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	<title>Wide Angle &#187; elections</title>
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		<title>Pakistan at the Polls: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the half a century since the country’s founding, changes in Pakistan’s leadership have been marked by assassinations, plane crashes, military coups -- and the occasional democratic election. But even these are sometimes marred by vote rigging, bribery and coercion. This is especially true in poor rural areas -- home to 70 percent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Iran Test Fires Missiles, Honduran Military Shuts Down Media Outlets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Honduran military shuts down local radio and television stations loyal to deposed President Manuel Zelaya, who was overthrown in a military coup on June 28 and is now living in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.

Iran test fires three missiles with range sufficient to strike Israel, parts of Europe, and American bases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Europe&#8217;s Last Communists Lose Election, Bomb Kills Two in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bomb kills two policemen on the Spanish island of Majorca in what authorities believe is the second attack by the Basque separatist group ETA in the past two days.

Nigerian forces storm the headquarters of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram killing 100 people, including the group's deputy leader.

The last ruling Communist Party in Europe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Ireland Accepts Guantanamo Detainees, U.S. Troops Could Return Home Early</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A car bomb outside a police barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos wounds 60 people. Officials say the attack was likely carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA.

Ireland agrees to accept two Guantanamo Bay detainees in order to help U.S. President Barack Obama in his effort to close the detention center by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Women Boycott Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan women are calling for a week-long sex boycott to protest a rift in the nation's coalition government -- and they've got the Prime Minister's wife on board. Ida Odinga, wife of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, said that she'd support the campaign "100 percent."

President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga have led a unity government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Ethnic Violence in Karachi, Britian Ends Combat Operations in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-nine people are killed and dozens more injured in a day of ethnic clashes in Karachi, Pakistan.

British troops withdraw from Basra, officially bringing an end to six years of combat operations in Iraq.

Indians in nine states and two territories head to the polls for the third round of voting in the country's month-long general elections.

Four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zumaphobes and Zumamaniacs Head to the Polls in South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apartheid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africans go to the polls on Wednesday to vote in the fourth national elections since apartheid ended in 1994. WIDE ANGLE web producer Lauren Feeney spoke with Azad Essa, political blogger for the South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian, about the significance of the upcoming elections.

WIDE ANGLE: The ANC, or African National Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzzwords: Dawa Party</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/buzzwords-dawa-party/4185/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erin Chapman

Results from the recent provincial elections in Iraq saw Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawa Party gain power in many of the country’s provinces. According to preliminary returns, Dawa is now the most powerful Shiite party in Iraq. No small potatoes.

The word dawa means “a call to Islam.” If one of your infidel-types converts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Women Campaign for Change</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/iraqi-women-campaign-for-change/4164/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Iraqi elections this Saturday, thousands of women will be asking their fellow citizens to vote for change. Of an estimated 14,400 candidates for provincial offices, nearly 4,000 are women. They're vying for an opportunity to participate in a political process that has been dominated by men and clouded by corruption, and they're risking their lives to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda Elects World&#8217;s First Majority-Female Parliament</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of bastions of women’s rights, Eastern  Africa does not immediately spring to mind. But this month Rwanda became the first country in the world to have a majority-female parliament.  
Today 56 percent of the Rwandan parliament comprises of women, including one-third of all cabinet positions and the chief of the Supreme [...]]]></description>
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