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		<title>Swimming to Cyprus</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/crikey-says-swimming-to-cyprus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/crikey-says-swimming-to-cyprus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab league]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homs continues to endure an onslaught of rockets and mortars in the regime’s worst massacre of civilians since the uprising in Syria began 11 months ago.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>UNESCO welcomes the Palestinians &#8212; at a price</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/unesco-welcomes-the-palestinians-at-a-price/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/unesco-welcomes-the-palestinians-at-a-price/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israeli palestinian conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNESCO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After losing some of the limelight in the past fortnight due to the Israel-Hamas deal for the release of Gilad Shalit, the "official" Palestinian leadership of Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas bounced back yesterday.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seven billionth baby scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/world/united-nations-reports-7-billion-humans-but-others-dont-count-on-it.html?hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/world/united-nations-reports-7-billion-humans-but-others-dont-count-on-it.html?hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seven billionth baby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us census bureau]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The birth of the world's seven billionth baby -- little Danica from the Philippines -- became a big media story. But while the United Nations says we've reached seven billion, the US Census Bureau argues that it won't happen for another four months.]]></description>
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		<title>Two thirds of global murders occur in Africa or central America</title>
		<link>http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/us-un-homicide-idUSTRE7951X020111006</link>
		<comments>http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/us-un-homicide-idUSTRE7951X020111006#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico drug wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the worsening drug wars, men in Central America have a whopping 1 in 50 chance of being murdered before 30, according to a new United Nations report.]]></description>
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		<title>Locals in Yasser Arafat Square: &#8216;we know the peace process has stopped&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/22/locals-in-yasser-arafat-square-we-know-the-peace-process-has-stopped/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/22/locals-in-yasser-arafat-square-we-know-the-peace-process-has-stopped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israel palestine conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestinian peace process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the eyes of Palestinians direct negotiations have become delegitimised, writes <b>Nigel O’Connor writes from Ramallah</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Palestine&#8217;s UN bin: a time of great opportunity</title>
		<link>http://inside.org.au/palestine-and-the-united-nations-crisis-as-opportunity</link>
		<comments>http://inside.org.au/palestine-and-the-united-nations-crisis-as-opportunity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=248235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The longstanding situation between Palestine and Israel has become untenable, but Palestine's bid to join the United Nations may turn a crisis into an opportunity, writes <b>James L. Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Palestine to seek full UN membership</title>
		<link>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4123199,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4123199,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mahmoud abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has confirmed that Palestine will submit a statehood bid seeking full United Nations membership later this month, reports <b>Roee Nahmias</b>. ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<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>Hold the treaty, I’ll have a six pack</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/15/hold-the-treaty-i%e2%80%99ll-have-a-six-pack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/15/hold-the-treaty-i%e2%80%99ll-have-a-six-pack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancun UN climate change conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN Framework Convention on Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cancun is probably the perfect venue for the 16th Conference of the Parties and for the UN climate change secretariat to kick the partying college students out for a fortnight and get to work on their six-packs. Because that's probably all they'll achieve, says <b>Giles Parkinson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>In smoggy Tianjin, &#8216;structural imbalance&#8217; is the hot topic</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/06/in-smoggy-tianjin-structural-imbalance-is-the-hot-topic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/06/in-smoggy-tianjin-structural-imbalance-is-the-hot-topic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china environment news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN climate summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Day two of UN climate talks in heavily-polluted Tianjin fittingly started with a side event on coal use in China. Burning coal and the "structural imbalance" of energy use is the hot topic, writes <b>Owen Pascoe</b>, who is at the talks for the Australian Conservation Foundation.]]></description>
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		<title>UN set to give Oz a serve on our racial discrimination record</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/un-set-to-give-oz-a-serve-on-our-racial-discrimination-record/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/27/un-set-to-give-oz-a-serve-on-our-racial-discrimination-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hung parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Territory intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Committee that monitors breaches of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) will report on its examination of Australia this weekend.]]></description>
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		<title>Fears for Pakistan floods: only 20% of UN aid received</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/world/asia/16pstan.html?hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/world/asia/16pstan.html?hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan floods]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up to 20 million people are currently homeless because of Pakistan's epic floods, leaving an already politically embattled nation struggling to survive and UN chief Ban Ki-moon pleading for aid from foreign donors.]]></description>
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		<title>Kosovo&#8217;s independence: a battle lost</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/22/serbia-battle-for-kosovo</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/22/serbia-battle-for-kosovo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kosovo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=156175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN has upheld Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia. The battle for Kosovo may have been lost, writes <b>Simon Tisdall</b>, but this legal decision sets an important precedent for other separatist groups. ]]></description>
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		<title>Iran explodes over UN inspectors</title>
		<link>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRqjZV1Meppj40hTs8IBOv4DdsQwD9GFMRVO0</link>
		<comments>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRqjZV1Meppj40hTs8IBOv4DdsQwD9GFMRVO0#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran nuclear program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons program]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=147424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More conflict between Iran and the U.N. has ensued following the ban of two nuclear inspectors from Tehran. Iran officials allege the inspectors leaked false information about experiments conducted at a research laboratory.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Something&#8217;s rotten in the UN&#8217;s World Food Programme</title>
		<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/235385</link>
		<comments>http://www.newsweek.com/id/235385#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[united nations world food programme]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/africa/10somalia.html">News</a> that half of the food aid sent to Somalia ends up in the hands of contractors, militants and UN staffers is just the latest scandal in a long history of corruption in the UN's World Food Programme.]]></description>
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		<title>How the UN poisoned Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-the-west-poisoned-bangladesh-1924631.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-the-west-poisoned-bangladesh-1924631.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[arsenic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking water supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a UN and World Bank-backed scheme to bring clean drinking water to millions of Bangladeshis went horribly wrong, resulting in what the World Health Organisation has labeled "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history".]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Copenhagen report</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/11/chinese-thinktank-copenhagen-document</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/11/chinese-thinktank-copenhagen-document#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese think-tank report from the Copenhagen climate summit leaked to the <em>Guardian</em> reveals the government didn't set out to spoil the talks, just to avoid rich nations' "conspiracy to divide the developing world".]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Ki-Moon: Help Haiti, help the world</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803513.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803513.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN Secretary General <b>Ban Ki-Moon</b> tells of his experiences in Haiti in an op-ed for the <em>Washington Post</em> and makes his plea: helping Haiti swiftly and effectively in its hour of need will give hope to the entire world's poor.]]></description>
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		<title>Did the UN mislead us on climate change?</title>
		<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece</link>
		<comments>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has egg on its face after its long-held claim that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 has been revealed as pure speculation published in a non-academic pop-science magazine.]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Galbraith: I was not plotting against Karzai</title>
		<link>http://www.sphere.com/opinion/article/us-diplomat-peter-galbraith-says-he-never-sought-to-oust-karzai/19289608</link>
		<comments>http://www.sphere.com/opinion/article/us-diplomat-peter-galbraith-says-he-never-sought-to-oust-karzai/19289608#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ousted former senior UN official <b>Peter Galbraith</b> says a <em>NYT</em> piece accusing him of plotting to oust Afghan President Hamid Karzai was false: the UN is just trying to distract people from its terrible mishandling of the country's elections.]]></description>
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		<title>The UN plot to oust Karzai</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/world/asia/17galbraith.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/world/asia/17galbraith.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following revelations of wide-spread fraud in the Afghan election, fired senior UN official Peter Galbraith planned to enlist the US's help to replace President Hamid Karzai with "a more Western-friendly figure". Is that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/world/asia/01nations.html?hp">the real reason</a> he was given the boot?]]></description>
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		<title>UN: Tony Abbott will motivate climate sceptics</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/abbott-fuelling-sceptics-un/story-e6frg6n6-1225807995911</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/abbott-fuelling-sceptics-un/story-e6frg6n6-1225807995911#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the recent success of climate sceptic Tony Abbott will help fuel other naysayers, comparing him to George W. Bush. ]]></description>
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		<title>PHOTO GALLERY: Portraits of the powerful</title>
		<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon</link>
		<comments>http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An incredible series of world leader portraits -- including audio about each subject's photo -- by <b>Platon</b> of <em>The New Yorker</em>, taken during the latest sitting of the UN General Assembly.]]></description>
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		<title>UN sends Nicolas Cage to fight Somali pirates</title>
		<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/11/nicolas_cage_visits_kenyan_jai.html</link>
		<comments>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/11/nicolas_cage_visits_kenyan_jai.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly the most qualified candidate for the roll, actor Nicolas has gone to Africa to meet with jailed Somali pirates in his capacity as a "Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime" for the UN.]]></description>
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		<title>UN secretly negotiating with Iran to lift nuclear sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6919329.ece</link>
		<comments>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6919329.ece#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Documents leaked to the <em>Times</em> reveal the United Nations has been negotiating with Iranian officials to lift the country's nuclear sanctions, allowing it to retain most of its nuclear program, in return for co-operation with UN inspectors.]]></description>
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