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    <title><![CDATA[CAW Chooses Ford In Effort To Secure Pattern Contract]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Auto Workers, or CAW, will concentrate on the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) as it attempts to negotiate a collective-bargaining agreement in the roughly 24 hours left before its fast-approaching strike deadline on Monday at 11:59 p.m. EDT.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Chicago School Daze: Strike To Continue A While Longer]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Chicago Public Schools will be closed both Monday and Tuesday, as the majority of the 800 members of the Chicago Teachers Union&#039;s House of Delegates who gathered Sunday voted to continue the CTU&#039;s first strike in 25 years.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:08:21 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US Issues Travel Warnings, Trims Embassy Staff In Sudan, Tunisia]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With American assets having been targeted during demonstrations sweeping the Middle East-North Africa region in recent days, the U.S. State Department issued travel warnings about Sudan and Tunisia on Saturday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:08:33 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US Will Cut Its AIG Stake To 23% From 53%, By One Estimate]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Because of the U.S. Treasury Department&#039;s announcement Sunday that it has launched an offering of $18 billion worth of its American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) common stock, the government will soon go from being the company&#039;s majority shareholder to being one of its minority shareholders.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:30:58 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Obama Widens Narrow Lead Over Romney: Reuters/Ipsos Poll]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With both the Democratic and Republican national conventions now history, the former party&#039;s incumbent Barack Obama has widened his narrow lead over the latter party&#039;s challenger Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential-election race, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll results released Saturday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:53:51 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Samsung&#039;s Market Cap A $12 Billion Casualty Of Patent-Infringement Case]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[In the wake of the $1.05 billion verdict delivered Friday in the widely watched U.S. intellectual-property case won by Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and lost by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: 005930), Samsung was battered in Korea Exchange trading Monday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:30:12 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[About 24% Of Gulf Of Mexico&#039;s Oil Output Cut By Tropical Storm Isaac]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With the approach of Tropical Storm Isaac in the Gulf of Mexico, about 24.2 percent of the gulf&#039;s daily oil production and about 8.2 percent of its daily natural-gas production has been shut-in, according to estimates of the U.S. Interior Department&#039;s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:26:57 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Death Toll Climbs To 39 In Big Blast At Venezuelan Oil Refinery]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With casualties of the earthshaking explosion at Venezuela&#039;s largest oil refinery rising to 39 dead and more than 80 injured on Saturday, President Hugo Chavez has called for an investigation to determine the cause of the firestorm at the Amuay plant in Falcon state in the northwest of the country.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:11:57 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rare Photos Of The &#039;12 Olympic Games (They&#039;re Not What You Think)]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The obligatory pageantry at every turn, the attendance of the European host country&#039;s royal family, and the participation of one who is arguably the greatest Olympic athlete of the modern era: These games had it all.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:58:00 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Michael Phelps Continues To Rewrite Olympic Record Books]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The amazing Michael Phelps won his third gold medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games -- and the 17th of his storied Olympic career -- as the swimmer scored a sensational come-from-behind victory in the 100-meter butterfly on Friday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:09:08 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[North Korea&#039;s Armed-Forces Chief Relieved Of All His Posts]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Could North Korea&#039;s days as a so-called hermit kingdom be drawing to a close? One sign could be the new status of Ri Yong Ho, the country&#039;s top military leader (besides Kim Jong Un, of course), who was axed, bounced, canned, discharged, just plain fired on Sunday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:51:35 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spanish Banks Could Get First Funds In $120 Billion Bailout This Month]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[One of the euro zone&#039;s two bailout funds could begin disbursing monies to Spain at the end of this month in a €100 billion ($120 billion) rescue of the country&#039;s embattled banks, according to an article by the Associated Press based on a story in the German newsweekly Der Spiegel on Saturday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:11:07 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[FDA Warns About Listeria Threat In Mexicali Cheese Corp. Products]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Because the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes was found in the Mexicali Cheese Corp.&#039;s finished product, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to neither consume nor purchase any of the company&#039;s products.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:23:54 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Enrique Pena Nieto Returns Presidency To Mexico&#039;s PRI: Preliminary Count]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Mexico&#039;s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, counted every president of the country between 1929 and 2000 as one of its members, and it may again soon, as an official preliminary count of the votes indicates its candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, won the nation&#039;s presidential election on Sunday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:49:42 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[You Auto Bike More: Chinese Megacity Launches Car Quota System]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[In an effort to cut gridlock and pollution in Guangzhou, authorities in the capital city of Guangdong province began a one-year trial program on Sunday that will cap the number of new automobiles hitting the streets, according to the state-owned Xinhua news agency.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:45:58 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[EU Embargo On Iranian Crude Oil Now In Full Effect]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The European Union&#039;s economic sanctions on Iran became fully effective on Sunday, but the Islamic Republic&#039;s deputy oil minister claimed the country will have no difficulty finding replacements for recent EU purchasers of its crude.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[It&#039;s Apple 2, Samsung 0 In US Patent Contests This Week]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) scored its second major win of the week over Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: 005930) in intellectual-property litigation on Friday, as Apple was granted a court order blocking U.S. sales of Samsung&#039;s Galaxy Nexus smartphone.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:30:12 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greece&#039;s New Leaders To Miss EU Summit Set For This Week]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Due to health issues, neither Greece&#039;s new prime minister, Antonis Samaras, nor the country&#039;s new finance minister, Vassilis Rapanos, will attend the European Union summit in Brussels scheduled for Thursday and Friday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:49:10 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[&#039;Vicious Cycles&#039; Continue To Go &#039;Round And &#039;Round: BIS]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Five years into the most significant global financial crisis since the 1930s, the world&#039;s leaders have formulated neither the fiscal policies nor the monetary policies required to deal with it, according to the Bank for International Settlements&#039; 82nd Annual Report, which was released Sunday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:13:22 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Almost 23% Of Gulf Of Mexico&#039;s Oil-And-Gas Output Cut By Storm]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Because of Tropical Storm Debby in the Gulf of Mexico, about 22.7 percent of the gulf&#039;s current daily oil production and about 22.9 percent of its current daily natural-gas production has been shut-in, according to the U.S. Interior Department&#039;s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:02:07 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Debby Cuts Oil-And-Gas Output In Gulf Of Mexico]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With Tropical Storm Debby more or less dead in the water of the central Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement estimates about 7.8 percent of the gulf&#039;s current daily oil production and about 8.16 percent of its current daily natural-gas production are now shut-in.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:26:22 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Syria And Turkey Agree: Warplane Was Attacked]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Both Syria and Turkey now agree the former shot down one of the latter&#039;s warplanes, believed to be an F-4E Phantom, over the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. The incident had been the subject of conflicting media reports.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:55:36 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Paraguay&#039;s President Ousted In Political Lightning Strike]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was removed from office by the bicameral National Congress in the space of two days, so that, as of Friday night, he is the former president, according to multiple media sources.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:22:07 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Suppose They Conducted A Relief Rally, And Nobody Came?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Certain financial-market commentators were -- er, uh -- commentating either early Monday or late Sunday (depending on one&#039;s global positioning) about a relief rally in this market or that market allegedly propelled by Greece&#039;s election results, which suggest the euro zone will not be falling apart. This week, anyway.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:20:30 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Egyptian Power Will Pass To Civilians From Military July 1: SCAF]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[As ballots cast in Egypt&#039;s presidential election continue to be counted on Sunday, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the country&#039;s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, has renewed the military&#039;s commitment to hand over power to a civilian authority on July 1.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:08:13 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bailout-Friendly Coalition Expected To Govern Greece]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Leaders of the center-right New Democracy party and the left Syriza party -- Antonis Samaras and Alexis Tsipras, respectively -- agree on one thing: The former party won, and the latter party lost Greece&#039;s snap parliamentary elections on Sunday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:40:16 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Shelves Shale-Gas Exploration Plans In Poland: Report]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Exxon Mobil Corp. will abandon its shale gas exploration projects in Poland because the company&#039;s test wells did not produce commercial quantities of gas, the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported, according to Bloomberg News.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:33:43 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[France Wants EU Growth Package Worth €120B This Year]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[With French President Francois Hollande&#039;s Socialist Party appearing likely to cement its hold on the country&#039;s government in elections on Sunday, the Journal du Dimanche has reported that France wants the European Union to agree on growth-boosting measures worth €120 billion ($151 billion) this year.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:21:46 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Korean Molluscan Shellfish Should Be Pulled From Market: FDA]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[U.S. food wholesalers, food retailers, and food-service operators have been advised by the Food and Drug Administration to remove from their distribution chains all clams, mussels, oysters, and scallops -- collectively known as molluscan shellfish -- that have come to the U.S. from South Korea.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:07:53 +1000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lockheed Awarded $489.53 Million Contract To Buy F-35 Parts: Pentagon]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) was awarded a contract worth $489.53 million to begin purchasing parts, materials, and components for a seventh batch of 35 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes, the U.S. Defense Department announced Friday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:32:18 +1000</pubDate>
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