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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; ANALYSIS</title>
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		<title>Households to take hit from tax hike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[consumption tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[households]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.  ]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. gas, oil revolution reshapes global energy trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederic Pouchot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fracking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After unleashing an energy revolution in the United States, shale gas and oil are now becoming energy game changers worldwide, a break with the past whose ramifications are still unclear. ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. shutdown]]></category>

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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>Sudan president losing allies amid crackdown</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/01/world/sudan-president-losing-allies-amid-crackdown/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sudan-president-losing-allies-amid-crackdown</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar al-Bashir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When longtime Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir introduced drastic austerity measures, he berated the public for being ungrateful over how his regime had improved their lives, boasting that before he came to power, Sudanese never ate hot dogs, talking as if they were a strange, luxury food. For the protesters streaming out into the streets for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan attack aids president&#8217;s stature, leeway</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/world/kenyan-attack-aids-presidents-stature-leeway/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kenyan-attack-aids-presidents-stature-leeway</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean Marc Mojon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[al-Shabab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi mall attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Until the Nairobi mall carnage, Uhuru Kenyatta was a beleaguered and divisive president. But his own bereavement and new clothes as commander in chief have earned him fresh support &#8212; and, some say, a &#8220;get out of jail free card&#8221; for the International Criminal Court. The deadly Sept. 21 raid on the Westgate Mall brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hashimoto&#8217;s Osaka merger dream in jeopardy</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/national/hashimotos-osaka-merger-dream-in-jeopardy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hashimotos-osaka-merger-dream-in-jeopardy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reiji Yoshida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mayoral election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nippon Ishin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sakai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto was facing a critical battle. And he lost. On Sunday, a candidate fielded by Nippon Ishin lost a local government election for the first time in Osaka Prefecture, the power base for both Hashimoto and his party. The result could mean the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutdown quandary shows Washington&#8217;s breakdown</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/shutdown-quandary-shows-washingtons-breakdown/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=shutdown-quandary-shows-washingtons-breakdown</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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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>Malls add security after Kenya strike</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/26/world/malls-add-security-after-kenya-strike/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=malls-add-security-after-kenya-strike</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[al-Shabab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi mall attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some malls around the world have been scrambling to add security guards to look for suspicious people following a deadly attack on a shopping center in Nairobi over the weekend. But for other malls, it has been business as usual. ]]></description>
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		<title>Militant Sunnis add Pakistani Christians to hit list</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/asia-pacific/militant-sunnis-add-pakistani-christians-to-hit-list/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=militant-sunnis-add-pakistani-christians-to-hit-list</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Sunni militant group known for targeting rival Muslims has emerged as a dangerous new player in Pakistan, sending a pair of suicide bombers this week to detonate themselves inside a church in the deadliest ever attack against Pakistani Christians. The brutal assault, which killed 85 worshippers during Sunday services, was the first time that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Shabab nimbler under new leader</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/24/world/al-shabab-nimbler-under-new-leader/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=al-shabab-nimbler-under-new-leader</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franz Wild  and Sarah Mcgregor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al-Qaida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al-Shabab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi mall attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The attack that killed 69 people in a Kenyan shopping mall over the weekend was the first regional operation undertaken by the new leadership of Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab militants following a bloody power struggle. After months of pressure from African troops against the al-Qaida-linked group inside Somalia, Ahmed Godane, also known as Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed, 34, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble at home led al-Shabab to attack abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/23/world/trouble-at-home-led-al-shabab-to-attack-abroad/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=trouble-at-home-led-al-shabab-to-attack-abroad</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[al-Shabab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi mall attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The massacre at a Kenyan shopping mall by Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab insurgents has shown the still-potent threat of the al-Qaida-linked group even as its fighters struggle at home, analysts say. The attack, which follows bloody strikes by al-Shabab suicide commandos earlier this year, including against a United Nations base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, comes [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>

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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>Bo trial shows obedience, not corruption, is party&#8217;s goal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/23/asia-pacific/bo-trial-shows-obedience-not-corruption-is-partys-goal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bo-trial-shows-obedience-not-corruption-is-partys-goal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bo Xilai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embezzlement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The conviction of disgraced top politician Bo Xilai was less about eradicating ubiquitous corruption in China and more about warning Communist Party cadres to stay loyal to the new leadership or suffer the consequences, observers say. President Xi Jinping, who took office earlier this year, has vowed to tackle both low-level &#8220;flies&#8221; and high-ranking &#8220;tigers&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busting a myth: Lehman wasn&#8217;t too big to fail and didn&#8217;t cause recession</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/22/business/busting-a-myth-lehman-wasnt-too-big-to-fail-and-didnt-cause-recession/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=busting-a-myth-lehman-wasnt-too-big-to-fail-and-didnt-cause-recession</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Ritholtz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To many people, the 2008-09 financial crisis was a complex, fast-moving news story and an anagram-laden, horrifying collapse. Such events often give rise to false histories, myths and ideologically driven narratives. It is vitally important that we understand what really happened. Let&#8217;s put to rest some of the sillier ideological narratives that have been pushed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Likely Fed pick Yellen seen as independent</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/19/business/likely-fed-pick-yellen-seen-as-independent/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=likely-fed-pick-yellen-seen-as-independent</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Yellen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Janet Yellen is now the clear front-runner to be nominated as head of the powerful Federal Reserve, and her status as President Barack Obama&#8217;s second choice could ultimately serve as an asset during confirmation and in the central bank&#8217;s top job. Some Fed watchers argue that Yellen will have more independence from the president in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New iPhone 5C seen as too costly for most Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s lower-cost iPhone 5C will retail for more than &#36;700 in China, putting it out of reach of most consumers and raising questions over the firm&#8217;s ability to build sales in the world&#8217;s biggest mobile market. The iPhone 5C is seen as part of the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s bid to counter cheaper handsets from rivals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Assad&#8217;s chemical arsenal would be daunting task</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As diplomats wrangled over competing plans for securing Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons, arms-control experts warned Tuesday of the formidable challenges involved in carrying out such a complex and risky operation in the midst of a raging civil war. U.N. teams dispatched to Syria for the mission would be attempting something new: finding and safeguarding a long-hidden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games nod pressures Tokyo to act</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masaaki Kameda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2020 Olympics and Paralympics are coming to Tokyo, so Japan can expect greater global pressure to rectify the Fukushima nuclear debacle. Experts on Monday credited Tokyo&#8217;s success over Istanbul and Madrid to the safety of the capital and its passion to hold the games. They also hope to see the Tohoku region rebuilt from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis, slowdown in emerging economies could hurt &#8216;Abenomics&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/07/business/crisis-slowdown-in-emerging-economies-could-hurt-abenomics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=crisis-slowdown-in-emerging-economies-could-hurt-abenomics</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoyuki Tachikawa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abenomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G-20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Petersburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Syrian crisis and sluggishness in emerging economies, major topics at the Group of 20 summit in Russia, are two issues Japan can't afford to regard with indifference.  ]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s new bank governor has hands tied</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/06/business/indias-new-bank-governor-has-hands-tied/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=indias-new-bank-governor-has-hands-tied</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie Pesek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raghuram Rajan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rupee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most important indicator of whether India will crash is the sweat on Raghuram Rajan&#8217;s brow. The new Reserve Bank of India governor arrived in Mumbai this week with a bang, announcing a slew of reforms to free up and expand the banking sector and to draw more Indians into the formal financial system. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of unequal inheritance lauded</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomohiro Osaki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inheritence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal experts said Wednesday&#8217;s landmark decision by the Supreme Court that the Civil Code provision denying full inheritance rights to heirs born out of wedlock is unconstitutional was welcome but late in coming. The fact that the justices reached the decision unanimously, they say, will put lawmakers under heavy pressure to revise the controversial clause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton&#8217;s Syria stance may be key in 2016 race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Balz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Rodham Clinton was a senator from New York the last time the U.S. Congress was asked to authorize military action in the Middle East. Friends believe her 2002 vote giving President George W. Bush the power to invade Iraq may have cost her the presidency in 2008. Today, she is a former secretary of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd battles Murdoch press</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s clout in Britain and the United States might have diminished, but in Australia he dominates the media landscape, playing a prominent role in undermining Kevin Rudd&#8217;s dream of retaining power, analysts say. While the ruling Labor Party has long trailed the Tony Abbott-led conservative opposition in opinion polls, Rudd&#8217;s ousting of Julia Gillard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poison gas viewed as uniquely horrible</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bashar Assad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world&#8217;s nations convened in Geneva to outlaw for the first time an entire class of weapons. Barely 1 percent of the war&#8217;s battlefield deaths had come from toxic chemicals, yet these had evoked greater horror than the blast wounds, shrapnel and bullets that killed millions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With vote, U.K. sheds image as U.S. lapdog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lap dogs no more! After the British Parliament&#8217;s decision to reject taking part in any U.S.-led strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, that victory cry rang out Friday from many quarters of the nation. For those who smarted at the memory of former Prime Minister Tony Blair — lampooned in the press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West missed chances to cut arsenal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simeon Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States and its allies may be headed for a war that they could have tried harder to prevent. The failure since the 1970s to put more pressure on Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons, plus American support for Iraq even after it used chemical agents against Iran, have contributed to what the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slew of arrests in China show Xi is consolidating his power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Denyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bo Xilai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trial of Bo Xilai may have divided the Chinese Communist Party and hogged the media spotlight, but, outside the courtroom, President Xi Jinping is continuing his steady efforts to consolidate control, clean up the party and sideline opponents, with a series of detentions and arrests.]]></description>
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		<title>Under Ballmer, Microsoft struggled to modernize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 13:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Timberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 13 years that Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft, literature has climbed out of books, songs have freed themselves from CDs and computers have leapt off their desktops into our hands. An exhilarating new world of technology has emerged with little help from a company that once dominated the industry. Wall Street greeted word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transgender community unsure whether Manning&#8217;s move will be blessing or curse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Hesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female.&#8221; It was a declaration. It was riveting morning television. It was a teachable moment, in public statement form, after Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private, was convicted on charges including espionage and theft. It was, due to the identity and background of the speaker . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West&#8217;s military options in Syria are few, risky</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pressure is mounting on the United States and its Western allies to act to halt the violence in Syria. But with politicians and the public alike loath to get sucked into another drawn-out land war in the Middle East, what military options remain on the table? Buffer zones Some experts suggest buffer zones could be [...]]]></description>
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