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	<title>Breaking News &#187; State department</title>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Middle East plan to be launched within &#8216;weeks&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM - Although both Israel and Arab countries have refused to budge from their stands over the settlement issue, the Obama administration is positive that all pieces will fall in place by the time it formally launches its Middle East peace plan &#8216;in a matter of weeks&#8217;.
Washington is still negotiating with Jerusalem over a complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran says Americans arrested for illegal entry, claims case being used for propaganda</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/iran-says-americans-arrested-for-illegal-entry-claims-case-being-used-for-propaganda-129938/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nasser Karimi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran — State media confirmed Tuesday that the three Americans who strayed across the border from Iraq have been arrested for illegal entry and claimed their case is being used by the West for propaganda against Iran.

A newscaster on state television also cast doubt on whether they were hikers who had lost their way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: Tenn. man accused of abusing daughter kills her, foster dad who lived 2 doors down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Loller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Neighbors in Tennessee are asking why a teenage girl fatally shot by her father was placed with a foster family just two doors down after he was accused of abusing her.

Christopher Milburn, 34, killed the 15-year-old and her foster father and wounded her foster mother before taking his own life Sunday, authorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia foils terror plot for suicide attack on army base, arrests 4 Somali-linked suspects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian police said Tuesday they thwarted a terrorist plot in which extremists with ties to an al-Qaida-linked Somali Islamist group planned to invade a military base and open fire with automatic weapons until they were shot dead themselves.

Some 400 officers from state and national security services took part in 19 raids on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wife: American wanted in Bhopal gas leak &#8216;haunted for many years,&#8217; living in NY&#8217;s Hamptons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Eltman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. — The former head of the chemical company responsible for the gas leak that killed 10,000 people in India 25 years ago has been &#8220;haunted&#8221; for years by the world&#8217;s worst industrial disaster, his wife said Saturday.

An Indian court issued a warrant Friday for Warren Anderson, the former head of Union Carbide Corp., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US asks Swiss for help in confirming status of 3 Americans apparently detained in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The State Department says it&#8217;s aware of Iranian media reports that three American citizens have been detained in Iran.

Spokesman Robert Wood says the U.S. has asked the Swiss, who represent American interests in Iran, to confirm the reports with Iranian authorities and arrange for diplomatic access to the three, if the reports are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US State Dept investigating report that 3 Americans in Iran after crossing Iraqi border</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-state-dept-investigating-report-that-3-americans-in-iran-after-crossing-iraqi-border-127172/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yahya Barzanji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — The U.S. State Department said Friday it was investigating reports that three American tourists have been detained by Iranians while hiking near Iran&#8217;s border with the self-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

Two Kurdish officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren&#8217;t authorized to release the information, said the Americans apparently were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington state may release more seriously ill prisoners to save money</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/washington-state-may-release-more-seriously-ill-prisoners-to-save-money-125629/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel La Corte</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OLYMPIA, Wash. — About two dozen seriously ill prisoners in Washington state could soon be released from prison — as long as their freedom is expected to save the cash-strapped state money.

A new state law, which takes effect Saturday, expands a current program to release chronically or terminally ill prisoners. Death row inmates, or those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban in PR mode with &#8216;field manual&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The Taliban in Afghanistan has launched a public relations exercise to win the hearts of people by circulating among them a &#8216;field manual&#8217; that calls for efforts to limit civilian casualties, a media report said Thursday. 

The little book with a blue cover, &#8220;Rules for Mujahedeen&#8221;, directs Taliban militants on how to behave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly declassified Eisenhower documents show dangers from Berlin to Baghdad to Bangkok</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/newly-declassified-eisenhower-documents-show-dangers-from-berlin-to-baghdad-to-bangkok-124506/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Milburn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TOPEKA, Kan. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower grappled with topics like relations with Iran and stability in Iraq during an era fraught with delicate policy challenges, newly declassified documents show.

&#8220;What&#8217;s ironic is that the issues that Eisenhower was dealing with 50 or so years ago are the issues that the Obama administration is dealing with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US willing to drop fraud charge against man at center of 2003 botched Detroit terror trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT — A North African immigrant once put on trial in Detroit for terror-related charges made a deal Tuesday to close a case of alleged insurance fraud.

If Karim Koubriti stays out of trouble for six months, a pending indictment will be dismissed and his record will be clean, defense lawyer Richard Helfrick said.
&#8220;He&#8217;s been through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NKorea open to new dialogue over nuclear tensions in apparent call for direct US talks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/nkorea-open-to-new-dialogue-over-nuclear-tensions-in-apparent-call-for-direct-us-talks-121439/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae-soon Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea suggested a new dialogue to resolve tensions over its atomic weapons programs — an apparent invitation to the U.S. to engage in one-on-one talks after Pyongyang bolstered its negotiating power with nuclear and missile tests.

Hours earlier, however, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Pyongyang to stick to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ousted Honduran president readies another symbolic visit to Honduran border</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OCOTAL, Nicaragua — President Manuel Zelaya made a second, largely symbolic trip to the Honduran border on Saturday, despite foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government in power since last month&#8217;s coup.

Aide Allan Fajardo said a visit was likely, and Zelaya&#8217;s white jeep set out north, toward the border. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists say North Korean woman publicly executed for distributing Bible</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/activists-say-north-korean-woman-publicly-executed-for-distributing-bible-119799/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwang-tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — A Christian woman accused of distributing the Bible, a book banned in communist North Korea, was publicly executed last month for the crime, South Korean activists said Friday.

The 33-year-old mother of three, Ri Hyon Ok, also was accused of spying for South Korea and the United States, and of organizing dissidents, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts say targeting parents in Arkansas evangelist&#8217;s sex-crimes trial a tricky question</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/experts-say-targeting-parents-in-arkansas-evangelists-sex-crimes-trial-a-tricky-question-119408/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Gambrell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEXARKANA, Ark. — One by one, the women told the court a similar story. They were &#8220;married&#8221; to evangelist Tony Alamo as children or teens, pushed into the unions with the blessings of parents who believed it was the highest honor before God.

Their parents had been taught that Alamo was infallible, and with him the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holbrooke heads to Pakistan, Afghanistan and India</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/holbrooke-heads-to-pakistan-afghanistan-and-india-116753/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun Kumar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - US special envoy Richard Holbrooke is headed for Pakistan and Afghanistan on a trip that focuses on the plight of internal refugees and security issues and will also take him to India.

&#8220;Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke is travelling to Pakistan July 21 through 23 and then subsequently to Afghanistan,&#8221; White [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio reports: US tells Israel to halt east Jerusalem housing project</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/radio-reports-us-tells-israel-to-halt-east-jerusalem-housing-project-113996/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM — The U.S. has demanded that Israel suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, senior Israeli officials said Sunday — the latest sign of a deepening conflict between the two allies over Israeli settlements.

The officials confirmed that Israel&#8217;s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department over the weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduran interim govt: delegation lacks authority to accept Arias plan, up to congress, courts</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/honduran-interim-govt-delegation-lacks-authority-to-accept-arias-plan-up-to-congress-courts-113857/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.taragana.com/n/honduran-interim-govt-delegation-lacks-authority-to-accept-arias-plan-up-to-congress-courts-113857/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A representative of Honduras&#8217; interim government says its delegation at talks lacks the authority to accept all the terms of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias&#8217; plan to end the crisis.

Vilma Morales says it would be up to Honduras&#8217; Congress and its courts to accept Arias&#8217; proposals and not up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quayle: Obama&#8217;s biggest challenge taming left wing of Democratic Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[STATELINE, Nev. — Former Vice President Dan Quayle gives President Barack Obama high marks for surrounding himself with quality advisers on national security and the economy. But Quayle says it&#8217;s not yet clear whether Obama&#8217;s Democratic administration will govern more liberally than he campaigned.

&#8220;I think his biggest challenge is to tame the left wing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton seeks to allay Pakistan&#8217;s fears on India trip</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/clinton-seeks-to-allay-pakistans-fears-on-india-trip-113734/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun Kumar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Saturday sought to assuage Pakistan&#8217;s fears that the US desire for India to play a leading role in the region would translate into a subservient role for Islamabad.

&#8220;Well, that is certainly not at all what is intended,&#8221; she said in an interview with the Dawn Television. &#8220;I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowly but surely US is approaching discussion with SKorea; cautious with North</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-envoy-to-meet-south-korean-officials-as-washington-warns-of-aggressive-sanctions-on-nkorea-113397/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwang-tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — A top US envoy plans to hold talks with South Korean officials as Washington warned of aggressive sanctions on North Korea unless Pyongyang returns to the stalled multinational talks on ending its nuclear programs.

Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, was to meet his South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide blasts kill 8, wound 50 at Jakarta luxury hotels; end 4-year lull in Indonesia attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Deutsch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA, Indonesia — Two days ago, they checked into room 1808 at the swank J.W. Marriott Hotel — smuggling explosives past metal detectors and security guards. Behind the closed door, investigators say the suicide attackers then assembled the bombs set off Friday at the Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton next door.

The blasts killed at least eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama condemns Indonesia bomb attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DPA</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama condemned Friday the bombing of two prominent hotels in Indonesia&#8217;s capital Jakarta that killed at least nine people and injured dozens more.

&#8220;The American people stand by the Indonesian people in this difficult time and the US government stands ready to help the Indonesian government respond to and recover from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s passage to India - via a mouse click</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/hillarys-passage-to-india-via-a-mouse-click-112908/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - You don&#8217;t have to switch on the television or get a ticket to a high-security event to follow the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - it doesn&#8217;t need more than a click of the mouse.

Clinton, who arrived in India Friday night on a five-day visit, will be covered on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hillary Clinton excited about India trip&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun Kumar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left on a much awaited trip to India, the US again stressed the importance it placed on the role India can play not just in the region, but as a global player.

Clinton&#8217;s series of meetings with current and former officials, lawmakers and think tanks in the run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reports of exchange students in US underfed, living in filth lead to calls for federal reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rubinkam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SCRANTON, Pa. — During his year as a foreign exchange student in the United States, 18-year-old Carlos Villarreal lived not with a welcoming family, but with two ex-convicts in a seedy house that smelled of dog feces and where the food was labeled &#8220;DO NOT TOUCH.&#8221; He left 14 pounds lighter.

Villarreal, a Colombian, had signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC investigates why slain man suspected of becoming SC serial killer was released from jail</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/nc-investigates-why-slain-man-suspected-of-becoming-sc-serial-killer-was-released-from-jail-109344/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina parole officer overloaded with cases should not be blamed for failing to tell jail officers to keep behind bars a career criminal who later killed five people, authorities said Tuesday.

Parole officer Angela Merrill saw more than two dozen parolees the day Patrick Burris was released from a county jail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between slum and public toilet, a monument lies neglected</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shweta Srinivasan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - It is an imposing 15th century monument from the Lodhi dynasty that is being taken over by a slum, its illegal residents brazenly unconcerned  about both law and heritage. Uncared for by authorities who are supposed to protect it, about 10-12 shacks have come up around the &#8220;protected&#8221; sandstone structure in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House passes bill to boost food stamp spending as record numbers need assistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Clare Jalonick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — With rising unemployment forcing millions of additional people onto food stamps, the House on Tuesday passed a bill to boost the program&#8217;s budget by 14 percent.

The Agriculture Department announced this week that a record 33.8 million people — or 1 in 9 Americans — were participating in the food stamp program as of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Department still struggling with laptop security a decade after embarrassing lapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Nearly a decade after a State Department laptop containing highly classified information disappeared in an embarrassing security lapse, the agency is still unable to account for all of its portable computers, a government report said Wednesday.

The State Department&#8217;s inspector general said Wednesday that a review of a sample of 334 laptops belonging to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US passport resolution may be near for citizens delivered by midwives on Texas-Mexico border</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-passport-resolution-may-be-near-for-citizens-delivered-by-midwives-on-texas-mexico-border-97347/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[McALLEN, Texas — Citizens delivered by midwives along the U.S.-Mexico border will get to reapply for passports for free under a tentative settlement with the State Department over stalled applications.

U.S. District Judge Randy Crane gave preliminary agreement Wednesday to the settlement. He also gave the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SKorean defense chief says questions remain about successor to NKorean leader Kim</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/skorean-defense-chief-says-questions-remain-about-successor-to-nkorean-leader-kim-95324/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwang-tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — The decision on who will become North Korea&#8217;s next leader may not be final despite reports that Kim Jong Il has tapped his youngest son to succeed him, South Korea&#8217;s defense chief said.

Who will take over as ruler of nuclear-armed North Korea after Kim has been the focus of intense speculation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US seeks return to power of deposed Honduran leader, and safety of his family meantime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — U.S. diplomats are working to ensure the safety of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and his family as they press for restoration of constitutional law and his presidency.

President Barack Obama called Sunday for &#8220;all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials: US to bolster efforts to train Somali forces, provide arms to foil Islamic rebels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pauline Jelinek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to bolster efforts to support Somalia&#8217;s embattled government by providing money for weapons and helping the military in neighboring Djibouti train Somali forces, U.S. officials said Thursday.

The goal is to stem Islamic insurgent advances in the Horn of Africa, but the plan would commit the U.S. to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US takes back Independence Day celebration invitations to Iranians</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-takes-back-independence-day-celebration-invitations-to-iranians-91594/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-takes-back-independence-day-celebration-invitations-to-iranians-91594/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The White House has announced that it has rescinded the invitations made to Iranian diplomats, which offered a chance to party down on July 4 with US officials at embassies around the world to celebrate America&#8217;s Independence Day.

&#8220;As you all know many weeks ago the administration extended an invitation to celebrate the freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: North Korea&#8217;s Kim puts youngest son in charge of spy agency</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/report-north-koreas-kim-puts-youngest-son-in-charge-of-spy-agency-90326/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/report-north-koreas-kim-puts-youngest-son-in-charge-of-spy-agency-90326/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae-soon Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has taken charge at the country&#8217;s spy agency to prepare him to inherit the leadership of the communist nation from his father, a news report said Wednesday.

Kim told senior officials of the State Security Department in March to &#8220;uphold&#8221; his 26-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calif. budget crisis forces schools to slash programs, fire teachers, expand class sizes</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/calif-budget-crisis-forces-schools-to-slash-programs-fire-teachers-expand-class-sizes-88330/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terence Chea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Calif. — California&#8217;s historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement.

Deep budget cuts are forcing California school districts to lay off thousands of teachers, expand class sizes, close schools, eliminate bus service, cancel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton urges countries to combat refugee crisis, says US committed to help</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. is committed to helping the world&#8217;s 34 million refugees build safe and fulfilling lives, calling their struggle a &#8220;humanitarian emergency.&#8221;

In a statement released Saturday to commemorate World Refugee Day, Clinton called on the world community to end what she called &#8220;urgent refugee crises&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss. officials approve historical marker for infamous 1964 slayings of civil rights workers</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/miss-officials-approve-historical-marker-for-infamous-1964-slayings-of-civil-rights-workers-85877/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.

The state Department of Archives and History authorized the marker on Mississippi 19 in Neshoba County.
On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were ambushed and later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US calls on Iran to transparently resolve election dispute</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-calls-on-iran-to-transparently-resolve-election-dispute-85007/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-calls-on-iran-to-transparently-resolve-election-dispute-85007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DPA</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The US urged Iran Wednesday to transparently resolve the dispute over its presidential election, which has sparked days of massive protests and international criticism.

US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the protests are a sign that Iranians have grown impatient with the country&#8217;s diplomatic isolation and denied that Washington was interfering in either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration, Israel still butting heads over Jewish settlements</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-administration-israel-still-butting-heads-over-jewish-settlements-84971/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-administration-israel-still-butting-heads-over-jewish-settlements-84971/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration and Israel gave no ground Wednesday in their opposing views over Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory despite speculation the two sides might be nearing compromise.

After talks in Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman held to long-standing positions ahead of a meeting next week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US asks Spain to take in 4 inmates from Guantanamo Bay prison camp</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-asks-spain-to-take-in-4-inmates-from-guantanamo-bay-prison-camp-84398/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-asks-spain-to-take-in-4-inmates-from-guantanamo-bay-prison-camp-84398/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Haven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MADRID — The United States has asked Spain to accept four prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorism suspects, the foreign minister said Wednesday.

Miguel Angel Moratinos said Spain will respond when it has studied the legal consequences of taking them in and the circumstances of those four people.
Moratinos has said repeatedly in recent months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers for couple accused of spying for Cuba says they should be freed for home monitoring</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/lawyers-for-couple-accused-of-spying-for-cuba-says-they-should-be-freed-for-home-monitoring-83969/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nedra Pickler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A husband and wife charged with three decades of spying for Cuba want a judge to let them out of jail and confine them at home, without access to their sailboat and maps of Cuban waters that prosecutors said were evidence they planned to flee to the island nation.

Lawyers for retired State Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama &#8216;deeply troubled&#8217; about Iran post-poll uprising</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-deeply-troubled-about-iran-post-poll-uprising-82621/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-deeply-troubled-about-iran-post-poll-uprising-82621/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, June 16 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has said that he is &#8220;deeply troubled&#8221; by the latest violent developments taking place in Iran post-elections.

Fox News quoted Obama as saying on Monday that Iranian voters have a right to feel their ballots mattered and urged the investigation into vote-rigging allegations to go forward without additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protester fatally shot after huge rally in Tehran to press vote fraud claims defies crackdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/protester-fatally-shot-after-huge-rally-in-tehran-to-press-vote-fraud-claims-defies-crackdown-82113/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/protester-fatally-shot-after-huge-rally-in-tehran-to-press-vote-fraud-claims-defies-crackdown-82113/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran — Gunfire from a pro-government militia killed one man and wounded several others Monday after hundreds of thousands of chanting opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marched in central Tehran to support their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since disputed elections.

The outpouring in Azadi, or Freedom, Square for reformist leader Mir Hossein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU agrees to &#8216;turn the page&#8217; with the US on Guantanamo and accept detainees</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/eu-agrees-to-turn-the-page-with-the-us-on-guantanamo-and-accept-detainees-81810/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/eu-agrees-to-turn-the-page-with-the-us-on-guantanamo-and-accept-detainees-81810/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Wielaard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUXEMBOURG — The European Union agreed on Monday to help the administration of President Barack Obama &#8220;turn the page&#8221; on Guantanamo, saying individual EU nations will take detainees from the American prison in Cuba.

The EU and the U.S. issued a joint statement saying some EU nations are ready &#8220;to assist with the reception of certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow, wind on mountain hamper search for NM police helicopter that crashed with 3 aboard</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/snow-wind-on-mountain-hamper-search-for-nm-police-helicopter-that-crashed-with-3-aboard-77631/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/snow-wind-on-mountain-hamper-search-for-nm-police-helicopter-that-crashed-with-3-aboard-77631/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Massey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA FE, N.M. — Rescuers on foot battled snow and strong wind Wednesday to reach a New Mexico state police helicopter carrying three people after its pilot reported it hit the side of a mountain, officials said.

The pilot, Sgt. Andrew Tingwall of Santa Fe, radioed that he hit the mountain in his last radio transmission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigators seek clues to luxury hotel blast in Pakistan whose victims include aid workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/investigators-seek-clues-to-luxury-hotel-blast-in-pakistan-whose-victims-include-aid-workers-77099/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/investigators-seek-clues-to-luxury-hotel-blast-in-pakistan-whose-victims-include-aid-workers-77099/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riaz Khan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday for clues after a bold suicide bombing that killed 11 people, including aid workers, in what the U.N. condemned as a &#8220;heinous terrorist attack.&#8221;

At least three suicide attackers shot their way past guards and set off the explosion late Tuesday outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APNewsBreak: $30 million for construction project in Iraq symbolizes inefficient spending</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/apnewsbreak-30-million-for-construction-project-in-iraq-symbolizes-inefficient-spending-74723/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/apnewsbreak-30-million-for-construction-project-in-iraq-symbolizes-inefficient-spending-74723/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Lardner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — This is one Christmas gift U.S. taxpayers don&#8217;t need.

Construction of a $30 million dining facility at a U.S. base in Iraq is scheduled to be completed Dec. 25. But the decision to build it was based on bad planning and botched paperwork. The project is too far along to stop, making the mess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support for Cuban agreement at OAS wins Obama diplomatic clout at little cost, experts say</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/support-for-cuban-agreement-at-oas-wins-obama-diplomatic-clout-at-little-cost-experts-say-73972/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — U.S. support for ending Cuba&#8217;s nearly 50-year-old suspension from the Organization of American States has given the Obama administration greater clout in the region at little cost, according to diplomats and experts.

But President Barack Obama&#8217;s efforts to engage Havana and promote reform on the communist island did not appear greatly advanced by the [...]]]></description>
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