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  <title><![CDATA[Can the Franco-German Partnership That Has Held the EU Together Weather Their Differences Tackling Austerity?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[At the heart of the European Union is a pact that was first formed by two European leaders who were determined to lay to rest for good, the past enmity between their two countries.  Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963, made his first visit to General de Gaulle, the French President and founder of the Fifth Republic, at his home in Colombey-les-Deux Églises in 1958.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:23:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Over and Out for Japan's Nuclear Industry?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the owners of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant devastated by the March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, reported a net-loss of $9.7 billion for the full year ending 31 March 2012.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:55:51 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Argentina, the Falklands and La Presidenta's Cheap Trick]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Friday, 04 May 2012, marked the 30th anniversary of HMS Sheffield being hit by an Exocet missile launched from a Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard attack aircraft of Argentina&#039;s 2nd Naval Air Fighter Squadron.  This went unmentioned in the British media except for a couple of clips in the City of Sheffield&#039;s local newspaper The Star.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 07:49:11 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Austerity Woes Make for a Week to be in Opposition]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On Monday 23 April 2012 a Guardian newspaper headline read: &quot;Conservatives turn three-point opinion poll lead into eight-point deficit&quot; in a story which illustrated the travails of being in government and not getting the PR quite right - on this occasion over Chancellor George Osborne&#039;s Budget.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335440/20120501/austerity-woes-make-week-opposition.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335440/20120501/austerity-woes-make-week-opposition.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 05:27:40 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Corus Steel Plant: At Last, Something to Cheer About in the North-East]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A little over two years ago, Tata Corus closed down their Teeside Cast Products plant in Redcar with the loss of 1,600 jobs by late February 2010.  With the parent company in India expressing a willingness to sell the steel mill, Geoff Waterfield, Chairman of the Multi-unions at Redcar, expressed th...]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/328673/20120416/corus-steel-plant-last-something-cheer-north.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:09:30 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Will Voter Apathy Save President Sarkozy and Give Him a Second Term in Office?  Will Mr Bayrou Save His Presidency?  It's a Close Call.]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On 22 April 2012, France will go to the polls to elect their President.  If no contender gains over 50 per cent of the vote to win outright in the first round of voting, then a run-off will take place between the two strongest candidates on 06 May.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/327754/20120413/will-voter-apathy-save-president-sarkozy-give.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/327754/20120413/will-voter-apathy-save-president-sarkozy-give.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:22:35 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Japan, Land of the Rising Debt and Age Problems]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Japan is going through a period of very hard choices which the current Prime Minister of its coalition government Yoshihiko Noda, is pressing the Diet, Japan&#039;s Parliament, to address. On 30 March 2012, Prime Minister Noda submitted laws to double the present sales tax of five per cent, proposing a rise to eight per cent in April 2014 and then to 10 per cent in April 2015.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/322733/20120402/japan-land-rising-debt-age-problems.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/322733/20120402/japan-land-rising-debt-age-problems.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:55:42 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Little Cheer For the Young in Last Week's Budget]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[For some time past, articles in the national press and media programmes dealing with current affairs, have indicated that the current younger generation is unlikely to match the living standards of their parents.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/319410/20120326/little-cheer-young-last-week-s-budget.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/319410/20120326/little-cheer-young-last-week-s-budget.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:29:03 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bo Xilai - Fallen Communist Princeling]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On Monday 19 March 2012, Seattle News Media informed its readers that the city&#039;s Mayor, Mike McGinn will fly to Chongqing this week but: &quot;...hizzoner...will have trouble matching up with his opposite number while there (because) party boss Bo Xilai was fired and disgraced last week, reliev...]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/317975/20120322/bo-xilai-fallen-communist-princeling.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/317975/20120322/bo-xilai-fallen-communist-princeling.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:46:13 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Japan One Year On: Tohoku Quake Victims Remembered]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On 18 March 2011, I bought a copy of the Daily Star newspaper.  A photo in the bottom right-hand corner caught my eye at first and then the paper&#039;s headline.  The photo showed two small children sitting on a railway line, warmly dressed against the cold with the little girl at least holding a school satchel on her back.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/312688/20120312/japan-one-year-tohoku-quake-victims-remembered.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/312688/20120312/japan-one-year-tohoku-quake-victims-remembered.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:54:29 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, Fall Guy for Lockerbie?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On Monday 27 February 2012, the Al Jazeera English channel broadcasted a programme &quot;Lockerbie: Case Closed&quot;, in which it claimed to &quot;reveal the secret contents&quot; of a report.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/309694/20120306/abdel-baset-al-megrahi-fall-guy-lockerbie.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/309694/20120306/abdel-baset-al-megrahi-fall-guy-lockerbie.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:43:43 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[UniF1ed - One Nation in Celebration - Bahrain 2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Last year, Bahrain&#039;s Grand Prix race was called off, even after it had been re-scheduled from February to June and other later dates.  This was due to the civil unrest in the country which had by then claimed more than 40 lives and over 3,200 injured.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/301979/20120221/unif1ed-one-nation-celebration-bahrain-2012.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/301979/20120221/unif1ed-one-nation-celebration-bahrain-2012.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:39:36 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[SCAF Can Still Determine Egypt's Advancement]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On 11 February 2011, the West&#039;s &quot;man in Cairo&quot;, Hosni Mubarak, was toppled from power, the result of continuing and increasingly violent anti-government demonstrations.  After 18 days of civil unrest during which all the Government&#039;s concessions had been spurned and with no tangi...]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/297613/20120213/scaf-still-determine-egypt-s-advancement.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/297613/20120213/scaf-still-determine-egypt-s-advancement.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:57:10 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin: A Scapegoat for All Seasons]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Press Association announced on Sunday 05 February, that disgraced former banker, Sir until a few days past but now plain Mr, Fred Goodwin, had resigned his position as a trustee of the Queen&#039;s Silver Jubilee Trust prior to being stripped of his knighthood on the first day of the month.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/293546/20120206/fred-shred-scapegoat-seasons-goodwin.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/293546/20120206/fred-shred-scapegoat-seasons-goodwin.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:35:49 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Scottish Nationalists Put on the Back Foot]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) have doubtlessly by now taken note that their path to Independence is not going to be as smooth as they had been allowed to believe, between their spectacular May 2011 Scottish Assembly Election victory and 08 January 2012.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/289548/20120130/snp-alex-salmond-scottish-national-party-independence.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/289548/20120130/snp-alex-salmond-scottish-national-party-independence.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:39:49 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mr Salmond's Referendum Mandate - Scotland's Right or Westminster's Gift?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In 1955, the Scottish Unionist Party, later to be renamed the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in 1965 and simply the Scottish Conservative Party by 1977, won 50.1 per cent of the vote and 36 of 71 Scottish Westminster Parliamentary seats at the General Election on 26 May of that year, with ...]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/282218/20120116/mr-salmond-s-referendum-mandate-scotland-right.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/282218/20120116/mr-salmond-s-referendum-mandate-scotland-right.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:26:38 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ireland Housing Woe Spawns 'Occupy NAMA' Movement]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Ireland had a rather gruelling year in 2011 with the Minister for Finance, Fine Gael&#039;s Michael Noonan, capping it in early December 2011 with the country&#039;s fourth austerity Budget in a row.  Aiding Mr Noonan in this somewhat unpleasant if necessary task, was his Labour, Coalition partner, Brendan Howlin.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/279487/20120110/ireland-housing-woe-spawns-occupy-nama-movement.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/279487/20120110/ireland-housing-woe-spawns-occupy-nama-movement.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:20:17 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mrs Merkel Takes on the Ratings Agencies]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[You&#039;ll have to shout, Mrs Merkel, because either the Markets didn&#039;t hear you or they have totally ignored your message.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/270986/20111221/mrs-merkel-takes-ratings-agencies.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/270986/20111221/mrs-merkel-takes-ratings-agencies.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:27:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Germany Calls the Tune, so Forget 'Quantitative Easing']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The eurozone rescue deal briefly outlined Friday by the German chancellor and French president hasn&#039;t gone down well with Standard & Poor&#039;s, but the &quot;Big Bazooka&quot; Summit?  Not if Bundeskanzlerin Merkel has her way.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/265433/20111212/calling-tune-quantitative-easing-germany-gets-way.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/265433/20111212/calling-tune-quantitative-easing-germany-gets-way.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:11:18 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rare Earths and the Electric Vehicle]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Rare earths have been in use in the chemical and steel industries since the 1950s - not to mention the military - and started moving into the domestic sphere when the likes of yttrium found its way into colour TVs and cerium into glass and ceramics.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/257772/20111129/rare-earths-electric-vehicle-china.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/257772/20111129/rare-earths-electric-vehicle-china.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:59:11 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Look at China and Hong Kong]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Last week,China&#039;s National Bureau of Statistics released the welcome news that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) year-on-year rate of inflation to October 2011 had fallen to 5.5 per cent, markedly down from September&#039;s 6.1 per cent. The CPI had peaked at 6.5 per cent in July 2011.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/253171/20111121/look-china-hong-kong.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/253171/20111121/look-china-hong-kong.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:26:48 EST</pubDate>
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