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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Drop Again On New Probes Despite Morgan Stanley Investor Pledges]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell 3.4 percent again Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:19:16 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.S. Senators Act Harsh on Pakistan for Jailing CIA Helper, Cut Aid by $33 Million]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. senators scandalized by Pakistan&#039;s jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million - one million for each year in the doctor&#039;s sentence.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 02:28:35 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Argentina’s Runaway Train System: Fatal Crashes Could Have Been Prevented]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[At long last, the government of Argentina is revoking the contract of a private transportation company whose mismanagement of metropolitan transportation lines resulted in the deaths of 51 people on February 23 of this year.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 21:03:36 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[HP Shares Gain Slightly On Whitman’s Job Cuts]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, rose about 3 percent to $21.77 on Thursday, following the announcement it would fire 27,000 employees by 2014.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:15:05 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Repsol Makes Big 1.2 Billion-Barrel Oil Find Off Brazilian Coast]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Spanish oil company Repsol on Thursday announced it made one of the year&#039;s largest oil and natural gas discoveries off the coast of Brazil.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:00:36 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[“Ethical iPhone”? SumofUs Says No]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[SumOfUs, the Washington, D.C.-based liberal group that pressured Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world&#039;s most valuable technology company, about its Chinese contractors, is keeping the pressure on.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:21:54 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook's Shares Recover, But IPO Wounds Fester]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, rose $1.03 to close at $33.03 on Thursday. A week ago, they were priced at $38 for the IPO.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:22:18 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mexico: Drug Cartel Boss Extradited To US]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Alleged Beltran Leyva drug cartel boss Sergio Villarreal was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Thursday, where he faces federal cocaine trafficking and money laundering charges.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:31:10 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[How’s Facebook Faring On Thursday?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, are up six cents to $32.06 in late morning trading on Thursday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:22:15 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[How Much Value Has Facebook Lost In A Week?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shareholders of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, already know: priced a week ago at $38, shares once hit $45 but closed Wednesday at $32.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:54:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[World’s Largest and Deepest Pool At Chile's San Alfonso del Mar Resort [PHOTOS]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The world’s largest swimming pool, The Crystal Lagoon at the San Alfonso Del Mar Resort, is bigger than 20 Olympic-sized pool put together. The huge pool is set halfway up the country&#039;s Pacific coast, in the city of Algarrobo, Chile, about 100 kilometers west of the capital Santiago. The pool holds the Guinness World Record for the largest and deepest pool.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 06:58:10 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cuba Denies Torture In Prisons; Is Their Incarcerated Figure Accurate?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Cuba’s official Communist Party newspaper Granma finally gave an official estimate of the number of people currently incarcerated in the nation’s jails.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 06:23:06 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Rise 3%  Despite Subpoenas, Lawsuit, Complaints About IPO]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, rose nearly 5  percent  Wednesday despite continuing fallout from its May 17 initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:29:50 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Indian Rupee Continues To Fall, Crosses 56 Mark Against Dollar; Analysts Seek Strong Corrective Action]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Indian rupee descended to the all-time-low of 56.04 per dollar Wednesday even as the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian government said that they were monitoring the situation closely and taking corrective measures.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:46:56 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Man Survives 180ft Plunge Over Niagara Falls In A Suicide Attempt: Broken Ribs, Lungs But In Stable Condition (PHOTO)]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A man, who miraculously survived the plunge of nearly 180-feet over the Niagara Falls without any safety device in an apparent suicide attempt, is currently in stable condition and is recovering in the hospital.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:59:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Petrobras Says It Holds Billions Of Barrels Of Offshore Oil]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras announced Tuesday the company has tens of billions of barrels of oil to be developed  from offshore oil fields.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344108/20120522/petrobras-brazil-oil-santos-basin.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:48:54 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Guatemala: Former Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Faces New Genocide Charges For Civil War Atrocities]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Efrain Rios Montt, former dictator of Guatemala, faces a new charge of genocide for the massacres conducted under his leadership during the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:07:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Recover After 9% Plunge But Fall Again]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, kept falling Tuesday, three business days after its $16,7 billion initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:02:54 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[OECD Sees Euro Zone Crisis Threatening Global Recovery]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The United States and Japan are leading a fragile economic recovery among developed countries that could yet be blown off course if the euro zone fails to contain the damage from its problem debtor states, the OECD said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 08:29:28 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Euro Recovers Monday On Technicals, But Greek Exit Shadows Trade]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The euro-to-dollar exchange rate recovered Monday from the lows seen late  Friday, when the European currnecy nearly touched multiyear lows. Still, the rise appeared to spring mostly from technical retracements, as tradersbelieve Greece will soon be forced to exit the currency union.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Afghan Security Forces To Take Over From NATO Next Summer]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[President Obama and U.S. NATO allies agreed Monday to end all combat missions in Afghanistan and transfer security responsibilities to the country&#039;s armed forces next summer after more than a decade of war.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:26:27 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[NATO: Phase 1 Of European Missile Defense Shield Operational]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[NATO announced at its summit this weekend that its European missile defense shield is now active.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:18:43 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mexico: Zetas Cartel Boss Arrested For Ordering Massacre]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Mexican troops arrested the Los Zetas cartel commander who allegedly ordered the murder and decapitation of 49 people last week.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343489/20120521/mexico-drug-war-los-zetas-arrest-massacre.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:18:35 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook IPO: Now That You Own Shares, 3 Key Signs To Look For]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shareholders of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, are set to get the shares Tuesday, following Friday’s tumultuous first sales after the $16 billion initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:16:13 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Technology Focus: Facebook’s IPO Boosts Its Cash – Now What?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[One value of going public for any company is to raise cash as well as mint new shares for acquisitions. Facebook (Nasdaq: FB)’s $16 billion initial public offering was no exception.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343108/20120520/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-sandberg-shares-intel-ibm.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 09:54:32 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Meet Priscilla Chan, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife [PHOTOS]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Chan, a Chinese-American fellow student, graduated from Harvard in 2007 and had worked as a 4th and 5th Grade Science Teacher at the Harker School in San Jose for two years before joining the UCSF medical school.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 03:37:44 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cuba's Hope Of Energy Independence Suffers Blow As Repsol Drills Dry Hole]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Cuba&#039;s hope of cutting its energy dependence on Venezuela by developing new domestic sources of crude oil has suffered a blow -- the first in a series of exploratory offshore wells is a dry hole.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:17:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:54:06 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Prison Riot In Honduras; Inmates Take Over]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Guards have surrounded the prison, but to &quot;avoid a bloodbath,&quot; Prison Governor Orlando Leiva has ordered them stay outside]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:34:07 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[UN Chief Holds al-Qaeda Responsible For Suicide Bombings In Syria]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believed al Qaeda was behind the twin suicide car bomb blasts that killed at least 55 people in Syria last week.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342601/20120518/syria-bashar-al-assad-un-ban-ki.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 03:52:24 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[34 Killed As Bus Falls Into River In Vietnam]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A crowded bus tipped over a bridge and crashed into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 20, some of them in serious condition, Vietnam authorities said.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 01:37:10 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Oil Sheen Spotted Near Brazilian Offshore Oil Platform]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian naval authorities are investigating yet another oil sheen seen floating near a platform owned by state oil company Petrobras.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342435/20120517/oil-spill-brazil-chevron-navy.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Judge Recuses Herself From Engineer's Criminal Case In 2010 BP Gulf Spill]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Federal judge Jane Triche Milazzo has recused herself this week from the first criminal case stemming from BP&#039;s Deepwater Horizon 2010 oil spill.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:42:31 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chevron Expulsion From Brazil 'Unlikely,' Says Petrobras]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian oil company Petrobras, which helps U.S.-based Chevron develop offshore oil fields in Brazil, said regulators there are not likely to shut down Chevron&#039;s operations in the Frade oil field in the wake of oil spills.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:24:39 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mexican Generals Questioned On Drug Gang Ties]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Mexico&#039;s drug war has left 50,000 people dead; if generals are playing both sides, who is winning?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:12:26 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chile Students Protest: Police Arrest 70 in Santiago Clashes [SLIDESHOW]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Chilean police arrested more than 70 students in Santiago in biggest protest so far this year over country&#039;s education system.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:23:43 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[China 'Quietly' Nudging North Korea To Drop Nuclear Test: Report]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[China has been nudging North Korea to shelve the plans for a third nuclear test, though it remains unclear how North may react to the pressure, sources aware of the secretive discussions between the two nations have said.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:46:01 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Afghanistan Demands $4.1 Billion A Year; Plans To Sell Islamic Bonds]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan, bracing for a potential sharp decline in financial support from the West amid fears of a fresh military offensive by the Taliban insurgents, has demanded $4.1 billion a year for its security forces after the foreign troops pull out in 2014, ahead of the NATO summit starting Sunday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Baby Red Crabs Invade Cayman Islands, Could Signal Tough Hurricane Season]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Baby red crabs have infested the Cayman Islands by the hundreds of thousands, an in unusually heavy migration season that has caused havoc. If local superstition is any indicator, the Caribbean may face a rough hurricane season.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:20:20 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Losses From Greek Euro Zone Exit Could Reach €1 Trillion]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The financial markets appear to have already priced in Greece’s departure from the euro bloc.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341922/20120516/greece-exit-euro-zone-losses-france-germany.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:56:57 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Brazil Truth Commission Aims To Uncover Rights Abuses During Military Regime]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated on Wednesday a truth commission set up to investigate human rights abuses during the country&#039;s military regime 27 years after democracy was restored.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341905/20120516/brazil-truth-commission-dilma-rousseff-human-rights.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:20:24 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ratko Mladic Goes On Trial Over War Crimes, Genocide; Taunts Survivors In Court]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday on 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide during Bosnian war in the 1990s, which saw the Srebrenica massacre and the bloody siege of Sarajevo.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341758/20120516/ratko-mladic-bosnia-serbia-genocide-croatia.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:54:32 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Markets Signal Imminent Greek Departure From Euro Zone]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Signs that a Greek departure from the euro zone has become inevitable proliferated worldwide Wednesday with Hong Kong&#039;s main stock index plunging more than 3 percent, bank runs in Athens and Britain&#039;s central bank finalizing contingency plans for a euro zone breakup.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341720/20120516/greek-euro-zone-hong-kong-stock-athens.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341720/20120516/greek-euro-zone-hong-kong-stock-athens.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:03:03 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Novelist, Dies At 83]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America&#039;s most eloquent and widely read authors and a fierce critic of governments, has died after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341440/20120515/fuentes-carlos-mexico-author-artemio-cruz.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:25:38 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Two Killed In Colombia Assassination Attempt]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Authorities believe that the target of the attack was former justice and interior minister Fernando Londono, who was inside his car during the blast. Londono was injured and his driver was one of the victims.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341419/20120515/colombia-bombing-bogota-fernando-londono.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:39:17 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Flowers, Harley Davidsons Mark First Day Of Colombia-US Free Trade Agreement]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A shipment of 4,200 boxes of flowers from Bogota arrived by cargo plane in Miami Tuesday, marking the first commercial exchange under the new free trade agreement between the U.S. and Colombia, which went into effect at midnight.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341357/20120515/colombia-free-trade-agreement-fta-bogota.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341357/20120515/colombia-free-trade-agreement-fta-bogota.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:01:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Repsol Moves To Sue Argentina Following Seizure Of Oil Company]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Spanish oil company Repsol started motions Tuesday to sue the Argentine government in the hope of collecting at least $10 billion for the seizure of its subsidiary YPF.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341286/20120515/spain-argentina-repsol-ypf-oil-law-suit.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341286/20120515/spain-argentina-repsol-ypf-oil-law-suit.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:51:29 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook’s IPO: Shares Upped, Value Could Be $104 Billion]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, announced that it would increase the number of shares in its initial public offering, price them higher and value the company at as much as $104 billion.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341227/20120515/facebook-ipo-price-shares-raise-zuckerberg.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341227/20120515/facebook-ipo-price-shares-raise-zuckerberg.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:08:36 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Iran Executes Alleged Israeli Spy For Killing Nuclear Scientist]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Iran has executed a man accused of being an Israeli spy, who was found guilty of killing an alleged Iranian nuclear physicist in 2010, Iranian state media reported Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341221/20120515/iran-israel-nuclear-spy-mossad-tehran.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:02:24 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Corruption Probe Against Argentine VP Boudou Opens]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Boudou was charged along with his girlfriend and journalist Agustina Kampfer, friend and business partner José María Nuñez Carmona and businessman Alejandro Vandenbroele.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340929/20120514/amado-boudou-charged-argentina-vice-president.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340929/20120514/amado-boudou-charged-argentina-vice-president.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:46:17 EDT</pubDate>
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