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    <title><![CDATA[India puts Blackberry, Skype, Gmail under the scanner]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[India has put Blackberry devices, Skype services and Gmail under the security scanner by asking these companies to either ensure that data going through their networks be made available to security agencies in a readable format or face a ban from offering services in India.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Devastation in the Gulf]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The environmental calamity unparalleled in U.S. history just gets worse.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[House passes sweeping finance reform bill]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill which makes the greatest changes to rules governing the financial system in the United States since the Great Depression.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:59:42 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Petraeus confirmed as new Afghan war chief]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[General David Petraeus, President Obama&#039;s emergency pick to replace General Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today in a 99 to 0 vote.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:21:49 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Food for thought: Congress mulls better nutrition for students]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A great many school children in the U.S. are not eating enough, or they are eating too much of food that is not good for them.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:53:45 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Voracious carp threaten Great Lakes]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[It was one big ugly fish, swimming where it should not be, and it is filling people, including federal lawmakers, with alarm.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Iran: stuck between Iraq and a hard place]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Iran is facing a multitude of problems – both external and internal – that threatens the growth of its all-important energy sector.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:04:51 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[WTO says EU loan to Airbus against rules]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The WTO, an independent arbiter of global trade disputes, gave the ruling following the U.S. government&#039;s 2004 decision to file a case with the WTO to end European subsidies to Airbus.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:32:12 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Appeals court sets hearing on drilling ban]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A U.S. appeals court has quickly scheduled to hear oral arguments related to the federal government&#039;s request to stay a ruling which overturned President Barack Obama&#039;s six-month ban on new deep water well drilling.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ten alleged Russian spies arrested in U.S.]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ten  individuals were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, &quot;deep-cover&quot; assignments in the United States on behalf of the Russian Federation, according to the Justice Department.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:29:15 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Better late than never, US says yes to international help to clean-up BP oil spill]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[U.S. State Department says yes to receiving assistance from 12 countries and international bodies to clean the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:54:06 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart sued for terminating worker for consuming marijuana]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed litigation against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for firing an employee on charges of consuming marijuana, despite medical prescription.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:03:43 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Senate committee endorses Petraeus as new Afghan chief]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[General David Petraeus, President Obama’s emergency pick to replace General Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was endorsed by the Senate Armed Services Committee after a hearing earlier today.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The federal government wants us all to go green]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Shaun Donovan wants to push American communities into a greener future. To do so he is using one of the oldest prods known to mankind – money.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:50:56 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Financial reform lacks specifics on systemic risk, expert says]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With President Obama&#039;s backing, lawmakers are pushing to pass an overhaul of the rules governing the United States&#039; financial system. But, according to a financial expert,  the problem of identifying systemic risk has not been adequately addressed in the reform bill currently being considered.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:33:50 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Google to go dark in China, Baidu rejoices]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Google announced a new approach as China barred automatic redirection to its Hong Kong site.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:08:38 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Supreme Court rules for gun owners]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Citizens of Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois, have the right to possess handguns, according to a 5-4 decision today by the Supreme Court of the United States.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:34:20 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ground Zero victims still seeking health care and compensation]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[There are 435 Congressional Districts in the United States and 431 of them are represented by the names of constituents on the World Trade Center Health Registry.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:53:01 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[News Corp’s Fiji Times faces tough time]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fiji government&#039;s new decree on media may see exit of global media companies.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:27:32 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Robert Byrd, longest serving U.S. Senator, dies at 92]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest serving elected lawmaker in the federal Legislature in U.S. history died on Monday, his office confirmed. He was 92.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:32:45 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tropical storm season comes to the oily Gulf]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is Day 69 since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members and cracking open the well pipe one mile underwater.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:59:26 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[G8 leaders skip naming North Korea for ship sinking]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations on Saturday wrapped up their second-day of talks with much-awaited condemnation of South Korean ship sinking incident but resisted naming North Korea openly, apparently under pressure from Russia.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/30942/20100626/g8-g20-toronto-north-korea-iran-russia.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:10:46 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kagan hearings begin today]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Confirmation hearings begin Monday for Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. The former dean of the Harvard Law School is expected to have a relatively easy time in securing the Senate’s approval to take the high court seat  being vacated by retiring  Justice John Paul Stevens.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:22:23 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Derivatives business partially reformed]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The lucrative world of derivatives trading, a murky landscape of financial dealings to many outside banking and hedge fund circles, came closer to being slightly more regulated in the United States, as lawmakers agreed on Friday to the final shape of a new set of banking rules.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:57:31 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Drilling oversight agency gets a makeover]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Minerals Management Service, or MMS, has a new name and a new director. But, as Senator Diane Feinstein, D-CA, asked, do these and other changes at the troubled agency signal substantial reform or just a rearrangement of names?.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:21:34 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bank of England lists key risks in UK financial system]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[In its bi-annual financial stability report, the Bank of England outlines the key risks to the UK banks]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:34:04 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Twitter bows to pressure, settles row over privacy issues]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers about the extent to which it protects the security, privacy and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information, FTC said.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:16:24 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Beatle's star McCartney sees hope despite BP oil spill chaos]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney believes that BP oil spill can accelerate efforts directed towards search for alternative non-polluting renewable energy resources]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:39:37 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[One year after, Jackson's estate turns around finances]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Gearing up for Jackson&#039;s anniversary, Glendale police said they will allow fans to walk by the front of the Holly Terrace area of the Great Mausoleum, where Jackson is interred, to leave flowers and tributes.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:54:19 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rio Tinto cautiously cooperative to tax reform discussion with PM Gillard]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[International mining firm Rio Tinto is cautiously encouraged by the invitation sent by new Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the industry to begin full and open engagement on all aspects of tax reform.]]></description>
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