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				<title>Putin Is Said to Compare U.S. Policies to Third Reich</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_is_said_to_compare_us_poli/</link>
				<description>President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The comments were the latest in a series of sh</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-05-09 23:52:58</pubDate>
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					<name>New York Times</name>
					<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/world/europe/10russia.html?ex=1336449600&amp;en=5f8b491306054c5d&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [14]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Friendly greeting for Pelosi in Syria / She takes a tour in Damascus -- will meet officials today</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/friendly_greeting_for_pelosi_in_/</link>
				<description>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Syria on Tuesday for a visit that is seen as part of an attempt to sway Bush administration policy on Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.

The San Francisco Democrat is the most senior American politician to visit</description>
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				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-04-04 09:49:18</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
													<credibility>90</credibility>
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				<title>Views on U.S. Drop Sharply In Worldwide Opinion Poll</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/views_on_us_drop_sharply_in_worl/</link>
				<description>Global opinion of U.S. foreign policy has sharply deteriorated in the past two years, according to a BBC poll released on the eve of President Bush's annual State of the Union address.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-01-24 08:22:55</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012201300_pf.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Arab attitudes toward U.S. grow more negative: poll</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/arab_attitudes_toward_us_grow_mo/</link>
				<description>A new survey shows Arab attitudes toward American people, products and culture grew increasingly negative last year, a finding that underscores the need for a change in U.S. Mideast policy, a leading expert on the region said on Thursday.</description>
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				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2006-12-19 08:13:52</pubDate>
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					<name>Reuters</name>
					<link>http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&amp;storyid=2006-12-14T195542Z_01_N14347876_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-POLL.xml&amp;src=rss</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Insightful [7]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>EU looks to cut farming subsidies</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/eu_looks_to_cut_farming_subsidie/</link>
				<description>The EU is renewing efforts to reform its Common Agricultural Policy, the rural payments system that costs more than 40bn euros (�32bn) a year.

It is due to announce proposals aimed at making farming more efficient and environmentally friendly.

The</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2008-05-20 08:19:04</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7409739.stm</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Dutch to ban psychedelic mushrooms</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/dutch_to_ban_psychedelic_mushroo/</link>
				<description>The Dutch government said Friday that it will ban the sale of hallucinatory mushrooms, rolling back one element of the country's permissive drug policy after a series of high-profile negative incidents.

The decision will go into effect within several m</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-10-12 08:15:31</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/12/netherlands.mushrooms.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>China cleans up one-child slogans</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/china_cleans_up_one-child_slogan/</link>
				<description>China has decided to tone down some of the slogans used to promote its one-child policy, in a bid to make them sound less threatening.

Some posters used in rural areas will be banned, such as one which read &quot;One more baby means one more tomb.&quot;

A lis</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-05 09:19:43</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/6931819.stm</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Torture 'still common in Turkey'</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/torture_still_common_in_turkey/</link>
				<description>Widespread use of torture is continuing in Turkey despite the government's &quot;zero tolerance&quot; policy, says human rights group Amnesty International.

A new report acknowledged improvements in the Turkish criminal justice system in recent years.

But Amn</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-07-05 08:21:13</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
					<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/6272294.stm</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Vietnam votes for Assembly members</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/vietnam_votes_for_assembly_membe/</link>
				<description>Voters went to the polls Sunday to elect new members to Vietnam's National Assembly in a Communist Party-controlled election that is unlikely to have a major impact on the direction of government policy.

Eighty-three percent of the candidates are party</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-05-20 01:37:09</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/19/vietnam.polls.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Fewer criminals to be sent to prison to ease overcrowding</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/fewer_criminals_to_be_sent_to_pr/</link>
				<description>Fewer people look set to be sent to prison in an overhaul criminal justice policy, due to be unveiled by the government today.

The policy review will recommend tougher community sentences and the removal of non-cash assets and driving licences as an al</description>
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				<category>world</category>
				<pubDate>2007-03-27 08:18:13</pubDate>
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					<name>Guardian Unlimited</name>
					<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/prisons/story/0,,2043906,00.html</link>
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								<credibility>92</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [4]</rating>
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				<title>U.S. may have weeks, not months, to avert civil war, adviser warns</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/world/us_may_have_weeks_not_months_to_/</link>
				<description>With the violence in Iraq flaring dangerously, a national consensus is growing, even among senior Republicans, that the United States must consider a major change in strategy in the coming months.</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-10-18 23:14:26</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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