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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MIDDLE EAST Hamas leaders raced to Egypt on Monday amid signs of progress on a deal to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held by the Islamist group for more than three years.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iraqi parliament passes another election law ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers on Monday approved an amended law to organize parliamentary elections next year, a ballot seen as crucial to U.S. plans to withdraw combat troops.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Palestinians looking to American-style housing developments, financing ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The hills around this city have seen plenty of construction, often the distinctive red-roofed homes favored by Israeli settlers.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Schneider</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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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Resurgent al-Qaeda in Iraq seeks to undermine government ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BAGHDAD -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American officials say.
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			<dc:creator>Ernesto Londoño</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Kuwait-based military contractor wins court delay ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A Kuwaiti-owned company indicted in Atlanta this week for alleged fraud in connection with a multibillion-dollar contract to supply food and other products to coalition troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan won a court delay Friday, indicating that it may be planning to fight the case, whether in...
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rebel conflict heightens humanitarian crisis in Yemen ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation, driven here by a civil war that overnight had become a regional conflict....
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			<title><![CDATA[ Palestinian council to approve continuance of Abbas government ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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JERUSALEM --  To keep the Palestinian Authority government working after its term expires in January, Palestinians are turning to an unelected group of political insiders instead of holding new elections, according to Palestinian officials and outside analysts.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Schneider</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iraq's Sunni vice president vetoes legislation to organize election ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Sunni vice president on Wednesday vetoed legislation to organize parliamentary elections in January, throwing the measure back to a fractious parliament that spent months haggling over it and threatening to further delay a vote the U.S. military has deemed essential to its plans to...
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. 'dismayed' at plan to expand Jerusalem neighborhood ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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JERUSALEM -- City officials moved forward Tuesday with a plan to build 900 homes in a disputed neighborhood of Jerusalem, prompting sharp criticism from the White House, the Palestinians and others who feel it will further undermine the chance of renewing peace talks.
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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[ Iraqi Kurds warn of election boycott in dispute over seats ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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BAGHDAD -- Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national election in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region.
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			<dc:creator>Ernesto Londoño </dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Afghanistan sets up unit to investigate corruption ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4a0beaf22bcdc9f63038d71cebdfe695</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[ Temple Mount, also known as Noble Sanctuary, is a Jerusalem flash point ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=6de548dcc5e18374d7f16acbcf6470d5</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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JERUSALEM -- It is one of the most watched pieces of real estate in the world, 35 acres where an under-the-breath prayer or a whiff of a rumor can rouse warnings of war.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Schneider</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sunni politician, 12 others killed execution-style near Baghdad ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=09bffdcf0b452ec328c3f993c98bd9ae</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BAGHDAD -- A Sunni politician and 12 other men, including some of the politician's relatives, were killed execution-style over the weekend just west of Baghdad.
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			<dc:creator>Ernesto Londoño</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cleric says he was confidant to Hasan ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=5d612d45409f86b332a630dc2416d534</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SANAA, YEMEN  -- In his first interview with a journalist since the Fort Hood rampage, Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said that he neither ordered nor pressured Maj. Nidal M. Hasan to harm Americans, but that he considered himself a confidant of the Army psychiatrist who was given a glimp...
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			<dc:creator>Sudarsan Raghavan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghan roadside bombs a new priority for U.S. ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=b296180b0c9442dde9a91a6a14fd7b42</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is creating a department-wide task force to focus on ways to counter the roadside bombs that have caused 80 percent of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Calif. city tries counterinsurgency to stem gang problem ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=94dd095c04e01bbf591ba798d478d8ca</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad ...
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			<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For smug KSM, federal court could be perfect arena ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=547bc8242c17b58f188e5ec4903ea4a7</link>
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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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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Alleged Sept. 11 planner will be tried in New York ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators will be tried in Manhattan federal courthouse less than a mile from Ground Zero, the Justice Department announced Friday, the most concrete demonstration yet of the Obama administration'...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Yemen's fight with rebels a regional concern ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=3c656c3e9e8f69f5cdf3f70a200f376e</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- Along the jagged, oatmeal-colored mountains of northern Yemen, civil war has transformed the windswept landscape into a canvas of human misery, bolstering al-Qaeda's efforts to create a haven in the Middle East's poorest nation.
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			<dc:creator>Sudarsan Raghavan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World digest: Russian troops kill 20 rebels in restive Chechnya ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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RUSSIA Government forces killed more than 20 rebels in Chechnya on Friday, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in the neighboring province of Dagestan killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law enforcement authorities said.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Israel challenged on Gazan's ejection from West Bank ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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JERUSALEM -- Gaza-born Berlanty Azzam, 21, was two months from receiving her bachelor's degree from Bethlehem University when the past caught up with her.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Army psychiatrists ordered Hasan to attend lecture series on Islam ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Army psychiatrists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who supervised Maj. Nidal M. Hasan's work as a psychiatric fellow tried to turn his growing preoccupation with religion and war into something productive by ordering him to attend a university lecture series on Islam, the Middle East and...
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson and Dana Priest</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World digest: Body of missing U.S. soldier found in Afghan river ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Yemen denounces Iranian 'interference' in its internal affairs ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SANAA, YEMEN -- The Yemeni government on Wednesday lashed out against what it described as Iranian "interference" in its affairs, escalating tensions in a civil conflict pitting Yemen's army against Shiite rebels that has drawn in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, and raised fears o...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Saudi Arabia imposes naval blockade on coast of northern Yemen ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CAIRO -- Saudi Arabia on Tuesday imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to combat Shiite rebels along its border, an adviser to the government said, in the latest escalation of fighting in the southern Arabian Peninsula.
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			<dc:creator>Salah Nasrawi</dc:creator>
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