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			<title><![CDATA[ Pakistanis mourn military, civilian dead in mosque attack ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN -- Pine coffins were ceremonially placed on an army soccer field Saturday as Pakistan's prime minister, army chief and other officials gathered to mourn three victims of a suicide attack at a military mosque Friday that killed at least 40 people and injured 80.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dutch defense against climate disaster: Adapt to the change ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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AMSTERDAM -- With the Copenhagen summit starting Monday, chances remain uncertain for a historic breakthrough in the fight to prevent climate change, but the Netherlands is leading a fight of a different kind: How to live with global warming.
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			<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola and Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ During marathon review of Afghanistan strategy, Obama held out for faster troop surge ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama, seated at the head of a conference table strewn with papers in the White House Situation Room, stared at charts showing various options for sending additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan.
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut, Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ At least 40 killed in Pakistan attack ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- At least 40 people were killed and scores were injured Friday when a pair of suicide bombers stormed a crowded mosque in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, joined by assailants who hurled grenades and sprayed gunfire among the worshipers.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. struggles to keep step with Japan's shifting foreign policy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When the Democratic Party of Japan roared to victory in August, unseating a party that had run Japan almost without interruption since the 1950s, Obama administration officials fanned out across Washington with an unexpected message, given their campaign embrace of change.
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			<dc:creator>John Pomfret and Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Troop withdrawal in Afghanistan could take 2-3 years, Gates says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, scheduled to begin in July 2011, will "probably" take two or three years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday, although he added that "there are no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out."
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			<title><![CDATA[ India offers plan to slow pace of carbon emissions by 2020 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW DELHI -- India on Thursday offered a plan to unilaterally slow the pace of its carbon emissions by 2020 and assured lawmakers that the offer does not amount to a sellout of national interests.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Arms smuggling heightens fears Iran may be building arsenal ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- The warning came almost too late. The freighter ANL Australia had already fired its engines for a 70-mile dash to Iran when customs agents here were alerted to a possible hidden cache of weapons on board.
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			<title><![CDATA[ 22 Uighurs who took part in July protests end up in Cambodia ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Twenty-two members of a Chinese ethnic group who participated in violent demonstrations against China last summer have surfaced in Cambodia, sparking concerns that Cambodia will ignore their requests for asylum and return them to China.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lawmakers scrutinize new Afghan strategy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Lawmakers from both parties searched for weaknesses Wednesday in President Obama's newly announced Afghan strategy, focusing on what many said was a contradiction between his promise to begin removing U.S. troops in 18 months and his caveat that departures will depend on "conditions on the ground."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pakistan skeptical about Obama's new Afghanistan strategy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- President Obama's new strategy for combating Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan fell on skeptical ears Wednesday in next-door Pakistan, a much larger, nuclear-armed state that Obama said was "at the core" of the plan and had even more at stake than Afghanistan.
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			<title><![CDATA[ McChrystal: Strengthening Afghan forces 'most important thing we do' ]]></title>
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KABUL -- The top American general in Afghanistan told his subordinates Wednesday that strengthening the Afghan security forces would be "the most important thing we do in the future" while urging the soldiers under his command to redouble their efforts in the difficult months ahead.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ With narrower military goals, Obama ups the ante ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Six months after saying he doubted that "piling on more and more troops" was the road to success in Afghanistan, and then warning his commanders not to ask for more, President Obama has given Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal nearly all the troops that he wanted.
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			<title><![CDATA[ China taking on growing role in U.N. peacekeeping missions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CHANGPING, CHINA -- After bulking up its armed forces with new missiles and other advanced weaponry, China recently invited U.S. and other foreign military officials to inspect a less bellicose side of the People's Liberation Army: a fleet of bulldozers.
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			<dc:creator>Andrew Higgins</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S., Chinese pledges to cut emissions put pressure on India ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW DELHI -- Recent announcements by the United States and China to cut carbon dioxide emissions are propelling India to make its own commitment to slow greenhouse gas emissions and go to the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit with a firm proposal on reductions.
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			<dc:creator>Rama Lakshmi</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama: U.S. security is still at stake ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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WEST POINT, N.Y. -- President Obama announced Tuesday that he will send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer and begin withdrawing forces in July 2011, making his case to the nation that Islamist extremism in the region remains an enduring threat to the security of Americans.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ No clear plan for paying for Obama's Afghanistan troop increase ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan ensures what was already inevitable: The cost of the wars in that country and Iraq is about to exceed $1 trillion. Less certain for Congress is how to pay for it.
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ North Korea revalues currency, destroying personal savings ]]></title>
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TOKYO -- Chaos reportedly erupted in North Korea on Tuesday after the government of Kim Jong Il revalued the country's currency, sharply restricting the amount of old bills that could be traded for new and wiping out personal savings.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan ]]></title>
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President Obama will outline Tuesday his intention to send an additional 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials and diplomatic sources briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung and Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Digest ]]></title>
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IRAN A top Iranian nuclear official said Monday that the country's decision to build 10 more uranium-enrichment sites was a direct response to last week's censure by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The facilities will be built inside mountains, the official added, to secure them from...
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			<title><![CDATA[ New Afghan strategy expected to highlight possibilities, limits of nation-building ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The revised strategy for Afghanistan that President Obama will announce Tuesday is expected to focus new resources on training Afghan security forces and shoring up the central government, an approach certain to revive a debate about the possibilities and the limits of nation-building.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pakistan's Zardari holds off his political foes -- for now ]]></title>
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- President Asif Ali Zardari, fighting to keep his job amid pressure from opponents in the media, the courts, the Parliament and the military, appears to have reasserted his grip on the presidency for the time being, according to analysts here.
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			<dc:creator>Pamela Constable</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama apologizes for fake campaign donation scandal ]]></title>
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TOKYO -- For politicians in Japan, the road to scandal usually winds through construction companies, defense contractors or a mistress. For newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, the road leads to his mother, an octogenarian heiress.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Novelist Arundhati Roy speaks out on democratic lapses in India ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=8234da871043f5090bc45fab35a09022</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW DELHI -- In a new book, the award-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy takes aim at India's self-image -- and reputation -- as the world's largest and most vibrant democracy. Indian democracy, she asserts, is not only not working, it is "used up" and "hollowed out and emptied of meaning."
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			<dc:creator>Rama Lakshmi</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Up to 9,000 Marines set to start deployment to Afghanistan ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=d1baf50cd14e561d770872ae731950d9</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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KABUL --  Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the...
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			<dc:creator>Greg Jaffe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Global climate talks remain alive, but details are far from settled ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=6dfe155f60ccff63f921a0824ec181e8</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved -- including the money that industrialized countries would offer poorer ones as part of an agreement --...
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Pakistan's Zardari cedes control of nuclear arsenal ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=931ed2bd48f0ea17cf695d0f277cbfcf</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Pakistan's president relinquished command of the country's nuclear arsenal Saturday to the prime minister, a political ally, as he faces growing pressure to resign.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Troop deployment to begin shortly after Obama's war strategy speech ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=df69241aa447f847d0eae06a32408e99</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:56:52 EST</pubDate>
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KABUL --  Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin deploying to southern Afghanistan to renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that stalled earlier this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan gov...
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			<dc:creator>Greg Jaffe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 2 Afghans allege abuse at U.S. site ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=c37e87b5dca6b6ead5e8ce50b8404dcf</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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KABUL -- Two Afghan teenagers held in U.S. detention north of Kabul this year said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked, deprived of sleep and held in solitary confinement in concrete cells for at least two weeks while undergoing daily interrogation about their alleged links to...
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Julie Tate</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Pakistan, sugar shortage sours public mood ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=72d8b9ddf85dcf7517f3e5d8bf5d1d0d</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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KANJWANI, PAKISTAN --  From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis. Fields of tall green cane line the roads, and flatbed trucks piled with ripe stalks head for a modern mill that steadily crushes to...
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			<dc:creator>Pamela Constable</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ China says it will cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent by 2020 ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=def5e8442f6e1766ae12b862ef13a3ac</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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China announced Thursday that it will lower its carbon emissions relative to the size of its economy by as much as 45 percent by 2020, the official New China News Agency reported, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Holiday in Afghanistan ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=d951106b536f43cdbca67c2f7d022610</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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GOLESTAN, AFGHANISTAN -- The Marine Corps Osprey, an unwieldy, gray contraption that flies like an airplane but lands like a helicopter, raced through the sky before it slowed to a hover and alighted several hundred yards from this tiny village.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to attend climate talks in Copenhagen, set goals to reduce emissions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The White House announced Wednesday that President Obama will attend U.N.-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month and commit the United States to specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin and Michael D. Shear</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ China's backing on Iran followed dire predictions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a "special mission" to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.
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			<dc:creator>John Pomfret and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ National Digest: Astronaut returning home to newborn ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday and headed home with one astronaut eager to hold his newborn daughter for the first time and another who's been away from her young son since the summer.
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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[ Clintons aim to keep their worlds from colliding, avoid conflicts of interest ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has gone to great lengths to avoid any appearance of undue influence from her husband. Bill Clinton rarely visits the State Department; he never joins his wife's far-flung official trips. With his headquarters in New York and hers in...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama hails Manmohan Singh, hails India's regional role ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is in Washington for the first state visit under the Obama administration, and moved to calm India's concerns that the United States is neglecting the Asian power as it seeks closer ties with China and Pakistan, India's...
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			<dc:creator>John Pomfret</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Japan says it will soon release details of nuclear pact with U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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TOKYO -- Japan's new government, already bickering with the United States about the location of a Marine air station on Okinawa , appears intent on revealing evidence of a decades-old secret pact between Tokyo and Washington that allowed U.S. ships and aircraft to carry nuclear weapons on stopovers...
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Activist who challenged China on quake deaths gets 3-year sentence ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- A veteran Chinese human rights campaigner who challenged the central government over the faulty construction of school buildings that collapsed during last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, on a charge of possessing secret state documents.
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 21 killed in Philippines in attack on journalists and Mangudadatu supporters ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MANILA -- Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political violence in years.
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			<dc:creator>Jim Gomez</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Death toll in Chinese mine blast rises to 104 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:28:58 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- The death toll from Saturday's coal mine explosion in northeastern China has risen to 104, state media reported Monday morning, with four miners still trapped in the shaft more than a third of a mile underground.
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Digest: Israel bombs Gaza Strip after Palestinian rocket fire ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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GAZA STRIP Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Death toll at Chinese mine rises to 92,several still trapped underground ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:59:58 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- The death toll from a powerful gas explosion Saturday at a coal mine in northeastern China has risen to 92 , with 16 miners still trapped more than a third of a mile underground, according to media reports.
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			<dc:creator>Keith Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ India questions Western data linking climate change, Himalayan melt ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW DELHI -- As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics.
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			<dc:creator>Rama Lakshmi</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SRI LANKA Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil civilians in the squalid, overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Americans conflicted over Afghanistan war ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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WINONA, MINN. -- Christina and Jesse Fladmark were married on Flag Day last year at the band shell on the Mississippi River. They chose the spot largely because Jesse, a soldier, draws strength from the nearby war memorial.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Slevin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Scores killed, trapped in Chinese mine explosion ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:53:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING-- A powerful gas explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China has killed at least 42 miners, with 66 more trapped about a third of a mile underground, according to state news media. The accident again highlighted China's notoriously bad record on coal mine accidents, which kill thousand...
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: At least 21 killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Singh's visit nears, perceived U.S. missteps worry India ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Days before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House as the first state visitor hosted by President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have Indian officials concerned that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian...
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			<title><![CDATA[ For a nation with doubts on war, Afghanistan strategy is a conundrum ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:57 EST</pubDate>
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WINONA, Minn. -- Christina and Jesse Fladmark were married on Flag Day last year at a band shell on the Mississippi River. They chose the spot largely because Jesse, a soldier, draws strength from the nearby war memorial.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Slevin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ North Korea is among topics of discussion as Obama wraps up Asia tour in Seoul ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governan...
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Separate blasts kill 21 in Pakistani city of Peshawar ]]></title>
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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[ Afghan President Hamid Karzai sworn in for second term ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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KABUL -- President Hamid Karzai set two ambitious goals in his inauguration speech Thursday: to have Afghan soldiers and police take full responsibility for security within the next five years and to root out the pervasive corruption that hobbled his first administration.
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:50:59 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said Thursday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama, S. Korea agree on new approach to North ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:59 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit Thursday to South Korea was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
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			<title><![CDATA[ A climate threat, rising from the soil ]]></title>
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TARUNA JAYA, INDONESIA -- Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, ...
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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IRAN Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, brushing aside the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from potentially building nuclear weapons. Instead, Manouchehr Mottaki said, Iran would consider a nuclear swap...
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			<title><![CDATA[ This time, promises alone may not feed North Korea ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=6f78d7f8b91758ac83f5922c22fd8e5a</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- For the Obama administration, North Korea has followed a familiar script. It has made trouble, exploding a nuclear device. It has made nice, inviting U.S. officials to visit. And it has made a mess of growing food, needing handouts from the rich countries it threatens.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Washington Sketch: In China, Obama leaves more questions than he takes ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=e75c17f3619f1bef5a317d32854f3890</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu.
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			<dc:creator>Dana Milbank</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's story infused Asia tour ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=f4635c30fa46a20025d933f5d7e17f41</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- After taking his message as the "first Pacific president" through four countries in eight days, President Obama wrapped up his tour of Asia on Thursday with talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a planned visit to U.S. troops stationed in the shadow of nuclear-armed North K...
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ This time, promises alone may not feed North Korea ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=1b5e5b8b82e0b535b172e3a343263ca0</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- For the Obama administration, North Korea has followed a familiar script. It has made trouble, exploding a nuclear device. It has made nice, inviting U.S. officials to visit. And it has made a mess of growing food, needing handouts from the rich countries it threatens.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama says he is seeking 'endgame' to Afghan conflict ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=89c1c85c28c084a3f20f11725ee62419</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- A week into an Asia trip that has made few dramatic headlines, President Obama on Wednesday told reporters that he would announce a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan "in the next several weeks" and defended his administration's efforts on reviving the economy, shutting down...
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut and Debbi Wilgoren</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Seoul, Obama will confront trade and security issues ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:59 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- President Obama, who arrived here Wednesday night on the final stop of his East Asia tour, will grapple with two long-standing U.S. concerns on the Korean Peninsula, one in the nuclear-armed North and the other here in the trade-dependent South.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Clinton visits Afghanistan with message on corruption ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:51:58 EST</pubDate>
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KABUL-- On the eve of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration to a second term, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Kabul Wednesday with a message that the Afghan leader needed to "make a new compact" with Afghan people by improving governance and cracking down on corruption.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iraq VP Rejects Election Law ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:06:10 EST</pubDate>
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BAGHDAD - Iraq's vice president vetoed on Wednesday legislation to organize the country's parliamentary elections in January, throwing the law back to a Parliament that had haggled for months before finally passing it last week.
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			<dc:creator>Anthony Shadid</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's China trip stands in stark contrast to those of past presidents ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- President Obama has emerged from his first trip to China with no big breakthroughs on important issues, such as Iran's nuclear program or China's currency. Yet after two days of talks with the United States' biggest creditor, the administration asserted that relations between the two c...
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			<dc:creator>Andrew Higgins and Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghan minister accused of taking bribe ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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KABUL --  The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a U.S. official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pakistani army shows off captured Taliban posts ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SARAROGHA, PAKISTAN -- A toy car booby-trapped with explosives, chemistry textbooks and handwritten case files from a Taliban court were among the debris left behind by fleeing Islamist militants in this remote village in the conflicted tribal region of South Waziristan.
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			<dc:creator>Pamela Constable</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama pushes China on currency, human rights ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:32:49 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- Describing ties with China as "never more important to our collective future," President Obama on Tuesday mixed praise for Chinese economic triumphs with gentle prodding on its currency, human rights and Tibet.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Afghanistan sets up unit to investigate corruption ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=5d5a0c2c0bf0aa7149fba2b6542a2e15</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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AFGHANISTAN Afghanistan will form a new anti-corruption unit to investigate high-level graft after widespread criticism and demands from the United States that it do more amid a wider regional strategy review.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama, Hu vow to continue to strengthen partnership ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=59a6375a11dfe5d616b0a41de9c40b87</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, emerged from two hours of talks Tuesday morning pledging to continue efforts to strengthen the growing partnership between the two countries, and to work together to address global challenges such as climate change, nuclear prolif...
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa sought to silence astrologer Bandara ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=94624331f6c7daade56a1d0ed2fe1dc6</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - With candles glowing next to his computer, Chandrasiri Bandara, the nation's most popular astrologer, looked at his birth chart and predicted that he would soon be assassinated.
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			<dc:creator>Emily Wax</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S., Japan remain at odds over Marine air station on Okinawa ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=d368d2692fe61af3bc1f8d92c9ea829e</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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TOKYO -- The wrestling match between the United States and Japan over the location of the U.S. Marine air station in Okinawa is far from over -- despite President Obama's chummy visit here with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama-themed items no longer for sale in China ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=fb63214a0129aaea4c860977d1b299f4</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- President Obama spent the second day of his state visit to China in the capital Monday, and the government adopted a two-track policy toward Obama memorabilia for sale here: Obama dressed as Superman was in, and Obama dressed as a Red Guard was out.
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg and Wang Juan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama backs non-censorship; Beijing, apparently, does not ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=7a7aa6b91fa375b88350d1ac59036ae9</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- President Obama, taking questions Monday from government-selected students at a town hall-style meeting in Shanghai, called himself "a big supporter of non-censorship." But the Beijing government, apparently, is not, and most Chinese never got to hear or read what Obama said.
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In China, Obama presses for rights ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=fb4ee8e83e56d3d4d6970ea2398d0219</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:28:01 EST</pubDate>
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SHANGHAI -- Meeting with a carefully screened group of students at the marquee event of his Asia trip, President Obama on Monday sought to advance what he called America's "core principles" during his first public appearance in China. But the event itself -- billed as an opportunity for Obama to ...
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut and Andrew Higgins</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Diplomatic tussle: 'Aobama' or 'Oubama'? ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=91991d7281b45e124a8dce8bf23cb60f</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:52:59 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- The Chinese government invited "President Aobama" to China. But it was "President Oubama" who emerged from Air Force One.
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pakistan's Zardari criticized over U.S. alliance, insurgency and shortages ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=98e38dd7ea17fe124f74bfa8771b0414</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- President Asif Ali Zardari, who entered office 14 months ago on a wave of post-dictatorship goodwill and sympathy for his slain wife, Benazir Bhutto, now faces growing public anger and disillusionment over his remote presidency. Some critics are urging him to step down, and...
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			<dc:creator>Pamela Constable</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghanistan war deaths ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=18f1032a52a1e2446dbb8070f9ba8227</link>
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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[ U.S., Chinese emissions cuts are key to climate treaty ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=9b3ea02a8d50138095f807d507569278</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The scaled-back climate strategy endorsed Sunday in Singapore by President Obama and other leaders could put pressure on the United States and China to resolve the biggest stumbling block to an agreement -- how much they will cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the next decade.
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama reaches out to China in first visit ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=bd306417e9cc6b6ceb5a728d6cbaa5a0</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SHANGHAI -- President Obama met a carefully screened audience of Chinese students in a town hall-style meeting on Monday, telling them that relations between the United States and China have often faced "tumultuous winds," but that the two countries have developed "deep and even dramatic ties."
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut and Andrew Higgins</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to Asia: Don't rely on debt-laden U.S. consumers ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4cc1fa7e481b0d16dc35925faf6158d4</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:47:53 EST</pubDate>
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SINGAPORE--Declaring the world at "one of those rare inflection points in history," President Obama told the leaders of China and other Asian countries Sunday that they can no longer rely on debt-laden American shoppers to fuel their economies and that the United States must consume less and expo...
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			<title><![CDATA[ On Obama trip to seal economic ties with Asia, trade policy threatens a rift ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SINGAPORE -- Hours after declaring that China's growing economic muscle doesn't pose a threat, President Obama traveled Saturday night to this usually pro-American city-state to wrestle with another tricky issue: Is the United States itself the troublemaker?
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			<dc:creator>Andrew Higgins and Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For smug KSM, federal court could be perfect arena ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said that he expected the t...
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			<title><![CDATA[ The alleged Sept. 11 conspirators, at a glance ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Five alleged conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will be transferred to the United States for trial in federal court.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Japan, Obama stresses Asia's role in U.S. economy ]]></title>
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TOKYO -- Declaring himself "America's first Pacific president," President Obama opened his trip to the region Saturday by asserting that the future of the U.S. economy depends more than ever on Asia -- and by pledging that China's growth will not come at the expense of its neighbors.
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