A season with a highly disappointing ninth-place finish. Inter bid Stramaccioni goodbye in an official announcement on its website and said it had signed Mazzarri to a two-year deal. Mazzarri stepped down as Napoli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A-Rod home sells for $30 million</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has sold his Miami Beach home for $30 million. A-Rod&#8217;s business partner, Jose More, confirmed that the sale closed Friday. Rodriguez bought the 5,016-square-meter piece of waterfront land for $7.4 million in 2010. Using his own construction company, Newport Property Construction, he spent another $7.6 million building a nearly-6,100-square-foot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar drops bid for U.N. air agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar has abandoned its bid to relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Canada to the tiny emirate, ending a bitter fight between the two nations, both countries said Friday. Canada had accused Qatar, which has been trying to burnish its international presence, of trying to buy the U.N. agency in Montreal. Losing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burger promotions irk Ohio hero</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man who famously put aside his McDonald&#8217;s hamburger to help rescue three women held captive in an Ohio house said Friday that he is not endorsing a group of restaurants that are offering him free burgers for life and wants his name kept out of it. Charles Ramsey was called a hero after helping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagarde ducks charges in France</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges Friday but was named an &#8220;assisted witness&#8221; after French prosecutors grilled her for two days over a state payout made to a disgraced tycoon when she was finance minister. Lagarde was questioned for a total of 24 hours by prosecutors working for a court that probes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls killed in KKK attack honored</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four girls received in death one of America&#8217;s highest civilian awards Friday as the nation&#8217;s first black president honored some of the youngest victims in the historic fight for equal rights. In the Oval Office, President Barack Obama signed a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal to the four girls killed on Sept. 15, 1963, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippine Marines, rebels die in clash</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philippine military officials say at least seven marines and four Abu Sayyaf militants have been killed in a clash amid an offensive against al-Qaida-linked gunmen accused of carrying out recent kidnappings in the country&#8217;s south. Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Domingo Tutaan said nine other marines and about 10 Abu Sayyaf fighters were wounded in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riots rock Sweden for fifth night</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stockholm experienced a fifth straight night of riots Friday, with cars torched in several immigrant-dominated suburbs, and Britain and the United States warned against traveling to the hot spots. Nearly a week of unrest, which spread briefly Friday night to the midsize city of Oerebro west of Stockholm, have put Sweden&#8217;s reputation as an oasis [...]]]></description>
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