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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; 2013 &#187; May &#187; 20</title>
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		<title>Abe&#8217;s spin: We&#8217;re ready to talk about abduction issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Isao Iijima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he is ready to promote talks with North Korea to resolve the abduction issue after Pyongyang blew the lid off of what was supposed to be a secret trip by one of his closest advisers. &#8220;I hope I can promote negotiations and dialogue,&#8221; Abe said in the city of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. shale gas alters Japan&#8217;s energy plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miya Tanaka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LNG imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shale gas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is hoping LNG from the U.S. shale gas boom will give it the power to rework bruising long-term contracts linked to oil prices.]]></description>
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		<title>Support for Abe Cabinet slides to 70.9%: poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public support for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has weakened but remains strong at 70.9 percent, compared with 72.1 percent last month, a Kyodo News survey said Sunday. It was the fourth time the Cabinet&#8217;s rating has topped 70 percent in the monthly poll since Abe&#8217;s Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan film makes splash at Cannes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cannes Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hirokazu Koreeda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival give a warm reception to director Hirokazu Koreeda's drama about two families caught up in a baby swap.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Comfort women&#8217; rap unfair: Hashimoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[comfort women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex slaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto says he doesn't believe the tens of thousands of women rounded up to provide sex for Japanese soldiers during the war did so unwillingly.]]></description>
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		<title>The rifleman: behind assault weapons&#8217; rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hamburger  and Sari Horwitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault weapons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Carlos Vos, an arms dealer in Alexandria, Virginia, began hanging around the Washington headquarters of the National Rifle Association in the mid-1980s. The NRA&#8217;s staff were intrigued to see the garrulous, back-slapping Vos in the group&#8217;s seventh-floor suite, home to its lobbying operation and the chief congressional lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre. Vos and LaPierre struck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utility, ubiquity playing key roles in corrupting policymakers&#8217; thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriko Hama</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policymaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two mind-sets seem to be catching on in Japan these days. They worry me. One is the notion that something has to be useful to be of value. The other is that anything is justifiable on the grounds that everybody else is doing it. The theory of usefulness is driving the Abe government&#8217;s promotion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book with Ikeda elementary killer&#8217;s psych exam to challenge privacy law</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/20/national/book-with-ikeda-elementary-killers-psych-exam-to-challenge-privacy-law/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=book-with-ikeda-elementary-killers-psych-exam-to-challenge-privacy-law</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ikeda Elementary School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mamoru Takuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychiatric evaluation report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A book on the man who killed eight children at an Osaka school in 2004 will challenge the Personal Information Protection Law by publishing his psychiatric report.]]></description>
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		<title>Syria accused of &#8216;disappearing&#8217; thousands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karin Laub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnapping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. That was a year ago. The young man, who had been providing aid to Syrians displaced by the country&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka sexes up Ceylon tea&#8217;s image</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon&#8217;s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid to radically change perceptions of the brew, which manufacturers say can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice planted in former no-go zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant. It is the first time since the March 2011 core meltdowns that rice intended for sale has been planted in any former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs give comfort — and controversy — in court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Manning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The twins were 7, shy and scared. Talking was tough, and describing what had happened to them was nearly impossible. So the prosecutor preparing them to testify against their father, who they said had molested them, borrowed a dog named Jeeter. &#8220;It was a last-ditch effort to try to build rapport with my kids, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English-language education proposal has French up in arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time, not so long ago, when anyone with a proper education spoke French. Diplomacy and business were conducted in French. Knowledge was spread in French. Travelers made their way in French and, of course, lovers traded sweet nothings in French. Viewed from France, the trouble with modern times is that many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook playing catch-up a year after flawed IPO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[IPO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social network]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a market debut marred by technical glitches and a deep dive in the company&#8217;s stock price, Facebook has spent the past year focused on its biggest weaknesses: how to make money and keep its more than 1 billion users tethered to the social network. The results have been mixed. The company&#8217;s stock price has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eurozone now eager to copy Japan, take &#8216;easy way out&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabien Zamora</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Budding growth in the Japanese economy, just as a recession in Europe digs in, is renewing pressure on European policymakers to shift course from austerity to stimulus. Data released on Thursday said that Japan&#8217;s economy grew markedly in the first quarter, only weeks after a new government and a new team at the central bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Bloomberg terminal scandal reveals about the media and its money-making ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surveillance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chatter across the world of financial journalism over the last few days has been the story of Bloomberg reporters accessing information about subscribers of the firm&#8217;s financial data service that those customers thought should remain secret. The episode contains some important lessons for how the media business is evolving. The controversy came to light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama keeps fluid grip on levels of power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Rucker  and Peter Wallsten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists&#8217; sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who&#8217;s held it; other times he seems unacquainted with the work of his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;All issues on table&#8217; in China-India talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India says all issues will be &#8220;on the table,&#8221; including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang&#8217;s visit to the South Asian giant, which started Sunday. At the same time, New Delhi thinks &#8220;very highly&#8221; of Li&#8217;s decision to make India his first overseas stop since taking charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest setback for HIV vaccines creates a &#8216;void&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up &#036;8 billion in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 years of efforts. With the next attempts expected to be years away, top researchers now say there is a &#8220;void&#8221; or a &#8220;gap&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French school manages to survive in war-rattled Damascus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angered over Syrian President Bashar Assad&#8217;s brutal repression of peaceful protests in Syria two years ago, Paris closed its embassy in Damascus, virtually cutting off the lifeline to the capital&#8217;s once-thriving French school. But tenacious parents and staffers, driven by their love for French culture and despite financial hardship, have kept the Charles de Gaulle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 17 years in wait, cicadas are rising: U.S. invasion starts in 5, 4, 3 . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hordes are rising. A cicada invasion is imminent in the United States, with millions of the large cricketlike insects beginning to emerge from the earth after 17 years lying in wait. The first of the bugs that are expected to blanket the U.S. East Coast have already been spotted. &#8220;The Brood II emergence has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groundwork being laid for rise of fuel cell cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is gearing up to launch fuel cell vehicles as the next-generation of environmentally safer cars. Oil distributors have started to establish hydrogen station networks, while the government is set to provide financial assistance and is considering deregulation to make it easier to set up the fuel supply networks. Fuel cell vehicles are powered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrest highlights U.S., Russian spies&#8217; rich history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Goldman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes isn&#8217;t enough to avoid being caught. The most recent skirmish involves Russian security services ambushing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High school teams from Hyogo, Nara win U.N. negotiating awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two high schools won awards Saturday for their efforts at the Global Classrooms International Model U.N. Conference, which assembled nearly 2,500 students from 23 countries to discuss global issues in a simulation of real U.N. sessions, the organizer said. Nada High School in Hyogo Prefecture and Nishiyamato Gakuen High School in Nara Prefecture were among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riyadh tries to avoid Afghan-style blowback</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chastened by the experience of Afghanistan, where hundreds of Saudi Arabians fought before returning to sow terror at home, the kingdom is now battling to avoid similar blowback from the conflict in Syria, analysts say. In recent months, Saudi officials have issued increasingly stern warnings against volunteers from the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom heading off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gunmen kill politician from Khan&#8217;s PTI party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gunmen killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan&#8217;s party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial rerun of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings. Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women&#8217;s wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, was targeted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S. Korea slams North&#8217;s &#8216;provocative&#8217; missile launches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea&#8217;s latest short-range missile launches as &#8220;provocative&#8221; and again urged it to hold talks about a suspended jointly run industrial park. Officials in Seoul on Sunday said the North fired another projectile into waters off its eastern coast just a day after it launched three short-range missiles in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan must boost credibility of bonds as exodus to stocks hikes rates: Amari</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoshiaki Nohara  and Yuji Okada</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s government must demonstrate a commitment to fiscal rehabilitation to boost the credibility of government bonds and prevent a spike in long-term yields as soaring stocks damp the allure of the nation&#8217;s sovereign debt, Economy Minister Akira Amari said. &#8220;As stocks have rallied this much, it&#8217;s a common economic phenomenon and principle that capital shifts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amari wants wage talks with bigwigs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Akira Amari revealed Sunday that he plans to open talks with national labor and management representatives on how to convince companies to raise wages. Amari said on a TV program that improved corporate earnings resulting from &#8220;Abenomics,&#8221; the moniker for the yen-weakening, deflation-busting plans of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, could lead to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi woman climbs Everest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raha Muharraq, a 25-year-old Saudi woman, on Saturday reached the summit of Mount Everest in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom, where women&#8217;s sports are severely restricted, her father said. Hassan Muharraq said that Raha, a graduate of the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, has now achieved her ambition of climbing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chef clears freezer space for bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut chef Bun Lai is already known for his Mexican grasshopper dish and his fried rice with mealworms and crickets. But he might soon also be recognized as the cicada chef. Lai, owner of Miya&#8217;s Sushi, told the New Haven Register that he plans to fill a big freezer full of Brood II cicadas. &#8220;I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan to use Chinese GPS system</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China&#8217;s domestic satellite navigation system, which was launched as a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, a report said Saturday. The Beidou, or Compass, system started providing services to civilians in the region in December and is expected to provide global coverage by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India closes Wal-Mart bribery probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigation into whether Wal-Mart may have bribed Indian officials to gain wider access to the country&#8217;s vast market has been &#8220;closed&#8221; due to lack of evidence, a report said Saturday. The one-man committee of retired Justice Mukul Mudgal probing the matter is likely to submit a report to the government this week saying there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many hurt as car plows into parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town, and investigators are looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident. About 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to superficial, but no fatalities were reported. It happened Saturday afternoon in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-H.K. graft body head questioned</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former head of Hong Kong&#8217;s anticorruption agency attended an inquiry Saturday by legislators over alleged lavish spending and misuse of public money. Timothy Tong, the former commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, allegedly overspent on business meals and gifts, treating mainland Chinese officials while in office. He said he will take responsibility if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-minister quits re-election bid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerome Cahuzac, France&#8217;s former budget minister who was forced out of office over a tax fraud scandal, will not seek re-election to his former parliamentary seat, a newspaper reported Sunday. Cahuzac, who last month bowed to pressure and also resigned from the National Assembly, told the regional daily Depeche du Midi he made the decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curfew imposed in Nigerian city</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria&#8217;s military Saturday imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of a northeastern city as soldiers pressed on with a campaign against Boko Haram Islamists that has sent people fleeing from their homes. Nigeria launched the sweeping operation earlier in the week, deploying thousands of troops across three states where President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollande signs gay marriage law</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France will see its first gay weddings within days, after President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Hollande&#8217;s office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck down a challenge to the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe to cook up business in Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to make a three-day visit to Myanmar next Friday in a bid to strengthen bilateral ties, a government source said Saturday. Abe, who will be accompanied by top executives from more than 30 Japanese companies, is expected to hold talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein on improving the investment environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probe opened into U.S. train crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials opened an investigation Saturday into a rush-hour collision between two commuter trains that injured more than 70 passengers and severed a key rail link. Train service in the busy Northeast corridor from New York City to New Haven, Connecticut, used by tens of thousands of commuters, was suspended indefinitely and will likely be snarled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Z. bank may raise interest rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising house prices in New Zealand will increase the pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates, Finance Minister Bill English said Sunday. &#8220;These households heading into quite high debt to buy highly priced houses need to be aware at some stage the RBNZ (Reserve Bank of New Zealand) will increase interest rates, particularly [...]]]></description>
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