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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Newcastle Herald]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['I was kicking and screaming': cameras capture brave Brittney's abduction ordeal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It’s every parent’s worst nightmare and security cameras in a US department store have captured it on tape: the moment a stranger tried to abduct a seven-year-old girl from under her mother’s nose.
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mills denies giving access to voicemails]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Heather Mills, the former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, never authorised former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, or anybody else, to listen to her voicemails, she has told Britain’s inquiry into press standards.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maldives tense as ex-leader faces arrest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[MALE, the Maldives: A criminal court in the Maldives has issued an arrest warrant for the former president Mohamed Nasheed, who stepped down from power this week but then insisted he had been ousted in a coup.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$20m aid plan for Afghanistan's poorest people]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AUSAID is considering a new strategy for Afghan assistance - spending more than $20 million over the next four years on mainly agricultural projects to assist poor residents in drought-stricken areas and to help strengthen local Afghan non-government organisations, a leaked concept paper shows.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tractors may have replaced horses, but country is still decades behind]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[RANGOON: Last September Burma's economic planners came up with an ingenious scheme to lower the value of the national currency, the kyat, which had pushed up to a level hurting exports, such as beans and rice, and discouraging investment in garments and textiles.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't rush to Burma, firms told]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Burma's hardliners and reformers are locked in an intensifying power struggle.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Derailed train ploughs into homes, cars]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A subway train derailed near a children's playground in Santiago, Chile, last night, smashing parked vehicles and crashing into an apartment building.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:32:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China power play: anti-corruption officials vanish]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mysterious disappearance of two high officials has opened a rare glimpse into the winner-take-all world of elite Chinese politics.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Growing push to topple Assad despite Russian optimism]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[DAMASCUS: The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, is ''completely committed'' to stopping fighting in the country, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said after discussions on the mounting violence.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britain, US concern over Somali militants]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New wave of battle-hardened 'lone wolf' terrorists expected to carry out attacks.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shock Santorum wins add spice to Republican race]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Republican hopeful's clean sweep magnifies doubts over front-runner Mitt Romney's credentials.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russians to push Assad for reform]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT: The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Damascus yesterday to hold discussions with Syria's beleaguered President, Bashar al-Assad.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hearing resumes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea's highest court will resume a hearing today to finally resolve the country's political dispute. The Deputy Chief Justice, Gibbs Salika, yesterday adjourned hearings of the Supreme Court to decide in which order to handle six cases stemming from the bench's December ruling that Sir Michael Somare is the rightful prime minister.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russia to urge political settlement in Syria]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to arrive in Damascus overnight to urge Syrian President Bashar al-Assad towards a political settlement.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clint's Super Bowl ad doesn't make everyone's day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forget making his day, Clint Eastwood has been accused of  making Obama's year.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:41:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The day gang rivalry cost little Thusha her childhood]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One moment, five-year-old Thusha Kamaleswaran was "happily playing" in a south London shop.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:35:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Contador cops two-year ban, loses 2010 Tour title]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alberto Contador will become only the second Tour de France winner to be stripped of his victory for drug use in the world's biggest bike race after the Court of Arbitration for Sport slapped a two-year suspension on the Spaniard for doping in the 2010 race that he won.
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shooting follows Facebook feud]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[COUNTERTERRORISM police are investigating the Sydney shooting of a supporter of the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, who was shot outside his home following a political argument on Facebook.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mass murder charges]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alleged Indonesian terrorist Umar Patek will face six charges in relation to the 2002 Bali bombings.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indonesian pilots flying a little too high for comfort]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Travellers in Indonesia struggling withrough landings now have a new cause for concern.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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