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				<title>Agreement on 2020 emissions target eludes G8 ministers</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/agreement_on_2020_emissions_targ/</link>
				<description>Under pressure to boost talks on a new global warming pact, Group of Eight environment ministers on Monday endorsed slashing greenhouse gas emissions in half by mid-century, but failed to agree on much more contentious near-term targets.

The three-day</description>
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				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2008-05-27 08:18:40</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
					<link>http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/298515420/article.cgi</link>
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				<title>Putin announces cabinet line-up</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_announces_cabinet_line-up/</link>
				<description>Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is proposing the names of ministers in his new government, which will work with President Dmitry Medvedev.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will be retaining his post and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also keeps his</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-05-12 08:16:20</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
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				<title>Pakistan ministers offer to quit</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/pakistan_ministers_offer_to_quit/</link>
				<description>Ministers belonging to one of the main parties in Pakistan have handed in their resignations, just three months after landmark general elections.

Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif decided to pull his PML-N out of the government because of differences over the reinsta</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2008-05-13 08:20:35</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/7397580.stm</link>
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				<title>EU threat to US at climate talks</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/eu_threat_to_us_at_climate_talks/</link>
				<description>EU ministers are threatening to boycott a US-led climate summit next month over the Bush administration's opposition to firm cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The row comes during the penultimate day of UN climate talks in Bali.

Europe wants develop</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-12-13 08:20:17</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7141660.stm</link>
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				<title>Koreas begin key security forum</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/koreas_begin_key_security_forum/</link>
				<description>The defence ministers of North and South Korea have begun talks in Pyongyang aimed at reducing tension along the disputed border.

They are also expected to discuss a joint fishing area in the Yellow Sea to end gun battles over fishing rights.

This i</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-11-27 08:22:12</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/7114329.stm</link>
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				<title>Eurozone heads target yuan reform</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/eurozone_heads_target_yuan_refor/</link>
				<description>Eurozone ministers have called for China to reform its currency, saying it is too low in value.

The ministers were gathering in Luxembourg ahead of a key meeting of the G7 nations later in October.

While the US has long been a critic of China's curr</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-10-09 08:29:50</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7035009.stm</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Polish PM sacks coalition partners</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/polish_pm_sacks_coalition_partne/</link>
				<description>Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski sacked ministers from two junior coalition parties on Monday and decided to rule in a minority government ahead of expected early elections in the former communist EU member. Holding parliamentary elections two y</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-08-13 08:11:20</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/13/poland.coalition.reut/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Cabinet setback as Iraqi MPs quit</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/cabinet_setback_as_iraqi_mps_qui/</link>
				<description>Five Iraqi MPs have announced a boycott of cabinet meetings, deepening the political crisis and leaving the unity government without any Sunni members.

The ministers, who are loyal to former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, blamed what they said was the Shi</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-07 01:01:35</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/6934031.stm</link>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Polish coalition thrown in doubt</title>
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				<description>The future of Poland's governing coalition is in doubt after a junior member, the Self Defence party, pulled its ministers out of the cabinet.

The move was announced by party leader Andrzej Lepper, who was sacked in July by PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski after</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-08-05 16:48:35</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/6932158.stm</link>
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				<title>Ministers had early flood warning</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/ministers_had_early_flood_warnin/</link>
				<description>Ministers were warned months ago that the country faced heavy flooding this summer but too little was done to protect vulnerable towns and villages, The Observer can reveal.

As communities mopped up after the heavy flash flooding across the country and</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-07-23 14:40:03</pubDate>
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					<name>Guardian Unlimited</name>
					<link>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2132232,00.html</link>
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				<title>Iraq Sunnis to boycott cabinet</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/iraq_sunnis_to_boycott_cabinet/</link>
				<description>Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc has said it will boycott government meetings because of legal steps being taken against one of its ministers.

The Iraqi Accord Front (IAF) has six ministers, and its move is seen as a blow to the Shia-led cabinet as it tries</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-29 16:31:14</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/6255284.stm</link>
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				<title>Bush's European disaster</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/bushs_european_disaster/</link>
				<description>I returned from Europe a week before President Bush departed for the G8 summit in Germany. In Rome and Paris I met with Cabinet ministers who uniformly said the chief issue in transatlantic relations is somehow making it through the last 18 months of the</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-14 09:13:44</pubDate>
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					<name>Salon</name>
					<link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/14/bush_foreign_policy/</link>
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				<title>Singapore PM to donate pay raise</title>
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				<description>Singapore's prime minister said on Wednesday he would donate his S$600,000 ($395,800) pay rise to charity for each of the next five years as he defended a 60 percent jump in ministers' million-dollar salaries.

Lee Hsien Loong, who is set to earn about</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-04-11 11:30:36</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/11/singapore.charity.reut/index.html</link>
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				<title>Army rescues half of Irish cabinet from lift</title>
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				<description>Six senior Irish government ministers were forced to call in the army after spending a sweaty half hour trapped in a tiny lift.

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern, who spent 30 minutes cooped up with cabinet colleagues, including Finance Minister Brian Cowe</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-04-05 08:02:25</pubDate>
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					<name>Yahoo News</name>
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				<title>Nepal swears Maoists into cabinet</title>
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				<description>Maoist ex-rebels have been sworn in as ministers in Nepal's interim government after a deal on the make-up of the new cabinet tasked with building peace.

Parties in the ruling alliance reached a deal after a day of haggling over senior posts.

Five M</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-04-01 11:09:22</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
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				<title>US ready for non-Hamas contacts</title>
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				<description>The US says it has decided that it will have contact with some of the new ministers in the Palestinian unity government, sworn in on Saturday.

A US consular official in Jerusalem said the US would maintain contact with ministers it feels it can work wi</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-03-18 12:37:54</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
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				<title>Unemployed 'must learn English'</title>
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				<description>Unemployed people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or face losing benefits, the government has announced. Up to 40,000 jobless people say their poor English is a barrier to finding employment, ministers say - an</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-02-12 10:51:20</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
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