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  <title><![CDATA[GCC: Can The Arab Gulf States Form A Political And Economic Union To Rival The EU And Shut Out Iran?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The contemplated union of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain forms only one part of a potentially much wider alliance -- the political, military and economic integration of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprise Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 13:30:59 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[TCS World 10K Bangalore 2012 Free App For iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone [Download Links]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Bangalore is all set for TCS World 10K 2012 race day on Sunday. So there is one technical aspect that you have to update yourself and your device to keep the pace with the upcoming event.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 07:42:25 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Cities with Most Underwater Mortgage [SLIDESHOW]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The persistent downturn in the US has taken a toll on mortgage debt in some of the major cities with homes continuing to be underwater about six years after home prices peaked, a recent report reveals.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 05:46:11 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[India Test Fires Akash Missile Again]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Just two days after the successful test firing of Akash missile, India once again test fired its indigenously built surface-to-air missile on Saturday morning at around 11:10 am. The missile was fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha, the same test range from where the earlier trial was conducted.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 05:12:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Says He Understood Suicidal Thoughts In Wrenching Speech To Families Of Fallen Troops]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The vice president said he harbored thoughts of suicide following the deaths of his wife and daughter in 1972, but rose above them. &quot;Folks, it can and will get better,&quot; Biden said. &quot;There will come a day.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:19:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tasha Reign Says ‘Super Hot’ Bill Clinton Wanted To Meet Her and Brooklyn Lee, ‘Sympathetic’ For Viral Photo]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A picture says 1000 words, but porn stars talk even more. Tasha Reign and Brooklyn Lee, the two starlets who posed for a photo with Bill Clinton at a gala fundraiser in Monaco on Wednesday, said the former president wanted to meet them both, despite the secret service&#039;s attempt to block their meeting.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:29:32 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Federal Regulators Plan Arctic Oil Spill Response Drills]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement will be conducting a series of possibly unannounced equipment inspections and on-water drills to test the oil spill responsiveness of companies planning to operate off the coast of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:36 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mitt the Bully, Barack the Stoner? Candidates Have Very Different High School Stories]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s safe to say the two 2012 contenders wouldn&#039;t have sat at the same lunch table.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:25:35 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional By U.S. District Judge]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two laws preventing the federal government from recognizing and providing benefits to same-sex couples are unconstitutional, a federal judge in California ruled.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:16:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Louisiana On Its Way To Passing Strongest Pro-Gun Law In U.S.]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Louisiana residents are set to vote on a constitutional amendment that would roll back the state&#039;s ability to regulate the carrying of concealed weapons.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:02:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Who is Pedro Hernandez? Details Emerge About The Man Who Confessed To Killing Etan Patz]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The story had to wait three decades to be finally told, but now a child-disappearance case that gripped America way back when Jimmy Carter was president may have found a solution -- and, sadly, the name of a murderer. Pedro Hernandez, who was 19 in 1979, allegedly killed 6-year-old Etan Patz in a grocery store&#039;s basement in Manhattan, bagged the body and trashed it.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:43:25 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Top 10 Highest Paid US CEOs of Standard & Poor's 500 Companies [SLIDESHOW]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[David Simon, CEO of Simon Property, named highest paid CEO of 2011 in AP analysis.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:49:02 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.S. Calls For Exercise In Gulf Of Mexico To Prevent Oil Spill Disasters]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Department of the Interior on Thursday called for a deepwater oil and natural gas containment exercise, designed to test the oil industry&#039;s readiness and capacity to respond to a future  accident like the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:22:11 EDT</pubDate>
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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[Fracking Debate Complicates As Group Accuses University Of Parroting Oil Industry]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In the debate on hydraulic fracturing&#039;s safety record, the back and forth between industry groups, activist, and academic studies creates a lot of noise for the average person to sort out. But when a university is accused of misrepresenting its own data, that makes understanding the controversial drilling technique even more challenging.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:56:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Iran Closer To Nuclear Weapons-Grade Uranium, UN Atomic Agency Says]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.N.&#039;s International Atomic Energy Agency has found evidence of uranium enriched up to levels closer to the threshold needed for developing nuclear warheads at an underground Iranian facility.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:55:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Must-See 'Hardball' Interview: Gingrich Holds No Grudges Against Romney [VIDEO]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In a fast-paced, wide-ranging and, at times, hilariously odd interview with Chris Matthews on &quot;Hardball&quot; Thursday night, former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich forgave Mitt Romney for any harsh words traded on the campaign trail.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:51:09 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Suspect To Be Arraigned Friday 33 Years After Etan Patz Disappearance]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[For more than three decades law enforcement officials and the nation wondered what happened to Etan Patz, the 6-year-old who disappeared in his SoHo neighborhood while on his way to the school bus stop on May 25, 1979.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:45:11 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Indian Government May Delay Diesel Price Hike As Pressure Mounts To Rollback Petrol Prices]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[India Government may go slow on boosting diesel prices as the recent steep petrol hike has generated strong opposition from both the public and opposition parties.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:35:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Struggling White Voters Overwhelmingly Back Romney: Poll]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[With the approaching presidential election likely to serve as a referendum on the economy, Mitt Romney appears poised to dominate white voters still fighting to weather the economic downturn.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:01:12 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Larry Flynt Blasts ‘Prudish And Delusional Right Wing’ Over S.E. Cupp Hustler Photo As ‘The View’ Hosts Jump To The Defense]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Hustler&#039;s publisher, Larry Flynt, offered a second response in regard to a lewd photo of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp published in his raunchy men&#039;s magazine. But Flynt&#039;s defense of &quot;that&#039;s satire&quot; did not sit well with the ladies of &quot;The View,&quot; who took offense to the misogynistic and graphic digitally-altered photo.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Treasury Declines To Call China A Currency 'Manipulator']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury declined Friday to name China as a currency manipulator, a move that is likely to intensify an already hot debate in the U.S. presidential campaigning.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:59:07 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Felix Roque Arrested: New Jersey Mayor and Son Joseph Roque Charged With Hacking Opponents’ Web Site]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Felix Roque, the Democratic Mayor of West New York, N.J., and son Joseph Roque have both been arrested on charges of hacking into a website and various emails in an effort to identify the parties plotting to rally against him.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:56:49 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Searching For The American Dream, In A Chinese RV]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[China&#039;s growing hunger for the RV is providing further evidence for the theory that the Middle Kingdom is trying to become more American -- at least in its pastimes.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:49:24 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Fall In Early Trading]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell in early activity Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345447/20120525/facebook-ipo-probe.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:22:37 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[What's Next For France In Afghanistan?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[France&#039;s new president Francois Hollande made an unannounced first visit to Kabul on Friday, where he declared that &quot;it&#039;s time for a sovereign Afghanistan.&quot;]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:13:10 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Most Dangerous US States to Drive In 2012 [SLIDESHOW]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A recent report by The Trust for America’s Health, a nonprofit disease prevention group, reveals that Americans aged five to 34 are killed more in vehicle crashes than from any other cause.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 08:22:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Kolkata Joins Slutwalk Protest to Supports Women’s Right [Photos]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Kolkata on Thursday joined a global movement of Slutwalk rally to protest against claims that women&#039;s attire or her behavior provoked rape and sexual assault. Slutwalk is a protest movement against sexual violence that began last year in Toronto when police official commented on women&#039;s attire saying, &quot;women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.&quot;.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 07:00:56 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan's Blood Withdrawn from Auction]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Vial of former US president&#039;s blood, taken at time of failed assassiation attempt, removed from online auction site]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:32:21 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg's $6.4 Billion Loss: Value Of Facebook CEO's Stake A Gambler's Nightmare]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In the week since Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) went public, its founder, CEO and majority shareholder saw his $20.2 billion stake in the social media giant quickly swell to $24 billion only to shrink by day&#039;s end to $17.6 billion.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:24:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Etan Patz Missing: Man Arrested on Murder Charge]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Etan Patz went missing on his first journey to the school bus stop alone.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345339/20120525/etan-patz-missing-arrest-made-pedro-hernandez.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:02:42 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Wikileaks' Founder Julian Assange Dons Anonymous Mask at Pre-Extradition Ruling Event]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Wikileaks&#039; founder Julian Assange has donned a Guy Fawkes&#039; Anonymous mask in what he claims to be his &quot;last public appearance&quot; at event in London.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:52:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[India Warns of Potential Ban on EU Airlines over Carbon Tax Dispute]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[European airlines may risk an embargo from India&#039;s airspace, should Brussels impose sanctions on Indian carriers over carbon emissions. Brussels is facing the heat from several nations, including China, Russia, over an EU carbon emissions trading scheme that called for charging airlines over pollution.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:55:34 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[$8.5B Budget Approved For Origin and Conoco Australia's LNG Project]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A group of domestic and international banks has granted in principle the $8.5 billion in project financing needed to finally drumroll the $20 billion Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (LNG) project of Origin Energy Ltd. and ConocoPhillips.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:51:44 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Stock Market Report – Midday 5/25/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Australian share market kicked off the session a little higher for the third time this week, only to start losing ground following some disappointing economic data out from China. The latest HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI came in at 48.7 down from 49.3 points the month before. By the close of trade the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) fell 12 points to 4,106 points.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:32:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Zimmerman Made Self-Incriminating Statements, Prosecutors Say]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[George Zimmerman made statements to Sanford, Fla., police that help establish his guilt of second-degree murder for killing Trayvon Martin, prosecutors said in a court filing on Thursday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 20:45:51 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[NYPD Makes Breakthrough In Etan Patz Case, Arresting Pedro Hernandez, 51, For Murder]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Police made the fist arrest in the Etan Patz case Thursday, when they held Pedro Hernandez, a 51-year-old man from Maple Shades, N.J., on a murder charge. Hernandez confessed to choking Patz to death after luring him into the basement of a convenient store with the promise of a soda.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 20:37:06 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA['All Taste, No Nourishment', Euro Leaders Dinner Fails to Inspire]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Despite solid gains from European indices and mild support for U.S stocks, the overall theme of negativity continued to hold risk assets at bay overnight with intermittent periods of strength quickly overcome, with European drama&#039;s remaining the key directive.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Dollar Outlook - 05/25/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Bell FX Currency Outlook: With worries a Greek exit would deepen the euro zone debt crisis and risk aversion continuing to mount this week, the Australian Dollar has continued track new lows.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:48:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[NYPD Charges Man In 1979 Etan Patz Killing]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Pedro Hernandez has been arrested in the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Thursday evening.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:25:21 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Romney Gets Pass From Time, ABC As Rare Interviews Turn Into Softball]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[When Romney agreed to sit with Time magazine&#039;s Mark Halperin for an interview, it was truly a rare moment. Unfortunately, Romney didn&#039;t do much more than respond to a series of softball questions with the same talking points he&#039;s made in the past.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:25:13 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Markets Overview - 05/25/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. stocks finished mostly higher after late afternoon comments from the Italian premier boosted confidence that Greece would stay in the euro zone. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 34 points, or 0.3%, at 12530, after bouncing back from a 0.6% slide.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:24:47 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[Skepticism Surfaces Over Man's Claims He Killed Etan Patz 33 Years Ago]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Pedro Hernandez, the man in custody in connection with the1979 Etan Patz disappearance case, confessed to the boy&#039;s killing. However, law enforcement sources are telling the media they remain skeptical of the claim because some things don&#039;t add up with known facts.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345142/20120524/pedro-hernandez-strangled-etan-patz-suspect-skepticism.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:28:25 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Petition To Change Definition Of Marriage In Dictionary Sweeps Internet]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The definition of &quot;marriage&quot; has been debated in the halls of Congress and state Legislatures, in the voting booth and on the Internet. Now one man in favor of same-sex marriage is taking his argument to the dictionary, attempting to get dictionary.com to change its definition of marriage in a petition that has been signed by more than 27,000 supporters.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:47:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Women Soldiers Sue To Scrap U.S. Military Combat Ban]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two U.S. Army reservists say the ban on women serving in combat roles violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:29:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Maryland Set To Become First State To Uphold Same-Sex Marriage Law At Ballot Box]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Maryland voters are set to affirm the state&#039;s same-sex marriage law, due in part to a surge of support among black voters, according to Public Policy Polling.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345119/20120524/maryland-same-sex-marriage-referendum.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345119/20120524/maryland-same-sex-marriage-referendum.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:08:52 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.S. Seeks Ties With Syrian Rebels]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration is considered a secure way to send weapons to rebels fighting President Assad in Syria.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:55:17 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Summer Heat-Related Deaths In US Expected To Triple By 2100 As Temperatures Soar: Report]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Higher temperatures, exacerbated by climate change, is expected to lead to the death of 150,000 Americans by the end of the century.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345108/20120524/climate-change-summer-related-deaths-triple-2100.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:22:22 EDT</pubDate>
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