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<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7664339.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[France recalls sweets and biscuits made with Chinese dairy after finding high levels of an industrial chemical.]]></description>
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<title>Father&#x27;s grief over flood deaths</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7664796.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A British man who lost his wife and one of his twin daughters in flash-floods in Spain describes the tragedy.]]></description>
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<title>EU verifies Russia&#x27;s withdrawal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russian forces have fully withdrawn from buffer zones adjoining Georgia's breakaway regions, the EU says.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/7663204.stm">
<title>Nato to attack Afghan opium labs</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/7663204.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nato allows its troops to attack opium factories for the first time in Afghanistan to help stem the flow of funds to the Taleban.]]></description>
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<title>Libya &#x27;to pull Swiss bank assets&#x27;</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7662856.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Libya is to withdraw an estimated $7m of assets from Swiss banks in a row over the arrest of the Libyan leader's son.]]></description>
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<title>UK and Iceland hold crisis talks</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7662599.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A delegation of Treasury officials is in Reykjavik to discuss the Icelandic bank crisis and its effect on UK depositors.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7665307.stm">
<title>Blind Belgian breaks world speed record</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7665307.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Belgian Luc Costermans breaks the world blind road speed record, reaching 308km/h on an airstrip in France.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7662908.stm">
<title>Future&#x27;s bleak for Norwegian MP who called on fortune tellers</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7662908.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Norwegian politician has said she will not seek re-election after running up a £4,590 phone bill ringing fortune-tellers at parliament's expense.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/golf/7655919.stm">
<title>Ballesteros &#x27;stable&#x27; in hospital</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/golf/7655919.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros remains in a Madrid hospital undergoing tests having suffered an epileptic fit.]]></description>
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<title>F1 &#x26; Mosley to discuss cash cuts</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7659854.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[FIA president Max Mosley will meet with Formula One teams later this month to discuss new cost-cutting measures for the sport.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7665349.stm">
<title>The 2CV at 60</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7665349.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It was the perfect car for a camping trip to the USSR]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7654721.stm">
<title>Rich ecosystem</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7654721.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The skills which you might need to save the planet]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7662827.stm">
<title>Cod war echoes</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7662827.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[How Britain and Iceland have fallen out again]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/">
<title>Mardell&#x27;s Europe</title>
<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/</link>
<description><![CDATA[French foreign minister out on the road]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7663675.stm">
<title>&#x27;Just reward&#x27;</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7663675.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Finns welcome Nobel Peace Prize for one of their own]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/talking_point/7664672.stm">
<title>Voting from afar</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/talking_point/7664672.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lithuanians in the UK have their say in elections at home]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7663573.stm">
<title>&#x27;Deaths&#x27; in Guinea mine protest</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7663573.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Security forces shoot dead two people during a protest against a Russian mining firm in Guinea, witnesses say.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7662839.stm">
<title>Russia approves $86bn bank rescue</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7662839.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, approves a raft of measures worth $86bn (£51bn) to assist banks.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7663166.stm">
<title>Turkey hits rebel targets in Iraq</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7663166.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Turkish jets bomb suspected Kurdish rebels inside Iraq, the army says, days after the policy is extended.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7662544.stm">
<title>Wing flaps caused Madrid crash</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7662544.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A preliminary report into the Madrid plane crash that claimed 154 lives in August blames faulty wing flaps.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7662149.stm">
<title>Kosovo receives recognition boost</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7662149.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Montenegro and Macedonia recognise Kosovo's independence from Serbia, provoking an angry response in Belgrade.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7661927.stm">
<title>Nato to target Somalia&#x27;s pirates</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7661927.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Defence ministers from the Nato military alliance agree to send warships to help combat piracy off the coast of Somalia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7660750.stm">
<title>UK doctors &#x27;sought wholesale murder&#x27;</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7660750.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two NHS doctors plotted "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder with car bomb attacks, a court hears.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7661975.stm">
<title>In bloom: growing algae for biofuel</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7661975.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Dutch company cultivates algae for use in biofuel]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7662753.stm">
<title>Call to maintain climate targets</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7662753.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Don't cut emissions targets, UK's new energy sec says]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7659500.stm">
<title>Finns yearn for sharp winter</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7659500.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Finns yearn for return of sharp winters]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7658583.stm">
<title>Croatia murder prompts crackdown</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7658583.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mafia-style attacks threaten Croatia's EU bid ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7655692.stm">
<title>War of words in divided Belgium</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7655692.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Battle for identity in the divided heart of Europe]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5425&#x26;edition=2">
<title>Is the credit crisis hitting you?</title>
<link>http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5425&#x26;edition=2</link>
<description><![CDATA[Failure of the US financial  bailout has had a volatile effect on  financial markets. Is the global crisis affecting you?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7660785.stm">
<title>German exports slump in downturn</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7660785.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[German exports fall 2.5% year-on-year, their biggest fall for five years, as the financial crisis hits the real economy]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7660511.stm">
<title>Iceland nationalises biggest bank</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7660511.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Iceland nationalises its biggest bank  and suspended trade on its stock exchange in an attempt to prevent further panic in the country. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11nobel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Former Finnish President Wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11nobel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Martti Ahtisaari has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Russian Compliance in Georgia Is Disputed</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[European leaders confirmed Friday that Russians had met a deadline to withdraw troops from buffer zones outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11britain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>British Military Investigates Loss of Hard Drive</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11britain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A portable computer hard drive that may have carried personal details on 100,000 British military service members is missing, the Ministry of Defense said.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11ruble.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Russia to Spend Billions Buying Shares on Stock Exchanges to Bolster Confidence</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business/worldbusiness/11ruble.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The move would support one of the world’s hardest-hit markets from the credit crisis, as the country suffered fresh blows from plunging commodity prices.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11austria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Leader of Austrian Right Dies in Crash</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11austria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jörg Haider, the leader of Austria’s far right, was killed in a car accident, the national news agency APA reported.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11briefs-AGENCYRULEST_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: France: Agency Rules That Burqa Violates Values</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11briefs-AGENCYRULEST_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The French agency devoted to combating discrimination has determined that the burqa inhibits integration into French society.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11briefs-BILLSTOLEGAL_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Portugal: Bills to Legalize Same-Sex Marriages Fail</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/europe/11briefs-BILLSTOLEGAL_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Parliament rejected by a large majority on Friday two proposals to allow same-sex marriages.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10ukraine.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Ukraine&#x2019;s Leader Schedules Vote After Disbanding Parliament</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10ukraine.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The move raises uncertainties about Ukraine’s tilt toward the West at a time when the country has become a focal point of rising tensions with Russia.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>A Slow, Wary Return for Georgian Refugees</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Though government officials urged refugees to wait until their villages have been cleared of unexploded ordnance, it was impossible to stop them from heading home.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/10nuke.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Nuclear Aid by Russian to Iranians Suspected</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/10nuke.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[International nuclear inspectors are investigating whether a Russian scientist helped Iran conduct experiments on how to detonate a nuclear weapon.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10global.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>As Crisis Spreads, Global Approach Weighed</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10global.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. and Britain appear to be coming to a common solution a day before a meeting of financial leaders.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10icebank.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Iceland, in Financial Collapse, Is Likely to Need I.M.F. Help</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10icebank.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Iceland’s financial system collapsed Thursday, and analysts said the country would have to turn to the International Monetary Fund for help.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10briefs-PUNISHMENTFO_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Punishment for a Prisoner</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10briefs-PUNISHMENTFO_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia’s most famous prisoner has been confined to the isolation ward in his Siberian prison after a magazine published his correspondence with a writer.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10briefs-POPEDEFENDSP_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Pope Defends Pius&#x2019;s Efforts During World War II</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10briefs-POPEDEFENDSP_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI said that Pope Pius XII had worked “secretly and silently” to save Jews during World War II, and he said he hoped that Pius’s beatification would “proceed happily.”    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10estonia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Estonia&#x2019;s Let-It-Be Economy Is Rattled by Worldwide Distress</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10estonia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Estonia, the former Soviet republic that has embraced capitalism, is reluctantly turning to state intervention as it confronts an economic slowdown.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10briefs-TERRORISMTRI_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Terrorism Trial Begins in London</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/world/europe/10briefs-TERRORISMTRI_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two doctors accused of plotting car bombings in 2007 in London and Glasgow wanted to commit “indiscriminate and wholesale” murder, prosecutors said.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Russians Vacate Buffer Zones in Georgia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia removed its last checkpoints from the buffer zones outside the breakaway enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, fulfilling a key requirement of a cease-fire agreement.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09gates.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Europe Asked to Send Afghanistan More Troops</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09gates.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The call by U.S. defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, came as NATO struggles to combat an emboldened Taliban in the region.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09icebank.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Meltdown of Iceland&#x2019;s Financial System Quickens</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/worldbusiness/09icebank.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The country was on the verge of going bankrupt as the government shut down the stock market and seized control of its last major independent bank.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09turkey.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Turkey Authorizes Extension of Military Strikes in Iraq</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09turkey.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The approval, by a vote of 497 to 18, had been largely expected, and came amid a flurry of attacks in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09nations.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Serbia Wins Bid to Review Independence of Kosovo</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/world/europe/09nations.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a polarized vote in the U.N. General Assembly, Serbia won a bid to have the World Court review the manner in which Kosovo declared its independence.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08unity.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Facing a Financial Crisis, European Nations Put Self-Interest First</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08unity.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the financial storm spread, some of the 27 nations that make up the European Union have broken ranks to protect their own citizens and banks.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08albania.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Speculation Surrounds Case of Albanian Whistle-Blower&#x2019;s Death</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08albania.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kosta Trebicka, who uncovered evidence of public corruption in the export of ammunition from the Communist era, was found dead on a rural roadside.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/science/08nobel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Three Physicists Share Nobel Prize</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/science/08nobel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The prize was awarded to an American and two Japanese physicists for their work exploring the hidden symmetries among elementary particles.    

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<title>U.N. Says Biofuel Subsidies Raise Food Bill and Hunger</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08italy.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a new report, the United Nations joined a number of environmental groups in calling for an end to — or at least an overhaul of — subsidies for biofuels.    

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<title>Gates, in Kosovo, Highlights U.S. Balancing Act on Russia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08gates.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Robert M. Gates’s visit was the first by a U.S. cabinet member since Kosovo’s independence declaration and the first of an American defense secretary since 2001.    

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<title>Russia Gives Israel No Firm Word on Arms Sales</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel apparently failed to win a firm pledge that Moscow would halt advanced weapons sales to Israel’s enemies.    

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<title>Germany Frees 2 Terrorism Suspects</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08germany.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The authorities have released two men who were arrested at the Cologne airport last month on suspicion that they were planning to take part in terrorist attacks.    

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<title>World Briefing | Europe: Greece: Broad 24-Hour Strike Planned</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08briefs-BROAD24HOURS_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Major transportation disruptions were expected after the country’s biggest labor union called for a strike over plans by the government to privatize Olympic Airlines.    

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<title>News Media Feel Limits to Georgia&#x2019;s Democracy</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Georgia’s critics cite a lack of press freedom as an example of the shortfalls in the country’s democratic standards.    

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<title>Russia Says Georgia Tries to Provoke New Conflict</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia accused Georgia of “seeking to provoke new hostilities” even as Russian peacekeepers were dismantling checkpoints outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07nobel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Discoverers of AIDS and Cancer Viruses Win Nobel</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07nobel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three European scientists who discovered viruses behind two devastating illnesses, AIDS and cervical cancer, will share the Nobel Prize in Medicine.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07ossetians.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>South Ossetians Complain to Court</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07ossetians.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights has received nearly 2,000 applications from South Ossetians complaining of illegal treatment at the hands of Georgia.    

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<title>Germany Seeks Wider Role for Army</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07germany.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The German government said that it would seek to change the Constitution to give a larger domestic role to the army in the fight against terrorism.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/europe/06georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Russian Forces Begin to Shut Georgia Checkpoints</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/europe/06georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russian peacekeeping forces dismantled one checkpoint inside Georgia and were at work removing several others on Sunday, five days ahead of a deadline.    

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<title>Financial Crises Spread in Europe</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/business/06markets.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The growing crisis has underlined the difficulty of taking concerted action in Europe because its economies are far more integrated than its governing structures.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/science/space/06gap.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The Long Countdown: One Way Up: U.S. Space Plan Relies on Russia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/science/space/06gap.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[From 2010 to 2015, the U.S. will have to rely upon Russia to carry its astronauts in to space.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/europe/06putin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Chechen Avenue Is Named for Putin</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/europe/06putin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A central avenue in Grozy, the capital of the Chechnya region of Russia, was named after Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Sunday.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/europe/05yefimov.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Boris Yefimov, Sharp Russian Cartoonist Who Was Beloved by Stalin, Dies at 109</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/europe/05yefimov.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Yefimov’s 70,000 drawings wielded his talent as a keen sword to advance the goals of his country.    

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<title>European Leaders Vow to Fight Financial Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/worldbusiness/05euro.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Despite their pledge, the leaders of Europe’s largest economies failed to offer a systemwide answer to a credit crisis that has forced them to bail out several banks in just the past week.    

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<title>15 Turkish Soldiers Dead in Fighting With Rebels</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/europe/05turkey.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fifteen Turkish soldiers were killed in fighting with Kurdish separatist rebels in the mountainous border area in eastern Turkey, the Turkish military said.    

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<title>French Writer Wins Nobel Prize</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/books/10nobel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was praised by the Swedish Academy as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy.”    

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<title>Putin&#x2019;s Tips for What to Do When Negotiations Collapse</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/world/europe/08putin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video.    

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<title>Strasbourg Journal: A Pro-Church Law Helps a Mosque</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/world/europe/07alsace.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[While France is a model for the centralized state, Alsace-Moselle is different, especially on the question of politics and religion.    

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        Austrian right leader Joerg Haider killed in car crash</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/417806670/la-me-haider12-2008oct12,0,7011363.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews and led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic, died today in a car accident. He was 58.]]></description>
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        Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/417546383/la-fg-nobel11-2008oct11,0,4287592.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Martti Ahtisaari has quietly worked to resolve conflicts in Iraq, Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Namibia. 'He never gives up,' the head of the Nobel Prize committee says.
                        
                    
                    Calling him an "outstanding international mediator," the  Norwegian Nobel Committee  on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for his efforts to resolve international conflicts across the globe, from Northern Ireland and Namibia to Kosovo, Indonesia and Iraq.]]></description>
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<title>

        World Briefing</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/417546387/la-fg-briefs11-2008oct11,0,5827121.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Georgia: Russia pullout incomplete, France says / Mexico: Norbert builds as it nears Baja / Israel: Iranian boy seeks cancer treatment / India: Dalai Lama undergoes surgery
                        
                    
                    Russia needs to do more, says France]]></description>
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        Q &#x26; A on Europe&#x27;s crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Times talks with Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus of banking and finance at the London School of Economics and an expert on European monetary policy.
                        
                    
                    
                        Charles Goodhart is professor emeritus of banking and finance at the London School of Economics and an expert on European monetary policy. He spoke to The Times about Europe's handling of the economic crisis and the role of the European Central Bank, which joined Wednesday with central banks around the world in lowering interest rates. It was the ECB's first rate decrease in five years, from 4.25% to 3.75%, after keeping the rate elevated to ward off inflation.]]></description>
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        Stocks nose dive in Europe</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/417546385/la-fi-europe11-2008oct11,0,7844957.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Governments' erratic responses compound feelings of uncertainty.
                        
                    
                    
                        The tsunami of global stock sell-offs swept through Europe on Friday as shareholders deserted the markets in droves, pushing down stock prices in a frenzy some dubbed Red October.]]></description>
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        Q &#x26; A on Europe&#x27;s crisis</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/416546110/la-fi-qa10-2008oct10,0,6138668.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Times talks to Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus of banking and finance at the London School of Economics and an expert on European monetary policy.
                        
                    
                    Charles Goodhart  is professor emeritus of banking and finance at the London School of Economics and an expert on European monetary policy. He spoke in his office Thursday with Times staff writer Henry Chu about Europe's handling of the economic crisis and the role of the European Central Bank, or ECB, which joined Wednesday with central banks around the world in lowering interest rates. It was the ECB's first rate decrease in five years, from 4.25% to 3.75%, after keeping the rate elevated to ward off inflation.]]></description>
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        Le Clezio of France wins Nobel prize in literature</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/416546111/la-fg-nobel10-2008oct10,0,3501158.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[French writer Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio has sought out little-known peoples, and has had his own low profile.
                        
                    
                    
                        Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globe-trotting French author of books exploring indigenous and nomadic cultures in Latin America, Africa and Asia, on Thursday won the Nobel Prize in literature.]]></description>
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        Iceland takes control of biggest bank amid industry collapse</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/416546112/la-fi-iceland10-2008oct10,0,4946397.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[With seizure of Kaupthing, the government now controls the debt-ridden industry.
                        
                    
                    
                        Iceland's government seized control of Kaupthing Bank, the nation's biggest, completing the takeover of a financial industry that collapsed under the weight of foreign debt.]]></description>
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        Film on German terrorists criticized</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/416546113/la-et-redarmy10-2008oct10,0,5246517.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Daughters of a Red Army Faction leader and of a victim decry 'The Baader Meinhof Complex's' approach.
                        
                    
                    
                        BERLIN -- A new film devoted to the violent career of the Red Army Faction has drawn sharp criticism from both the daughter of one of the left-wing German terrorist group's leaders and the daughter of a prominent victim.]]></description>
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        Federal Reserve orders emergency half-percentage-point rate cut</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/415534863/la-fi-fed9-2008oct09,0,6508940.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Fed lowers its benchmark federal funds rate to 1.5%. Other central banks also cut rates.
                        
                    
                    
                        Emergency interest rate cuts Wednesday by the Federal Reserve and five other central banks left in doubt whether government efforts to cure the financial crisis would show results fast enough to avert fresh panic and serious economic damage.]]></description>
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<title>UN, Dutch university partner to reach development goals</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with a Dutch university to promote education and research in developing countries to build momentum towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline.]]></description>
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<title>Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders agree on weekly meetings - UN</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities met today to continue talks on the reunification of the Mediterranean island nation, and agreed to meet on a weekly basis to keep up the momentum of the negotiations, according to a senior United Nations envoy.]]></description>
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<title>UN urges European Union to end violence against women in conflict zones</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today urged European Union (EU) Member States to take practical steps in preventing sexual violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situations.]]></description>
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<title>Security Council renews UN observer mission in Georgia for four months</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Security Council today extended for another four months the 14-year-old United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) entrusted with overseeing the ceasefire accord between the Government and Abkhaz separatists in the country's north-western region.]]></description>
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<title>UN World Court to give opinion on legality of Kosovo&#x27;s independence</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28492&#x26;Cr=Kosovo&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The General Assembly voted today to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia.]]></description>
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<title>UN tribunal upholds 35-year jail term for leader of breakaway Croatian Serb state</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up after the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today upheld a 35-year jail sentence of a former political leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia who was convicted for his role in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.]]></description>
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<title>Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: UN envoy offers new ideas on name</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28491&#x26;Cr=Macedonia&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[A United Nations envoy tasked with mediating the long-running dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over the latter's official name today presented a new set of ideas to the two sides during talks in New York.]]></description>
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<title>UN World Court to rule next week on Georgian claim against Russia</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28468&#x26;Cr=Georgia&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will deliver a ruling next week on Georgia's claim against Russia that it has breached a global pact against racial discrimination.]]></description>
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<title>UNICEF chief spotlights plight of Roma children during visit to Albania</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28441&#x26;Cr=Roma&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has highlighted the plight of Albania's Roma children, especially the poor rates of school enrolment among the minority community, during a two-day visit to the South-Eastern European country.]]></description>
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<title>UN mission in Georgia thrown into uncertainty by recent conflict - Ban</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28437&#x26;Cr=Georgia&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dramatic changes due to the Russian-Georgian conflict in South Ossetia have cast a veil of uncertainty over the future function of the 14-year-old United Nations mission entrusted with overseeing the ceasefire accord between the Government and Abkhaz separatists in north-western Georgia, according to the latest UN report on the region.]]></description>
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<title>Nobel Peace Prize is quiet diplomat&#x27;s latest reward</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2008 peace prize Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has played a key role in resolving conflicts around the world.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/11/europe/EU-Obit-Haider.php">
<title>Austrian rightist leader J&#xF6;rg Haider killed in accident</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/11/europe/EU-Obit-Haider.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jörg Haider's far-right rhetoric led at one point to months of international isolation for Austria. He was 58.]]></description>
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<title>U.K. reports new data loss for 100,000 military staff</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/10/europe/britain.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A computer disk that reportedly carries personal details on some 100,000 serving British military personnel is missing, the Defense Ministry said Friday.]]></description>
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<title>Europe confirms Russian pullback</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/10/europe/georgia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[European leaders confirmed Friday that Russians had met an Oct. 10 deadline to withdraw troops from buffer zones outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.]]></description>
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<title>Georgian refugees begin to return home</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Emotions were mixed all over Georgia as families vacated tent cities, although government officials had urged refugees to wait until their villages had been cleared of unexploded ordnance.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Libya will withdraw assets held in Swiss banks and end economic cooperation with Switzerland to protest against poor treatment of Libyan diplomats and businessmen, Libyan state news agency JANA said.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A partial list of books by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, winner Thursday of the Nobel Prize for literature:]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI said that Pope Pius XII had worked "secretly and silently" to save Jews during World War II, and he said he hoped that Pius's beatification would "proceed happily."]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Montenegro and Macedonia recognized the independence of Kosovo on Thursday in defiance of Serbia.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2008 peace prize Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has played a key role in resolving conflicts around the world.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Jörg Haider's far-right rhetoric led at one point to months of international isolation for Austria. He was 58.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A computer disk that reportedly carries personal details on some 100,000 serving British military personnel is missing, the Defense Ministry said Friday.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[European leaders confirmed Friday that Russians had met an Oct. 10 deadline to withdraw troops from buffer zones outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Emotions were mixed all over Georgia as families vacated tent cities, although government officials had urged refugees to wait until their villages had been cleared of unexploded ordnance.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[European leaders confirmed Friday that Russians had met an Oct. 10 deadline to withdraw troops from buffer zones outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Inspectors are investigating whether a Russian scientist helped Iran conduct experiments on how to detonate a nuclear weapon, according to officials.]]></description>
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<title>Libya to withdraw $7 billion of assets from Swiss banks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Libya will withdraw assets held in Swiss banks and end economic cooperation with Switzerland to protest against poor treatment of Libyan diplomats and businessmen, Libyan state news agency JANA said.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Libya has started making payments into a nearly $2-billion fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine signed an order to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Russia's most famous prisoner has been confined to the isolation ward in his Siberian prison after a magazine published his correspondence with a writer.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from the works of French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A partial list of books by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, winner Thursday of the Nobel Prize for literature:]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI said that Pope Pius XII had worked "secretly and silently" to save Jews during World War II, and he said he hoped that Pius's beatification would "proceed happily."]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Montenegro and Macedonia recognized the independence of Kosovo on Thursday in defiance of Serbia.]]></description>
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<title>Russia approves loan plan to ease credit crunch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Parliament on Friday passed a law allowing the Central Bank to make unsecured loans to commercial banks, continuing their anti-crisis strategy.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In a polarized vote in the UN General Assembly, Serbia won a bid to have the World Court review the manner in which Kosovo declared its independence.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Russia removed its last checkpoints from the buffer zones outside the breakaway enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, fulfilling a key requirement of a cease-fire agreement.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The sharply divided vote will allow the International Court of Justice to examine the manner in which Kosovo declared its independence.]]></description>
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<title>Turkey re-authorizes strikes in Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The approval, by a vote of 497 to 18, had been largely expected, and came amid a flurry of attacks in the country's largely Kurdish southeast.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates, on Wednesday called on America's allies in southeastern Europe to expand their troop commitments to Afghanistan.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The pullback may ease tensions somewhat but will not resolve major disputes pitting Russia against Georgia and Western countries, which have condemned Russia's invasion.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Just weeks after Russia's state-run media reported that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had saved a news crew from a wild tiger, he was flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The death has revealed how little faith the people of this small, poor European country have in authority after enduring decades of Stalinist repression followed by years of everyday corruption.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[As European leaders continued to clash over measures to ease the financial crisis, Britain announced a massive bailout for its beleaguered banks, and Spain moved to mount a separate rescue of its own banking sector.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Kosta Trebicka, who uncovered evidence of public corruption in the export of ammunition from the Communist era, was found dead last month on a rural roadside near his car.]]></description>
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