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		<title>Federal budget deadlock could stretch into debt-limit fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington begins bracing for a prolonged government shutdown on Tuesday, with signs on Capitol Hill that Republicans &#8212; knowing that blame almost certainly will fall most heavily on them &#8212; beginning to look for ways to lift some of the pressure.]]></description>
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		<title>Founding Fathers having big say — with a little help</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early last Wednesday, Republican Sen. Mike Lee rose in the Senate to recite a quotation from George Washington. It was, Lee said, Washington&#8217;s own account of his last day as president in 1797. Lee was explaining why Washington, if he were alive today, might agree with Republicans in the fight that led to the federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour chief defends father after newspaper&#8217;s &#8216;smear&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A war of words between British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and the conservative Daily Mail tabloid has moved beyond politics into more personal territory with a blistering attack on Miliband&#8217;s late father. In a blaring headline over the weekend, the newspaper labeled Ralph Miliband &#8220;The man who hated Britain&#8221; and warned that everyone who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polonium and cukes: Boris fires up Tories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor of London Boris Johnson fired up the Conservative Party conference Tuesday with a rousing call to arms for Britain&#8217;s 2015 election and a challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin on cucumbers. This time last year Johnson was riding high after his re-election and a successful London Olympic Games, and many were touting him as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP disappoints big-business backers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010 and again in 2012, companies on Main Street and Wall Street did just about everything they could to help Republicans win elected office in Washington. But this week, many of those Republicans ignored pleas from corporate America and let the government shut down, potentially harming a fragile economy and causing more of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats find rare unity in budget fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosalind S. Helderman  and Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before the government shut down, House Republicans crafted their final spending offer, including two health care provisions designed to scare red-state Senate Democrats facing re-election battles: one to delay the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s unpopular individual mandate and another removing subsidies for lawmakers and their staffs. But the Democrats didn&#8217;t budge, killing the proposal without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bosnian Muslims in census quandary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bosnia&#8217;s first census since its 1990s inter-ethnic war, which could dramatically alter the balance of power between the three main ethnic groups, poses a particular quandary for the country&#8217;s Muslims. The 1995 Dayton peace accord introduced a political system in which Muslims &#8212; known as Bosniaks &#8212; along with Serbs and Croats are the country&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New U.S. health care law exchanges see much interest, some glitches</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/02/world/new-u-s-health-care-law-exchanges-see-much-interest-some-glitches/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-u-s-health-care-law-exchanges-see-much-interest-some-glitches</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans flooded government websites Tuesday to get a long-awaited look at insurance options available under the Affordable Care Act, but the high traffic contributed to widespread computer problems on what President Barack Obama hailed as a historic day. HealthCare.gov, the federal Internet marketplace serving more than 30 states, was jammed for most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. shutdown damages political system, but Republicans seen at greater risk</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/02/world/u-s-shutdown-damages-political-system-but-republicans-seen-at-greater-risk/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-shutdown-damages-political-system-but-republicans-seen-at-greater-risk</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Balz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be plenty of collateral damage from the government shutdown that began early Tuesday &#8212; from federal workers to ordinary citizens &#8212; but the most serious effects are likely to be felt inside a Republican Party that appears divided and in need of leadership. Day One of the shutdown produced, if anything, a hardening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal government shuts down amid stalemate over &#8216;Obamacare&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in nearly two decades, the U.S. government staggered into a partial shutdown at midnight Monday after congressional Republicans stubbornly demanded changes in the nation&#8217;s health care law as the price for essential federal funding and President Barack Obama and Democrats adamantly refused. As Congress gridlocked, Obama said a &#8220;shutdown will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World perplexed by U.S. shutdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. government creaked toward a shutdown Monday, the world looked on with a little anxiety and a lot of dismay, and some people had trouble suppressing smirks. &#8220;To be honest, people are making a lot of jokes,&#8221; said Justice Malala, a political commentator in South Africa. Over the years, Malala said, South Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Not-so-conservative&#8217; Republicans may be key to solving U.S. fiscal drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most conservative tea party-backed members of the House GOP have been the center of attention in the ongoing fiscal drama, but the key to a solution in the coming days may be a different Republican bloc altogether. It&#8217;s a group of a few dozen lawmakers from swing districts and suburbs mostly in the Northeast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey to end ban on wearing headscarves in public offices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey on Monday announced it will lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in most public offices, following other measures critics say are aimed at the Islamization of the staunchly secular country. In a major speech to introduce political reforms, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that, with a few exceptions, public servants will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican protests, Democrats&#8217; silence spell doom for Clinton film</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following protests by Republican rivals, an Oscar-winning filmmaker has dropped plans to make a documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton, and a planned TV miniseries about her has also been scrapped. Charles Ferguson, who was making the film for CNN, faced criticism from the GOP that it would promote the ex-U.S. secretary of state&#8217;s expected 2016 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek premier vows to eradicate neo-Nazi party</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece&#8217;s prime minister said Monday his government will do &#8220;whatever it takes&#8221; to completely eradicate the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, whose neo-Nazi leaders have just been arrested. Antonis Samaras said the Greek people &#8220;are very smart&#8221; and are now seeing the party for what it really is. &#8220;I believe that they will realize that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austria coalition scrapes majority; far right gains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austria&#8217;s two main political parties looked Monday to have little alternative but to continue their unloved &#8220;grand coalition&#8221; for another five years after just scraping together a majority in elections. This is unless the conservatives attempt a repeat of their 2000 coalition with the third-place far right, which saw its share of the vote increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats, Republicans in eleventh-hour showdown as shutdown looms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown, congressional Republicans and Democrats traded blame for the failure to reach agreement on a temporary funding bill to keep federal agencies open. Congress was closed for the day Sunday after a post-midnight vote in the Republican-run House of Representatives to delay by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlusconi and allies split over strategy to push early elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi appears to backpedal Sunday in his strategy aimed at collapsing Italy's fragile coalition government and triggering early elections, after some key supporters chafe at his order to quit the Cabinet.]]></description>
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		<title>Shutdown nears as House delays health law</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/shutdown-nears-as-house-delays-health-law/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=shutdown-nears-as-house-delays-health-law</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved legislation early Sunday imposing a one-year delay on key parts of America&#8217;s health care law and repealing a tax on medical devices as the price for avoiding a partial government shutdown Tuesday. Senate Democrats had already pledged to reject the measure, and the White House issued a statement vowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutdown quandary shows Washington&#8217;s breakdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington once again stands at a moment of crisis &#8212; only this time, Democrats and Republicans are not negotiating a way to avoid it. They are not even speaking to one another. The cumulative effect of almost three years of governing by near-death experience is becoming clear. Instead of bringing a resolution, each close call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron denies having claws out for Downing Street cat Larry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s office denied Saturday that his family has no love for Larry, the Downing Street cat. Following claims in a new book that Cameron&#8217;s acquisition of the moggy was little more than a PR stunt, a &#8220;savelarry&#8221; hashtag began trending on Twitter. Larry was acquired in February 2011 after a rat was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics and pride drive Putin&#8217;s anti-U.S. shift</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/politics-and-pride-drive-putins-anti-u-s-shift/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=politics-and-pride-drive-putins-anti-u-s-shift</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Lally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, Vladimir Putin accused Hillary Rodham Clinton of inciting protests against him at the end of 2011. The next fall, the Russian president threw the U.S. Agency for International Development out of his country. Then he decided civic groups that get U.S. financing must be foreign agents. By the end of last year, Putin decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy in new crisis as center-right ministers quit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Enrico Letta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Center-right ministers Saturday resigned from Italy&#8217;s fragile coalition government, unleashing a fresh political crisis after what Prime Minister Enrico Letta called a &#8220;crazy act&#8221; of encouragement by their leader, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi. All five ministers of the People of Freedom (PDL) party took the decision at Berlusconi&#8217;s urging, said deputy premier and PDL party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking to 2016, Rubio and Paul rush to join Cruz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Nakamura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Ted Cruz might have alienated the Republican establishment with his all-night polemic against the Affordable Care Act. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the caustic Texan didn&#8217;t win any friends in Washington. As Cruz&#8217;s 21-hour speech dragged on, GOP Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky were among the supporters who joined him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate sends spending bill to House fate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats in the U.S. Senate set up a clash with House Republicans that could lead to a partial shutdown of the federal government in the coming week, approving a spending bill Friday that includes funding for President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul &#8212; a provision Republicans oppose. The Senate vote &#8212; 54-44 along party lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Tajik woman eyes presidency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman is for the first time bidding for the presidency of Tajikistan after an opposition bloc, including an Islamic party, chose a respected female rights lawyer as its candidate in the majority Muslim country. Oinikhol Bobonazarova, a 65-year-old lawyer and rights activist who does not wear a headscarf, has been nominated to run in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Senate clears spending hurdle in averting shutdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic-led Senate easily cleared a hurdle to averting a government shutdown after a Republican lawmaker ended a 21-hour speech aimed at using the measure to derail President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature health care overhaul. Senators voted unanimously Wednesday to allow a temporary spending bill to be officially lain before the Senate, one of several steps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruz, party tangle over U.S. shutdown</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/world/cruz-party-tangle-over-u-s-shutdown/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cruz-party-tangle-over-u-s-shutdown</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Sen. Ted Cruz escalated his conflict with fellow Republicans Tuesday when he stepped up his attacks on President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature health care law, complicating House GOP efforts to pass a funding bill that would avert a government shutdown next week. Launching a marathon speech modeled on old-fashioned filibusters, Cruz also informed his Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merkel factor boosts CDU&#8217;s result in German vote</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/23/world/merkel-factor-boosts-cdus-result-in-german-vote/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=merkel-factor-boosts-cdus-result-in-german-vote</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The strong performance by Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservatives in Sunday&#8217;s German election was not only a victory for her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) but also vindication of her strategy of transforming a party long dominated by Roman Catholic men. During her eight years as chancellor, Merkel re-invented her party — much as Bill Clinton did with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merkel cements legacy with win in German polls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chancellor Angela Merkel led her conservatives to a stunning victory in Germany&#8217;s election Sunday, a personal triumph that cements her position as Europe&#8217;s most powerful leader. However, she will need to reach out to center-left rivals to form a new government after her coalition partner crashed out of Parliament. Merkel&#8217;s Union bloc scored its best [...]]]></description>
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