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  <title><![CDATA[Man Survives 180ft Plunge Over Niagara Falls In A Suicide Attempt: Broken Ribs, Lungs But In Stable Condition (PHOTO)]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A man, who miraculously survived the plunge of nearly 180-feet over the Niagara Falls without any safety device in an apparent suicide attempt, is currently in stable condition and is recovering in the hospital.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 08:59:55 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Petrobras Says It Holds Billions Of Barrels Of Offshore Oil]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras announced Tuesday the company has tens of billions of barrels of oil to be developed  from offshore oil fields.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:48:54 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Guatemala: Former Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Faces New Genocide Charges For Civil War Atrocities]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Efrain Rios Montt, former dictator of Guatemala, faces a new charge of genocide for the massacres conducted under his leadership during the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:07:47 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Recover After 9% Plunge But Fall Again]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, kept falling Tuesday, three business days after its $16,7 billion initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:02:54 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[OECD Sees Euro Zone Crisis Threatening Global Recovery]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The United States and Japan are leading a fragile economic recovery among developed countries that could yet be blown off course if the euro zone fails to contain the damage from its problem debtor states, the OECD said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:29:28 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Euro Recovers Monday On Technicals, But Greek Exit Shadows Trade]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The euro-to-dollar exchange rate recovered Monday from the lows seen late  Friday, when the European currnecy nearly touched multiyear lows. Still, the rise appeared to spring mostly from technical retracements, as tradersbelieve Greece will soon be forced to exit the currency union.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:38:25 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Afghan Security Forces To Take Over From NATO Next Summer]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[President Obama and U.S. NATO allies agreed Monday to end all combat missions in Afghanistan and transfer security responsibilities to the country&#039;s armed forces next summer after more than a decade of war.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:26:27 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[NATO: Phase 1 Of European Missile Defense Shield Operational]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[NATO announced at its summit this weekend that its European missile defense shield is now active.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 21:18:43 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mexico: Zetas Cartel Boss Arrested For Ordering Massacre]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Mexican troops arrested the Los Zetas cartel commander who allegedly ordered the murder and decapitation of 49 people last week.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:18:35 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook IPO: Now That You Own Shares, 3 Key Signs To Look For]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shareholders of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, are set to get the shares Tuesday, following Friday’s tumultuous first sales after the $16 billion initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:16:13 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Technology Focus: Facebook’s IPO Boosts Its Cash – Now What?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[One value of going public for any company is to raise cash as well as mint new shares for acquisitions. Facebook (Nasdaq: FB)’s $16 billion initial public offering was no exception.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 15:54:32 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Meet Priscilla Chan, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife [PHOTOS]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Chan, a Chinese-American fellow student, graduated from Harvard in 2007 and had worked as a 4th and 5th Grade Science Teacher at the Harker School in San Jose for two years before joining the UCSF medical school.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 09:37:44 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cuba's Hope Of Energy Independence Suffers Blow As Repsol Drills Dry Hole]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Cuba&#039;s hope of cutting its energy dependence on Venezuela by developing new domestic sources of crude oil has suffered a blow -- the first in a series of exploratory offshore wells is a dry hole.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 23:17:55 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342837/20120518/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-social-media-communication.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:54:06 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Prison Riot In Honduras; Inmates Take Over]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Guards have surrounded the prison, but to &quot;avoid a bloodbath,&quot; Prison Governor Orlando Leiva has ordered them stay outside]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342775/20120518/honduras-prison-riot.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:34:07 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[UN Chief Holds al-Qaeda Responsible For Suicide Bombings In Syria]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believed al Qaeda was behind the twin suicide car bomb blasts that killed at least 55 people in Syria last week.]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342601/20120518/syria-bashar-al-assad-un-ban-ki.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:52:24 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[34 Killed As Bus Falls Into River In Vietnam]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A crowded bus tipped over a bridge and crashed into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 20, some of them in serious condition, Vietnam authorities said.]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342533/20120518/vietnam-bus-crash.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:37:10 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Oil Sheen Spotted Near Brazilian Offshore Oil Platform]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian naval authorities are investigating yet another oil sheen seen floating near a platform owned by state oil company Petrobras.]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342435/20120517/oil-spill-brazil-chevron-navy.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:00:34 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Judge Recuses Herself From Engineer's Criminal Case In 2010 BP Gulf Spill]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Federal judge Jane Triche Milazzo has recused herself this week from the first criminal case stemming from BP&#039;s Deepwater Horizon 2010 oil spill.]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342330/20120517/bp-kurt-mix-judge-trial-court-milazzo.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:42:31 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chevron Expulsion From Brazil 'Unlikely,' Says Petrobras]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian oil company Petrobras, which helps U.S.-based Chevron develop offshore oil fields in Brazil, said regulators there are not likely to shut down Chevron&#039;s operations in the Frade oil field in the wake of oil spills.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:24:39 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mexican Generals Questioned On Drug Gang Ties]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Mexico&#039;s drug war has left 50,000 people dead; if generals are playing both sides, who is winning?]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342299/20120517/mexico-drug-war-generals-arrested.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:12:26 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chile Students Protest: Police Arrest 70 in Santiago Clashes [SLIDESHOW]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Chilean police arrested more than 70 students in Santiago in biggest protest so far this year over country&#039;s education system.]]></description>
  <guid>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342237/20120517/chile-student-protests-police-arrest-70-students.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:23:43 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[China 'Quietly' Nudging North Korea To Drop Nuclear Test: Report]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[China has been nudging North Korea to shelve the plans for a third nuclear test, though it remains unclear how North may react to the pressure, sources aware of the secretive discussions between the two nations have said.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:46:01 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Afghanistan Demands $4.1 Billion A Year; Plans To Sell Islamic Bonds]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan, bracing for a potential sharp decline in financial support from the West amid fears of a fresh military offensive by the Taliban insurgents, has demanded $4.1 billion a year for its security forces after the foreign troops pull out in 2014, ahead of the NATO summit starting Sunday.]]></description>
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  <link>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/342096/20120517/afghanistan-islamic-bonds-military-defense-spending-nato.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:33:17 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Baby Red Crabs Invade Cayman Islands, Could Signal Tough Hurricane Season]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Baby red crabs have infested the Cayman Islands by the hundreds of thousands, an in unusually heavy migration season that has caused havoc. If local superstition is any indicator, the Caribbean may face a rough hurricane season.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:20:20 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Losses From Greek Euro Zone Exit Could Reach €1 Trillion]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The financial markets appear to have already priced in Greece’s departure from the euro bloc.]]></description>
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  <link>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/341922/20120516/greece-exit-euro-zone-losses-france-germany.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:56:57 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Brazil Truth Commission Aims To Uncover Rights Abuses During Military Regime]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated on Wednesday a truth commission set up to investigate human rights abuses during the country&#039;s military regime 27 years after democracy was restored.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:24 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ratko Mladic Goes On Trial Over War Crimes, Genocide; Taunts Survivors In Court]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday on 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide during Bosnian war in the 1990s, which saw the Srebrenica massacre and the bloody siege of Sarajevo.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:54:32 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Markets Signal Imminent Greek Departure From Euro Zone]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Signs that a Greek departure from the euro zone has become inevitable proliferated worldwide Wednesday with Hong Kong&#039;s main stock index plunging more than 3 percent, bank runs in Athens and Britain&#039;s central bank finalizing contingency plans for a euro zone breakup.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:03:03 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Novelist, Dies At 83]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America&#039;s most eloquent and widely read authors and a fierce critic of governments, has died after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.]]></description>
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  <link>http://africa.ibtimes.com/articles/341440/20120515/fuentes-carlos-mexico-author-artemio-cruz.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:25:38 SAST</pubDate>
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