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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>Pope&#8217;s plain talking stirs fresh debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Boorstein  and Elizabeth Tenety</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the world outside the Vatican on Tuesday, saying in his second widely shared media interview in two weeks that each person “must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them.” ]]></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>Swedish police Gypsy file triggers racial profiling fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malin Rising</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his suburban Stockholm apartment, Marcello Demeter sits at the kitchen table with his two daughters, Isabelle and Sandra &#8212; and wonders how they got on the list that has sent Sweden into an uproar. About a week ago, the 42-year-old Swede found out that he and his wife, Susanne, their three children and at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgian elects to be euthanized after failed sex-change surgery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 44-year-old Belgian in distress after a failed sex change was euthanized this week after doctors agreed to the mercy-killing on psychological grounds, national media said Tuesday. Nathan Verhelst died Monday in a Brussels hospital surrounded by friends after requesting assistance to die in a case that has been highly publicized in Belgium, which became [...]]]></description>
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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>Raids spark anger in Basque region</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people protested in Bilbao, northern Spain, on Tuesday against the arrest a day earlier of 18 leaders of an association that aids jailed members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA. The demonstrators rallied in a square in the center of the Basque city to protest against the police operation against Herrira, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise rivals drugs for cutting death risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exercise may be at least as effective as some drugs in reducing the risk of death in stroke patients or people with heart disease, a study published Wednesday said. Researchers from the London School of Economics, Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine compared the findings of several studies into the effectiveness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical team starts Syria mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International disarmament experts were to begin cataloguing Syria&#8217;s vast arsenal of chemical weapons Wednesday, checking a list of sites provided by Damascus and conducting on-the-spot tests ahead of its destruction. The 19-strong team from the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived in Damascus on Tuesday to implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 2118, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California outlaws Net &#8216;revenge porn&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that would make it illegal for people to humiliate ex-lovers by posting indecent photos or videos online. Under the new law targeting &#8220;revenge porn,&#8221; distributing sexual images &#8220;with the intent to cause serious emotional distress&#8221; would carry a fine of as much as $1,000 and as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Diana&#8217; ad taken down at crash site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mass grave unearthed in Romania</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pussy Riot member to start eating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An imprisoned member of the punk band Pussy Riot ended her nine-day hunger strike Tuesday but her husband said she has vowed to restart it if she is not moved to another prison. Pyotr Verzilov said his wife, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, was in stable condition after a hunger strike to protest working conditions in the women&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group backs Putin for Nobel Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>U.S. regulator nominee withdraws</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to be the nation&#8217;s top energy regulator withdrew Tuesday, conceding he did not have enough support for confirmation. Ron Binz, a former Colorado energy regulator and strong backer of renewable energy, was opposed by at least half of the 22-member Senate Energy Committee, including all 10 Republicans and at least one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. gives Venezuela diplomats boot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. has expelled Venezuela&#8217;s charge d&#8217;affaires in Washington and two other diplomats in reprisal for the expulsion of three American diplomats from Caracas, both countries said late Tuesday. The tit-for-tat move came a day after the expulsion of the Americans, accused of plotting acts of sabotage against the government, the Foreign Ministry in Caracas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jellyfish shut down Swedish reactor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t a tsunami but it had the same effect: A wave of jellyfish was huge enough to force one of the world&#8217;s largest nuclear reactors to shut down &#8212; a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common. Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had to scramble reactor No. 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New U.S. health care law exchanges see much interest, some glitches</title>
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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>Man uses thought to control robotic leg via rerouted nerves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb just by thinking about moving it &#8212; all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his thigh, where they can be used to communicate with a robotic leg. The man can now switch seamlessly from walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. shutdown damages political system, but Republicans seen at greater risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Swap red meat for tomatoes to cut prostate-cancer risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A set of six healthy habits, including eating more tomatoes and less processed red meat, helped men reduce their risk of dying from prostate cancer, a study found. Researchers analyzed information gathered from almost 46,000 men for 25 years and found that those who adopted five or six of the habits had a 39 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 pieces of not-so-conventional wisdom on Obamacare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the Great Unveiling of Obamacare, Americans are going to see a lot of these talking points repeated as if they&#8217;re facts. Most of the talking points are not dead wrong &#8212; they could be true. But they&#8217;re considerably more uncertain than most pundits seem to think. 1. Once Obamacare goes into effect, [...]]]></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>Germany admits chemical exports to Assad in &#8217;11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German government admits it had approved as recently as 2011 the export to Syria of chemicals that could be weaponized, and in larger quantities than previously known.]]></description>
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