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<pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[China, N. Korea pledge to strengthen military alliance]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[SEOUL: Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance - dating back to the Korean War - during talks in Pyongyang, state media said yesterday.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Phone message in a bottle]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Indian artist Basavaraju Somaraje Gowda making a call from a mobile phone inside a 10-litre glass bottle in Bangalore yesterday. He had dismantled the phone outside the bottle, re-assembled it inside the glass interior, and used an earphone to make calls. With this installation, Mr Gowda has entered the Limca Book of Records, the Indian equivalent of the Guinness Book of World Records.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[What's Online Most Read, Most Commented On and More]]></title>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Zardari in a spot over graft amnesty]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: In another blow to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, the authorities have released the names of politicians, many from his own party, who benefited from an amnesty decree that dismissed past alleged crimes.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[US eases Taiwan's fears over China]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[TAIPEI: The United States has moved quickly to reassure Taiwan, less than a week after President Barack Obama's visit to China, by sending a senior diplomat to Taipei to allay fears that the island's interests have been compromised.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Dangerous job, but it pays well]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[HEGANG (CHINA): Mr Gao Shujun is one of the seven million Chinese coal miners who brave long hours in dangerous conditions every day, but it is the price he pays for economic survival.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Incinerator plan draws fire]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[A protester holding a banner that reads 'Oppose garbage incineration, protect green Guangzhou' outside Guangzhou government offices yesterday. She was among hundreds who protested in the southern Chinese city against plans for an incinerator. ]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Flood havoc set to continue]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR: Residents living on the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia are bracing themselves for more floods. ]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Child killer 'deported secretly' to KL]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR: Police are seeking the help of their British counterparts and Interpol to confirm if a convicted Malaysian child killer was deported secretly to Malaysia, a top police official said yesterday.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Yudhoyono acts but it may not be enough]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said last night that he has told the police and Attorney-General's Office to drop the corruption case against two graft-busters for lack of evidence.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Panic when storm hit]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[TANJUNG BALAI: Passengers screamed in panic and fainted with seasickness as an overloaded ferry rocked violently in heavy seas and sank off the Indonesian island of Karimun, survivors recalled yesterday. ]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Gunmen hit another foreign target in Aceh]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[BANDA ACEH (INDONESIA):  Gunmen fired at the home of two American academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh yesterday, the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners in the region, police said. ]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[50,000 flee as flash floods hit East Aceh]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[JAKARTA: Flash floods in the eastern part of Indonesia's Aceh province have forced nearly 50,000 people to flee from their homes since Sunday, Health Ministry officials said yesterday.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>23 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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