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				<title>Bush Bypasses Senate to Name Ambassador</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_bypasses_senate_to_name_amb/</link>
				<description>President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination.

The appointment, made while lawmakers were out of town o</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-04-04 23:12:43</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
					<link>http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Apr04/0,4670,BushOutflankingCongress,00.html</link>
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								<credibility>82</credibility>
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				<title>China names its U.S. ambassador as foreign minister</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/china_names_its_us_ambassador_as/</link>
				<description>China's government abruptly replaced its foreign minister Friday, appointing former ambassador to the United States Yang Jiechi to the post in an early reshuffling of senior positions ahead of key political meetings.

The resignation of Li Zhaoxing as f</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-04-27 08:16:39</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/26/china.foreign.minister.ap/index.html</link>
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				<title>Bush Sidesteps Congress, Appoints Controversial Fundraiser</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_sidesteps_congress_appoints/</link>
				<description>President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination.

Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-04-05 12:02:38</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
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								<credibility>82</credibility>
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					<rating>Important [3]</rating>
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				<title>John Kerry Grills Belgium Ambassador Nominee Over Swift Boat Donation</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/john_kerry_grills_belgium_ambass/</link>
				<description>A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned bitterly divisive Tuesday after he was criticized for supporting a controversial conservative group.

Sen. John Ke</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-02-28 10:33:44</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [5]</rating>
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				<title>Recovery boosted as Castro eats again: Venezuela</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/recovery_boosted_as_castro_eats_/</link>
				<description>Cuban President Fidel Castro's health is improving because he is now eating, the ambassador to Cuba from ally Venezuela said on Thursday, without making clear when Castro had been unable to eat.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-02-08 08:32:00</pubDate>
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					<name>Yahoo News</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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				<title>Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies</title>
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				<description>Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a onetime Democrat who switched to the Republican Party and warmly embraced Reagan era conservatism, has died. She was 80.</description>
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				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2006-12-08 23:25:05</pubDate>
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					<name>ABC News</name>
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