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			<title><![CDATA[Toyota surprises with profit, boosts forecast]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[TOKYO (AP) &mdash; Toyota Motor Corp. announced Thursday a surprise profit last quarter and trimmed its projected red ink for the year, underlining the gradual recovery under way for Japan's giant automakers.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Afghan president's brother denies getting CIA pay]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[KABUL (AP) &mdash; Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, on Wednesday denied reports that he has received regular payments from the CIA for much of the past eight years.<br>
The New York Times, citing current and former American officials, reported Tuesday the CIA pays Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the CIA's direction in and around Kandahar.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kuwait: Headscarf not a must for female lawmakers]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[KUWAIT CITY (AP) &mdash; Kuwait's highest court ruled Wednesday that women lawmakers are not obliged by law to wear the headscarf, a blow to Muslim fundamentalists who want to fully impose Islamic Sharia law in this small oil-rich state.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Halloween etiquette: Trick-or-treat but be polite]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[LONDON (AP) &mdash; Trick-or-treaters beware: Manners count &mdash; even on Halloween.<br>
Britain's authority on etiquette, Debrett's, issued its first guidance Wednesday on how to behave during the uber-American holiday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[French vessel exchanges fire with Somali pirates]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) &mdash; Somali pirates fired on a French fishing vessel and guards on board returned fire, prompting a military helicopter and warship to rush to the scene, authorities said Wednesday. Seven Somali pirates were arrested.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Swiss anger at Italian bank probes]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BERN, Switzerland (AP) &mdash; Swiss officials say Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has summoned Italy's ambassador to explain why Italian authorities carried out dozens of inspections of Swiss banks.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Russian space chief proposes nuclear spaceship]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW (AP) &mdash; Russia's space agency is planning to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine, its chief said Wednesday.<br>
Anatoly Perminov told a government meeting Wednesday that the preliminary design could be ready by 2012. He said it will then take nine more years and 17 billion rubles ($600 million, 400 million euros) to build the ship.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[At least 10 killed as China bus falls off hillside]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP) &mdash; At least 10 people died Wednesday when a bus carrying mourners from a funeral plunged off a hillside in eastern China, state media reported.<br>
The official Xinhua News Agency said the bus swerved off a road near the mountainous city of Jiangshan in Zhejiang province, falling more than 300 feet (100 meters) and rolling several times before coming to a stop in a ravine.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Saudi female journalist gets 60 lashes]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) &mdash; A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes who had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two passenger trains collide in Egypt, killing 25]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[CAIRO (AP) &mdash; A passenger train collided with the back of a second one just outside of Cairo on Saturday, destroying several passenger cars and killing at least 25 people, a police official said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NATO chief calls for perseverance in Afghanistan]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) &mdash; Afghanistan is the most complex challenge that NATO has ever undertaken, but the alliance must remain engaged there to prevent the country from turning back into an al-Qaida training ground, the organization's top official said Thursday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[100,000 women say they're offended by Berlusconi]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ROME (AP) &mdash; More than 100,000 women have signed a petition saying they are offended by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi &mdash; an initiative launched by a newspaper after the premier made a sexist remark to an opposition politician.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anti-fascist protesters breach security at BBC]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[LONDON (AP) &mdash; Anti-fascist protesters broke into the BBC's west London headquarters on Thursday ahead of a far-right party leader's appearance on a leading political debate show.<br>
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the BBC Television Center in an increasingly rowdy rally against British National Party chief Nick Griffin, who is due to appear on the broadcaster's "Question Time" program. At one point about 25 people breached a police cordon and ran into the center's lobby.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taliban dig in as Pakistani army slowly advances]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) &mdash; Residents fleeing a 6-day-old Pakistani army offensive in a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border reported Thursday that the insurgents are digging in for a fight and travel the roads freely.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sarkozy son will not seek high-profile post]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[PARIS (AP) &mdash; Amid fierce accusations of favoritism, President Nicolas Sarkozy's son renounced his candidacy Thursday for the leadership of the organization that runs France's most important business district on the western edge of the capital.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police: 14 al-Qaida suspects arrested in Iraq]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD (AP) &mdash; Iraqi security forces arrested 14 suspected al-Qaida members in western and northern Iraq, including three who were formerly detained by U.S. troops in the country, local police officials said Thursday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Karadzic threatens to boycott start of his trial]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) &mdash; Radovan Karadzic has threatened to boycott his genocide trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, saying in a letter released Thursday he needs more time to prepare.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ethiopia seeks urgent food aid for 6 million]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) &mdash; 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.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Truck bomb destroys key bridge in western Iraq]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD (AP) &mdash; A suicide bomber driving a dynamite-laden truck destroyed a key bridge Saturday on a highway used by the departing U.S. military, while separate attacks killed nine Iraqis, most of them security force members, police said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rio gangs shoot down police chopper, 2 cops dead]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) &mdash; A police helicopter flying over an intense shootout between rival drug gangs in a Rio slum was hit by gunfire Saturday and crashed in a fiery explosion on a football field.]]></description>
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