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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>&#8216;Frack off&#8217;: U.K. energy debate erupts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This might seem a bizarre place for a battle over energy policy in Britain. A quaint village with a single pub, a well-attended tea room and a population of about 2,000, Balcombe has become the focal point of a heated debate over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will revolutionize the [...]]]></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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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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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>China courts embrace social media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scandals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s notoriously opaque courts have suddenly embraced social media to provide a window into their proceedings, to boost a skeptical public&#8217;s confidence in the country&#8217;s Communist Party-controlled legal system. Nearly 1,000 Chinese courts have set up microblog accounts. One in central China released a blow-by-blow account of a murder appeal last week, complete with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law may lead to disparities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Half a century ago, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid was a triumph of American egalitarianism. Within a decade, the United States went from a country where 1 in 3 people lacked health insurance to a nation where just 1 in 10 went without coverage. President Barack Obama has similar ambitions for the Affordable Care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troop command top issue as Hagel visits South Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/asia-pacific/troop-command-top-issue-as-hagel-visits-south-korea/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=troop-command-top-issue-as-hagel-visits-south-korea</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the United States and South Korea still cannot agree on who should take charge if another war breaks out with the communist neighbor to the north. For years, Washington has been trying to persuade the South Korean military to take operational control of its own forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe uses U.N. stage to push more proactive security role</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/28/national/abe-uses-u-n-stage-to-push-more-proactive-security-role/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=abe-uses-u-n-stage-to-push-more-proactive-security-role</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noriyuki Suzuki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective self-defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delivering his message to a global audience at the United Nations last week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlined his vision of Japan as a pacifist nation willing to engage more actively in international security. Abe told the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York that Japan will become a &#8220;proactive contributor to peace&#8221; and increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran tries to shift scrutiny to Israeli nuclear weapons</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/26/world/iran-tries-to-shift-scrutiny-to-israeli-nuclear-weapons/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iran-tries-to-shift-scrutiny-to-israeli-nuclear-weapons</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a few words in a largely conciliatory speech to the United Nations, Iran&#8217;s new president took aim at an Israeli fear: that international pressure on Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program could lead to scrutiny of Israel&#8217;s own secretive nuclear facilities. Israel is widely believed to possess dozens of atomic weapons under a program dating back more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wealthy guru&#8217;s arrest on teen sex assault charges divides India</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/26/asia-pacific/wealthy-gurus-arrest-on-teen-sex-assault-charges-divides-india/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wealthy-gurus-arrest-on-teen-sex-assault-charges-divides-india</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chlild abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men lay prostrate on the floor in front of the elevated seat of their guru: the man they call Asaram Bapu. Pictures of his avuncular face, with its flowing white beard, hang everywhere in his sprawling 12-hectare ashram in Motera, western India.]]></description>
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		<title>Can ambitious Chinese effort rival Hollywood&#8217;s movie clout?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/asia-pacific/can-ambitious-chinese-effort-rival-hollywoods-movie-clout/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=can-ambitious-chinese-effort-rival-hollywoods-movie-clout</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An ambitious studio complex built by China&#8217;s richest man will be a major boost for the country&#8217;s film industry, but experts say it needs more than sprawling grounds to rival Hollywood. Global A-listers Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Catherine Zeta-Jones showed up for the lavish event Sunday to showcase plans for the Oriental Movie Metropolis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nairobi mall visit becomes a trip to hell</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/25/world/nairobi-mall-visit-becomes-a-trip-to-hell/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nairobi-mall-visit-becomes-a-trip-to-hell</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;re a very bad man,&#8221; a brave 4-year-old British boy told one of the Islamist gunmen in the bloody siege of a Nairobi mall, one of the many poignant tales emerging from the attacks that have horrified the world. It was a Saturday and Elliot Prior was shopping with his mother and sister. Elsewhere in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism — a tie binding Israel, Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/24/world/terrorism-a-tie-binding-israel-kenya/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=terrorism-a-tie-binding-israel-kenya</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josef Federman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scarred by memories of a pair of attacks on Israeli targets in Africa a decade ago, Israel has dispatched a team of experts to its close ally Kenya to advise authorities on the bloody standoff at a Nairobi shopping mall. While officials refuse to discuss the precise nature of the assistance, Israeli leaders have made [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Aaron Alexis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass shootings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy Yard shooting]]></category>
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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>JR Tokai eyes maglev trains abroad if political traps at home can be dodged</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/19/business/jr-tokai-eyes-maglev-trains-abroad-if-political-traps-at-home-can-be-dodged/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jr-tokai-eyes-maglev-trains-abroad-if-political-traps-at-home-can-be-dodged</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The outline of Central Japan Railway Co.&#8217;s magnetically levitated train project represents a major step in the long-term project, colloquially dubbed the Linear Chuo Shinkansen. The train, scheduled to enter service in 2027, will whiz by at speeds of up to 500 kph, completing the 286-km trip from Tokyo to Nagoya in just 40 minutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africans make it big in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a windowless room in a dilapidated Hong Kong high-rise, Ali Diallo sells Chinese electronics to retailers across Africa. The modest surroundings belie the multimillion-dollar business the West African trader has built in the five years since he moved to the city. The 39-year-old from Guinea is part of a growing number of African entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic disparities center stage in German poll</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/18/world/economic-disparities-center-stage-in-german-poll/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=economic-disparities-center-stage-in-german-poll</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany has near record-low unemployment and a locomotive-strong economy, which leaves Frieder Beckmann with a question: Why can he only get a job that pays &#36;2 an hour? It is the kind of question that is also being voiced by other Germans, who say ordinary people have benefited little as the country has prospered, despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S. Korea&#8217;s modern warriors: protesters</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/18/asia-pacific/s-koreas-modern-warriors-protesters/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=s-koreas-modern-warriors-protesters</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea&#8217;s most tenacious protesters compare themselves to warriors, and their demonstrations to a life-or-death struggle against evil. They are known around the world for their passion, persistence and flamboyance. Their demonstrations &#8212; spontaneous and meticulously planned, large and small &#8212; form a near-constant backdrop in Seoul. Their causes are rooted in the country&#8217;s tumultuous [...]]]></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>Pageant winner reflects new ideal</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/18/world/pageant-winner-reflects-new-ideal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pageant-winner-reflects-new-ideal</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Tandon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nina Davuluri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before she was crowned the first Miss America of Indian descent, Nina Davuluri was asked about a Chinese-American celebrity who admitted undergoing surgery to reshape her eyes. In the interview before a national audience Sunday, 24-year-old Davuluri tactfully avoided criticizing TV personality Julie Chen but made clear that she would do nothing similar. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First confusion, then &#8216;we just started running&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/17/world/first-confusion-then-we-just-started-running/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=first-confusion-then-we-just-started-running</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing at an ATM in the first-floor atrium of the building where she works at the Washington Navy Yard, Patricia Ward was startled by a rapid succession of sharp noises that seemed to come from overhead. Bam, bam, bam. It was about 8:15 a.m. Monday in Building 197, a brick edifice that houses employees of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epsilon success is no guarantee for industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday's successful launch of a solid-fuel Epsilon rocket was seen as a breakthrough for Japans' space industry, but the international competition won't be easy to beat.]]></description>
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		<title>Activist Chinese billionaire detained</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/16/asia-pacific/activist-chinese-billionaire-detained/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=activist-chinese-billionaire-detained</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Chinese police invited Wang Gongquan in for a &#8220;cup of tea,&#8221; often a prelude to detention. He had launched a public petition calling for the release of arrested dissident Xu Zhiyong, and the authorities were not amused. But Wang effectively told the police to forget it &#8212; he had no time for tea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama ducking Syria strike deadline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, having just squeezed out of one political box on Syria, is not about to jump into a new one by setting a time limit on crisis diplomacy. In his address to the nation Tuesday, the president advanced moral, logical and geopolitical rationales for unleashing military force to punish Damascus for a chemical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria debate twists Beltway playbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syria has utterly confounded the Washington political establishment, from the White House to the Capitol. There&#8217;s no script for what&#8217;s been happening. The usual political polarization, the simple calculus of R vs. D, has disintegrated into a tangle of uncomfortable alliances. President Barack Obama has sought congressional approval for military strikes against the Syrian regime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confucius makes comeback at Chinese tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revered for centuries but reviled in recent decades, Confucius is making a comeback in China &#8212; and its dinner plates. &#8220;Confucius cuisine&#8221; is a fine-dining trend that reflects how the ruling Communist Party, which long saw the sage as a reactionary force, has drafted him into its modern campaign to boost what President Xi Jinping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activist finds refugees shrouded in myth before Aussie poll</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/06/asia-pacific/activist-finds-refugees-shrouded-in-myth-before-aussie-poll/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=activist-finds-refugees-shrouded-in-myth-before-aussie-poll</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Coopes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wounds from his torture were still bleeding when Sri Lankan asylum seeker Sutha was picked up by the Australian Navy from a sinking boat in the Indian Ocean. He had spent 16 days at sea on a leaky vessel with 48 other men, fearing with each sunset that he would not live to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over 200 languages lost in rapidly modernizing India: study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 200 languages have vanished in India over the last 50 years, a new study says, blaming urban migration and fear among nomadic tribes of speaking their traditional tongues. The extensive study, conducted throughout the country over four years and released this week, has found 230 languages have &#8220;elapsed,&#8221; while another 870 have survived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nukes, terrorists, intel gaps: U.S. &#8216;black budget&#8217; shows extent of distrust toward Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/03/asia-pacific/nukes-terrorists-intel-gaps-u-s-black-budget-shows-extent-of-distrust-toward-pakistan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nukes-terrorists-intel-gaps-u-s-black-budget-shows-extent-of-distrust-toward-pakistan</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 04:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barton Gellman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#36;52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan, which appears at the top of charts listing critical U.S. intelligence gaps.]]></description>
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		<title>Air gun noise sparks alarm in war over offshore drilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lenny Bernstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of &#8220;seismic air guns&#8221; to determine how much oil and gas lies beneath a vast swath of the ocean floor off the southeast coast of the United States is provoking an early skirmish in a battle over oil drilling that is still years away. The devices, towed behind vessels that trace grids on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belarus arrest of potash tycoon angers top ally Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliaksandr Kudrytski  and Stepan Kravchenko</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lukashenko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Belarus television showed the Russian head of OAO Uralkali, the world&#8217;s biggest potash producer, being led around the courtyard of an undisclosed prison, Anatoly Lebedko knew exactly where it was: Amerikanka. Amerikanka, or American Lady, is the nickname of the Minsk prison operated by the nation&#8217;s successor to the KGB where President Aleksandr Lukashenko [...]]]></description>
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