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		<title>Suspected Poison Attempt on Eve of Politkovskaya Murder Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The murder trial of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, which began behind closed doors in Moscow earlier this week, is already marred by intrigue.  The lawyer representing Politkovskaya’s family, Karinna Moskalenko, fell suddenly ill after a suspicious liquid-metal substance was discovered in her car on Monday. French detectives have confirmed finding a large amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished Country: UN Peacekeeping Mission Renewed in Storm-Ravaged Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, one day before its current mandate expired, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti was extended for another year, by unanimous vote of the UN Security Council.

The UN “Stabilization Mission,” also known as MINUSTAH, was deployed in June 2004 to restore order following the bloody ouster of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.  Its 7,000 troops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence Targets Iraq&#8217;s Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Iraqi Christians are lining up at checkpoints as thousands flee their neighborhoods for safety, following a series of attacks targeted at Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. 
On Sunday, Farques Batool, a Christian who owned a music store, was gunned down and killed in his shop. His teenage nephew was also wounded. A pharmacist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Blessings: An Irish Answer to a Global Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy Kennedy

Ireland surprised fellow EU member states last week by announcing that it would guarantee all bank deposits and inter-bank loans for the six domestic Irish banks, in order to regain confidence in the Irish banking system. The potential risk for the Irish taxpayer is €400 billion ($575 billion). Or to put it another way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Photo Credit: Cameron Hickey



Senator Barack Obama may have won last night's President debate in the U.S., but in Brazil, another Barack Obama just lost the election.  That's Claudio Henrique-Barack Obama, a candidate for municipal council in the city of Belford Roxo, in the state of Rio di Janerio. Claudio Henrique "Barack Obama" dos Anjos was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutdown of Moroccan Sheikh Sanctioning Marriage at Age Nine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month a religious leader in Morocco, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Maghraoui, received a question on his website about whether a woman can get married before reaching puberty.  He responded by issuing a fatwa, or religious ruling, saying it was lawful for a Muslim man to marry girls as young as nine years old.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sand Castle: No Smoking</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-sand-castle/no-smoking/3446/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ras Al Khaimah has become the latest emirate in the United Arab Emirates to ban smoking in public places.

The regulation, which went into effect on Sunday, applies to hotels, restaurants, cafes, shopping malls, sports halls, men and women's salons and other enclosed public places. Designated smoking rooms will be set aside in hotels and shopping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shah Rukh Khan Boulevard</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/shah-rukh-khan-boulevard/3442/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is the latest celebrity to enter the United Arab Emirates’ booming real-estate market.

On Sunday, he launched Shah Rukh Khan Boulevard, a $2 million beachfront residential development on the man-made Dana Island off the coast of Ras Al Khaimah, one of the seven emirates. The little-known emirate aims to emulate Dubai, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedazzled Abayas</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/bedazzled-abayas/3432/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rawan Jabaji






Jabaji and her mother in abayas, in Saudi Arabia.



The clothing police are cracking down on streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal and sexy leopard skin prints popping up on the runway—or rather, in this case, in Saudi Arabia's marketplaces.

Women in Saudi Arabia are required to wear abayas, or shapeless robes, in public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made in China: The Milk Scandal and the Law</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/made-in-china-the-milk-scandal-and-the-law/3360/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/made-in-china-the-milk-scandal-and-the-law/3360/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 has not been kind to China: deadly winter storms in February, riots in Tibet in March, protests of the Olympic torch relay in April, and a massive earthquake in Sichuan province in May. Within weeks of its triumphant hosting of the Summer Olympic Games, China is again mired in scandal. This time, it’s news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dying Fields: Car Companies Veering off the Road in India</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-dying-fields/car-companies-veering-off-the-road-in-india/3341/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tensions between laborers and corporate India exploded on Monday when an angry mob of recently fired workers attacked the executives of Italian car-parts manufacturer Graziano Transmissioni.  Chief executive Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, was fatally injured by blows to the head, and two other senior executives sustained serious head wounds.   Police have arrested 63 people for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Jazeera&#8217;s &#8220;Witness&#8221; to Air in the U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/al-jazeeras-witness-to-air-in-the-u-s/3300/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two years of struggling to get its news programming to American living rooms, Al Jazeera English’s program Witness will now be available to 30 million households in the U.S. via Link TV.

Created in 1996, the original Arabic-language Al Jazeera garnered global attention following the 9/11 attacks for broadcasting Osama bin Laden’s video taped messages, [...]]]></description>
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