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		<title>A chronology of the events in the collapse of communism in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Timeline of events leading to communism&#8217;s collapse

Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989:
— June 4: Poland holds first partially free elections in four decades; Solidarity-led opposition wins all but one freely contested seat in parliament.
— August: Tens of thousands of East Germans swamp West German diplomatic missions in East Berlin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll reveals generation gap on democracy, capitalism in ex-communist European countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond Butler</dc:creator>
		
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Poll: generation gap in Eastern Europe on politics

WASHINGTON — Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a sharp generational schism has formed in how people in Europe&#8217;s former communist countries view the shift to democracy and capitalism, a survey has found.
People in nine Eastern European countries polled, who were born shortly before or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A timeline of key dates in the 1989-90 collapse of communism across Eastern Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For four decades, the communist regimes of Eastern Europe seemed unshakeable. Yet when the end came, it unfolded with stunning speed:

1989:
June 4 - Communists overwhelmingly defeated in Poland&#8217;s first partially free elections in four decades.
August - Tens of thousands of East Germans swamp West German diplomatic missions in East Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Hungary seeking asylum.
Aug. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaclav Havel: Czech president is damaging the country by not signing the EU reform treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Janicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PRAGUE — Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that peacefully toppled communism in the former Czechoslovakia, accused his presidential successor on Thursday of damaging the country by refusing to sign the EU reform treaty.

Havel, 73, said that what his bitter rival, President Vaclav Klaus, is doing &#8220;in my opinion, is harming this republic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museums, tours in Germany, Czech Republic and elsewhere offer glimpses of life under communism</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/museums-tours-in-germany-czech-republic-and-elsewhere-offer-glimpses-of-life-under-communism-193979/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN — If you&#8217;re interested in the history of Eastern Europe under communism, a number of places around the region offer glimpses of life before the Berlin Wall fell. Here are a few of them, ranging from somber museums to historic sites to themed attractions that are downright kitschy or bizarre.

One must-see for tourists visiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM — Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism&#8217;s collapse.

The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy surrounding the academy&#8217;s pattern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands pack airfield in southern Czech city as pope prepares to celebrate outdoor Mass</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/thousands-pack-airfield-in-southern-czech-city-as-pope-prepares-to-celebrate-outdoor-mass-181295/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor L. Simpson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRNO, Czech Republic — Tens of thousands of pilgrims have packed an airfield in the southern Czech city of Brno as Pope Benedict XVI prepares to celebrate an outdoor Mass.

Faithful from the Czech Republic and neighboring countries — including Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia — sang and waved Czech and Vatican flags as they awaited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Society excludes God at its peril, pope tells thousands at open-air Mass in Czech Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor L. Simpson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRNO, Czech Republic — Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of faithful on Sunday that societies exclude God at their peril, as he pressed on with a pilgrimage to nudge the Czech Republic — and by extension, the rest of Europe — back to its religious roots.

&#8220;History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict XVI urges heavily secular Czech Republic to rediscover its Christian roots</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pope-benedict-xvi-urges-heavily-secular-czech-republic-to-rediscover-its-christian-roots-179784/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor L. Simpson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PRAGUE — Pope Benedict XVI sought to reach out to the heavily secular people of the Czech Republic on Saturday, decrying the &#8220;wounds&#8221; left by atheistic communism and urging them to rediscover their Christian roots.

As he began a three-day pilgrimage coinciding with the fall of communism in this central European country 20 years ago, Benedict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 years after collapse of communism, pope urges aloof Czech Republic to rediscover faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William J. Kole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PRAGUE — Pope Benedict XVI criticized the communist era&#8217;s fierce religious persecution Saturday as he began a three-day pilgrimage to the Czech Republic, and urged the heavily secular nation to rediscover its Christian roots.

At a welcome ceremony at Prague&#8217;s Ruzyne International Airport, the 82-year-old pope spoke of how the communist regime, which was overthrown in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 years after collapse of communism, the pope visits an increasingly aloof Czech Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William J. Kole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PRAGUE — Pope Benedict XVI begins a three-day pilgrimage Saturday to the Czech Republic, where people increasingly have become cool to religion since overthrowing a communist regime that ruthlessly persecuted the Roman Catholic Church.

Scores of pilgrims poured into Prague on the eve of the nation&#8217;s first papal visit in a dozen years. But most Czechs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope will visit Czech Republic, a voyage among the nonbelievers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor L. Simpson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is going to the heart of central Europe 20 years after the fall of communism ended restrictions on religion. But what he will find is a Czech Republic where nearly half the population professes to be nonbelievers.

Like an ancient missionary on his three-day pilgrimage starting Saturday, Benedict will try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.

&#8220;His wisdom, wit, good humor and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several generations of thinkers and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s vice president set to take over military commission in sign he&#8217;ll be next leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — China&#8217;s communist elite opened an annual conclave Tuesday at which they are expected to appoint the vice president to a powerful military commission — a move that would cement his status as heir to the presidency of the world&#8217;s most populous nation.

If the Central Committee ignores precedent and doesn&#8217;t name Xi Jinping to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary hero, Juan Almeida Bosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Rodriguez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA — Tens of thousands of Cubans lined up Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country&#8217;s 1959 revolution whose death at the age of 82 further thinned the ranks of this communist-run country&#8217;s old-guard leaders.

President Raul Castro led the ceremony at Havana&#8217;s Revolution Square, somberly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China jails gangsters in southwest for extortion, rioting over teenage girl&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — China sentenced 23 members of a gang to jail for up to 20 years for crimes including the involvement in rioting last year over police handling of a teenage girl&#8217;s death, a court said Sunday.

About 30,000 people set fire to government buildings and overturned vehicles in Guizhou province&#8217;s county of Weng&#8217;an in July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head of Cuban-American National Foundation: One man&#8217;s journey is that of a people and an era</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wides-munoz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI — Francisco Jose Hernandez points to the boarded windows in his secretary&#8217;s third floor office. Days before, a drive-by shooter peppered the glass with bullets.

The Cuban American National Foundation co-founder and president shrugs off the attack.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it all before,&#8221; his piercing black eyes seem to say.
And he has. Few living Cuban-Americans personify the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head of Cuban-American National Foundation forges new path among exiles as Cuba itself changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wides-munoz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI — Francisco Jose Hernandez points to the boarded windows in his secretary&#8217;s third floor office. Days before, a drive-by shooter peppered the glass with bullets.

The Cuban American National Foundation co-founder and president shrugs off the attack.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it all before,&#8221; his piercing black eyes seem to say.
And he has. Few living Cuban-Americans personify the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Castro&#8217;s revolutionary comrade Juan Almeida Bosque highlights aging Cuban leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Haven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA — The death of Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president who was one of the last giants of Cuba&#8217;s 1959 revolution, plunged the island into mourning Saturday and was a stark reminder of the mortality of all of Cuba&#8217;s aging leaders — including brothers Raul and Fidel Castro.

He was the first of Cuba&#8217;s revolutionary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba: Castro&#8217;s revolutionary comrade Juan Almeida Bosque dead of heart attack at 82</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Weissert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA — Juan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than a half-century ago, has died of a heart attack.

A statement in government media on Saturday said the 82-year-old died around 11:30 p.m. on Friday night in Havana.
One of three surviving rebel leaders who still bore the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba says &#8216;Commander of the Revolution&#8217; Juan Almeida Bosque dead of heart attack at 82</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Weissert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA — Juan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than a half-century ago, has died of a heart attack. The 82-year-old was one of several Cuban vice presidents and had been among only three surviving rebel leaders who still bore the honorary title &#8220;Commander of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: North Korea&#8217;s No. 2 leader says Kim Jong Il in good health, not planning succession</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is in good health and has not named his third son as his successor, the communist country&#8217;s No. 2 leader said in an interview with a Japanese news agency Thursday.

Kim Yong Nam, the head of the Presidium of the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly, said Kim Jong Il is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cuban law allows Internet access at post offices, but measure yet to be applied</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Weissert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA — Cuba has authorized public Internet access at post offices across the country, though it has yet to apply what would be a landmark loosening of cyberspace rules in a nation where information is strictly controlled.

A decree posted on the Web site of the government&#8217;s official gazette this week authorizes Empresa Correos de Cuba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red is dead: Top communist in South African Cabinet chided over flashy choice of car</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celean Jacobson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG — South Africa&#8217;s top communist is in danger of losing his working-class hero status after treating himself to the latest BMW 750i and using $120,000 in taxpayers&#8217; money to buy it.

Blade Nzimande, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and a Cabinet member, is often seen wearing a Mao cap and is known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia makes once-banned book on horrors of Soviet Gulag required reading in schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — The book that made &#8220;Gulag&#8221; a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist cause and exiled its author.

The Education Ministry said Wednesday that excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn&#8217;s &#8220;The Gulag Archipelago,&#8221; published in 1973, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama receives international award for his peaceful promotion of human rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The Dalai Lama received an international award on Wednesday for his promotion of human rights and his leadership in the nonviolent campaign by Tibetans seeking autonomy from China.

After receiving Slovakia&#8217;s Jan Langos award at a theater in Bratislava, the Dalai Lama said he considers the prize &#8220;new encouragement&#8221; for his efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Xinjiang chief keeps his job amid waves of protest while colleagues fired over unrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — As leader of the volatile far western Xinjiang territory for 15 years, Wang Lequan is the closest China has to a regional strongman.

So it&#8217;s little wonder a recent purge of lower-ranking officials over a spate of bloody unrest has done nothing to clip his authority, underscoring both the extent of his power and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese police release blogger, online journalist after more than a week in custody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Stocking</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese authorities have released a blogger and an online journalist more than a week after detaining them for questioning about postings critical of the Communist government&#8217;s handling of relations with China.

Police took Bui Thanh Hieu, who writes a blog under the pen name Nguoi Buon Gio, or Wind Trader, into custody for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese police release blogger after more than a week in custody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese authorities have released a blogger more than a week after detaining him for questioning about postings critical of the Communist government&#8217;s handling of relations with China and the Catholic Church.

&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why they let me go,&#8221; Bui Thanh Hieu said by telephone Sunday. &#8220;They may have realized that my acts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troops patrol Chinese city after protests left 5 dead over series of syringe attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Thousands of troops, backed by tanks and metal barricades, patrolled the western city of Urumqi on Saturday after five people died in protests over a series of bizarre needle attacks that China&#8217;s police chief has blamed on Muslim separatists.

The hypodermic needle attacks have unnerved a population already shaken by ethnic rioting two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yonfan persists in film invoking childhood memories of the &#8216;White Terror&#8217; despite resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Barry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VENICE, Italy — Hong Kong-based director Yonfan&#8217;s &#8220;Prince of Tears&#8221; premieres Friday at the Venice Film Festival 20 years to the hour after Golden Lion-winner &#8220;City of Sadness,&#8221; the last major film to confront a painful period of Taiwanese history known as the White Terror.

&#8220;That&#8217;s naughty,&#8221; Yonfan said, smiling, when asked about the timing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam arrests another blogger as crackdown on online government critics continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Stocking</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese police arrested another blogger, her mother and diplomats said Friday, as authorities continued a crackdown against writers who have criticized Communist Party policies online.

Authorities arrested Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 30, who writes under the pen name Me Nam, on Wednesday at her home in Nha Trang, foreign diplomats said on condition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New photo shows civilian-clothed Fidel Castro meeting Chinese parliament leader outside</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA — Cuban state media have released a second recent photo showing Fidel Castro in regular civilian clothing instead of the track suits that he commonly wore after falling ill in July 2006.

In the picture, the 83-year-old Castro is shaking hands with the visiting head of the Chinese parliament in the walled backyard of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s public security minister blames ethnic separatists for needle attacks in troubled west</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — China&#8217;s Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu has blamed ethnic separatist forces for a bizarre series of needle attacks in the restive western region of Xinjiang.

Meng&#8217;s comments Friday come as thousands of mostly Han Chinese have taken to the streets of the regional capital Urumqi for a second day to demand increased security.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China police break up crowds marching on government, Communist Party offices in Xinjiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Police used tear gas and public appeals Friday to break up crowds marching on government and Communist Party offices in western China to protest a lack of public security after a bizarre series of syringe stabbings that appeared ethnically motivated.

Thousands of people, mostly from the Han Chinese majority, took to the streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese police break up crowds marching on headquarters of party boss in Xinjiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Police pushed back large crowds trying to march on Communist Party offices in Urumqi on Friday to voice anger at a lack of public security following a bizarre series of syringe stabbings that appeared ethnically motivated.

Chinese officials had put a security cordon around the western Chinese city a day earlier when more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dozens of syringe attacks spark new protests in west China city torn by deadly ethnic rioting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — Hundreds of Chinese protested deteriorating public safety Thursday after a series of mysterious syringe attacks further unnerved residents in the western Chinese city of Urumqi where ethnic rioting in July killed nearly 200 people.

People living near the city center reached by telephone said hundreds, possibly thousands, of members of China&#8217;s Han majority marched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese TV reports 476 cases of people stabbed with syringes in Urumqi since Aug. 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — State television in western China has reported that 476 people have sought treatment since Aug. 20 after being stabbed with hypodermic needles.

Xinjiang Television says the stabbings were one of the reasons behind a new protest in the western Chinese city of Urumqi two months after deadly ethnic rioting there left nearly 200 dead.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New protests in western China&#8217;s Urumqi city torn by deadly July ethnic rioting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — Hundreds of Chinese protested deteriorating public safety Thursday after a series of mysterious syringe attacks further unnerved residents in the western Chinese city of Urumqi where ethnic rioting in July killed nearly 200 people.

People living near the city center reached by telephone said hundreds, possibly thousands, of members of China&#8217;s Han majority marched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese state news agency confirms protest in western city hit by ethnic riots 2 months ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — A state news agency has confirmed witness reports of a new protest in the western Chinese city of Urumqi after deadly ethnic rioting in July left nearly 200 dead.

People near the city center reached by telephone say hundreds, possibly thousands, of members of China&#8217;s majority Han ethnic group have gathered downtown to denounce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residents report new protest in western China&#8217;s Urumqi city torn by July ethnic rioting</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/residents-report-new-protest-in-western-chinas-urumqi-city-torn-by-july-ethnic-rioting-158333/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — Chinese residents protested deteriorating public safety Thursday in the western Chinese city of Urumqi where deadly ethnic rioting in July killed nearly 200 people, eyewitnesses said

People living near the city center reached by telephone said hundreds, possibly thousands of members of China&#8217;s majority Han ethnic group had gathered downtown to denounce the regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge in Fla. orders Cuba to pay $27.5M to mother of journalist jailed in 2003</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-in-fla-orders-cuba-to-pay-275m-to-mother-of-journalist-jailed-in-2003-157852/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt Anderson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI — A federal judge ordered the Cuban government and the ruling Communist Party on Wednesday to pay $27.5 million in damages to the mother of a journalist jailed since a 2003 crackdown on dissent.

U.S. District Judge Alan S. Gold ruled in the case of Omar Rodriguez Saludes, who is serving a 27-year sentence in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jackie Chan, Jet Li add star power to Chinese propaganda film as officials try to woo young</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/jackie-chan-jet-li-add-star-power-to-chinese-propaganda-film-as-officials-try-to-woo-young-157512/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Min Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HONG KONG — China&#8217;s staid cultural commissars are turning to the likes of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, hoping that an injection of star power into a state-funded movie about the Communist revolution will attract young Chinese normally turned off by government propaganda.

&#8220;Jian Guo Da Ye,&#8221; or &#8220;The Founding of a Republic,&#8221; which opens in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese democracy activist sentenced to 13 years jail for subversion, lawyer says</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chinese-democracy-activist-sentenced-to-13-years-jail-for-subversion-lawyer-says-156991/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — A Chinese dissident who tried to organize a national meeting of the banned China Democracy Party has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for subverting state power, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Xie Changfa, 57, was tried in April and sentenced Tuesday by the Changsha Municipal Intermediate Court in southern China&#8217;s Hunan province, his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US, Cuba to begin talks on resuming long-suspended direct postal links</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The United States and Cuba will start talks this month on resuming direct mail service between the two countries for the first time in nearly half a century as the Obama administration continues to try to engage the communist island, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

The negotiations, set for Sept. 17, will follow the resumption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To be or not to be a Communist? British security papers record Sam Wanamaker&#8217;s early career</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meera Selva</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — When American actor and director Sam Wanamaker moved to Britain in the 1950s after learning he was blacklisted after the McCarthy hearings in the U.S., he was paranoid about drawing the attention of the authorities.

Documents released by the National Archives on Tuesday show he was right to be wary. Britain&#8217;s security services and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan seeks to assuage Chinese anger over Dalai Lama visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Huang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TAIPEI, Taiwan — China has canceled or postponed several events meant to underscore improving relations with Taiwan, apparently to show anger over the Dalai Lama&#8217;s visit to the island, Taiwan&#8217;s governing party said Tuesday.

The visit of the Tibetan spiritual leader — aimed at offering comfort to the victims of Typhoon Morakot — has created the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba protests US visa denial to wife of convicted Cuban intelligence agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edith M. Lederer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS — Cuba accused the Obama administration of following in the footsteps of the Bush administration and violating U.S. law by denying a visa to the wife of a convicted intelligence agent for the communist nation.

In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon circulated Monday, Cuba&#8217;s U.N. Ambassador Abelardo Moreno Fernandez demanded that the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama, on prayer visit, says Taiwan, China should have &#8216;very close and unique links&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Enav</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SHIAO LIN, Taiwan — The Dalai Lama said Taiwan should have &#8220;very close and unique links&#8221; with China but also enjoy democracy as he arrived at a devastated village Monday to pray for victims of Taiwan&#8217;s worst storm in 50 years.

Beijing has voiced its opposition to the Dalai Lama&#8217;s visit, saying it could harm relations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese police detain dissident blogger in latest crackdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Stocking</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HANOI, Vietnam — A Vietnamese blogger who criticized the Communist Party&#8217;s policies has been detained by police, his close friend said Monday, days after another popular blogger was fired from his job at a state-controlled newspaper.

Bui Thanh Hieu, who writes his blog under the pen name &#8220;Nguoi Buon Gio&#8221; or &#8220;Wind Trader,&#8221; was taken into [...]]]></description>
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