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			<title>Pakistan: LHC orders ban on Facebook</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[<font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana">LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Wednesday 
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ordered temporary ban on Facebook, which is holding a competition of 
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caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). </font>
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<font face="Verdana">A petition filed by Azhar Siddique Advocate in Lahore High 
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Court sought ban on social website of Facebook which has caused a wave 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 06:26:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Facebook Loss Reaches Up to 2 Billions Euro last 2 days</title>
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			<dc:creator>BLUEMe</dc:creator>
			<description>Facebook Last 2 Days Loss Reaches Up to 2 Billions Euro, BBC News





Facebook Last 2 Days Losses Reach Up to 2 Billions €, BBC News If it 

Will Continue For More 7 Day iT would Reach to €40 Billion Euro.

Facebook Drawn Muhammad (S.W.A) Day, Page Hacked By Turkish Muslim 

Hackers.Muslim Ummah Will Always Love Prophat Muhammad (S.W.A).

Facebook Revenue From Pakistan

Facebook Earning &#36;11000000000

Facebook Users 4609,221,00

Per User Earning &#36;2.9

Pakistani Users 2349620

Total  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:39:59 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Pakistan blocks YouTube over blasphemous material</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked 

the popular video sharing website YouTube in a bid to contain 

blasphemous material, officials said on Thursday.    



The 

blockade came hours after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)

 directed Internet service providers to stop access to social network 

Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to 

draw the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) in gross violation of 

fundamental human rights pertaining to one’s  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:19:59 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>2009 Nissan V2G Concept Design</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>(from Nissan

Press Release) In the years leading up to 2030, the electrification of

the nation's highways leads to the creation of a new ultra-efficient,

high speed network called the 'GRID'.



Nissan's 'ON-GRID' compliant vehicle for the year 2030 is the V2G

(Vehicle–to-Grid). Wildly popular with consumers thanks to its low

cost, dynamic styling and quality construction, the V2G is the best

selling electric vehicle of its time. Nissan's comprehensive and

affordable range of GRID access  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Supreme Court quashes criminal proceedings against Kushboo</title>
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			<dc:creator>nandakishor</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[New Delhi: In a big relief to actor Kushboo, the Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside a Madras High Court judgment directing the chief metropolitan magistrate, Egmore, to conduct a joint trial of the 23 defamation complaints filed in various places in Tamil Nadu for her alleged remarks on pre-marital sex.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:19:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Speaker: privilege notice under consideration</title>
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			<dc:creator>nandakishor</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI:Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Wednesday said the breach of privilege notice moved against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by the Bharatiya Janata Party was under her consideration.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:22:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Dismiss Raja, says Jayalalithaa</title>
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			<dc:creator>nandakishor</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Wednesday called for the dismissal of Union Minister for Communications A. Raja from the Cabinet for, what she called, causing wrongful loss to the government in 2G spectrum allotment, and for the reinstatement of Vineet Agarwal as the head of the CBI team investigating the scam.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>'Osama Bin Laden' Facebook page shut down</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>NEW YORK: Facebook account in the name of Osama bin Laden was shut down Friday, after attracting more than 1,000 &quot;fans&quot; and posting the speeches and recordings of Islamic extremists produced by al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Sahab Media Group.



Omar Bin Laden says the U.S. won't catch his dad.



The page, which went up on March 25, referred to bin Laden as the &quot;Prince of Mujahideen,&quot; and set his location to the &quot;mountains of the world,&quot; according to the Arabic language  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:54:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cardiff Teen Stabbed: Police Hunt Two Men</title>
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			<dc:creator>aeman87</dc:creator>
			<description>Police are continuing to search for two men after a teenager was stabbed to death in Cardiff.



Aamir Siddiqi, 17, was killed when the masked men, carrying a blade, forced their way into his home on Ninian Road in the Roath area of the city at 1.40pm on Sunday.



His parents, aged 55 and 68, were seriously injured in the attack. They were given hospital treatment but have since been discharged.



Aamir is said to have been studying A-Levels and had secured a place to study at Cardiff University.



His  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:09:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Obama's salary</title>
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			<dc:creator>aeman87</dc:creator>
			<description>





The annual salary of US President Barack Obama is USD 400,000 per annum, unlike many of the corporate executives from the Wall Street, whose annual salary runs into millions.



In addition to his taxable income of USD 400,000, the US President also receives additional allowance of USD 50,000 which is not taxable and is used for official purposes only.



At the current salary rate, he would receive a pension of USD 199,700 per annum.



The salary of the US president is determined by the  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:46:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>New Element Discovered in Sri Lanka to Be Included on the Periodic Table:</title>
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			<dc:creator>aeman87</dc:creator>
			<description>New

 Element Discovered in Sri Lanka to Be Included on the Periodic Table:



The Nuclear Physics Department of the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka

 has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new 

element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 155 assistant neutrons 

(aka ministrons), 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons,

 giving it an atomic mass of 442.



These 442 particles are held 

together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:45:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Pakistan and Turkey to improve strategic ties</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey vowed on Wednesday to strengthen their strategic partnership and intensify political and economic cooperation. 



During a meeting at the President’s House, President Asif Ali Zardari and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul condemned extremism and terrorism and reiterated their resolve to jointly defeat the menace that continued to claim the lives of innocent people.



They expressed their commitment to boosting relations in the areas of economy, trade, investment,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:39:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Scientists tease DNA from eggshell of extinct birds</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>PARIS: In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.



The achievement marks a major step towards drafting the genome of birds wiped out by human greed, although the scientists warn this does not mean an extinct species should -- or even can -- be resurrected in the style of Jurassic Park.



The team, led by Michael Bunce of Murdoch University  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Michelle Obama donates ball gown to Smithsonian</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>WASHINGTON: Michelle Obama said Tuesday that she'll always cherish the moment she slipped into her inaugural ball gown, a one-shouldered, white chiffon design she wore for her first Cinderella-like spins on the dance floor as first lady.



She'll have to hold on to the memories, because the gown isn't exactly hers anymore.



In keeping with tradition, Mrs. Obama donated the Jason Wu design to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History on Tuesday. It will go on public  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:46:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Toyota shares down at Tokyo market</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>TOKYO: Toyota Motor, world’s leading carmaker, witnessed 14 percent

decline in its shares amid news of technical problems in 8 car models

of the company.



According to a foreign news agency, Toyota issued a recall for the eight models, affecting 2.3 million vehicles. 



Investors

continued to dump shares in the global auto giant Thursday. Toyota

dropped 3.9 percent to 3,560 yen even as the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock

average gained 1.6 percent to close at 10,414.29. 



Toyota tumbled  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:20:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Shuttle Endeavour docks with International Space Station</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>CAPE CANAVERAL: The US space shuttle Endeavour docked on schedule Wednesday with the orbiting International Space Station, NASA announced.



The shuttle docked with the ISS, orbiting 346 kilometers above Earth over the Atlantic ocean west of Portugal at 0506 GMT, NASA TV said, showing live images of the maneuver.



The Endeavouor crew blasted off Monday carrying a seven-windowed dome observation deck for the ISS.



Built for NASA by the European group Thales Alenia Space in their Turin factory,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:12:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Vancouver named world's most livable city</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>NEW YORK: No matter how much criticism Vancouver is taking for it's weather, the British Columbian city takes the title as the world's most livable city, according to a new poll.



The survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, marks the second consecutive year Vancouver, the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, has topped the list. While, Karachi is 136th in the list of 140 cities.



According to the Economist, each city is scored on a scale of 0-100 on 30 factors in five areas: stability,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:11:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>NATO remains 'serious' threat to Russia</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>MOSCOW: NATO remains a serious threat to Russia's security, the secretary of the country's national security council said Tuesday, Russian news agencies reported.



&quot;We deeply doubt that we will be safer as a result from NATO enlargement. For us, the alliance represents a threat and a fairly serious one,&quot; Nikolai Patrushev said, quoted by the agency.



The comment came after NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen voiced surprise Saturday that Russia had named the western alliance  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:08:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Improve renewable bio fuel production</title>
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			<dc:creator>CraigOliver</dc:creator>
			<description>A research team from one of the leading universities in Arizona has found out a process to speed up the production and reduce the cost of producing renewable bio fuels.  The team successfully developed a photosynthetic microbe which helps in extracting bio-fuels easily and cost effectively.  



The costly part of a bio fuel production is the harvesting of goodies and the process to turn them in to fuel.   This new system doesn’t require energy dependent chemical process. It is basically a  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:41:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>CIA workers killed in US base attack in Afghanistan: report</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sundas</dc:creator>
			<description>WASHINGTON: Most of the eight Americans killed in a suicide attack at a US military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday probably worked for the CIA, which was using the facility, the Washington Post reported.



It said the attack appears to have killed more US intelligence personnel than have died since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan began, the newspaper added.



The agency has acknowledged the deaths of four CIA officers in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion, according to the Post.



Citing  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:50:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Iceland approves Icesave compensation deal</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sundas</dc:creator>
			<description>REYKJAVIK: Iceland's parliament approved Wednesday a controversial payout of nearly four billion euros to Britain and the Netherlands, which had compensated tens of thousands of savers in a failed Icelandic bank.



Although the payout has stirred up resentment among many ordinary Icelanders hard hit by their country's financial meltdown in 2008, lawmakers approved by a vote of 33 to 30 the measure, which had threatened to become a major obstacle in the small Atlantic island nation's bid to join  ...</description>
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			<title>Plane 'plotter' met radical Yemen cleric al-Awlaki</title>
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			<dc:creator>master412160</dc:creator>
			<description>The alleged US plane bomber met radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, after being recruited in London, a senior Yemeni official has said. 





Quote:Last week US security official John Brennan said there were &quot;indications&quot; of direct contact between the two men. 



Mr Awlaki was linked to an attack by a US Army major on the Fort Hood base in November, in which 13 people died. 

Yemen's deputy prime minister also said bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab used explosives  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:49:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>I just Found out that today is the birthday of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. So Happy Birthday Sir (wherever you are).

Here is Sir Newton's wikipedia article: 



Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential scientists  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:24:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sundas</dc:creator>
			<description>SYDNEY: Residents in Western Australia fled a raging wildfire Wednesday that incinerated nearly 40 homes in the country's worst blaze since &quot;Black Saturday&quot; fires killed 173 in February.



Hundreds of firefighters battled the inferno outside the wheat-farming town of Toodyay, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Western Australian capital Perth, apparently sparked when power lines collapsed amid searing heat and high winds.



Local resident Beverley Phillips, who fled by car with just  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:55:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Airline plot exposes pitfalls in US intelligence</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sundas</dc:creator>
			<description>WASHINGTON: The bungled response that allowed a suspected bomber onto an airliner has exposed persistent holes in US security operations despite the post-September 11 revamp, officials and experts say.



The New York Times reported Wednesday that the National Security Agency intercepted conversations four months ago among Al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen plotting to use a Nigerian man for a coming attack. Although the intercepts were translated and shared within the intelligence community, the information  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:54:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Arrest order issued for Bolivian leader's political foe</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sundas</dc:creator>
			<description> 	 LA PAZ: Officials in Bolivia issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a leading political rival of leftist President Evo Morales, charging the conservative politician with tax evasion and election fraud.



Manfred Reyes Villa, a former governor of the state of Cochabamba who challenged Morales for Bolivia's presidency, has been in hiding since the December 6 election. An arrest order has also been issued for his wife.



Morales won the election in a landslide, which gave him unfettered control  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:52:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Five Canadians killed in Afghan bombing: military</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sundas</dc:creator>
			<description>MONTREAL: Five Canadians -- four soldiers and a journalist -- were killed Tuesday in Afghanistan by a bomb that exploded as their armored vehicle passed by, a Canadian general announced Wednesday.



General Daniel Menard, the head of Canadian forces in Afghanistan, announced the deaths on Canadian television without naming the victims.



Public television station identified the journalist killed as Michelle Lang, a reporter with the Calgary Herald.



&quot;Yesterday Canada lost five citizens,&quot;  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:51:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Record of ransacking, torching of shops, vehicles compiled</title>
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			<dc:creator>Sundas</dc:creator>
			<description>KARACHI: Karachi police claimed, late on Wednesday night, to have compiled record of the goods, materials, government and private vehicles, banks, offices, buildings, torched amid Karachi riots following suicide attack on Ashura mourning procession, Geo news reported.



The ransacking and torching of shops, vehicles and motorcycles, banks and etc occurred under the jurisdiction of five police stations, police said.



According to details, thousands of shops, more than 60 vehicles including  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:49:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>CIA Supporting Terror Inside Pakistan</title>
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			<dc:creator>ShamzBlueWorld</dc:creator>
			<description>by Zahid Malik

After my four hour long informal interaction with US military chief



Admiral Mike Mullen and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke at the residence



of US Ambassador on the rainy evening of April 6, 2009, I had in my



comments mentioned that now the ISI was the immediate target of the US



Establishment. This was no “breaking news”  as everyone who keeps an



eye on the ongoing war on terror knew well that US was hell-bent on:



1.Getting the Pakistan Army sucked into domestic  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:57:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Pakistan to be at risk if we leave Afghanistan: Sarkozy</title>
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			<dc:creator>abiotic</dc:creator>
			<description>PARIS: France will stay in Afghanistan but will not send any extra

troops to the war-torn country, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an

interview published on Thursday. 



&quot;Do we need to stay in

Afghanistan? I say yes. And stay to win. Not against Afghanistan, but

for Afghanistan,&quot; Sarkozy told a French newspaper. 



&quot;If we leave, it is nuclear power Pakistan that will be threatened. But France will send not a single soldier more,&quot; he said. 



Sarkozy said he was  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:30:57 GMT</pubDate>
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