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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Maribyrnong Weekly]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MP denies deal between Blair, News]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LONDON: The British politician Tessa Jowell sought an assurance from Tony Blair he had made no deal with Rupert Murdoch on media regulation when she was appointed culture secretary, the Leveson inquiry has heard.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Life sentence call for Patek]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for an alleged terrorist.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moken gypsies find themselves at sea in the modern world]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[They live in stilted shacks on a mudflat above piles of oyster shells, broken glass and rubbish, their nomadic days on the seas of south-east Asia gone forever.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sea gypsies stuck on dry land]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lindsay Murdoch]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:40:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gillard signs off on millions of dollars of aid for Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister Julia Gillard has committed to increasing Australia’s aid to Afghanistan by $85 million a year to $250 million by 2015 in an agreement signed with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a side meeting at the NATO summit.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 21:38:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lockerbie bomber 'dead']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people were killed, has died, his brother says.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chen takes off for the US]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest last month sparked a diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington, has taken off for the United States.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 10:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$300m plan to right the Concordia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AN ''UNPRECEDENTED'' operation to refloat and remove the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship will be the most ambitious effort of its kind ever attempted and will cost at least $US300 million.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guest list for diamond jubilee celebrations sparks protests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A GLITTERING lunch to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee attracted the largest gathering of royals since Prince William's wedding to Catherine Middleton.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Doctor's true account of the human cost of war]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A record of army injuries from the Afghan war could prove valuable - if it sees the light of day, writes C.J. Chivers in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mexicans numbed by carnage]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Couples were walking hand in hand. Children were frolicking. Just down the road in this northern Mexican town, 49 bodies, headless with their hands and feet hacked off, had been discovered.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Single currency requires the sacrifice of sovereignty]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THERE will be no magic wands waved at Camp David this weekend. The euro crisis will be as intense tomorrow as it is now and the G8 is extremely limited in what it can do, beyond talk.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Explainer: Do we have to choose between China and the US?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A retired Chinese military officer has come up with a simple answer to a complex question that preoccupies Australian prime ministers, strategists and spooks: how to respond to the rise of China?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chen embarks on flight to freedom]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest last month sparked a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States, was hurriedly taken from a Beijing hospital last night to board a plane for the US.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Corruption claims sour Timor party]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The East Timorese political party headed by Prime Minister and former guerilla leader Xanana Gusmao has been accused of corruptly raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations, as Mr Gusmao leads this weekend's celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of his country's independence.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Going to extremes: Europe's voters strike back]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Outraged by cuts to living standards, more and more people are turning to radical politics and even violence.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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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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