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			<title><![CDATA[ Posting of TSA manual leads to personnel actions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Department of Homeland Security has initiated unspecified actions against personnel involved in the bungled online posting this spring of a government document that revealed airport screening secrets, Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators Wednesday.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ TSA accidentally reveals airport security secrets ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Administration wants global AIDS program's services to be routine for nations ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is trying to get the "emergency" out of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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			<dc:creator>David Brown</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Egypt's official media assail ex-IAEA chief ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CAIRO -- Until a few weeks ago, Egypt's state media described Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and just-retired head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as a credit to his country. He was seen as a man who had dared speak truth unto power -- defying the United Sta...
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			<dc:creator>Heba Saleh</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Digest: At least 7 insurgents killed in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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AFGHANISTAN U.S. Marines and Afghan troops have killed at least seven Taliban fighters during the first U.S.-led offensive since President Obama announced a revamped American war plan this week, Afghan officials said Saturday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Attack at graduation ceremony kills 19 in Somali capital ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NAIROBI -- A man dressed in a black burqa blew himself up at a graduation ceremony of doctors in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday, killing 19 people, including parents, students and three government ministers.
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ War crimes envoy has personal touch ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS -- Stephen J. Rapp, the new U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, knows what it feels like to be victimized.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghanistan War Deaths ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Pakistan charges seven in Mumbai attacks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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PAKISTAN Pakistan on Wednesday charged seven men in connection with last year's Mumbai attacks, its first round of indictments in a case being monitored by India and the United States to see whether Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Killings in southern Philippines spark warnings ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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PHILIPPINES The slaying of at least 46 people in the southern Philippines on Monday could herald a surge in political violence, with powerful clans exacting revenge on one another while stepping up the fight for next year's elections, local residents and analysts warned Tuesday.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The ultimate crop rotation: Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia's farmlands ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BAKO, ETHIOPIA -- In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book Review: God Sleeps in Rwanda by Joseph Sebarenzi ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In his memoir, "God Sleeps in Rwanda," Joseph Sebarenzi presents a thoughtful critique of Kagame's regime. His tale is a provocative warning to the many outsiders who are ready to canonize Kagame.
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			<dc:creator>Stephen Kinzer</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Africa's largest wind farm set to emerge from Kenyan desert ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of Africa's largest wind farm.
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			<dc:creator>Christopher Vourlias</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Separate blasts kill 21 in Pakistani city of Peshawar ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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PAKISTAN A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Iraqi Kurds threaten to boycott January vote ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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IRAQ Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national elections in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. to attend conference held by war crimes court ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=868e24f211c3bc480737ce90ce869de1</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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For the first time in nearly eight years, the United States will participate in a conference with members of the International Criminal Court, a decision that signals growing U.S. support for a war crimes tribunal the Bush administration once shunned.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghanistan war deaths ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:
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			<title><![CDATA[ Racial rethinking as Obama visits ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SHANGHAI -- As a mixed-race girl growing up in this most cosmopolitan of mainland Chinese cities, 20-year-old Lou Jing said she never experienced much discrimination -- curiosity and questions, but never hostility.
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. citizen sues over treatment in 'rendition' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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An American who was captured by Kenyan forces in January 2007 filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, arguing that FBI agents allegedly involved in his interrogation and transfer to other countries violated his constitutional rights.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ China pledges $10 billion in low-cost loans to Africa ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=e100403572340843842eb058750ae7bb</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT -- Wen Jiabao, China's premier, has pledged $10 billion in new low-cost loans to Africa over the next three years and has defended his country's engagement on the continent against accusations that it is "plundering" the region's oil and minerals.
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			<dc:creator>Barney Jopson and Jamil Anderlini</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ United Nations running out of food aid for Somalia ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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ROME -- The United Nations says it is running out of food for millions of starving Somalis, in part because the United States is delaying aid amid fears it could be intercepted by militants linked to al-Qaeda.
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			<dc:creator>Ariel David</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Hague court to probe Kenya's post-election strife ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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KENYA The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Thursday that post-election violence in Kenya that killed more than 1,000 people was a crime against humanity and pledged to initiate proceedings that could result in top officials facing trial.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton has 'productive meeting' with Egypt on Mideast peace process ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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CAIRO, Nov. 4 -- After four days of Arab criticism over her efforts to break the impasse in the Mideast peace process, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton enjoyed a respite here Wednesday, as her Egyptian counterpart agreed it was time to "focus on the endgame" of direct negotiations betwee...
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. hope dims for high-level Israeli-Palestinian talks over state ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CAIRO -- The Obama administration has concluded that an early resumption of high-level negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians over a Palestinian state is unlikely in the near future -- an acknowledgment that it has fallen short, for now, on one of its major initial foreign policy goals.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung and Howard Schneider</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton qualifies praise for Israel on West Bank growth ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=631cd06ff9c8555b464a508ad7e90a86</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MARRAKESH, MOROCCO -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to soothe Arab uneasiness Monday over weekend statements she made praising the Israeli government's offer to "restrain" growth in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, saying it "falls far short" of the Obama administration's...
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.N. peacekeepers won't back Congolese soldiers accused of killing civilians ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NAIROBI -- The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo will suspend its support of Congolese army units accused of deliberately killing 62 civilians during a controversial military operation against rebels in eastern Congo, U.N. officials said Monday.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Arab leaders to confront Clinton over Israeli settlement comments ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:11:59 EST</pubDate>
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MARRAKESH, Morocco -- Arab leaders gathering for a conference here with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday they would confront her over what they called a major shift in the U.S. position in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, charging that she had set negotiations back more...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghanistan war deaths ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghanistan war deaths ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lobbyist charged with violating U.S. economic sanctions against Sudan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A Washington lobbyist is charged with violating U.S. economic sanctions against the outlaw regime in Sudan and using multiple passports, an offshore bank account and other tactics to hide his activities, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghanistan War Deaths ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Zimbabwean police raid house of prime minister's aides ]]></title>
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HARARE, ZIMBABWE -- Police loyal to President Robert Mugabe raided a house used by the prime minister's supporters Saturday and accused them of hoarding weapons in a move that is likely to push Zimbabwe's fragile coalition government closer to collapse.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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IRAN A team of U.N. inspectors went to Iran on Saturday to visit a recently revealed nuclear site amid new efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World digest: Fighting in Somali capital kills at least 24 ]]></title>
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SOMALIA Mortar rounds fired by Islamist fighters slammed into Somalia's main airport as the president was boarding a plane Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 24 people and wounded 60 when return fire struck residential areas and a market, officials said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ethiopia seeks aid to feed 6.2 million ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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NAIROBI --  Ethiopia said Thursday that it needs emergency food aid for 6.2 million people, an appeal that comes 25 years after a devastating famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million and prompted one of the largest charity campaigns ever.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Israel hardens stance on U.N. Gaza report ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MIDDLE EAST Israel hardened its opposition Tuesday to international calls for an independent inquiry into its offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter, saying it would urge the United States to stop the issue from advancing at the United Nations.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Africans seeking refuge in Israel face perils of Egyptian crossing ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Cairo --  Sadiq Sahour slowly recounted a story he has carefully kept hidden from his daughter. It began in an unforgiving desert in Sudan, where he and his wife, Hadja, escaped militiamen who razed their ancestral village. It resumed in Egypt, where they fled in search of security, only to find ...
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			<dc:creator>Sudarsan Raghavan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ North-south conflict to be emphasis of new U.S. policy on Sudan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration's new policy toward Sudan, formally announced Monday, turns the spotlight back on where the troubled nation's problems first began: the split between the Islamic north and the largely animist and Christian south.
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Darfurians Living in Khartoum See Themselves as ÂLucky' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- An ambitious young man from the conflict-plagued region of Darfur, Zacaria Adam leads a carefully calibrated life in Sudan's sprawling capital.
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghanistan War Deaths ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:
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			<title><![CDATA[ Madagascar's Natural Resources Under Siege ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=827627f37cea72c6657f9f4cea4e31af</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MAROJEJY NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar -- A political crisis in this African island nation has triggered a pillage of its mythical wildlife and forests, and conservation groups fear that the peril will worsen as donors suspend funding to punish coup leaders running the country.
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			<dc:creator>Karin Brulliard</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.N. Rights Official Denounces Drive Against Rebels in Congo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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NAIROBI, Oct. 15 -- A top U.N. human rights investigator on Thursday blasted a U.N.-backed Congolese military operation targeting rebels in eastern Congo, calling its results "catastrophic."
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Assaults Sustained in E. Congo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 13 -- More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January, humanitarian groups said Tuesday.
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			<dc:creator>Carley Petesch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book Review: 'Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil' by Peter Maass ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Peter Maass takes readers on a vivid tour of troubled oil frontiers like Russia, Nigeria and Ecuador in "Crude World."
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			<dc:creator>Steven Mufson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, bringing the relatively novice leader a new measure of prestige on the world stage but also potential complications in carrying out a foreign policy that includes managing two wars.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Egyptian Pro-Reform Activists Say U.S. Commitment Is Waning ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MAHALLAH AL-KOBRA, Egypt -- Four months after President Obama delivered an address from Cairo in which he voiced American commitment to human rights and the rule of law, concern is mounting among Egypt's pro-reform activists that the United States is abandoning its long-standing efforts to bring...
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			<dc:creator>Sudarsan Raghavan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As War Becomes a Memory, South Sudan Calls Back Its Wildlife ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BOMA, Sudan --  He grew up here, became a rebel here, and one day recently he was flying low across this vast grassy savannah in southeastern Sudan, now a park warden pointing out big-tusked elephants traipsing across the landscape.
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Somali American Terror Recruits Seen Posing Threat to U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The suspected involvement of a young Seattle man in a suicide bombing last month has refocused attention on the recruitment of Somali Americans by Islamist extremists in Somalia and the growing role of al-Qaeda, U.S. counterterrorism officials said.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Leader Says Somalia's Plight Is Urgent ]]></title>
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The president of war-torn Somalia said Friday that he urgently needs help to beat back an insurgency linked to al-Qaeda, adding that he has received only a fraction of the $200 million pledged at a U.N.-sponsored donors conference last spring to support his fragile government's security forces.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ancient Skeleton Could Rewrite the Book on Human Origins ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Scientists: 'Ardi' Fossil Sheds Light on Origin of Human Species ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Former Reagan Aide Robert McFarlane's Dealings With Sudan Raise Questions ]]></title>
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The government of Sudan, eager to curry favor with a U.S. government that accused it of genocide, sought help last fall from an unlikely source: a former Reagan administration official known for his role in the Iran-contra scandal.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Zimbabwean Court Voids Case ]]></title>
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Sept. 28 -- A prominent human rights activist and her co-defendant cannot be tried on terrorism charges -- now or in the future -- because they were beaten and tortured in jail, Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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			<dc:creator>Chengetai Zvauya</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Envoy's Outreach to Sudan Is Criticized as Naive ]]></title>
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The volatility of this East African nation -- from the Darfur conflict to the threat of renewed civil war in the south -- is becoming a test of how President Obama will reconcile a policy of engagement with earlier statements blasting a government he said had "offended the sta...
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			<title><![CDATA[ FBI Investigating American In Somali Suicide Bombing ]]></title>
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NAIROBI, Sept. 25 -- FBI agents are investigating whether an American teenager detonated one of two stolen U.N. vehicles packed with explosives at a peacekeeping base in Somalia last week, killing 21 people.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Libya's Gaddafi Calmly Takes On the Foreign Policy Elite ]]></title>
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NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- The King of Kings of Africa was taking questions on Thursday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ At United Nations, Obama Makes Appeal for World's Cooperation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 -- President Obama challenged other nations to match his efforts to change the United States' relationship with the rest of the world on Wednesday, saying in an address to the United Nations that the task of solving global crises "cannot be solely America's endeavor."
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			<title><![CDATA[ French Minister Rama Yade's Stardom Holds Political Promise ]]></title>
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LYON, France -- The photographer insisted on telling her how to pose. A television soundman thrust his microphone toward her face while behind him the intruding camera rolled. A knot of bystanders, meanwhile, edged in for a close-up look and opened fire with cellphone snapshots.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Special Forces Raid in Somalia Killed Terrorist With Al-Qaeda Links, U.S. Says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Helicopter-borne Special Forces troops attacked and killed a top al-Qaeda-linked suspect in a raid in southern Somalia early Monday, U.S. officials said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Forces Take Part in Helicopter Raid in Somali Town Held by Insurgents ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Sept. 14 -- Foreign troops in helicopters strafed a car Monday in a Somali town controlled by Islamist insurgents, killing two men and capturing two others who were wounded, witnesses said. U.S. military officials said American forces were involved in the raid.
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			<dc:creator>Mohamed Olad Hassan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Africa, Courts Shape Views on AIDS ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=ac1132c17bd84867dd16f046c7594343</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LIVINGSTONE, Zambia -- As African countries still struggle to control the deadly AIDS epidemic, they are also grappling with debates over what rights and duties to give those living with the disease -- a growing segment of the population that remains largely hidden.
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			<dc:creator>Karin Brulliard</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Egypt's Farouk Hosni Draws Opposition in Bid to Lead UNESCO ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=185e1098a2c3aaf7821f09b4021ff59c</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PARIS, Sept. 8 -- Farouk Hosni seemed like a shoo-in to become UNESCO's next director general. Egypt's culture minister for the past two decades, Hosni, 71, was also a painter and diplomat. Most important, his candidacy was being pushed hard by President Hosni Mubarak, who enlisted world leaders in...
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			<dc:creator>Edward Cody</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bush White House Sought to Soften Treaty on 'Enforced Disappearances' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so that those overseeing the CIA's secret prison system would not be criminally prosecuted under its provisions, according to former officials and hun...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.N. Envoy Rice Advises Libya's Gaddafi Against Exulting Over Agent's Release ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 2 -- As Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi prepares to make his first trip to the United States since taking power 40 years ago, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged him Wednesday not to gloat over the release of a Libyan secret service agent convicted in the Lockerbie...
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Oil Assets Still Fueling Gas-Fired Flames in Niger Delta ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=51f81fbd7b569a9b3a1b251ac48a9ac1</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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EBOCHA, Nigeria -- Kingsley Okene is the chief here. But despite his authority, he says he has never managed to snuff the giant gas-fueled flames that have towered over his Niger Delta village for decades.
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			<dc:creator>Karin Brulliard</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book Review: 'Strength in What Remains' by Tracy Kidder ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=615863d72aaef8c2a7bc7de1d151bb63</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Tracy Kidder's "Strength in What Remains" retraces the genocide that swept through Burundi and Rwanda in 1994, killing or displacing millions who had already suffered all the miseries of the damned.
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			<dc:creator>Marie Arana</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Possible Gaddafi Visit Stirs N.J. Town ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=ef516ee2e4997219aabbbb376a572de3</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi often brings a Bedouin tent along on his foreign trips, and he has pitched one in Cairo, in Rome and next to the Elysee Palace in Paris. But reports that he is planning to set up camp in suburban Englewood, N.J., next month have prompted outrage from U.S. lawmakers and...
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Parched Nairobi, Residents Blame Government for Drought Crisis ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=cdf2b6268fde1e26210d2cffff647f3b</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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NAIROBI, Aug. 21 -- Across East Africa, drought is again leaving millions of people in dusty countryside hungry, thirsty and dangerously dependent on food aid, the United Nations has warned. But as the weeks wear on, its effects -- less drastic but perhaps more politically potent -- are also...
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hillary Clinton Signals That She Intends to Make Women's Rights a Signature Issue ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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She talked chickens with female farmers in Kenya. She listened to the excruciating stories of rape victims in war-torn eastern Congo. And in South Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited a housing project built by poor women, where she danced with a choir singing "Heel-a-ree! He...
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Finnish Authorities Report Ransom Demand for Missing Ship ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MOSCOW, Aug. 15 -- A ransom demand has been received for the return of a Russian-manned freighter that went missing last month in the Atlantic, Finnish investigators said Saturday.
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			<dc:creator>Jim Heintz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton Ends Africa Trip, Pledges to Stay Engaged With the Region ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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SANTA MARIA, Cape Verde, Aug. 14 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wrapped up a marathon tour of Africa on Friday in this palm-dotted island chain, saying she was leaving the region "even more committed than before I came."
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For Many, Nigeria's Moderate Form of Sharia Fails to Deliver on Promises ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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KANO, Nigeria -- As military rule ended in Nigeria a decade ago, an Islamic legal system was swept into place on a wave of popular support in the country's desperately poor and mostly Muslim northern states. It has turned out in a way few expected.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton Condemns Attacks on Civilians in E. Congo ]]></title>
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GOMA, Congo, Aug. 11 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called for the prosecution of Congolese soldiers and militiamen involved in a staggering epidemic of rape in eastern Congo and said the world must take stronger action to end the suffering brought on by a military operation...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Congo's Women Treated as Spoils of War ]]></title>
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LUGUNGU, Congo -- For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton Says She Will Visit Eastern Congo, Press for End of Conflict ]]></title>
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KINSHASA, Congo, Aug. 10 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she will use a visit to war-torn eastern Congo to seek ways to end the deadliest conflict since World War II.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Congo's Rape Epidemic Worsens During U.S.-Backed Military Operation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:09:58 EDT</pubDate>
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LUGUNGU, Congo -- For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton Building Ties With Angola ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LUANDA, Angola, Aug. 9 -- Hillary Rodham Clinton made the first visit to Angola by a U.S. secretary of state in seven years, trying Sunday to strengthen relations with a growing oil producer that is being aggressively courted by China.
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PRETORIA, South Africa, Aug. 7 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday welcomed the new South African government's approach to fighting HIV/AIDS after years in which officials questioned the link between the two and suggested such "cures" as eating beets and garlic.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Worldwide Slump Makes Nigeria's Online Scammers Work That Much Harder ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times, the scammer said earnestly.
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			<title><![CDATA[ In a Changing Somalia, Islamist Forces See Support Wane ]]></title>
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NAIROBI, Aug. 6 -- After a decade of U.S. concern that Somalia could become a base for terrorists bent on launching attacks across the region, many analysts say that al-Qaeda's Somali sympathizers are at their weakest, and perhaps also at their most dangerous, point in years.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Visit to Somalia Gives New Meaning to 'Handshake Diplomacy' ]]></title>
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NAIROBI, Aug. 5 --  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Somali President Sharif Ahmed are expected to discuss weighty security issues when they meet in this city Thursday. But many Somalis will be paying close attention to a more delicate, but highly symbolic, matter of diplomacy: wheth...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton Pushes Kenyan Leaders to Follow Through on Promised Reforms ]]></title>
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NAIROBI, Aug. 5 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton began a major trip to Africa on Wednesday by publicly urging Kenya, a strategic U.S. ally, to move faster to resolve tensions lingering from a disputed 2007 election that precipitated the country's worst crisis since it gained independe...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Recession in the West Cuts Off An Economic Pipeline in Ghana ]]></title>
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ADUASE, Ghana -- When the U.S. housing crash triggered economic chain reactions around the world, one ended in a lush forest near this village, where on a recent day Emmanuel Awatey was tapping his machete on a log that he very much wanted to chop up.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Va., N.Y. Districts Vie for 9/11 Case ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The U.S. attorney's offices in Alexandria and Manhattan are embroiled in intense competition over the opportunity to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and his co-conspirators, according to Justice Department and law enforcement sources.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn, Jerry Markon and Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Nearly Forgotten Forces of WWII ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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WALIKALE, Congo -- While books and films have lionized the last surviving World War II veterans in recent years, a small, hand-painted sign along a dirt road in this remote village is just about all that points to a nearly forgotten group of them.
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Warnings of Violence Ignored in Nigeria, Clerics Say ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug. 2 -- Nigerian authorities ignored dozens of warnings about a violent Islamist sect until it attacked police stations and government buildings last week in a bloodbath that killed more than 700 people, Muslim clerics and an army official said.
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			<dc:creator>Katharine Houreld</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Little Holds Nigeria Back From Food Crisis ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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KANO, Nigeria -- The nation blessed with Africa's largest oil reserves and some of its most fertile lands has a problem. It cannot feed its 140 million people, and relatively minor reductions in rainfall could set off a regional food catastrophe, experts say.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Little Holds Nigeria Back From Food Crisis ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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KANO, Nigeria -- The nation blessed with Africa's largest oil reserves and some of its most fertile lands has a problem. It cannot feed its 140 million people, and relatively minor reductions in rainfall could set off a regional food catastrophe, experts say.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Conflict Casts Long, Lethal Shadow in Eastern Congo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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WALIKALE, Congo -- Death came quietly for Bahanuzi Mihigo.
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Niger Delta, Uneasy Peace as Rebel Disarmament Date Nears ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Signs of harmony seem to be budding in Nigeria's conflict-plagued Niger Delta region amid a government offer of amnesty to rebels and a leading militant group's halt to its attacks and kidnappings. But here in the swampy heart of the oil-rich but impoverished delta, many...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hague Court's Ruling Signals Compromise on Border Dispute in Sudan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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NAIROBI, July 22 -- A Hague-based court issued a crucial ruling Wednesday on a border dispute between the Sudanese government and the semiautonomous region of southern Sudan, striking a tenuous compromise on one of the most explosive issues facing the East African nation.
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Recession Worsens South Africa's Chronic Unemployment ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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KGOTSONG, South Africa -- The economic crisis is causing South Africa, like many countries, to hemorrhage jobs. But its far deeper unemployment problem is represented not by pink slips but by the many people in this dusty rural township who do not work and never have.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Two French Security Advisers Abducted by Gunmen in Somalia's Capital ]]></title>
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PARIS, July 14 -- Two French security advisers posing as journalists were abducted from their hotel in Mogadishu on Tuesday by Somali gunmen, according to the Foreign Ministry and reports from the chaotic Somali capital.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's Message: 'Africa's Future Is Up to Africans' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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ACCRA, Ghana, July 11 -- President Obama, making his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office, called on people of the oft-troubled continent Saturday to seize control of their future by building strong, democratic institutions and eliminating corruption.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's Trip to Ghana Inspires Envy in Nigeria ]]></title>
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- When the White House announced two months ago that President Obama would visit Ghana this week, Nigerians read a different, glaring message between the lines: The American leader was not coming to their country.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Yemen Airbus Crash Draws Attention to Safety Standards ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:14:01 EDT</pubDate>
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A crashed Yemenia Airbus A310 submerged in waters near the African coast along with the bodies of as many as 152 passengers -- only a teenage girl apparently survived -- is focusing more scrutiny on the safety of Airbus planes and the world's aviation system.
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			<dc:creator>Sholnn Freeman</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ International Court Under Unusual Fire ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=c6d77f526d97d02b56f7d47743b9622c</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS -- When Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir with war crimes last year, the International Criminal Court prosecutor was hailed by human rights advocates as the man who could help bring justice to Darfur.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past six weeks and has sent funding to train Somali soldiers, a senior State Department official said yesterday, in the most complete accounting to date of the new Americ...
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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