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		<title>Only faint hope for a deal with Iran on nukes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/30/only-faint-hope-for-a-deal-with-iran-on-nukes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/30/only-faint-hope-for-a-deal-with-iran-on-nukes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[newt gingrich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pauline Hanson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[us presidential race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a couple of months things have been looking pretty bleak on the Iranian front.]]></description>
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		<title>Can the peace option work in Syria?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/03/can-the-peace-option-work-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/03/can-the-peace-option-work-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab league]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=256830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The big news overnight from the Middle East was an announcement from the Arab League that the Syrian government has agreed to the League's peace plan for Syria.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blood mixes with waste: Gaddafi pulled from a drain</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/21/rundle-blood-mixes-with-waste-golden-gun-in-hand-gaddafi-pulled-from-a-drain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/21/rundle-blood-mixes-with-waste-golden-gun-in-hand-gaddafi-pulled-from-a-drain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonel Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi dead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qaddafi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=254260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gaddafi may look like the main game, and he'll be on every front page of the world today, but he was a relic surviving into the new world from the old. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Compare and contrast: Yemen and Saudi Arabia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/27/compare-and-contrast-yemen-and-saudi-arabia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/27/compare-and-contrast-yemen-and-saudi-arabia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=249510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Promises of reform in two neighbouring mid-east countries: in Yemen, president Ali Abdullah Saleh calls for early elections  and says he is committed to a peaceful transfer of power. In Saudi Arabia, king Abdullah has announced that from 2015 women will be allowed to stand and vote in local elections.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Barack Obama couldn&#8217;t do in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/23/what-barack-obama-couldnt-do-in-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/23/what-barack-obama-couldnt-do-in-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barak obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Palestinian conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=248959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama's UN speech was completely unable to hide the fact that America's Middle East policy is headed for an almighty train wreck.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Dead Sea is dying (it&#8217;s not as funny as it sounds)</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2084164,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2084164,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=236848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dead Sea is more like a dry creek than a sea these days. It also contains eight times more salt than a normal ocean, meaning it's too salty for any living thing to survive in it. Who will fix it?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Revealed: US program to spy on Arab social media and mobile users</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/revealed-us-program-to-spy-on-arab-social-media-and-mobile-users/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/revealed-us-program-to-spy-on-arab-social-media-and-mobile-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber military industrial complex]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=231028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stolen emails have shed light on a major US operation spying on Arab social media and mobile phone users, explains <b>Barrett Brown</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey blazes the trail for a democratic Mid-East</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/14/turkey-blazes-the-trail-for-a-democratic-mid-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/14/turkey-blazes-the-trail-for-a-democratic-mid-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recep Erdogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=229022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's a bad time to be an autocrat, especially in the Middle East, but incumbents in democracies are not doing too badly -- and few better than Turkey's prime minister Recep Erdogan, who won re-election for a third term at the weekend with a substantial majority.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Long way from unity in Mid-East uprising on three fronts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/02/long-way-from-unity-in-mid-east-uprising-on-three-fronts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/02/long-way-from-unity-in-mid-east-uprising-on-three-fronts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 03:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hosni Mubarak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yemen protests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=220425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The wave of Middle East revolutions continued over the weekend on three main fronts. They show up an important difference between this year's events and the revolutions of 1848 in Europe.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dictator Watch: Syrians continue to protest despite massacres</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/25/dictator-watch-syrians-continue-to-protest-despite-massacres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/25/dictator-watch-syrians-continue-to-protest-despite-massacres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictator Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=213342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another Middle Eastern dictator is on the run. President Bashar al Assad, whose family has ruled Syria with an iron fist for the last 40 years, is facing the biggest-ever challenge to his rule.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/25/dictator-watch-syrians-continue-to-protest-despite-massacres/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Domino Effect tumbles the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2288928/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slate.com/id/2288928/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interactive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[play dominoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=212725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's been much discussion of the recent unrest in the Middle East, but this animated map by <em>Slate</em> clearly explains what's happened on a daily basis -- and where -- from the first protests in Tunisia in December to yesterday in Yemen.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch, time lord</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/23/rupert-murdoch-time-lord/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/23/rupert-murdoch-time-lord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=212520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Psst, can someone tell <em>The Australian</em> it's March 2011, not March 2010, please.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mid-East uprising stopped in its tracks by West&#8217;s strategic uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/15/mid-east-uprising-stopped-in-its-tracks-by-wests-strategic-uncertainty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/15/mid-east-uprising-stopped-in-its-tracks-by-wests-strategic-uncertainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahrain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=210442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The uprisings in the Middle East have been stopped dead in their tracks by a ferocious reaction from some of the world's worst dictatorships, emboldened by international apathy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>As Middle East moves ahead, are women getting left behind?</title>
		<link>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/03/changing-middle-east-are-women-making-progress/35727/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/03/changing-middle-east-are-women-making-progress/35727/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=209433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Women in Egypt organised a march for equality this week that resulted in a violent clash with a male crowd. As Middle Eastern countries fight against oppression, there's a growing concern that democracy might not include women's rights.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/03/changing-middle-east-are-women-making-progress/35727/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Middle East revolution that you haven&#8217;t heard of yet</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057061,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2057061,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=207932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oman is traditionally one of the most stable countries of the Middle East, but recent anti-government demonstrations left six dead from clashes with authorities. It's not the youth-led furious protests of Egypt and others, so how will it end?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve just backed the dictator</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/03/03/ive-just-backed-the-dictator/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/03/03/ive-just-backed-the-dictator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=207495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I know the odds are against him. But 6/1 ($7.0) about Colonel Gaddafi still being in charge of at least part of Libya at the end of the year just seemed to good to me to resist, writes betting man <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The new Tiananmen Squares</title>
		<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/01/a_road_tour_of_the_revolution</link>
		<comments>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/01/a_road_tour_of_the_revolution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt protests]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=207435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the revolution domino effect topples through the Middle East, <em>Foreign Policy</em> goes on a tour of the town squares where the democracy demonstrations -- and the murders -- are taking place.]]></description>
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		<title>How to holiday in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2285548/pagenum/all/#p2</link>
		<comments>http://www.slate.com/id/2285548/pagenum/all/#p2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurdistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=206932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraq isn't on most people's 10 holiday destination lists, but the Tourism Minister for Kurdistan -- a renegade state of Iraq -- is trying to change that. Sure, there may not be public bathrooms, but a deep sense of history and beautiful landscape makes it an interesting spot for a getaway.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tales from a revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/in-revolutionary-benghazi.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/in-revolutionary-benghazi.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya protests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=206823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Driving into Benghazi, Libya <b>Jon Lee Anderson</b> gets right up amongst the anti-Gaddafi protests, where border patrol want their photo taken in front of the new flag and freedom shimmers like a mirage.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>An inflationary kick along</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/02/22/an-inflationary-kick-along/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/02/22/an-inflationary-kick-along/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=205595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Uncertainty in the Middle East has a price, as reflected by 1 April futures for Brent crude oil published on the ICE Exchange last night, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>In people power, there is hope yet for the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/22/in-people-power-there-is-hope-yet-for-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/22/in-people-power-there-is-hope-yet-for-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab revolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=204960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arab people’s hunger for the universal values of dignity, justice and freedom is no less potent than that of the Eastern European or South American people, writes <b>Professor Fethi Mansouri</b>, Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gaddafi reads the same script as Ben Ali and Mubarak &#8212; but headed for a bloodier end</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/21/gaddafi-reads-the-same-script-as-ben-ali-and-mubarak-but-headed-for-a-bloodier-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/21/gaddafi-reads-the-same-script-as-ben-ali-and-mubarak-but-headed-for-a-bloodier-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt protests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia protests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=205046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gaddafi regime sounds just like the Ben Ali and Mubarak regimes -- only, it is inflicting a far bloodier toll on protesters.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>For Mubarak, the die is cast, either way</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/02/for-mubarak-the-die-is-cast-either-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/02/for-mubarak-the-die-is-cast-either-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hosni Mubarak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mubarak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia revolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=200729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Egyptians appear convinced Hosni Mubarak will use the period between now and the scheduled elections in September to further rob the country or use his security forces.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Revolution on speed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/02/crikey-says-revolution-on-speed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/02/crikey-says-revolution-on-speed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tunisian revolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=200559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is revolution in fast forward. Here's the timeline, from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen and Jordan...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s next to fall in the Middle East?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/02/whos-next-to-fall-in-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/02/whos-next-to-fall-in-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hosni Mubarak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia revolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/02/whos-next-to-fall-in-the-middle-east/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announced he won't be re-contesting the next presidential election (assuming he'd even <em>last</em> until September). The president of Tunisia was forced to flee just weeks ago. Which regime leader will be next? asks <b>Stephen Kinzer</b>.]]></description>
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