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<title>Europe seeks overseas film boost</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/entertainment/7589308.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[European film distribution in Asia and Latin America is to be subsidised in an attempt to tackle Hollywood dominance.]]></description>
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<title>Alitalia seeks bankruptcy measure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Troubled airline Alitalia seeks bankruptcy protection as it tries to agree a deal to ensure its survival.]]></description>
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<title>Belgians warned over iodine leak</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7588926.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Belgian authorities warn people in the south of the country not to eat locally grown produce after a leak from a nuclear research institute. ]]></description>
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<title>Wagner says goodbye to Bayreuth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wolfgang Wagner bids farewell to the opera festival founded by his grandfather after 57 years at the helm.]]></description>
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<title>Student &#x27;raped in migrant camp&#x27;</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7587363.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[French police question about 100 men after a Canadian student is raped by a man near Calais.]]></description>
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<title>EU to investigate BA-AA alliance</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7587825.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The European Union has opened an antitrust investigation into a revenue-sharing deal between BA, American Airlines and Iberia.]]></description>
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<title>Swedish woman takes self-service check-in to a whole new level</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7584682.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[An elderly Swedish lady is whisked along a baggage belt in a mistaken attempt to check in for an international flight.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7585234.stm">
<title>Leaking mushroom soup forces plane to make unplanned landing</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7585234.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Ryanair flight was forced to land after a passenger had an allergic reaction to mushroom soup, the airline confirms.]]></description>
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<title>Late Kuyt goal puts Liverpool through against S Liege</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/europe/7578510.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Liverpool scrape into the group stages of the Champions League after a 118th minute goal from Dirk Kuyt against Standard Liege.]]></description>
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<title>Arsenal 4-0 FC Twente (agg 6-0)</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/europe/7578508.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Arsenal cruise into the Champions League group stage with an easy win against Steve McClaren's FC Twente.]]></description>
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<title>In the limelight</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7584846.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is Karadzic up to the challenge he has set himself?]]></description>
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<title>Propaganda war</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7586662.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The heavy cost of Russia's conflict with Georgia]]></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[Court-room drama as ex-Bosnian Serb leader faces judge]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7584576.stm">
<title>Spilling over</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7584576.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Could Crimea become the new cold front?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7586438.stm">
<title>Caucasus voices</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7586438.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA['As we ran through the forests, they shot at us']]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/in_depth/europe/2003/inside_europe/default.stm">
<title>Inside Europe</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/in_depth/europe/2003/inside_europe/default.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[An in-depth guide to EU news and institutions]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7586801.stm">
<title>UK &#x27;PM terror threat&#x27; three charged</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/7586801.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three men held over an alleged threat to kill UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown are charged with terror offences.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7587598.stm">
<title>Russia hits back at G7 criticism</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7587598.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Criticism of Russia's actions in Georgia by the G7 group of nations is biased and groundless, Russian officials say.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7585711.stm">
<title>Hague court charges ex-official</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7585711.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A former spokeswoman for the UN war crimes court in The Hague is charged with revealing confidential information.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7585929.stm">
<title>Czech firm plans giant wind farm</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7585929.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Czech power firm CEZ is to build what it says will be Europe's largest onshore wind farm, in a £1.1bn-euro project.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7586534.stm">
<title>EU concern over phone bill trend</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7586534.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some mobile phone operators across Europe have been rounding up call durations to leave customers with higher bills, the European Commission says.]]></description>
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<title>Italy police probe monastery raid</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7585841.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Police probe a hooded gang's brutal attack on friars at a monastery in northern Italy, which left one victim in a coma.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/7585437.stm">
<title>UK gun factory man gets life</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/7585437.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A man who turned replica guns into live weapons linked to more than 50 shootings, including at least eight murders, is jailed for life.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7582077.stm">
<title>Islands give Finns treaty problem</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7582077.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The autonomous Aland Islands off Finland are yet to vote on the EU Lisbon Treaty - and a No would add to the EU's treaty woes.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7570962.stm">
<title>Rome&#x27;s battle of the bells</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7570962.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Time takes its toll on Rome's bell-ringers]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7576305.stm">
<title>Georgia fails to escape past</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7576305.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A modern country dragged back into its own history
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7570928.stm">
<title>The ultimate family tree</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7570928.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Meet Manfred, who claims to have the ultimate family tree]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5250&#x26;edition=2&#x26;ttl=20080821144122">
<title>Will US-Poland missile deal help keep the peace?</title>
<link>http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5250&#x26;edition=2&#x26;ttl=20080821144122</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Italian government has deployed thousands of soldiers in major cities in a new drive against crime. Do you support the move?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7585427.stm">
<title>Profits plunge at Credit Agricole</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7585427.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Credit Agricole reports a 94% fall in second-quarter profits after the bank is hit by a loss at its investment banking division.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7583971.stm">
<title>E.ON to cut 1,800 jobs in Germany</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7583971.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[E.ON confirms it is cutting 1,800 sales jobs as it closes two-thirds of its German service centres.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Georgia and Russia Cut Diplomatic Ties</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Georgian government broke off diplomatic relations with Russia on Friday and Russia responded by doing the same.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30hague.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Karadzic Declines to Plead at War Crimes Court</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30hague.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused Friday to enter pleas on the 11 charges he faces at the United Nations war crimes tribunal.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/worldbusiness/30trade.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Russia to Ban Imports of Some U.S. Poultry</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/worldbusiness/30trade.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia will ban imports from 19 producers in the United States and warned that an additional 29 suppliers face a possible ban on health and safety grounds.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30brief-USACTSONCOUR_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Britain: U.S. Acts on Court Files</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30brief-USACTSONCOUR_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a reversal, the Bush administration turned over documents that may support allegations by a Guantánamo Bay detainee that he was tortured while in American custody in Pakistan.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30brief-COUNCILBACKS_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Council Backs Mosque</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/europe/30brief-COUNCILBACKS_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cologne’s city council voted to allow construction of what will be one of Germany’s largest mosques, a plan vigorously opposed by many residents.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/worldbusiness/30briefs-EUROPEANINDE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Business Briefing | International Business: European Index of Economic Confidence Slumps</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/worldbusiness/30briefs-EUROPEANINDE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Europeans’ confidence fell more than forecast this month as the economy teetered on the brink of a recession.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29ossetia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>An Embattled Enclave Yearns to Be Free (and Liechtenstein)</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29ossetia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations has filled people in the region with hope that other countries will follow.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29policy.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Russia Deal May Fall, a Casualty of Conflict</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29policy.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The imminent collapse of a nuclear deal between the United States and Russia represents the most tangible casualty so far of deteriorating relations with Russia.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Security Group Refuses to Back Russia&#x2019;s Actions</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Members of a regional security group offered little support for Moscow’s military action in Georgia.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29briefs-70MISSINGAFT_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Malta: 70 Missing After Boat Capsizes</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29briefs-70MISSINGAFT_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[About 70 African migrants were missing after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean near Malta, the United Nations refugee agency said.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29briefs-3CHARGEDINTE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Britain: 3 Charged in Terrorism Case</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29briefs-3CHARGEDINTE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three men were charged with terrorism-related offenses, including soliciting murder and belonging or professing to belong to Al Qaeda, the police said.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/europe/28britain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Fifth Arrest in Suspected Plot Against British Leaders</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/europe/28britain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Police investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man, the fifth arrest in two weeks.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/28nosenko.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Yuri Nosenko, Soviet Spy Who Defected, Dies at 81</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/28nosenko.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Nosenko was a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the cold war.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/europe/28briefs-FORMEREMPLOY_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: The Hague: Former Employee Is Accused of Contempt of Court</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/europe/28briefs-FORMEREMPLOY_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Florence Hartmann, a former spokeswoman for the prosecution at the United Nations war crimes tribunal, is accused to have disclosed confidential information in a book after she left the court.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/europe/28briefs-SARKOZYREACH_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Middle East: Sarkozy Reaches Out to Syria</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/europe/28briefs-SARKOZYREACH_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has announced plans to go to Syria next Wednesday to pursue restoring diplomatic ties.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27moscow.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Stocks Tumble in Moscow After Russia Recognizes Separatist Regions in Georgia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27moscow.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The loss of billions of dollars in paper value is confronting the Kremlin with a dimension to its geopolitical posturing that never existed during the cold war.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27hague.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Fair Trial Unlikely, Karadzic Argues</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27hague.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, said that negative publicity has made a fair trial impossible for him and called for the dismissal of charges against him.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27medvedev.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Medvedev&#x2019;s Statement on South Ossetia and Abkhazia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27medvedev.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The text of the statement made by the president of Russia, Dmitri A. Medvedev, recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from the Republic of Georgia.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27saakashvili.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Saakashvili&#x2019;s Statement on Russia&#x2019; Action</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27saakashvili.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here is the written statement by the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, concerning Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27briefs-SUSPECTARRES_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Suspect Arrested in Threats to Prime Minister</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27briefs-SUSPECTARRES_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A 25-year-old terrorism suspect was arrested in Blackburn, Lancashire in connection with terrorist threats made against Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26ossetia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Enclave Hails Tight Embrace From Moscow</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26ossetia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia’s Parliament wants independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but most Western countries support Georgia’s territorial integrity.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>E.U. Treads Gingerly in Georgia Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26russia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Georgia next week, in the highest level diplomatic visit by the United States to the region since Russia’s military operations began.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/politics/26policy.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Guns Silent, Moscow and Tbilisi Open New Front in Denver</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/politics/26policy.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A delegation from Georgia, the former Soviet republic that fought a war with Russia this month, was in Denver to plead its case to political figures.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26britain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Britain&#x2019;s Thatcher Has Dementia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26britain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been suffering from dementia for at least the past eight years, according to a memoir published by her daughter.    

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<title>Michael Baxandall, Pioneering Art Historian, Dies at 74</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/26baxandall.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Baxandall’s analysis of the social forces shaping works of art and the way they were seen helped pave the way for the influential movement known as the new art history.    

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<title>Attacks on Foreign Tourists Stir Crime Debate in Italy</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26italy.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Opposition lawmakers leapt on the episodes as showing that the government’s stance on crime and illegal immigration had been little more than window dressing.    

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<title>World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Nazi Labor Documented</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26briefs-NAZILABORDOC_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Germany handed over copies of more than 6.7 million documents relating to forced labor under the Nazis to three organizations.    

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<title>World Briefing | Europe: France: Bodies of Climbers Found</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26briefs-BODIESOFCLIM_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The bodies of eight climbers were found Monday after an avalanche on Sunday near Mont Blanc in the French Alps.    

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<title>World Briefing | Europe: France: Oyster Farmers in Protest</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26briefs-OYSTERFARMER_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[About 100 oyster farmers dumped at least 12 tons of oyster shells on the doorstep of a government office in Bordeaux to demand more aid to overcome a shellfish crisis.    

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<title>World Briefing | Europe: Switzerland: Effort Against S.U.V.&#x2019;s</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/europe/26briefs-EFFORTAGAINS_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Swiss campaigners began an effort to ban off-road vehicles, sport utility vehicles and gas-guzzling sports cars, winning enough support for a referendum.    

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<title>Russian Actions Reignite Tensions Over Strategic Port in Ukraine</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/world/europe/25ukraine.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The presence of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol prompted Ukraine’s president, Viktor A. Yushchenko, to again push for inclusion in NATO.    

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<title>Diplomatic Memo: A Role for Merkel as a Bridge to Russia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/world/europe/25diplo.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, is being pressed to use her influence with Russia’s leaders to help resolve the crisis in Georgia.    

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<title>Media Talk: Caucasus War Draws Interest</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/business/media/25coverage.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[How did the Russia-Georgia conflict draw big coverage in a busy news week? The media placed it in a cold war context in terms Americans could grasp.    

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<title>8 Feared Dead in Avalanche in French Alps</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/world/europe/25climb.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[“There’s no chance of finding anyone alive,” the French interior minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, said while visiting the area.    

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<title>Death Toll in Madrid Air Crash Up to 154</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/world/europe/25madrid.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The number of those killed in the crash of a Spanair plane last week in Madrid rose to 154 during the weekend, when a patient suffering from severe burns died.    

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<title>Leo Abse, Labor Party Stalwart From Wales, Is Dead at 91</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/world/europe/25abse.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Abse was a colorful Welsh politician who took a leading role in liberalizing laws on homosexuality and divorce.    

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<title>Shift at the Top Emphasizes SAP&#x2019;s Bottom Line</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/technology/25sap.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Executive changes at the software maker SAP have fed an irresistible narrative in financial markets: the software egghead is yielding to the uncompromising money maker.    

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<title>Antsy Adolescents Romp at Edinburgh Festivals</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/theater/25frin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Significant shows at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe considered the anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24barry.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>The World: Barriers That Are Steep and Linguistic</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24barry.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[To understand the conflict in Georgia, listen to how people speak in the Caucasus.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/europe/24crete.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/europe/24crete.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Malia, Greece, is the latest in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly.    

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<title>At Conference on the Risks to Earth, Few Are Optimistic</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/europe/24sicily.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The goal of the conference is to foster “a science without secrets and without borders,” mixing disciplines and cultures, in the hopes of propelling breakthroughs.    

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<title>The World: It&#x2019;s Legacy Time. Rice Fights for Hers on Familiar Turf.</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24mabry.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As her tenure winds down, the Russia expert faces a personal test.    

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<title>After Pullout, Russia Envisions Long-Term Shift</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/europe/23moscow.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[It is becoming clearer that Moscow has no intention of restoring what was, on the ground or diplomatically.    

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<title>Russia Pulls the Bulk of Its Forces Out of Georgia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/europe/23georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia’s withdrawal of forces on Friday, if less than what Georgia sought, opened traffic on Georgia’s main road and allowed its police to return to the city of Gori.    

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<title>British Inmates&#x2019; Private Data Is Lost in Latest Government Security Breach</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/europe/23britain.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A private consulting company working for Britain’s Home Office has lost a memory stick containing personal details on all of the 84,000 prisoners serving time in England and Wales.    

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<title>French Premier Backs Vote on Deployment in Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/europe/23france.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister François Fillon said on Friday that he would support a parliamentary vote in September on the troop deployment in line with recent constitutional changes.    

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<title>Wolfgang Vogel, Negotiator in Spy Swaps, Dies at 82</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/europe/23vogel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. Vogel became a wealthy man in the cold war by opening cracks in the Berlin Wall to swap captured spies and release political prisoners.    

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<title>Putin Suggests U.S. Provocation in Georgia Clash</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29putin.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia’s prime minister said he thought the U.S. might have helped “stir up” the conflict to benefit one of the presidential candidates.    

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<title>Memo From Europe: A Hard Habit to Break, Even With Gas at $10 a Gallon</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29fuel.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Transportation experts say that many Europeans, out of necessity, habit or love, have proved surprisingly willing to bear the extra cost of driving.    

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<title>

        Italy mobsters block efforts to clean up toxic trash heaps</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738145/la-fg-ecomafia30-2008aug30,0,7772401.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Residents in the Naples area have higher rates of cancer and other diseases. Activists who fight back have been threatened and witnesses killed.
                        
                    
                    
                        Raffaele   del Giudice was a crusader. Squeezed into a sports jacket and a beat-up Fiat, he roamed the illegal trash dumps of southern Italy, covering his nose against the stench and exposing what he considers the ecological crime of the century.]]></description>
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<title>

        Obama turns to Greek columns for support</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738146/la-et-notebook30-2008aug30,0,653160.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Athenian stadium backdrop for the Democratic candidate's acceptance speech is rife with symbolism.
                        
                    
                    
                        In 1960, after John F. Kennedy decided to move his convention acceptance speech from the brand-new Sports Arena to the larger Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum next door, he addressed a crowd of 80,000 from a stage that seen through 21st century eyes looks innocent and modest, if not clumsy. On the front of the lectern, just beneath the microphones, was a simple sign, its capital letters as skinny as Kennedy's tie, reading "Democratic National Convention." Below that, a large painted eagle spread its wings.]]></description>
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<title>

        Robert Kendrick tests Novak Djokovic at U.S. Open</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738147/la-sp-streeter30-2008aug30,0,7258516.column</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Pepperdine standout Kendrick looks strong in first set, but Serbia's Djokovic then shows why he is No. 3-ranked player.
                        
                    
                    
                        NEW YORK -- For the first 12 games, they played as equals.]]></description>
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<title>

        Science Briefing</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738148/la-sci-briefs30-2008aug30,0,6304271.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ancient gold wreath found in Greece / Pre-Inca mummy pulled from tomb in Peru / Uric acid linked to hypertension / New Yorkers contracting HIV at three times the U.S. rate / Vaccine helps fight off fa
                        
                    
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<title>

        &#x27;The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British&#x27; by Sarah Lyall</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738149/la-et-book30-2008aug30,0,7981752.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[An American's view of those quirky (to us) Brits
                        
                    
                    
                        OUR FASCINATION with the British is Oedipal. "Murdering the King's English," my New England grandmother used to mutter in the face of bad grammar. (Clearly, it made no impression on me.)]]></description>
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        Italy&#x27;s Alitalia in bankruptcy; Canada&#x27;s Zoom airline ceases flying</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738150/la-fi-airlines30-2008aug30,0,3227448.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Alitalia files for bankruptcy protection and transatlantic carrier Zoom goes belly up, stranding thousands of travelers.
                        
                    
                    
                        The airline industry suffered two more casualties Friday as Italian airline Alitalia filed for bankruptcy protection and Canadian carrier Zoom went belly up, stranding at least 4,500 travelers.]]></description>
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        Georgia breaks off ties with Russia</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738151/la-fg-georgia30-2008aug30,0,1660402.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said the move would only make things worse.]]></description>
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        Karadzic refuses to enter pleas</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378427980/la-fg-karadzic30-2008aug30,0,3826458.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made a defiant stand before a U.N. court preparing to try him on genocide charges, refusing to enter pleas Friday and branding the tribunal a NATO proxy out to "liquidate" him.]]></description>
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<title>

        Galaxy plays at New England</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738152/la-sp-galaxytonight30-2008aug30,0,3503406.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Galaxy will be trying to put an end to its nine-game winless streak.
                        
                    
                    
                        at New England, 4:30 PDT  HDNet, FSN Prime Ticket]]></description>
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        Alitalia filed for bankruptcy protection</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/europe/~3/378738153/la-trw-alitalia-2008aug30,0,861433.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Itlian carrier says it has been losing $3 million a day
                        
                    
                    
                        Alitalia said Friday it has filed for bankruptcy protection, taking the first step in a plan to restructure and downsize Italy's failing national carrier.]]></description>
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<title>Tests confirm no radioactivity release from incident at UN laboratory</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Independent experts have confirmed the initial findings of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that there was no release of radioactive material to the environment after an incident at one of its laboratories earlier this month.]]></description>
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<title>Over 2,000 displaced from Georgia buffer zone register with UN agency</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27871&#x26;Cr=georgia&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations refugee agency says that some 2,300 people from villages in the buffer zone between the Georgian town of Gori and the breakaway region of South Ossetia have registered in Gori as internally displaced people.]]></description>
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<title>Secretary-General convenes senior UN staff retreat in Italy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a retreat today in Turin, Italy, for dozens of senior United Nations officials to discuss how the Organization can best tackle key global challenges, including climate change, the food crisis, human rights and staff safety.]]></description>
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<title>Tensions remain high in Georgia, Security Council hears</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27862&#x26;Cr=georgia&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The overall situation in and around Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia remains tense, senior United Nations officials warned the Security Council today during a meeting on the latest developments in the Caucasus country.]]></description>
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<title>In Zaragoza, UN spotlights use of nuclear technology to protect water resources</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27836&#x26;Cr=water&#x26;Cr1=environment</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations agency tasked with promoting safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies will be showcasing its efforts to protect the world's water resources at a major exhibition currently being held in the Spanish city of Zaragoza.]]></description>
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<title>Former staffer at UN&#x27;s Balkans war crimes tribunal facing contempt charges</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27839&#x26;Cr=icty&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[A former prosecution spokesperson at the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s was today charged with contempt of court for allegedly disclosing confidential information relating to the case of Slobodan Miloevi&#263;.]]></description>
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<title>Resolving Georgian crisis may be harder after Russian move - Ban</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27829&#x26;Cr=georgia&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The question of recognition of States is a matter for sovereign States to decide, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today after Russia announced that it had recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two separatist regions in Georgia.]]></description>
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<title>Top UN refugee official wraps up mission to Georgia, Russia</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27784&#x26;Cr=Georgia&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres is today concluding a four-day visit to Georgia and Russia, visiting people forced to flee their homes by the conflict that began when heavy fighting erupted on 7 August.]]></description>
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<title>Ban to visit Italy, Switzerland and Spain on official trip starting late next week</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27787&#x26;Cr=ki-moon&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads late next week to Italy, Switzerland and Spain on a wide-ranging official visit that will focus on issues that include the global fight against climate change and the importance of water and sustainable development.]]></description>
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<title>UN refugee agency helps Serbia develop new housing for displaced persons</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27791&#x26;Cr=unhcr&#x26;Cr1=kosovo</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations refugee agency is working with Serbian authorities and donors to build new public housing for people displaced by conflict and unrest in Kosovo and other regions and close Serbia's collective centres for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/georgia.php">
<title>Georgia and Russia sever diplomatic ties</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/georgia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The move marked the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russia had severed formal diplomatic ties with one of the 14 other autonomous republics that became independent states in 1991.]]></description>
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<title>Putin suggests U.S. role in Georgia clash</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29putin.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's prime minister said he thought the U.S. might have helped "stir up" the conflict to benefit one of the presidential candidates.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29russia.php">
<title>Security group refuses to back Russia&#x27;s actions</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29russia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Members of a regional security group offered little support for Moscow's military action in Georgia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/nuke.php">
<title>Bush ready to scrap Russia nuclear deal</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/nuke.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The imminent collapse of a nuclear deal between the United States and Russia represents the most tangible casualty so far of deteriorating relations with Russia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/hague.php">
<title>Karadzic refuses to enter pleas in war crimes case</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/hague.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, appeared in court Friday in The Hague and refused to enter pleas to all 11 charges against him. He dismissed the tribunal as "a court of NATO."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/letter.php">
<title>The Olympic flame, for now, burns bright in Britain</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/letter.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The giddiness surrounding those acclaimed as Britain's Olympic heroes reflected a peculiarly British attitude - a reworking of the adage ascribed to Euripides that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.]]></description>
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<title>In Europe, driving is a hard habit to break, even with gas at $10 a gallon</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29fuel.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Transportation experts say that many Europeans, out of necessity, habit or love, have proved surprisingly willing to bear the extra cost of driving.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/germany.php">
<title>Cologne approves mosque over far right&#x27;s objections</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/germany.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The city council of Cologne has voted to allow construction of what will be one of the largest mosques in Germany, a plan that has drawn protests from residents and Cologne's Roman Catholic archbishop.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ships3.php">
<title>Nine medieval ships found in Oslo mud</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ships3.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The wrecks were remarkably well preserved because they had been covered in mud and fresh water, where river waters reach the sea.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29nuclear3.php">
<title>Alert issued after radioactivity leak in Belgium</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29nuclear3.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Belgian officials issued a warning to people living in and near the town of Fleurus not to consume locally grown fruit, vegetables or dairy products as a precaution after a leak at a research institute.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/america/obits.php">
<title>Yuri Nosenko, KGB defector, said to be dead in U.S.</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/america/obits.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Yuri Nosenko, a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the Cold War, has died under an assumed name, somewhere in the southern United States, a senior American intelligence official said.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/28britain.php">
<title>British police investigate murder plot against Brown</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/28britain.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Police investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man in central England.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/veil.php">
<title>Museum head apologizes for treatment of woman wearing Islamic veil</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/veil.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The episode, which has kindled controversy in the Italian media and arguments between politicians, occurred Sunday in a Venetian museum.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/minaret.php">
<title>Swiss government opposes ban on minarets</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/minaret.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government said the proposal would violate human rights and the Constitution.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/europe/ukhacker.5-326737.php">
<title>EU court rules for extradition of British hacker to U.S.</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/europe/ukhacker.5-326737.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights has cleared the way for the extradition of a British man who allegedly hacked into secret U.S. military computers, his lawyer said Thursday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/georgia.php">
<title>Georgia and Russia sever diplomatic ties</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/georgia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The move marked the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russia had severed formal diplomatic ties with one of the 14 other autonomous republics that became independent states in 1991.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29putin.php">
<title>Putin suggests U.S. role in Georgia clash</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29putin.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's prime minister said he thought the U.S. might have helped "stir up" the conflict to benefit one of the presidential candidates.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29russia.php">
<title>Security group refuses to back Russia&#x27;s actions</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29russia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Members of a regional security group offered little support for Moscow's military action in Georgia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/nuke.php">
<title>Bush ready to scrap Russia nuclear deal</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/nuke.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The imminent collapse of a nuclear deal between the United States and Russia represents the most tangible casualty so far of deteriorating relations with Russia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/hague.php">
<title>Karadzic refuses to enter pleas in war crimes case</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/hague.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, appeared in court Friday in The Hague and refused to enter pleas to all 11 charges against him. He dismissed the tribunal as "a court of NATO."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/letter.php">
<title>The Olympic flame, for now, burns bright in Britain</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/letter.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The giddiness surrounding those acclaimed as Britain's Olympic heroes reflected a peculiarly British attitude - a reworking of the adage ascribed to Euripides that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29fuel.php">
<title>In Europe, driving is a hard habit to break, even with gas at $10 a gallon</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29fuel.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Transportation experts say that many Europeans, out of necessity, habit or love, have proved surprisingly willing to bear the extra cost of driving.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/germany.php">
<title>Cologne approves mosque over far right&#x27;s objections</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/germany.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The city council of Cologne has voted to allow construction of what will be one of the largest mosques in Germany, a plan that has drawn protests from residents and Cologne's Roman Catholic archbishop.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ships3.php">
<title>Nine medieval ships found in Oslo mud</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ships3.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The wrecks were remarkably well preserved because they had been covered in mud and fresh water, where river waters reach the sea.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29nuclear3.php">
<title>Alert issued after radioactivity leak in Belgium</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29nuclear3.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Belgian officials issued a warning to people living in and near the town of Fleurus not to consume locally grown fruit, vegetables or dairy products as a precaution after a leak at a research institute.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/america/obits.php">
<title>Yuri Nosenko, KGB defector, said to be dead in U.S.</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/america/obits.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Yuri Nosenko, a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the Cold War, has died under an assumed name, somewhere in the southern United States, a senior American intelligence official said.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/28britain.php">
<title>British police investigate murder plot against Brown</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/28britain.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Police investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man in central England.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/veil.php">
<title>Museum head apologizes for treatment of woman wearing Islamic veil</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/veil.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The episode, which has kindled controversy in the Italian media and arguments between politicians, occurred Sunday in a Venetian museum.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/minaret.php">
<title>Swiss government opposes ban on minarets</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/minaret.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government said the proposal would violate human rights and the Constitution.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/europe/ukhacker.5-326737.php">
<title>EU court rules for extradition of British hacker to U.S.</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/europe/ukhacker.5-326737.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights has cleared the way for the extradition of a British man who allegedly hacked into secret U.S. military computers, his lawyer said Thursday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/asia/georgia.php">
<title>Georgia breaks off relations with Russia</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/asia/georgia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The announcement means that the Georgian Embassy in Moscow will be closed, and that Russia will withdraw its diplomats from Georgia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/population.php">
<title>Europe sets date when deaths overtake births: 7 years</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/population.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A EU study concedes for the first time that Europeans will begin their long foreseen demographic decline in just seven years' time.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/26russia.php">
<title>EU treads gingerly toward its next move in Russia-Georgia crisis</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/26russia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Georgia next week, in the highest level diplomatic visit by the United States to the region since Russia's military operations began.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/27moscow.php">
<title>Stocks tumble in Moscow after Russia recognizes separatist regions in Georgia</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/27moscow.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The loss of billions of dollars in paper value is confronting the Kremlin with a dimension to its geopolitical posturing that never existed during the cold war.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29russia.php">
<title>Security group refuses to back Russia&#x27;s actions</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29russia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Members of a regional security group offered little support for Moscow's military action in Georgia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29putin.php">
<title>Putin suggests U.S. role in Georgia clash</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29putin.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's prime minister said he thought the U.S. might have helped "stir up" the conflict to benefit one of the presidential candidates.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ossetia.php">
<title>An embattled enclave yearns to be free (and Liechtenstein)</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ossetia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations has filled people in the region with hope that other countries will follow.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/moscow.php">
<title>Russia&#x27;s NATO envoy, big on bluster, modifies his tone</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/moscow.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dimitri Rogozin of Russia is a charismatic orator with a rascally sense of humor, once a nationalist who hung pictures of Stalin on the wall. But he is not sounding so extreme any more.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/georgia.php">
<title>NATO ships cause alarm in Moscow</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/georgia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russian commanders said they were growing alarmed at the number of NATO warships sailing into the Black Sea and anchored off the western coast of Georgia.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/28russia.php">
<title>Russia backs independence of Georgian enclaves</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/28russia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Russia formally recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in a challenge to the West.]]></description>
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<title>Text: Saakashvili&#x27;s statement on Russia&#x27;s action</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/27saakashvili.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here is the written statement by the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, concerning Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.]]></description>
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<title>Text: Medvedev&#x27;s statement on South Ossetia and Abkhazia</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/27/europe/27medvedev.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The text of the statement made by the president of Russia, Dmitri A. Medvedev, recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from the Republic of Georgia.]]></description>
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<title>Arrest made after threats to Britain&#x27;s leader</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/brown.5-325525.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[British counterterrorism police officers arrested a 25-year-old man Tuesday during an investigation into threats to kill Prime Minister Gordon Brown.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/paris.5-325521.php">
<title>Paris mayor to run for Socialist leadership</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/paris.5-325521.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The acknowledgement by Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, sets the stage for a showdown with Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/thatcher.php">
<title>Daughter reveals Thatcher&#x27;s dementia</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/thatcher.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The former prime minister of Britain has been suffering from the disorder for at least eight years and has often had to be reminded that her husband is dead, Carol Thatcher writes in a new memoir.]]></description>
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<title>Georgian enclave hails tight embrace from Moscow</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/26/europe/26ossetia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[While Russian Parliament voted unanimously to support independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, most Western countries support Georgia's territorial integrity.]]></description>
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