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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Foreign Aid</title>
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		<title>UN food summit in Rome to focus on agricultural aid as way to fight world hunger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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UN summit to highlight need for agricultural aid

ROME — For the third time in less than a decade, a U.N. food summit will grapple with what so far has been an elusive goal — slashing the number of the world&#8217;s hungry.
Pope Benedict XVI will be among the opening speakers Monday, adding his moral authority to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway&#8217;s foreign minister says sharp focus must be placed on improving Afghan government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Norway official: Afghan government must improve

KABUL — Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere says Afghans and the international community must focus sharply on improving the competence of the newly elected government of Afghanistan.
In a stop in the Afghan capital Wednesday to see President Hamid Karzai and other officials, Stoere said there is no political issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign aid worker held in connection with the shooting death of Afghan boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Foreign aid worker held in death of Afghan boy

KABUL — An international aid worker is being held by police in the shooting death of an Afghan boy in the country&#8217;s north.
Global Partners, a humanitarian aid and development group that has been working in Afghanistan since the late 1990s, said in a statement Wednesday that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Body of missing US soldier found by military divers in west Afghanistan river</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Missing US soldier&#8217;s body found in Afghan river

KABUL — Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retrieve airdropped supplies from a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday.
Relatives said they believe Spc. Benjamin Sherman of Plymouth, Mass., died after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration picks former Gates Foundation official to run US foreign aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Ex-Gates Foundation exec named foreign aid chief
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration nominated a young former executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to run the nation&#8217;s top foreign assistance program Tuesday, ending months of speculation and complaints about who would take the vacant post.
Rajiv Shah, a medical doctor who currently holds a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration picks Gates Foundation official to run US foreign aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Gates Foundation exec tapped as foreign aid chief
SINGAPORE — The Obama administration will nominate a young former executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to run America&#8217;s top foreign assistance program, ending months of speculation and complaints about who would take the vacant post, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama has chosen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiators at UN climate talks discuss best formula for securing global warming agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Delegates discuss way forward in UN climate talks
BARCELONA, Spain — U.N. climate negotiators said Friday that, despite low expectations for setting legally binding emissions targets next month, it is still possible to conclude a strong, 192-nation deal to define future work in fighting global warming.
Countries most vulnerable to climate change said they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africans end boycott of climate meetings during UN negotiations in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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Africans end boycott during UN climate talks

BARCELONA, Spain — African countries say they are ending a boycott of meetings at U.N. climate negotiations after winning promises for more in-depth talks on greenhouse gas emissions.
John Ash, the chairman of the negotiations on emissions, announced a deal has been struck with the Africans to devote most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU says its effort failed to end African boycott at UN climate talks, but no breakdown yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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EU fails to end African boycott at climate talks

BARCELONA, Spain — A top European delegate says African countries are continuing to boycott meetings at U.N. climate negotiations after talks with the European Union failed to persuade them to return.
Swedish delegate Anders Turresson says the Africans remain concerned about the low pledges by industrial countries to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africans boycott meetings at UN climate talks to protest rich countries&#8217; low emissions targets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Africans boycott meetings at UN climate talks
BARCELONA, Spain — African countries ended a boycott of meetings at U.N. climate negotiations on Tuesday, after winning promises for more in-depth talks on how much rich nations need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Due to the Africans&#8217; demands, most of the rest of this week&#8217;s talks in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money talks as climate negotiators seek accord on financing the fight against global warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Last round of climate talks open before Copenhagen

BARCELONA, Spain — Negotiators from nearly 180 countries hope to nail down the outline of a plan to provide tens of billions of dollars a year to fight climate change, in their final round of talks before a decisive conference in Copenhagen next month.
The five-day meeting beginning Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show me the money: EU divided at summit over how much climate aid to give poor nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Constant Brand</dc:creator>
		
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BRUSSELS — The European Union fought Thursday to live up to its self-proclaimed leadership on combating climate change, with the 27 EU leaders at odds over how much to offer poorer nations to join the global battle.
EU nations failed to agree on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show the money: EU divided at summit over how much climate aid to hand developing countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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BRUSSELS — With the European Union pressed to make a firm climate aid offer to poor nations, Hungary and Poland demanded Thursday that richer states pay a larger share to entice more governments aboard a new global climate change pact.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite lofty goals, Obama yet to fill nation&#8217;s top overseas aid job</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pace</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration&#8217;s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there&#8217;s no candidate in sight nine months into his term.

The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charge of America&#8217;s overseas aid, and Obama — as well as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — have said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia seeks $121 million in urgent food aid for more than 6 million people</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia said Thursday it needs emergency food aid for 6.2 million people, an appeal that comes 25 years after a devastating famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million and prompted one of the largest charity campaigns in history.

The crisis stems from a prolonged drought that has hit much of the Horn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aid groups in Zimbabwe worry about impact of unity government squabbles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Bryson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG — Aid workers said Wednesday the disarray of the government of Zimbabwe is putting its most vulnerable citizens at risk as hunger and disease threatens to sweep the country.

Zimbabwe&#8217;s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced last week he was withdrawing indefinitely from a unity government that has been troubled from the moment its ministers were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish aid worker says Darfur kidnappers terrorized her, Ugandan friend with &#8216;mock&#8217; executions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN — A freed Irish aid worker held captive for three months in Darfur said Monday that her captors terrorized her and a Ugandan friend by repeatedly staging their mock executions using live gunfire.

Sharon Commins and colleague Hilda Kuwuki, who both worked for Irish aid agency GOAL, were abducted July 3 and freed without harm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish, Ugandan aid workers freed by captors in Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region after more than 3 months</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM, Sudan — Two foreign aid workers seized at gunpoint more than three months ago in Sudan&#8217;s Darfur were released Sunday by their captors in the third — and longest — kidnapping of aid workers in the arid region.

The Irish and Ugandan women were in good health and were having medical checkups at a hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US aid flap exposes delicate dance between Pakistan&#8217;s civilian government and its military</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nahal Toosi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — Just last week, Pakistan&#8217;s foreign minister was playing down his army&#8217;s objections to a multibillion dollar U.S. aid bill. Days later, after a session with the army chief, he was back in Washington urging U.S. lawmakers to address the very concerns he had dismissed.

The about-face shows the delicate dance between Pakistan&#8217;s fragile civilian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani official says he&#8217;s satisfied that US aid bill won&#8217;t hurt his country&#8217;s sovereignty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Pakistan&#8217;s foreign minister said Wednesday that senior U.S. lawmakers have eased fears that a multibillion-dollar American aid package would interfere with Pakistan&#8217;s sovereignty.

U.S. lawmakers, however, have no plans to change the bill, which has already unanimously passed both chambers of Congress and now awaits President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature into law.
A week ago Foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights groups: More than 1,000 killed and 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG — More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January, humanitarian groups said Tuesday.

The report released by a coalition of 84 organizations said that many of the killings were carried out by Rwandan Hutu militiamen. Congolese government soldiers also have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s military rejects strings on US aid, complicating efforts against al-Qaida</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nahal Toosi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — Pakistan&#8217;s powerful military rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts, complicating American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan border.

Although the U.S.-backed government of President Asif Ali Zardari has the final say on whether to accept the money, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani foreign minister: US aid is crucial, stronger talks needed with US on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pakistani-foreign-minister-us-aid-is-crucial-stronger-talks-needed-with-us-on-afghanistan-189690/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foster Klug</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Pakistan&#8217;s foreign minister said Wednesday that a proposed multibillion-dollar U.S. aid package is crucial to Islamabad&#8217;s efforts to fight terrorists.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi played down a statement by Pakistan&#8217;s military that it had serious concerns about U.S. aid that is seen by many in his country as a sign of American meddling. He called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s powerful military expresses &#8217;serious concern&#8217; over multibillion US aid package</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pakistans-powerful-military-expresses-serious-concern-over-multibillion-us-aid-package-189306/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nahal Toosi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — Pakistan&#8217;s powerful military on Wednesday rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts, complicating American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan border.

Although the U.S.-backed government of President Asif Ali Zardari has the final say on whether to accept the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan braces for more suicide bombings ahead of expected offensive against Taliban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Nessman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — Pakistan braced for more militant attacks ahead of an anticipated offensive against a Taliban stronghold, as the insurgents said they bombed a U.N. relief agency because international aid work was not in &#8220;the interest of Muslims.&#8221;

The suicide bombing Monday at the World Food Program headquarters in Islamabad killed five people, prompting the U.N. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for blast at UN food agency that killed 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Munir Ahmad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Taliban claim responsibility for deadly UN blast

ISLAMABAD — Taliban militants claimed responsibility Tuesday for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency&#8217;s heavily fortified compound in Islamabad, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in &#8220;the interest of Muslims.&#8221;
The attack, which killed five workers for the World Food Program on Monday, pushed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for deadly blast at UN food agency</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pakistani-taliban-claim-responsibility-for-deadly-blast-at-un-food-agency-187868/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — Taliban militants claimed responsibility Tuesday for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency&#8217;s heavily fortified compound in Islamabad, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in &#8220;the interest of Muslims.&#8221;

The attack, which killed five workers for the World Food Program on Monday, pushed the U.N. to temporarily close its offices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia calls off search for survivors under rubble, focuses on rebuilding after quake</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/indonesia-calls-off-search-for-survivors-under-rubble-focuses-on-rebuilding-after-quake-186890/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irwan Firdaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.taragana.com/n/indonesia-calls-off-search-for-survivors-under-rubble-focuses-on-rebuilding-after-quake-186890/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PADANG, Indonesia — Helicopters dropped instant noodles and other aid to cutoff hillside communities that were without food for five days, as rescue workers gave up their search Monday for survivors from last week&#8217;s massive Indonesian earthquake.

When all the bodies are counted and the missing declared dead, the death toll from Wednesday&#8217;s 7.6-magnitude quake in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF says it is committed to giving more voting power to developing countries</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/imf-says-it-is-committed-to-giving-more-voting-power-to-developing-countries-186559/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Torchia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL — A key panel of the International Monetary Fund said Sunday that it supports giving more voting power to emerging market and developing countries, warning that the legitimacy of the institution was at stake.

The group&#8217;s International Monetary and Financial Committee said it backs a shift of at least 5 percent of voting power from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy rains hamper search for bodies in Indonesia&#8217;s quake-destroyed hamlets</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/heavy-rains-hamper-search-for-bodies-in-indonesias-quake-destroyed-hamlets-186523/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irwan Firdaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Heavy rains hold up search for bodies in Indonesia

JUMANAK, Indonesia — Search teams lost hope of finding any more survivors under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, as torrential rains on Sunday held up aid delivery in the remote hills of western Indonesia where several villages were wiped out.
Rescue teams instead focused on retrieving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Treasury Secretary Geithner urges IMF to implement internal reforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Torchia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Sunday urged the IMF to implement reforms that would give emerging market and developing countries more say in the financial institution.

&#8220;A more representative, responsive and accountable governance structure is essential to strengthening the IMF&#8217;s legitimacy,&#8221; Geithner said in a statement.
He noted that G-20 countries had committed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF looks at ways to raise money from banks to help insure system against another crisis</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/imf-looks-at-ways-to-raise-money-from-banks-to-help-insure-system-against-another-crisis-185061/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pan Pylas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL — The International Monetary Fund is considering how the world&#8217;s banks can pay more to help insure the financial system from another crisis and possibly assist poorer countries in the battle against climate change.

In a press briefing ahead of the upcoming annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, the fund&#8217;s managing director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, all affected by South Pacific earthquake, tsunami</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key facts on the Independent State of Samoa, the U.S. territory of American Samoa and Tonga:

American Samoa:
GEOGRAPHY: Located about 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii and 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers) northeast of New Zealand. Largest island is Tutuila, home to 95 percent of the territory&#8217;s 65,000 population. It is slightly larger than Washington, D.C.
HISTORY: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippines calls for foreign aid after floods kill 240; eyes turn to new storms in Pacific</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Cerojano</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines — The toll from floods in the northern Philippines rose to at least 284 dead or missing Tuesday as bedraggled victims queued up for aid and Typhoon Ketsana roared into Vietnam.

The storm, which struck Manila and surrounding provinces on Saturday, gathered strength across the South China Sea, and claimed at least 23 lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippine flood victims seek aid in the palace and overseas; death toll hits 246</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Cerojano</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines — Flood victims trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centers in the Philippines on Tuesday, as the death toll rose to 246 from water that inundated the homes of nearly 2 million people.

Tropical Storm Ketsana brought the worst flooding to the Southeast Asian country in four decades, chasing some victims to their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Climate change means more hungry children, greater investment in farming needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Bryson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG — Scientists fear climate change will mean 25 million more hungry children over the next four decades, with subsistence farmers in Africa and Asia particularly hard hit by global warming, according to a report issued Wednesday.

The authoritative International Food Policy Research Institute said even without climate change, 113 million children under 5 years old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing nations ask industrialized world to compensate them for economic, climate crises</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS — Developing nations are urging the industrialized world to acknowledge its responsibility for the global economic and climate crises and to compensate them for the damages these have caused.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu-Bakr al-Qirbi, who chairs the Group of 77 that represents 132 developing counties, says the U.N. Millennium Development Goals which call for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aid groups warn of humanitarian crisis, unable to reach those fleeing Yemen&#8217;s fighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah El Deeb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN&#8217;A, Yemen — Tens of thousands of Yemenis displaced by warfare between the government and Shiite rebels are stranded around the war zone with aid agencies unable to reach them because of the intensified fighting, U.N. officials and rights activists said.

The humanitarian crisis has been worsened by tribes in the region robbing relief convoys as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate votes to triple foreign aid to Pakistan, House expected to follow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Abrams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to triple foreign aid to Pakistan, with lawmakers saying the legislation could change the crisis-driven nature of U.S.-Pakistan relations and create ties based more on long-term interests.

The Senate voted by voice to approve the measure that approves $1.5 billion a year over the next five years for democratic, economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International aid agencies warns that Yemen&#8217;s humanitarian crisis is &#8216;deepening&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed El-haj</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN&#8217;A, Yemen — Yemen&#8217;s Shiite rebels Tuesday called for an independent arbitration committee to help mediate a lasting cease-fire in their ongoing war with the government as aid agencies warned that the humanitarian crisis could worsen if immediate action is not taken.

International aid agency Oxfam called for an end to the fighting between government and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan may give more aid to Afghanistan after refueling mission backing US-led coalition ends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Alabaster</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO — Tokyo is considering sending more financial aid to Afghanistan after its current naval refueling mission supporting the U.S.-led coalition ends next January, but has no intention of sending ground troops to the region, Japan&#8217;s new foreign minister said Sunday.

Japan has long been one of Washington&#8217;s closest allies, but a new government that took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s current growth path could exceed energy resources of the planet by 2050</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Sanderson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING — If China&#8217;s economy continues to expand rapidly and rely heavily on coal and other fossil fuels until the middle of the century, its power consumption would be unsustainable, according to a study by government think tanks released Wednesday.

The two-year study, supported by the U.S.-based Energy Foundation and the international environmental group WWF, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU: Sanctions targeting Zimbabwe&#8217;s Mugabe won&#8217;t be lifted until more changes made</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HARARE, Zimbabwe — The European Union said Sunday it will not remove sanctions targeting longtime President Robert Mugabe and his loyalists or resume development aid until more is done to implement a year-old power-sharing agreement and restore human rights.

Winding up the first visit by a high-level EU delegation since 2002, European Commissioner for Development and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU offers billions to poor nations to persuade them to sign climate change accord</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The European Union proposed Thursday to offer up to euro15 billion ($21.8 billion) a year in aid to poor developing countries to persuade them to sign a new global climate change agreement.

However, development and environmental campaigners blasted the offer as insufficient because it assumes that poorer nations will bear most of the costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU proposes euro15 billion in climate aid to entice poor countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The European Union proposed Thursday to offer up to euro15 billion ($21.8 billion) a year in aid to poor developing countries to persuade them to sign a new global climate change agreement.

However, development and environmental campaigners blasted the offer as insufficient because it assumes that poorer nations will bear most of the costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU proposes €15 billion in climate aid to entice poor countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The European Union proposed Thursday to offer up to €15 billion ($21.8 billion) a year in aid to poor developing countries to persuade them to sign a new global climate change agreement.

However, development and environmental campaigners blasted the offer as insufficient because it assumes that poorer nations will bear most of the costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRA victims seek huge payout from Libya for &#8217;80s arms shipments, laud British aid for lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Pogatchnik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN — Britain&#8217;s sudden decision to support a lawsuit against Libya by Irish Republican Army victims raised hopes Monday that thousands maimed or bereaved by IRA bombs might one day receive compensation.

Libya admits it shipped hundreds of tons of weaponry to the IRA in the mid-1980s, most critically the plastic explosive Semtex at the heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP IMPACT: Independent East Timor flooded with aid, yet most are worse off a decade later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Deutsch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DILI, East Timor — A decade after tiny East Timor broke from Indonesia and prompted one of the most expensive U.N.-led nation-building projects in history, there is little to show for the billions spent.

The world has given more than $8.8 billion in assistance to East Timor since the vote for independence in 1999, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US probing possible diversion of USAID money in Afghanistan to warlords, Taliban</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The State Department said Thursday that an investigation has begun into whether U.S. development funding for Afghanistan is being diverted to local warlords and extremists following allegations that road and bridge contractors were paying &#8220;protection&#8221; money to the Taliban.

Spokesman P.J. Crowley said the U.S. Agency for International Development is looking into reports that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN urges Israel to ease Gaza blockade, enable repairs of sewage, water systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karin Laub</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — U.N. agencies and international aid groups urged Israel on Thursday to immediately ease its Gaza Strip blockade to allow in spare parts and building materials to repair the territory&#8217;s dilapidated sewage and water networks.

In a joint appeal, they also warned of environmental and health hazards, not only to Gaza, but [...]]]></description>
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