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		<title>Agbogloshie, West Africa&#8217;s biggest e-waste dump</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/31/e-dump-in-agbogloshie-west-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agbogloshie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dumping and burning of e-waste in Agbogloshie has attracted significant attention from environmental groups, researchers and journalists, writes <b>Clair MacDougall</b>, a journalist in Monrovia, Liberia.]]></description>
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		<title>Dadaab, with &#8216;Furka&#8217; and &#8216;Turka&#8217;, no one&#8217;s going home soon</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/12/letter-from-dadaab-with-furka-and-turka-no-ones-going-home-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/12/letter-from-dadaab-with-furka-and-turka-no-ones-going-home-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dadaab's population has hit 450,000. That’s as big as cities such as Bristol or Antwerp. Or a camping trip three times the size of Glastonbury, where no one gets to go home, writes <b>Rafiq Copeland</b>, a freelance writer in Dadaab.]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia, where women pray before the polls</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/07/letter-from-liberia-where-women-pray-before-the-polls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/07/letter-from-liberia-where-women-pray-before-the-polls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia civil war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monrovia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 100 women dressed in white sit in the shape of a crucifix hoping to draw God’s eyes down towards the small West African nation of Liberia, writes <b>Clair MacDougall</b>, a journalist in Monrovia, Liberia.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from: Ghana &#8230; caught on the wrong side of the political divide</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/23/letter-from-ghana-caught-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-political-divide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/23/letter-from-ghana-caught-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-political-divide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cote'd'ivoire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Côte d’Ivoire may be relatively stable for now, human rights organisations continue to express concern at the government’s seeming unwillingness to investigate and prosecute its own forces, writes journalist <b>Clair MacDougall</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Dadaab, the world&#8217;s largest refugee camp</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/27/letter-from-dabaab-the-worlds-largest-refugee-camp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/27/letter-from-dabaab-the-worlds-largest-refugee-camp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugee numbers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s biggest refugee camp is getting bigger. Fast. The steady stream of new arrivals at the Dadaab refugee camp has now officially become a flood, writes <b>Rafiq Copeland</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Burkina Faso, rebellion in the land of &#8216;honest men&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/letter-from-burkina-faso-rebellion-in-the-land-of-honest-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/letter-from-burkina-faso-rebellion-in-the-land-of-honest-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revolution was quelled in the tiny west African nation of Burkina Faso. But there's bubbling resentment towards its 24-year president Blaise Compaoré and the conditions under which people live, writes <b>Clair MacDougall</b> from Ouagadougou.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from &#8230; Nauru &#8212; the worst place in the world?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/05/letter-from-nauru-the-worst-place-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/05/letter-from-nauru-the-worst-place-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nauru]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not many people go to Nauru unless they absolutely have to, writes <b>Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from&#8230; the DMZ</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/10/letter-from-the-dmz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/10/letter-from-the-dmz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[korean war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For South Koreans, a visit to the DMZ is a visit to a near-mythical place, where relatives may still live out their lives unknown. For tourists like me, it’s a chance to see the last front line between 20th century ideologies, seemingly frozen in time and space, the last physical barrier between capitalism and communism, writes <b>freelance writer Doug Hendrie</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: Belize, beating the drum for Garifuna culture</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/21/letter-from-belize-beating-the-drum-for-garifuna-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/21/letter-from-belize-beating-the-drum-for-garifuna-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While legendary Garifuna drum maker Austin Rodriguez has all but retired, the heart of Garifuna culture is still beating strong in his thatched-roof workshop in southern Belize. <b>Inga Ting</b> reports from southern Belize.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: Togo, a forgotten nation trying to forget its past</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/letter-from-togo-a-forgotten-nation-trying-to-forget-its-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/letter-from-togo-a-forgotten-nation-trying-to-forget-its-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberation Day in the forgotten African nation of Togo celebrates a coup led by a solider who four years earlier was involved in the assassination of the nation’s first democratically-elected president. <b>Clair MacDougall</b> reports from Lomé on the simmering tensions.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from: Uganda, where the party goes on despite a terror threat</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/11/letter-from-uganda-where-the-party-goes-on-despite-a-terror-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/11/letter-from-uganda-where-the-party-goes-on-despite-a-terror-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[al-Shabaab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide bombers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A specific terrorist threat had been made against Kampala for New Year’s Eve and there was an element of tension in the air, writes <b>Rafiq Copeland</b> in northern Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from: Nairobi, where crimes against humanity set the mood</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/letter-from-nairobi-where-crimes-against-humanity-set-the-mood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/letter-from-nairobi-where-crimes-against-humanity-set-the-mood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is understandable that the mood in Nairobi was tense. It is not every day that a country’s political elite is accused of crimes against humanity, writes <b>Rafiq Copeland</b> from Nairobi.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: San Francisco, and Bill Clinton on instability, sustainability &#8230; and WikiLeaks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/10/letter-from-san-francisco-and-bill-clinton-on-instability-sustainability-and-wikileaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/10/letter-from-san-francisco-and-bill-clinton-on-instability-sustainability-and-wikileaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stilgherrian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stevie wonder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["The great thing about being a former President is you can say whatever you want. The sad thing is, nobody cares anymore," said Bill Clinton to <b>Stilgherrian</b> and 15,000 others in San Francisco last night.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from &#8230; Ghana, home of bright lights and deep-water dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/06/letter-from-ghana-home-of-bright-lights-and-deep-water-dreams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/06/letter-from-ghana-home-of-bright-lights-and-deep-water-dreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil drilling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sea breeze swept in as we drew closer to the southern-most tip of Ghana and the closest point on land to the Jubilee oilfield, which holds an estimated 1.6 billion barrels in oil reserves, writes freelance journalist <b>Clair MacDougall</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qatar, their Cup runneth over</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/03/letter-from-qatar-their-cup-runneth-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/03/letter-from-qatar-their-cup-runneth-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the World Cup bid win announcement was made, the Qatar crowd erupted, as did several strategically placed glitter cannons loaded with little plastic Qatari flags. Parents hugged children, men hugged men, and ex-pats shook locals’ hands.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cuba, on the hunt for Hemingway</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/16/letter-from-cuba-on-the-hunt-for-hemingway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/16/letter-from-cuba-on-the-hunt-for-hemingway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grounded by a hurricane in Habana, Cuba, we fuel up on mojitos and go in search of Ernest Hemingway and his own slice of history.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from &#8230; Argentina, and a death that stopped the nation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/letter-from-argentina-and-a-death-that-stopped-the-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/letter-from-argentina-and-a-death-that-stopped-the-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez y Kirchner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Néstor Kirchner opened up an avenue of hope for Argentina, a country that has suffered so much, like all of its Latin American neighbours, writes <b>Leo Codutti</b> from Buenos Aires.]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea and a cult of the Kims personality</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/12/letter-from-north-korea-and-a-cult-of-the-kims-personality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/12/letter-from-north-korea-and-a-cult-of-the-kims-personality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Things in North Korea are a lot better than they have been in the very recent memories of most of its citizens, writes <b>Colin Jacobs</b> after a recent visit to Pyongyang. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/12/letter-from-north-korea-and-a-cult-of-the-kims-personality/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hong Kong, where democracy has stalled</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/29/letter-from-hong-kong-where-democracy-has-stalled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/29/letter-from-hong-kong-where-democracy-has-stalled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hong kong economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=175070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As well as being a base for international finance and banking giants who want proximity to mainland China, Hong Kong has its own business interests to facilitate, writes freelance journalist <b>Simon Roughneen</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/29/letter-from-hong-kong-where-democracy-has-stalled/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: Oregon, where &#8216;nObama&#8217;, Palin and guns take centre stage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/23/letter-from-oregon-where-nobama-palin-and-guns-take-centre-stage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/23/letter-from-oregon-where-nobama-palin-and-guns-take-centre-stage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ted nugent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Democrat-dominated Portland, Oregon, is not usually the right place to rub shoulders with the God and guns crowd in America, writes Ruth Brown, from Portland, Oregon.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/23/letter-from-oregon-where-nobama-palin-and-guns-take-centre-stage/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from Greece: life not travelling too well &#8230; unless you have olives, sheep and can fish</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/10/letter-from-greece-life-not-travelling-too-well-unless-you-have-olives-sheep-and-can-fish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/10/letter-from-greece-life-not-travelling-too-well-unless-you-have-olives-sheep-and-can-fish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=170917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tourism is the third biggest export earner for Greece, but this year has been, well almost, a catastrophe, writes Crikey reader <b>Tony Barrell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/10/letter-from-greece-life-not-travelling-too-well-unless-you-have-olives-sheep-and-can-fish/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: Las Vegas, land of blue-collar plenty a symbol of US decline</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/07/letter-from-las-vegas-land-of-blue-collar-plenty-a-symbol-of-us-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/07/letter-from-las-vegas-land-of-blue-collar-plenty-a-symbol-of-us-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US housing market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas is no longer the exception to the rule and is now a symbol of the broader social and economic problems the United States now faces, writes Crikey reader <b>Clair MacDougall</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/07/letter-from-las-vegas-land-of-blue-collar-plenty-a-symbol-of-us-decline/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from Warsaw: a cross for all sides of politics to bear</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/letter-from-warsaw-a-cross-for-all-sides-of-politics-to-bear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/letter-from-warsaw-a-cross-for-all-sides-of-politics-to-bear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polish plane crash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warsaw]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At first glance the scenes from the Polish capital Warsaw in recent days resembles those iconic images from the 1980s of a country under martial law, writes <b>Vince Chadwick</b> from Warsaw. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/letter-from-warsaw-a-cross-for-all-sides-of-politics-to-bear/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tel Aviv: I feel safer here than in Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/letter-from-tel-aviv-i-feel-safer-here-than-in-melbourne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/letter-from-tel-aviv-i-feel-safer-here-than-in-melbourne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab israeli conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Palestinian conflict]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=168283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the presence of guns, Tel Aviv feels peaceful, like most cosmopolitan cities although some reminders of danger exist -- bags are searched before entering shopping centres and train stations, writes <b>Ben Iaquinto</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/letter-from-tel-aviv-i-feel-safer-here-than-in-melbourne/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from Iran: nuts and riots aside, extreme kindness lives here</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/letter-from-iran-nuts-and-riots-aside-extreme-kindness-lives-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/letter-from-iran-nuts-and-riots-aside-extreme-kindness-lives-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bridges</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=167423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 30 days I interacted with the people of Iran like I've never interacted with the people of a foreign country before. Nowhere have I encountered a people so universally kind, friendly and generous. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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