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		<title>Cuba will remain socialist: Fidel Castro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana, Oct 6 (IANS) Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has said his country will remain socialist and rejected calls by Western experts to speed up the reform process in the wake of the global financial crisis, the EFE news agency reported Monday. In a commentary published Sunday, the leftist leader also criticised capitalist countries, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nearly 800 confirmed dead in Haiti storms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince, Oct 5 (DPA) The number of deaths in Haiti in the wake of four major storms in August and September has more than doubled to at least 793, reports said.Some 300 people were still missing, Haitian civil defence director, Marie Alta Jean Baptiste was quoted as saying in media reports Saturday in Port-au-Prince.
In early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correa claims victory in Ecuador&#8217;s constitutional referendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quito, Sep 29 (DPA) A new constitution promoted by leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was approved by a large majority in a referendum Sunday, according to exit polls issued at the close of voting.Although no official results or turnout figures were immediately made public, a visibly moved Correa declared a &#8220;landslide&#8221; for the &#8220;yes&#8221; vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti&#8217;s storm toll rises to 426</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/haitis-storm-toll-rises-to-426_10098802.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince, Sep 23 (IANS) The toll in hurricanes and tropical storms that hit Haiti in the recent past has risen to 426, besides causing extensive damage to the economy, officials said, calling upon donor nations to live up to their promised aid, EFE reported Tuesday.Some 800,000 of Haiti&#8217;s 8.5 million people have been affected by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba refuses US aid after hurricanes (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has refused US donation and aid with strings attached in the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes but said it was ready to buy essential goods from American firms as reports of extensive damage to food crops came in from different parts of the island country. Official newspaper Granma said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba accuses US of &#8216;unscrupulous lying&#8217; over hurricane aid</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/cuba-accuses-us-of-unscrupulous-lying-over-hurricane-aid_10094953.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Havana, Sep 12 (DPA) Hurricane-hit Cuba has accused the United States of lying about its conditional offers to help the communist country as it struggles to recover and rebuild.&#8221;The United States government is behaving cynically. It tries to suggest that it is desperate to cooperate with Cuba, and that we refuse. They lie unscrupulously,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuela accuses US of sponsoring plan to kill Chavez</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/venezuela-accuses-us-of-sponsoring-plan-to-kill-chavez_10094909.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caracas, Sep 12 (DPA) The Venezuelan government Thursday accused the US of sponsoring a plan to assassinate President Hugo Chavez, hours after he ordered an investigation into a military conspiracy to overthrow him.Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said Caracas had no doubt of Washington&#8217;s involvement in the plot and would file formal complaints against the US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN seeks $108 mn for hurricane-battered Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/un-seeks-108-mn-for-hurricane-battered-haiti_10094545.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, Sep 11 (DPA) The UN has asked the international community to finance massive humanitarian efforts in Haiti, where 328 people have died and 800,000 became homeless from a series of natural disasters. The UN humanitarian office made an appeal for $108 million to cover essential relief demands in Haiti for six months.
The island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Jindal&#8217;s hurricane handling comes in for more praise</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/bobby-jindals-hurricane-handling-comes-in-for-more-praise_10094455.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, Sep 10 (IANS) Louisiana&#8217;s Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal, who has been praised for his handling of the situation after Hurricane Gustav hit the state last week, has come in for more commendation from South Asian journalists who covered the disaster.  &#8220;Jindal is very methodical and planned out - the exact guy you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Ike kills four in Cuba after devastating Haiti (Lead)</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/hurricane-ike-kills-four-in-cuba-after-devastating-haiti-lead_10093915.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana/Port-au-Prince, Sep 9 (IANS) After killing 64 people and leaving a trail of devastation in Haiti, Hurricane Ike battered Cuba Tuesday, forcing a state of emergency and leaving at least four dead in the northern Caribbean island nation, EFE news agency reported.At least four people were killed in accidents following the severe landfall caused by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti death toll from Hurricane Ike climbs to 64</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/haiti-death-toll-from-hurricane-ike-climbs-to-64_10093850.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince, Sep 9 (IANS) Additional flooding caused by Hurricane Ike has killed at least 64 people in Haiti, with 60 deaths reported from the city of Cabaret alone, near the capital Port-au-Prince, EFE news agency reported Tuesday, quoting an official.Lawmaker Valcine Pierre-Jerome, who represents Cabaret in parliament, said the fatalities in the city included 14 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US says no to Cuba&#8217;s request for embargo suspension</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/us-says-no-to-cubas-request-for-embargo-suspension_10093376.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabat (Morocco)/Washington, Sep 8 (DPA) The United States has rejected a request by the Cuban government that it lift its decades-old embargo for a limited time to allow relief goods and reconstruction materials into the hurricane-struck island.Hurricane Ike was headed for landfall on the communist island in the Caribbean Sunday evening, little more than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuela to send more aid to storm hit Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caracas, Sep 8 (Xinhua) Venezuela&#8217;s President Hugo Chavez has said that his country would send more humanitarian aid to Haiti devastated by hurricane Ike that killed at least 39 people.The country was hit by three other hurricanes Fay, Gustav and Hanna recently.
Chavez Sunday said a plane carrying food and water bottles has already left for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Ike weakens, 250,000 evacuated in Cuba (Lead, Changing Dateline)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana, Sep 8 (DPA) Hurricane Ike weakened as it churned toward eastern Cuba, dropping to wind speeds of 195 km an hour after sweeping destruction across Haiti, killing at least 39 people.The Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic were also hit by the storm.
Heavy rains Saturday and early Sunday were blamed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Ike claims 39 lives in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/hurricane-ike-claims-39-lives-in-haiti_10093346.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince, Sep 8 (DPA) Hurricane Ike, with wind speeds of 215 km an hour, was blamed for the deaths of 39 people in Haiti, the Haiti Press news agency reported.Heavy rains Saturday and early Sunday were blamed for the death of 39 people who drowned in the town of Cabaret, 35 km north of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Ike powers toward Cuba</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana, Sep 8 (IANS) The Cuban government has evacuated thousands of people from the country&#8217;s central and eastern provinces where a powerful storm is likely to hit, Spain&#8217;s EFE news agency reported Sunday.The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said that at 1500 GMT Sunday, Hurricane Ike was located 25 km southwest of Great Inagua Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caribbean swept by hurricane Ike, Florida on alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 7 (DPA) Residents of the Caribbean Turks and Caicos islands began surveying damage Sunday following the devastating impact of Hurricane Ike, as the &#8220;extremely dangerous&#8221; category 4 storm continued on its path toward the Bahamas and Florida Keys.At 8 a.m. (1300 GMT) Ike had winds of over 215 km per hour, just east [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guatemala court orders arrest of presidential security chief for espionage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guatemala City, Sep 7 (IANS) A Guatemala court has ordered the arrest of former head of presidential security for spying on the president&#8217;s office and home, evidence of which was discovered last Thursday, EFE news agency reported Sunday.Prosecutor  Rony Lopez  said that the court Saturday issued arrest warrants on Carlos Quintanilla and Gustavo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourists prepare to leave Caribbean islands as Hurricane Ike approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 7 (DPA) Tourists and residents of the Caribbean Islands of Turks and Caicos were making plans Saturday to evacuate as Hurricane Ike approached.The Miami-based US National Hurricane Centre warned that the &#8220;core of dangerous Hurricane Ike&#8221; was approaching the islands and said &#8220;preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion&#8221;.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weather Channel had the highest cume of any cable network during coverage of Hurricane Gustav</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA – September 4, 2008 &#8212; Across the three-day coverage of Hurricane Gustav last Saturday through Monday, The Weather Channel reached 65 million unduplicated viewers, achieving the highest cume of any cable TV network according to Nielsen research.* 
The new findings, just released on Wednesday, reveal that TWC had the #1 cume not only among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jindal absence robbed Republican party of colour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 5 (IANS) The absence of Bobby Jindal, the Indian-American governor of Louisiana, robbed the Republican convention of colour to present a true picture of diversity in a rapidly changing America.Jindal, 37, for long speculated as a possible running mate to Republican nominee John McCain, was to be the star attraction of the Sep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crude oil prices increase only slightly despite cessation of oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crude oil prices on the world market decreased slightly last night (September 3) due to appreciation of the US dollar currency and less fuel demands.
Despite the cessation of virtually all oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following torrential storms and winds from the nearby Hurricane Gustav, crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ike becomes major hurricane over Caribbean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miami, Sep 4 (DPA) Hurricane Ike has become a strong hurricane, as another storm pummelled parts of the Caribbean, and Louisiana residents began to return to their homes in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.Hurricane Ike, currently located about 980 km east-northeast of the Leeward Islands, gained strength quickly Wednesday and was upgraded to a major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Hannah gains as warnings are issued in areas under its trajectory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Hannah is headed directly to the Carolina’s. Hannah is now the fourth hurricane in just as a few weeks and has caused a major scare to weather experts who are monitoring it. Hannah popped up just as Hurricane Gustav broke and weakened further as it shot inland fagged out. Tropical Storm Hannah lost steam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPEC crude oil price plunges five-month low</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vienna, Sep 3 (DPA) The price for crude oil produced by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has plunged to its lowest level since early April, according to OPEC data released Wednesday.One barrel (159 litres) of OPEC-produced crude stood at $103.40 Tuesday, $6.62 less than $110.02 on the previous day.
Markets were affected by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama leads McCain 50 to 42 percent in new Gallup poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/obama-leads-mccain-50-to-42-percent-in-new-gallup-poll_10091950.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANI</dc:creator>
		
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 New York, Sept.3 (ANI): Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has acquired an eight point lead over Republican rival John McCain, and for the first time cracked the 50 percent milestone in the latest Gallup Poll.
This threshold is considered to be a safe number for victory.
According to Gallups Daily Tracking Poll, Obama leads McCain, 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain is ready to lead America: George Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/mccain-is-ready-to-lead-america-george-bush_10091944.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANI</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
 Washington, Sept.3 (ANI): U.S. President George W. Bush has told the Republican convention in St. Paul Minnesota, that John McCain is ready to lead this nation.
Describing McCain as a candidate who understands the dangers of a post-Sept. 11 world and a man who can stand up to attacks from the angry left, Bush was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical storm Hanna floods Haitian city, 19 dead</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/tropical-storm-hanna-floods-haitian-city-19-dead_10091934.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico City, Sep 3 (DPA) After being battered by Hurricane Gustav, the Caribbean is now being hit by tropical storm Hanna, which has left at least 19 dead in Haiti, according to local media.Hanna, which has been nearly stationary for the past few hours, dumped rain and blasted winds at Haiti, the Dominican Republic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush backs McCain amid storm over vice presidential choice (Second Lead)</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/bush-backs-mccain-amid-storm-over-vice-presidential-choice-second-lead_10091868.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 3 (IANS) US President George W. Bush has backed John McCain as the man &#8220;ready to lead&#8221; amid a brewing storm over his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate with some questioning his judgement.&#8221;We live in a dangerous world,&#8221; Bush said speaking via satellite from the White House as the Republicans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residents cope with Gustav aftermath; more storms approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 3 (DPA) US Gulf coast residents were reeling from the impact of Hurricane Gustav, the monster storm that had two million people fleeing their homes before winding down to a tropical depression.Tens of thousands of anxious evacuees were unable to return home Tuesday, and officials warned they would have to stay in shelters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain understands the lessons of 9/11: Bush (Lead)</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/mccain-understands-the-lessons-of-911-bush-lead_10091850.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 3 (DPA) US President George W. Bush has called Republican presidential hopeful John McCain the candidate who &#8220;understands the lessons&#8221; of the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001 in an address by satellite to the Republican Party&#8217;s nominating convention.Bush, whose low approval ratings have kept him from playing a larger role in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US pushing n-deal hard; not ready to jump ship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IANS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 3 (IANS) The US is not ready to &#8220;give up the ship&#8221; on the India-US nuclear deal, engaged as it is in hard diplomacy with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to get India an exemption for nuclear trade.  &#8220;We are going to continue to work within the group and work with individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain has learned lessons of 9/11: Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/mccain-has-learned-lessons-of-911-bush_10091833.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IANS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 3 (DPA) US President George W. Bush called Republican presidential hopeful John McCain the candidate who &#8220;understands the lessons&#8221; of the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001, according to excerpts released ahead of his address to the party convention Tuesday.Bush was set to speak later Tuesday by satellite to convention delegates gathered in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Storm Karina gains and begins heading inland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America is preparing for another storm after Gustav went inland as a weakened storm. Tropical Storm Karina which has already developed special winds is poised to grow into a terrifying hurricane. The National Hurricane Center is already evaluating the tropical storm Karina winds speed. The weather experts are looking into probabilities of how fast and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav relents, spares Louisiana the worst; 12 dead (Second lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 2 (DPA) Hurricane Gustav, the monster storm that sent two million Gulf coast residents fleeing and wrote political history in the US, spared Louisiana and its empty city of jazz the horrors they had been bracing for, although it took 12 lives.By early Tuesday, Gustav had whimpered back down to a tropical storm, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jindal at centre stage as Hurricane Gustav hits US Gulf coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) As Hurricane Gustav bore down on the US Gulf coast Monday, lashing New Orleans with strong winds and heavy rain, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was at the centre stage of operations that could make or mar his political future. And so far his handling of the situation has drawn praise. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s teen daughter&#8217;s pregnancy stirs campaign flurry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 2 (DPA) Until Friday, few had ever heard of Sarah Palin, the Republican governor of Alaska.But within 48 hours after Republican Senator John McCain named her his vice presidential running mate, the country&#8217;s intense media spotlight was at work trying to find out who she was.
First, there was the matter of an ongoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New hurricane looms as Gustav weakens in New Orleans (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 2 (DPA) As hurricane Gustav faded,  a sister storm called Hanna reached hurricane status late Monday and headed for southeast Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, with Florida and eastern Cuba possible long-range targets.Gustav hit the Louisiana coast earlier Monday, where it spent much of its strength and dropped to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans open subdued convention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Paul (Minnesota), Sep 2 (DPA) Hurricane Gustav battered New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Monday, but the storm&#8217;s reach extended nearly 2,000 km north to St Paul, Minnesota where the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential convention opened in a subdued atmosphere.US President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, mindful of the perception of federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav strikes Louisiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Aug 2 (DPA) Hurricane Gustav made landfall Monday near the town of Cocodrie in Louisiana state, the Miami-based US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said.Gustav was downgraded to a category two hurricane on the 1-to-5 Saffir-Simpson scale, with winds of 177 km per hour, and was expected to generate a storm surge of 2-3 metres.
Forecasters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican National Convention key agenda sidelined due to Hurricane Gustav</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hurricane Gustav has the Republicans radically rethinking their convention this week. 
The Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul area on Monday (September 1) is set to kick off with a major focus on hurricane Gustav. The convention will see Senator John McCain accept the Republicans nomination to have him president if they win the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav churns toward Louisiana, Gulf Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 1 (DPA) Hurricane Gustav bore down on the deserted city of New Orleans Monday as heavy winds and rain lashed the southern Louisiana coastline ahead of an expected landfall at midday.Winds gusting up to 188 km per hour were reported as the powerful storm sent sea levels rising and knocked out electricity in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav; another Katrina on the offering</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David M N James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tropical storm Gustav is poised to become a hurricane with magnitudes closer to those of killer hurricane Katrina.
Gustav which so far is closing in on American oil drilling hub has sent drilling in Gulf of Mexico to collapse as fears of it damaging effects has forced major companies operating from there to close down their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images &#8220;Gulf Coast Area Braces For Tropical Storm Gustav&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. PAUL, MN - AUGUST 31:  Rhett Davis of Baton Rougel, Louisiana arrives at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport to catch a flight chartered by the McCain campaign to help delegates from Louisiana in Minnesota for the Republican National Convention get home to help family members fleeing the path of Hurricane Gustav August 31, 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain curtails convention as Gustav threatens coastal US (Second Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) As Hurricane Gustav threatened to hit America&#8217;s Louisiana coast, Republican presidential candidate John McCain turned his party&#8217;s nominating convention Monday into a business like session shorn of political speeches or usual festivities.&#8221;This is a time when we have to do away with our party politics and we have to act as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost town New Orleans braces for Hurricane Gustav</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 1 (DPA) Nearly three years to the day of Hurricane Katrina&#8217;s destruction of New Orleans, the city and region were bracing for another disaster as Hurricane Gustav bore down Sunday across the Gulf of Mexico.Even before Gustav, considered the mother of all hurricanes, was to hit the US Gulf Coast later Monday, three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav turns Republican convention topsy-turvy (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Paul (Minnesota), Sep 1 (DPA) Hurricane Gustav has prompted last-minute changes in the Republican presidential nominating convention, despite the 2,000 km that separate the midwestern state from the US Gulf Coast.Mindful of avoiding political rhetoric and celebrations as the country watches a natural disaster unfold in New Orleans and the surrounding region, Republican delegates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav changes Republican Party&#8217;s convention plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 1 (DPA) Hurricane Gustav Sunday played havoc with Republican Party plans to nominate their presidential candidate as US President George W. Bush dropped a speech scheduled for Monday.As Gustav bore down on New Orleans with expected landfall in the early morning hours Monday, Senator John McCain, 72, said most Republican convention activities in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three dead in US in evacuation ahead of Hurricane Gustav</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Sep 1 (DPA) Three seriously ill hospital patients had died during the emergency evacuation ahead of the threatening Hurricane Gustav, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said.In remarks broadcast Sunday, Jindal said there were &#8220;three deaths of critical care patients who died during evacuation&#8221;.
The Gulf Coast region was bracing for Gustav&#8217;s arrival as a category [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans mayor orders mass evacuation ahead of Hurricane Gustav (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moscow, Aug 31 (RIA Novosti) The mayor of New Orleans has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the entire city as Hurricane Gustav approaches the US Gulf Coast. Ray Nagin said residents should leave the city in a staggered evacuation by Sunday noon. 
Speaking at City Hall, he called Gustav the &#8220;storm of the century,&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans eye advancing hurricane with convention set to start</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, Aug 31 (DPA) Republicans could be forced to alter the agenda for their party&#8217;s nominating convention Monday with Hurricane Gustav forecast to hit the US Gulf coast the same day.The Republican National Convention is set to kick off Monday in St. Paul, Minnesota - more than 1,900 km to the north of New Orleans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Extremely dangerous&#8217; Hurricane Gustav heads to US Gulf coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana/Washington, Aug 31 (DPA) Gustav strengthened into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane as it ripped through Cuba and was on course to crash into the US Gulf coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina.Maximum sustained winds increased to 240 km per hour Saturday, the Miami-based US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said, and warned that Gustav &#8220;is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening Gustav rips through Cuba (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana, Aug 30 (DPA) Hurricane Gustav continued its destructive path through the Caribbean Saturday, reaching Cuba as weather forecasters warned that the storm could strengthen yet further. The Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported that officials in the low-lying western provinces, where more than 60,000 people had been evacuated as the storm approached overnight, were moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba evacuates west coast as hurricane Gustav approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havana, Aug 30 (DPA) The Cuban government evacuated areas of the country&#8217;s west as hurricane Gustav approached, prompting authorities to elevate to the highest state of readiness.The hurricane strengthened into a &#8220;major&#8221; category three storm as it neared the coast, and there were fears it could develop into a category four storm with winds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federer flattens Brazilian Alves in power play</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, Aug 30 (DPA) Roger Federer stormed ahead in his title defence at the US Open with a second-round victory against an out-classed Brazilian Thiago Alves.The Swiss second seed, who is not at the top of a Grand Slam draw for the first time in more than four and a half years, efficiently demolished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical storm Gustav kills 60 in Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico City, Aug 29 (Xinhua) Tropical storm Gustav has killed 60 people and injured 22 others in Haiti, authorities in the Caribbean country said Friday. Seven people has been missing since the storm pounded the country Tuesday, civil protection director Alta Jean-Baptiste told a news conference, according to reports from Port-au-Prince. 
Flooding caused by heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 dead, 6,000 displaced by hurricane in Hispaniola</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) Aug 28 (DPA) At least 13 people were killed and more than 6,000 displaced as Hurricane Gustav hit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, authorities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic have said.Gustav made landfall on Haiti on Tuesday as a hurricane, but weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav looses strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David M N James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Gustav which weather experts expected to enter the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as a major storm by the weekend has lost its strength. Tropical cyclone Gustav lost steam early today as it moved through the Caribbean a day after sweeping and destroying much of Haiti environment as a hurricane. Gustav caused a killer landslide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclone Gustav becomes a hurricane and pounds Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David M N James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tropical cyclone Gustav has finally went through the cyclone threshold to reach the hurricane level as it made a landfall on Haiti a few minutes ago. The National Hurricane Centre in Miami has confirmed that Gustav is now a hurricane with immense destructive strengths and potential. 
Using a hunter aircraft, the National Hurricane Centre monitored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical cyclone Gustav rears an ugly head as weather expert&#8217;s start monitoring it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David M N James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new threat in the weather conditions has been observed by experts off the coast of America. Tropical Depression 7 formed in the central Caribbean Monday morning and became Tropical Storm Gustav with 60mph winds in the afternoon. 
The cyclone, according to the National Hurricane Centre will become a dangerous hurricane by Tuesday afternoon. National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is what a tree and the Eiffel Tower have in common</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANI</dc:creator>
		
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 Washington, Aug 15 (ANI): Can you think of any similarity between a tree and the Eiffel Tower? Well, a Duke University engineer can - both are optimised for flow.
In trees, the flow is of water from the ground throughout the trunk, branches and leaves, and into the air. The Eiffel Tower&#8217;&#8217;s flow carries stresses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age-old magic tricks can help understand why we see, think and act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANI</dc:creator>
		
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Washington, July 23 (ANI): The science behind age-old magic tricks can help in better understanding of how humans see, think, and act, say researchers at the University of British Columbia and Durham University in the U.K.
The study, which is published in the current online issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, reveals that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German investigators seek old men behind Nazi atrocity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Helge Toben
Dortmund (Germany), July 14 (DPA) Little Hubert Menanteau was just three months old when he was killed by callow Nazi troops in one of the worst German atrocities during the wartime occupation of France. German investigators are to look for evidence this week in the central French village of Maille in the hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landslide kills eight in Guatemala rubbish dump</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Guatemala City, June 21 (IANS) At least eight people, including two children, were killed in a mudslide at a garbage dump here, Spain&#8217;s EFE news agency reported. Authorities said that between 50 and 100 &#8220;guajeros&#8221; (scavengers) who sift through the garbage in search of sellable items might have been at the bottom of a ravine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US scientist gets tech award for intelligent drug delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jaideep Sarin
Helsinki (Finland), June 11 (IANS) The world&#8217;s biggest technology award, the euro 1.15 million 2008 Millennium Technology Prize, was Wednesday conferred on Robert Langer of the US for his innovative creation of biomaterials for controlled drug release. The award was conferred on Langer, touted as the father of the controller drug delivery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US scientist wins Finnish award for drug delivery systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Helsinki, June 11 (DPA) Bioscientist Robert Langer of the US Wednesday won the Finnish Millennium Technology Prize for his contributions to developing drug delivery systems. In all six researchers in four categories were nominated for the prize worth a total of 1 million euros ($1.5 million).
Langer collected 800,000 euros ($1.2 million), becoming the third winner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finnish technology prize celebrates &#8216;life-changing innovations&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jaideep Sarin
Helsinki (Finland), June 10 (IANS) The 1.15 million-euro Millennium Technology Prize aims at &#8220;recognising and inspiring&#8221; innovations that promote &#8220;quality of life&#8221; and is not a parallel to the Nobel Prize, says the Technology Academy in Finland that has instituted the award. The third edition of the prize - started in 2004 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life-changing innovations vie for top global tech honour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jaideep Sarin
Helsinki (Finland), June 9 (IANS) Few would know that it is an algorithm that helps us use the mobile phone technology that has made our lives simpler. Or that an optic fibre cable that couldn&#8217;t send a communication one metre across is now a basis for the global information super highway of over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador reports incursion by Colombian militias</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Quito, May 30 (IANS) Ecuador has alleged that a Colombian paramilitary group has attacked a border town after infiltrating into its territory and taking hostage three Colombians living in the town, EFE news agency reported Friday. Ecuador&#8217;s defence ministry said Thursday preliminary investigations revealed that a paramilitary group from Colombia illegally crossed the Ecuadorian border.
According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kuerten says farewell as Serbs struggle on opening day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 06:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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