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<title><![CDATA[India's dam plans anger Pakistan, symbolise global water woes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Its three great basins - the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra - are the most densely populated area in the world. The Ganges alone supports half a billion people.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Olympic bill worth it, says Princess Anne]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Princess Royal said that she sympathises with those who object to the cost of staging the Olympics this year and understands that some people will think the Games ''extravagant'' given Britain's economic climate.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amid the uncertainty, nation hopes for new dawn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tight security and high anxiety underwrote the final sitting of Papua New Guinea's outgoing Parliament this week, with rumours running hot that an 11th-hour power play would derail the looming national election and plunge the troubled nation deeper into uncharted straits.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Striving for Timor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To Ines Lemos, the celebrations in Dili today marking the 10th anniversary of East Timor's independence mean little.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shadow of the past haunts nation's future]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Poverty and inequality are the dark side to a free East Timor, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Dili.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shackled to a shrine for being mentally ill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[JALALABAD: The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm around a wound on his wrist where shackles have rubbed the skin raw.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Militarising Cocos Islands will be betrayal, says former ambassador]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[DEFENCE'S plans to develop the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean as a base for Australian and US spy drones and aircraft run counter to assurances Canberra has given the United Nations, one of Australia's most senior foreign policy figures has warned.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian found dead in Colombian hotel: report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An Australian man has reportedly died in a hotel room in Colombia.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:01:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jakarta police ban Gaga concert]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[INDONESIA'S national police will ban pop diva Lady Gaga from performing in Jakarta because they say her show poses a threat to security and morality.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canberra 'must pick strategic godfather']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AUSTRALIA must find a ''godfather'' to protect it and cannot juggle its relationships with the US and China indefinitely, according to a prominent Chinese defence strategist.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex-Murdoch chief faces phone-hack charges]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FORMER chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks has been charged by British prosecutors with trying to cover up the tabloid phone-hacking scandal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EU council attacks Israeli settlements]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Israel's accelerated program of settlement construction - considered illegal under international law - was threatening to 'make a two-state solution impossible', the European Union Foreign Affairs Council has warned.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jailed executives are Chinese, Carr told]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BEIJING: The three Australians sentenced to long jail terms in China - Stern Hu, Matthew Ng and Charlotte Chou - were in effect considered Chinese nationals by the Chinese government, despite holding Australian passports, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sea Shepherd leader held]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Paul Watson was arrested in Germany, on a warrant from Costa Rica, over a 2002 incident.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Extremists attack visiting voices in Indonesia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Indonesia's national police are considering banning a performance next month by pop diva Lady Gaga in the face of threats of violence by Islamic extremists.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tormented wife's horrific end]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[An Iraqi woman murdered at home had suffered for years at the hands of her jealous husband, a court has been told.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 02:15:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Queen could be ousted as Scotland's head of state]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Queen may not remain head of state in an independent Scotland after one of the Scottish National Party's most senior MPs confirmed it is party policy to hold a referendum on the monarchy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dalai Lama warned of Chinese poison plot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scots to vote on monarchy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Scottish National Party's senior parliamentarian confirms it is policy to hold a referendum.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bali nine inmate's final plea to escape death]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Death-row Bali nine inmate Andrew Chan has filed his plea for clemency with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with lawyers asking the President to grant the drug courier ''a chance to have a new life''.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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