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		<title>Sinn Fein leader&#8217;s brother convicted of raping daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was convicted Tuesday of raping his daughter in a case that highlighted how the Irish nationalist political party long discouraged the reporting of crimes within its own circles. In an 11-1 vote, a Belfast jury found Liam Adams guilty on 10 counts of raping and sexually assaulting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global war on drugs is failing, study finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis is failing to stem supply, as prices of these drugs have tumbled while seizures of them have risen, according to a study published Monday. Researchers analyzed data from seven government-funded programs that tracked the illegal drug market over more than a decade. Three of the programs monitored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian court in Knox trial gives OK for new DNA tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Amanda Knox]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Florence Appellate Court hearing U.S. student Amanda Knox’s third trial in her roommate’s murder agrees Monday to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon, but rejects more than a dozen other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. execution plan hurting hospitals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of anesthesiologists on Monday urged the state of Missouri not to use propofol in an upcoming execution, saying the fallout could jeopardize the availability of the anesthetic relied on by thousands of U.S. hospitals and clinics. The Missouri Society of Anesthesiologists&#8217; statement followed a report last week citing possible European export controls if propofol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear still rules the lives of Newtown survivors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Christoffersen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few nights after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, David Posey heard a strange noise in his house and went upstairs to check on his son. The little boy, who had just seen his teacher and a first-grade classmate gunned down, was pounding on the floor. &#8220;I know where the bad guy is,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Superrecognizer&#8217; police help London fight crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Hyland almost never forgets a face. He is a &#8220;superrecognizer,&#8221; and that is giving an unusual kind of help to his employer: Britain&#8217;s Scotland Yard. Several years ago, for example, London police were on the lookout for a burglar wanted for nine robberies. About a month after seeing the suspect&#8217;s picture, Hyland and two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chile shuts officials&#8217; luxury lockup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chile&#8217;s president announced Thursday that he will close a luxury prison for dictatorship-era military officials who have been convicted of crimes against humanity, taking away their tennis courts, barbecues and a swimming pool. The Cordillera prison, located on an army base, has provided officers jailed for killings, tortures and other abuses committed during Gen. Augusto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexis said radio waves drove him to kill: FBI</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Aaron Alexis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis left a note saying he was driven to kill by bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves, the FBI said Wednesday, a disclosure that explains the phrase he etched on his shotgun: “My ELF Weapon!” ]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer puts price on Jackson&#8217;s death at trial</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/world/lawyer-puts-price-on-jacksons-death-at-trial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lawyer-puts-price-on-jacksons-death-at-trial</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conrad Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The promoters of Michael Jackson&#8217;s doomed last tour should pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the late pop icon&#8217;s family over his 2009 death, a lawyer said in closing arguments Tuesday. In a heartstrings-tugging final presentation wrapping up a five-month trial, attorney Brian Panish urged jurors to award &#36;85 million to each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru tops world in coca leaf production</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peru has displaced Colombia as the world&#8217;s leading producer of coca leaf, although it succeeded for the first time in seven years in cutting output of the illicit plant used to make cocaine, the United Nations said Tuesday. Peru cut its area under coca cultivation to 62,500 hectares, a decrease of 3.4 percent from 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pussy Riot member on hunger strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Lally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Soviet era, female political prisoners who were sent to labor in Russia&#8217;s Mordovia region described their privations in tiny words written on cigarette papers, which took months to reach the world. Today, an inmate can hand a real letter to a husband, and it is posted on a blog, emblazoned on Facebook pages, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine held after 31 suitcases of cocaine carried on Venezuela-France flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The smuggling of 1.4 tons of cocaine in 31 suitcases on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris has led to nine arrests on two continents, and Venezuela&#8217;s top police official said Monday that he expects more arrests with airline workers suspected. Yet the case, kept quiet for nearly two weeks by authorities, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shooter&#8217;s erratic, violent behavior overlooked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Alexis&#8217; erratic and violent behavior was ignored, overlooked or dismissed for nine years by police, the military, the Department of Veterans Affairs and his employer, creating a series of missed opportunities that might have stopped the Washington Navy Yard gunman, according to records and interviews with officials close to the investigation. The warning signs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexis was atypical Buddhist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Boorstein  and Elizabeth Tenety</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Alexis had a gold Buddha in his room, a regular meditation practice and a gun with him &#8220;at all times,&#8221; according to a friend. At one point, he aspired to be a monk. He wound up a killer. Of the many details that have emerged about Alexis in the aftermath of the Washington Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru bishop ousted over abuse charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis has removed a Roman Catholic bishop who is suspected of sexually abusing minors in Peru. Gabino Miranda, 53, was removed as part of the pope&#8217;s &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; policy against abuse, said the Rev. Luis Bambaren, the retired former chief of the Peruvian bishops&#8217; conference, on Friday. Miranda is only the second bishop known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gunman&#8217;s erratic behavior probed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigators focused Thursday on the erratic behavior of a former U.S. Navy reservist whom law enforcement officials say had reported hearing voices before shooting dead 12 people at a military base in Washington earlier this week. The Department of Veterans Affairs said Aaron Alexis visited two hospitals in the weeks before the shooting but denied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol Police were ordered to leave Navy Yard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Capitol Police officials are reviewing reports that tactical team members were ordered to leave the scene after they responded to Monday&#8217;s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. A Capitol Police officer said he thinks officers could have made a quick entry into the building where a gunman opened fire, killing 12 people. &#8220;We were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austrian gunman &#8216;killed himself&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austrian officials say an examination of a charred body that is believed to be that of the gunman who killed three policemen and a paramedic Tuesday shows he apparently killed himself with a shot to the head. Police found the body early Wednesday behind a hidden door of a secret cellar in a farm building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frenchman dies in Egyptian jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said a Frenchman died while in police custody in the Egyptian capital. The ministry said Tuesday it was seeking details about the death of the man, whom Egyptian authorities say was killed by cellmates while in police custody in Cairo. Egyptian authorities close to the investigation said prosecutors began questioning the Frenchman&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For world, U.S. gun violence is new norm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola  and Karla Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Davis, a 41-year-old London disc jockey, was saddened when he heard about the latest mass shooting in the United States. But like much of the world after the attack Monday at Washington&#8217;s Navy Yard, he was no longer shocked. The United States is a place where &#8220;buying guns is like buying sweets from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal gun laws failed to block Washington Navy Yard shooter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gunman who killed 12 people before being shot dead by police at the Washington Navy Yard had a history of violent outbursts, was at least twice accused of firing guns in anger and was in the early stages of treatment for serious mental problems, according to court records and U.S. law enforcement officials.]]></description>
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		<title>Mubarak back in court for retrial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt&#8217;s ailing former President Hosni Mubarak was back in court Saturday on charges of complicity in the deaths of protesters in 2011, with former officials to be questioned over his alleged role. The 85-year-old was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair for the hearing from a military hospital where he is being detained. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yemen probes 8-year-old child bride&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yemen is investigating the reported death of an 8-year-old girl from injuries suffered on the first night of her marriage to a man in his 40s. The government has formed a committee &#8220;to verify the reports about the death of the girl, named Rawan, after being married to an older man,&#8221; government spokesman Rajeh Badi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress bickers as U.S. government shutdown looms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As their leaders sniped over who is to blame, divided American lawmakers careened Thursday toward a budget deadline that could see the U.S. government shut down on Oct. 1. The debate over how to fund government is pushing Congress to the brink for a third straight year, with Democrats and Republicans seemingly unable to compromise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. study links gun ownership and homicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers in the United States claim to have established a convincing statistical link between gun ownership and homicide, according to a study published Thursday. The study, which appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, challenges the National Rifle Association&#8217;s claim that increased gun ownership does not lead to higher levels of gun violence. Covering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. newlywed charged with pushing husband off cliff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newlywed American woman has been charged with murder for allegedly pushing her husband off a cliff barely a week after they married, according to court documents published Tuesday. Jordan Linn Graham appeared in court in Montana on Monday accused of second-degree murder over the July death of her husband, Cody Lee Johnson, in Glacier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. drunken driver charged after online confession</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young Ohio man who confessed online to killing a man while driving drunk was charged with vehicular homicide Monday, court records show. Matthew Cordle, 22, was also charged with driving under the influence. &#8220;When I get charged I will plead guilty and take responsibility for everything I&#8217;ve done to Vincent (Canzani) and his family,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge denied do-over in rape ruling</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. judge was blocked Friday from increasing the controversial one-month prison term he imposed on a teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student. Montana&#8217;s Supreme Court said Judge G. Todd Baugh could not annul the 31-day sentence he imposed on teacher Stacey Rambold for raping schoolgirl Cherice Moralez, who later committed suicide. But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the journalist who calls Mexico&#8217;s drug war &#8216;a big lie&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Vulliamy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During January 2011, Anabel Hernandez&#8217;s extended family held a party at a favorite cafe in the north of Mexico City. The gathering was to celebrate the birthday of Anabel&#8217;s niece. As one of the country&#8217;s leading journalists who rarely allows herself time off, she was especially happy because &#8220;the entire family was there. There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuelans menaced by new type of crime: hair theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They already endure staggering levels of street crime. Now Venezuelans have something new to fear: muggers who chop off their hair. Members of scissor-wielding street gangs are called &#8220;piranhas,&#8221; after the flesh-eating fish. The gangs sell the stolen hair to salons that fashion it into braids in the oil-rich and beauty-obsessed country. Some disconsolate women [...]]]></description>
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