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    <title><![CDATA[Nepal: Man-Eating Leopard Claims Fifth Victim]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Pancheshwor villagers living in terror after wild cat kills and eats teenage girl in nearby forest.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[India Caught Between Western Sanctions and Iran]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[India is highly dependent on Persian oil and may not heed demands from the west that it buy its crude elsewhere.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Porn and Politics in India: What Worries the Citizens?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Though sex scandals involving celebrities and sages are not new in India, yet the latest scandal involving three ministers watching porn in the legislative assembly comes as a stark revelation of the double standards of the politicians in the country.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[India Strikes Clever Deal with Iran; To Pay for Iranian Oil in Rupee]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[India and Iran share close historical links, or so argued India&#039;s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Now economic interests are pulling the two countries closer again. India has struck a clever deal to pay for Iranian oil in its own not freely convertible currency, the rupee. It could be a diplomatic hot potato.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Singapore Warns U.S. Against Anti-Chinese Rhetoric]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Singapore enjoys close relations with both the U.S. and China.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Valentine's Day 2012: Top Ten Most Romantic Flowers]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Present your valentine with the best gift from nature--Flowers!!!]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greece Finally Strikes Bailout Deal; European Stocks Strengthened]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Greek leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on reforms and austerity measures needed to secure a bailout and avoid a messy default, government sources said, hours before the country&#039;s financial backers were to meet in Brussels on Thursday. The euro and European stocks strengthened on news of the breakthrough.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maldives Ex-President Awaits His Inevitable Arrest]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[On Thursday, a court in the Maldives issued an arrest warrant for Mohamed Nasheed, the man who was president of the country just two days prior.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Congress Brings Organizational Changes in Goa Ahead of the Elections]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With less than a month to go for the Goa Assembly polls, the Congress in the state carried out organizational changes.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greek Political Leaders Agree on Bailout Reforms: Sources]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Greek political leaders have clinched a deal on austerity measures needed to secure a bailout to keep the country afloat, two government sources said on Thursday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Court Issues Arrest Warrant against Ousted Maldives President]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A criminal court in the Maldives issued arrest warrants for ousted president Mohamed Nasheed and his former defence minister, but the charges against them were unclear, a senior official of Nasheed&#039;s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) said.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Student Kills Teacher in the Classroom]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[In a tragic incident, a class nine student allegedly killed his teacher in Chennai&#039;s St. Mary&#039;s Anglo-Indian School on Thursday. The teacher, Uma Maheshwari, was allegedly stabbed by the student in the classroom.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[India’s External Minister Meets Chinese Leaders; Proposes to Take Relationship Further]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[SM Krishna, External Affairs Minister of India on Thursday met leaders of China handling foreign policy and national security issues. He said that he came with idea of engaging with his Chinese colleagues on how to take the relationship forward in 2012.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oldest Living Thing: Seagrass and 5 Other Oldest Organisms [PHOTOS]]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A group of Australian scientists claim to have found the oldest living organism on the planet.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Turmoil in Maldives: Violent Clashes Continue [PHOTOS]]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Check out these photographs of the turmoil in the Maldives...]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[UN Condemns Murder of Pakistani Journalist]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The head of the United Nations agency in charge of defending press freedom on Wednesday condemned the recent death of a Pakistani journalist and called for measures to improve security conditions for reporters in the Asian country.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Priyanka Gandhi Accuses Mayawati Govt of Misusing Public Money]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday attacked the Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government and said that the public money is for the benefit of the people of the state and not for party leaders.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Karnataka Ministers Should be Sent to Jail for Watching Porn Film, Says Anna Hazare]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday called for sending the Karnataka ministers, who were caught watching porn during a session of the state legislature on Tuesday, to jail.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[China Restrains Apple's iPhone 4S Sales in HK, Mainland]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[To defuse the ticking retail frenzy of grabbing the latest Apple phone- the iPhone 4S-- Chinese authorities and American-owned Apple Inc. have joined forces to tackle the problem of illegally selling the handset in China&#039;s black markets.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Uproar Over Video of Chinese Boy Forced to Exercise on Snow [VIDEO]]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A video showing the poor boy being forced to do the exercise in one of the snow-covered streets in New York has already generated outrage in China and among the online community across the world.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[China Asserts Rare Earths Export Policy Inspite WTO Ruling]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[China is not keen to give up the fight in justifying its rare earths export policy recently thumbed down by the World Trade Organization.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oldest Living Thing on Earth: Posidonia Oceanica is 100,000 Years Old]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[According to researchers from the University of Western Australia, they may just have discovered the oldest living thing on the planet - sea grass.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Japan Govt Encourages Under Reliance on Rare Earths, Shells Out $65M as Subsidy]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan on Wednesday announced it has earmarked some $65 million in subsidies in a bid to encourage Japanese manufacturers to reduce their reliance and consumption of precious rare earth metals and minerals, as well as spur the development of new technologies, to aid in their various products and services.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Australian Stock Market Report - Afternoon 2/9/2012]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Australian sharemarket ended slightly lower today for the second time this week. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) fell 0.2 pct or 6.6 pts to 4357.1. Most sectors gained however the weakness from the miners put the most pressure on the market overall.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maldives President Forced to Resign at Gunpoint and Beaten by Army]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ousted democrat Mohamed Nasheed forced out of office by rebel police.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[China’s Annual Inflation Spiked, Forcing a Market Rethink of Policy Easing Expectations]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[China&#039;s annual inflation spiked to a consensus-busting 4.5 percent in January as spending jumped during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday season, breaking a five-month softening trend and forcing a market rethink of policy easing expectations.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Soaring Profits for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Despite Hacking Scandal]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Hit television series in the United States and record global gross collected by Fox-produced movies in the final months of 2011 delivered the good for News Corp in the last quarter amidst the controversies in the United Kingdom and its dwindling revenues coming from its Australian media operations.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Group Suggests for Gina Rinehart to Buy Twitter]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Media analysts agree that the reason why Asia and Australia&#039;s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, acquired a larger stake in Fairfax Media is to exert more influence. They see her overt opposition to the mining tax and carbon tax, as well as her attempts to suppress the publication of family feud, as the reasons behind her buy-in.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Germany, Kazakhstan Sign $4B Rare Earths, Technology Agreement Deal]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Discounting objections from human rights activists related to a December riot in Kazakhstan, Germany had forged on Wednesday a rare earths and technology agreement swap with the Central Asian nation, where the European giant gains access to the latter&#039;s abundant rare earths and other raw minerals in exchange for technological advancement and investment.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[State Election Begins in India's Uttar Pradesh State]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[More than 50% came to vote on the first day of the election that is expected to end on March 3. The country has approximately 126 million qualified voters.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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