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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:10:01 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Obama hails &#039;miracle&#039; of Israel, reassures Palestinians </title>
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			<description>Barack Obama called Israel a &quot;miracle&quot; as he courted Jewish voters back home Wednesday, but left Palestinians with the impression he would plunge into peacemaking if he makes it to the White House.</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Hardline Somali leader &#039;elected&#039;</title>
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			<description>A hardline Islamist has claimed leadership of Somalia&#039;s opposition, ousting a more moderate rival.</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Islam subway ads cause stir in New York</title>
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			<description>Ads promoting Islam are to be placed on New York subway cars in September, but a U.S. congressman finds people sponsoring the messages unacceptable.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Gay U.S. bishop should resign: Sudan church leader</title>
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			<description>Sudan&#039;s Anglican church leader called for the resignation of openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson on Tuesday to save Anglicanism from schism. </description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic caught</title>
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			<description>Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of a campaign of ethnic mass murder and a war crimes fugitive for more than a decade, was captured Monday by Serbian security forces, officials said.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Politics of the pulpit</title>
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			<description>THEY say that all roads lead to Rome and so it seems for Tim Fischer, the former deputy prime minister and now builder of tornado shelters says he ``turned white&#039;&#039; when he was told that he would become Australia&#039;s first full-time ambassador to the Holy See.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Archbishop dismisses suggestion of schism within Anglican Communion</title>
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			<description>SPECULATION ON a likely schism in the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference has been dismissed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title> Mending a Muslim divide</title>
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			<description>The &quot;Shiite crescent&quot; - an alliance of Shiite Iran with Arab Shiite movements in Iraq and Lebanon allegedly committed to dominating the Middle East - has become a popular intellectual shortcut to explaining Muslim affairs in the West.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Islamic insurgents target foreign aid workers in Somalia</title>
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			<description>As the violence escalates, observers warn of famine and the worst humanitarian crisis on the African continent.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Traditional head scarf unveils new rifts in Turkey</title>
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			<description>A political clash over the familiar head covering masks a power struggle between the elite and the emerging middle class.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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