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		<title>Whaling fleet &#8216;departs&#8217; with record-low haul: Sea Shepherd</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Japan&#8217;s whaling fleet has departed the Antarctic Ocean whale sanctuary and appears to be heading home with its smallest catch on record. Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, on Saturday hailed his group&#8217;s &#8220;enormously successful&#8221; harassment campaign and said this winter&#8217;s hunt would likely result in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mastermind of Algeria attack &#8216;killed in Mali&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dead, including 10 Japanese, is killed in northern Mali.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Stalin still inspires 60 years after death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Josef Stalin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Gorbachev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lack of any hint of the atrocities carried out at the Lubyanka building, particularly at the height of Josef Stalin's purges, symbolizes the ambivalent way in which Russia remembers the tyrant.]]></description>
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		<title>Boy, 18, held over Kichijoji murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kichijoji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robbery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An 18-year-old youth is arrested over the robbery-murder of a woman in Tokyo’s Kichijoji district after turning himself in to police and confessing to the slaying.]]></description>
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		<title>Talks falter, U.S. budget austerity sets in</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spending cuts will start hitting an array of U.S. government programs following the failure of President Barack Obama and Republicans to avert an $85 billion budget reduction.]]></description>
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		<title>Rejection of transplant livers cut: researchers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Hokkaido University and Juntendo University develop a new therapy to suppress the rejection of liver transplants without the use of immunosuppressive drugs.]]></description>
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		<title>Japan, EU paving way to kick off free-trade talks in March</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[FTA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan and the European Union are preparing to hold summit talks in Tokyo in late March, to declare the launch of formal negotiations on a free-trade accord.]]></description>
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		<title>Bullet train on Akita Shinkansen Line derails; no injuries reported</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Akita]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bullet train derails on the Akita Shinkansen Line, halting all services on part of the route but avoiding injury to the 130 passengers onboard.]]></description>
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		<title>Collective exposure dose still remains high at Fukushima Daiichi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The annualized radiation exposure of workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex since last March was four times higher than before the triple meltdowns occurred, Tepco says.]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-vice minister Katsu to head IT firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Vice Finance Minister Eijiro Katsu will be appointed president of major IT firm Internet Initiative Japan Inc., industry sources revealed Saturday. After retiring from the Finance Ministry last August, the 62-year-old Katsu, best known for working with the previous Democratic Party of Japan-led government&#8217;s push to hike the sales tax, was recruited to serve [...]]]></description>
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