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        <title>Vietnam braced for typhoon's fury</title>
        <description>Vietnam evacuates more than 180,000 of its citizens ahead of Typhoon Xangsane.</description>
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        <title>US nurtures ties with Kazakhstan</title>
        <description>US President George W Bush  holds talks with the Kazakh president, boosting ties with the oil-producing nation.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:12:49 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>First UN council debate on Burma</title>
        <description>The UN Security Council hold its first discussion of Burma, which has been under military rule for decades.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:13:03 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Thaksin military allies sidelined</title>
        <description>Thailand's new military rulers sideline allies of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra in an annual army reshuffle.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:20:33 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Japan PM seeks better Asian ties</title>
        <description>Japan's new PM Shinzo Abe uses his first speech to say he wants to repair relations with China and South Korea.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:49:35 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Solomons Attorney-general held</title>
        <description>The Solomon Islands' attorney-general is arrested in Papua New Guinea amid Australian child-sex charges.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:54:26 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Telstra share sale date revealed</title>
        <description>Australians will get a chance to buy government-owned shares in national telecoms giant Telstra on 23 October.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:22:59 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Toshiba joins Sony battery recall</title>
        <description>Toshiba and Lenovo become the latest computer makers to recall laptop batteries made by Sony due to a fire risk.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:31:54 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Space tourist in Earth touchdown</title>
        <description>The first female space tourist lands in northern Kazakhstan after a 10-day visit to the International Space Station.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:16:06 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>F1: Alonso grabs China pole</title>
        <description>Fernando Alonso takes pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix with Michael Schumacher sixth on the grid.</description>
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        <title>Cricket: Hair security 'not at risk'</title>
        <description>India insist Darrell Hair was not taken off the list of umpires in the Champions Trophy for his own safety.</description>
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        <title>Chinese push for N Korea talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:08:43 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>S Korea's Ban 'leading UN race'</title>
        <description>South Korea's foreign minister wins a third informal vote on a new UN secretary general, diplomats say.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:40:09 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>China corruption scandal widens</title>
        <description>Another senior Communist Party official is implicated in Shanghai's financial scandal, a city official says.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:24:02 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Nations vie for giant telescope</title>
        <description>Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array, a giant next-generation radio telescope.</description>
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        <title>China denies prisoner organ sale</title>
        <description>Beijing denies a BBC report that organs from executed prisoners are being sold for transplant.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:40:37 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Samoa quake 'triggered tsunami'</title>
        <description>An earthquake near the South Pacific nation of Samoa has triggered a tsunami, a warning centre says.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:44:19 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Japan Airlines holds strike talks</title>
        <description>Japan Airlines holds talks with unions in an effort to avert a two-day strike at its domestic operations.</description>
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        <title>Thailand opens huge new airport</title>
        <description>Thailand's massive new airport opens for business, with only minor baggage-handling problems reported.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:24:57 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>US-China deal rumours boost yuan</title>
        <description>China's yuan hits new highs amid speculation of a deal with the US to settle long-running rows over the currency.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Head to head: Japan's royal birth</title>
        <description>Japan's princess Kiko has given birth to a baby boy. Here, two people from either side of the debate react to the birth and discuss the security of Japan's imperial succession.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:21:45 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Aceh peace deal, one year on</title>
        <description>People in Aceh talk about the year since the ceasefire agreement between the Indonesian government and separatist rebels.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Family rebuilds after quake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:41:52 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Bangkok airport opens to acclaim</title>
        <description>Despite an inauspicious start, Bangkok's new international airport opened for business with few serious glitches.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:02:35 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Thai generals seek image change</title>
        <description>Thailand's military generals want to be seen as the good guys for launching last week's coup, but they face many hurdles ahead, writes the BBC's Kate McGeown.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:52:24 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>Koizumi's legacy of change</title>
        <description>Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who steps down this month, may well have changed Japanese politics for good, writes the BBC's Philippa Fogarty.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:36:55 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title>China signals peaceful ambitions</title>
        <description>China announcement that it will increase its peacekeeping force in Lebanon to 1,000 troops will help boost Beijing's profile in the Middle East.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
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