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         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:18:07 EST</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[China vows not to compromise with Tibetan exiles]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:35 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[China launched a new verbal attack on the Dalai Lama's drive for Tibetan autonomy on Friday, vowing not to compromise with leaders of the Tibetan exile community meeting to debate the future of their movement.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:17 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[BBC governors back response to obscene broadcast]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:47 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The BBC's governing body ruled Friday that the broadcaster acted appropriately when it suspended its star disc jockey and accepted the resignation of a fellow performer for leaving lewd messages on an actor's phone about his granddaughter.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sadr followers protest Iraqi-U.S. pact in huge rally]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:47 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD - Tens of thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr packed a central Baghdad square Friday, where they protested a U.S.-Iraq security agreement and likened Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to fallen dictator Saddam Hussein.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Philippine leader's plane makes emergency landing]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:32 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's plane made an emergency landing in Japan on Friday after her husband fell ill on board, airport police said.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:02 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After the wedding in a Scottish castle, the mansion on a green English estate and the drinks in their own pub, Madonna and Guy Ritchie's eight-year marriage ended Friday in a dreary London courtroom.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oil falls to 3-year low below $49 in Asia]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:08 EST</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Germany drops attempt to ban Scientology]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:47 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity, security officials said Friday.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[US mil: American soldier dies in Iraq]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:57 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat-related causes in Iraq.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tibetan exiles debate the future of the movement]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:52 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Out of the hundreds of Tibetan leaders who have flocked here for a pivotal summit on Tibet's future, few understand the hardships there better than a recently arrived barley farmer.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rocket hits Israeli city, Gaza still sealed]]></title>
    <link>http://www.bradenton.com/world/story/1048102.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:27 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Palestinians fired a rocket at an Israeli city near the Gaza Strip on Friday but caused no casualties, police said, as the Israeli military continued its closure of all crossings into the coastal territory because of ongoing rocket fire.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rangers return to protect Congo mountain gorillas]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:12 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The director of Congo's Virunga Park says rangers who fled fighting between rebels and soldiers are returning to protect its endangered mountain gorillas.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce]]></title>
    <link>http://www.bradenton.com/world/story/1046233.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:57 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The show-business marriage that began in a Scottish castle came to an end in a drab London courtroom Friday as Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Chinese journalist sentenced to 3 years]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:37 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A Chinese writer and journalist who was arrested after protesting against a power plant in southwest China was sentenced Friday to three years in prison on charges of subverting state power, his lawyer said.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Iraqi troops donate money to US wildfire victims]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:17 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The U.S. military says a group of Iraqi soldiers has donated $500 to help California wildfire victims.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson's assistant: Sheik gave him gifts]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:02 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson's former personal assistant told a British court Friday that a Bahraini sheik who is now suing the singer was a generous friend, eager to give Jackson money and other gifts.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy to protest US pact]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:42 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Thousands of followers of a radical Shiite cleric protested a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal Friday, burning an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same square where Iraqis beat a toppled Saddam Hussein statue five years ago.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[White S. African sentenced for racist killings]]></title>
    <link>http://www.bradenton.com/world/story/1048716.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:57 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A white teenager has received four life sentences for a shooting spree that killed four blacks and wounded eight, re-igniting racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bulgarian archaeologists unearth ancient chariot]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:37 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[US: NATO unlikely to quickly renew Russia contacts]]></title>
    <link>http://www.bradenton.com/world/story/1048914.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:12 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[NATO is unlikely to follow the European Union in quickly re-establishing contacts with Russia that were suspended after the war in Georgia, senior U.S. officials said Friday.]]></description>
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