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<title><![CDATA[Independent analysis of Oruzgan mission axed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Australian government axes a $US3.6 million contract with international consultants hired to provide expert analysis.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The good wife]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Feisty, fearless and brilliant, Michelle Obama is Barack's number one weapon in his bid for re-election.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cook app transits the centuries]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WHEN Captain James Cook set sail to observe the transit of Venus in 1769, he was part of a global project to measure the solar system - and he went on to discover something even cooler, Australia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[State of the union]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's presidency has been defined in large part by his marriage to his No. 1 confidante, Michelle.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hand-wringers cutting off nose to spite Facebook]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SILICON VALLEY has a Facebook hangover. Mark Zuckerberg lost $US3.2 billion during the week as Facebook shares fell 16.5 per cent.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Array of hope: science the winner as rivals share prize]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT WILL be a team effort of cosmic discovery.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 14:08:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$33m slap for Pakistan over Bin Laden doctor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just $US33 million in aid a year - a drop in the ocean of the more than $US1 billion the United States pours into Pakistan annually - will be withheld in protest after Pakistan jailed the doctor who helped US forces find Osama bin Laden.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Princelings and paupers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When the kingmaker of Chinese politics, Zeng Qinghong, asked to see the quintessential Australia, his diplomatic minders treated him to jugs of beer and an oversized fillet steak at Brisbane's Breakfast Creek Hotel.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[O'Neill gets state of emergency powers before PNG election]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Papua New Guinean Parliament has given the O'Neill government state of emergency powers in the capital and two highland provinces allowing it to call out the army.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Corby must spend five years in Indonesia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SCHAPELLE CORBY could be out of Kerobokan prison as early as July, but would need to live for the next five years in Indonesia, the governor of Bali's jail revealed last night.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In thrall of the empire of the sons]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Business in China is inextricably linked to the ''princelings'' and the ruling party appears powerless to stop them, writes John Garnaut.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mob attacks cast doubt on withdrawal of Solomons mission]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WHEN a mob started yelling death threats and burning down homes in Koa Hill, an impoverished settlement in the Solomon Islands, last month, residents started asking themselves one question: what were the police and the Australian-led assistance mission going to do to stop the violence quickly? The answer was - nothing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Staying positive the Fox mantra for battling illness]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Occasionally while watching late-night TV, waiting for the moment when his hyper-kinetic Parkinson's-plagued body will grant him sleep, Michael J. Fox will be confronted by his former self.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A day at a time with Pollyanna by his side]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Fox tried alcohol but found optimism a stronger tonic, writes Nick Miller  in New York.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A tragedy in Niger]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A tragedy is unfolding in Niger where political unrest, drought, grain prices and poverty threaten 18 million lives.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Corby clemency backlash grows]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Indonesian government has been forced to defend the decision to free Schapelle Corby early, as the backlash against it grows within Indonesia.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:04:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Damaging' quake rocks Christchurch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A "damaging"  aftershock has shaken Christchurch.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:47:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Damaging' quake rocks Christchurch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A "damaging"  aftershock has shaken Christchurch.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:20:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[James Murdoch 'furious' over plans to block BSkyB takeover bid, Leveson inquiry told]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Conservative minister overseeing the Murdoch bid to take over satellite broadcaster BSkyB warned the Prime Minister that James Murdoch was furious over the government's handling of it and  "if we block it, our media sector will suffer for years", the Leveson inquiry heard last night.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:55:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Media inquiry told of lobbyist's dealings with top minister over TV bid]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LONDON: A lobbyist for News Corp exchanged 191 phone calls, 158 emails and 800 texts with the office of the British Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, during the company's bid for the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, the Leveson inquiry heard last night.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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