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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:30:07 GMT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin to step down as governor of Alaska]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Former Republican United States vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday announced that she will resign as Alaska's governor, fuelling speculation that the charismatic leader will seek presidency in 2012.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian lawmakers to hold a 'Harmony March']]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[It seems the recent spate of brutal attacks on Indians by Australians in Australia has left citizens of that country dejected too. To provide solidarity to the Indian victims,  Australia will hold a 'Harmony March' in Melbourne on July 12th.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[New Foreign Secretary Rao ready for challenges]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[India's Ambassador to China and the new Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said that she is ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mayawati's fad for statues puts her in tight spot]]></title> 
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/jul/04/mayawatis-fad-for-statues-puts-her-in-tight-spot.htm</link> 
  <description><![CDATA[Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahjan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's fad for building memorials and the obsession for installing her own statues has put her in a tight spot.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Shopian case: Exhumation of victims' bodies ordered]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday directed exhumation of the bodies of two women allegedly raped and murdered in Shopian last month to collect their DNA samples subject to the consent of their family. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Pak: Trial of 26/11 accused LeT operatives adjourned]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The trial in a Pakistani anti-terror court of five Lashker-e-Tayiba operatives accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks was on Saturday adjourned till July 18 without any proceedings. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[2 militants, soldier killed in Kupwara encounter]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Two militants and a soldier were killed in a gunbattle in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, police said on Saturday. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA['Black money, Maoist threat impede electoral process']]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Role of black money in elections, threat to voters from Maoists, mushroom growth of political parties and casual approach of urban voters impede the electoral process in the country, Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi has said. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mysore: Bandh evokes partial response, tension continues]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The bandh call given by a Hindu outfit to protest the attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing leader evoked a mixed response in Mysore on Saturday, even as tension continued in some areas in the wake of clashes sparked by the alleged desecration of a madrasa. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Lankan aid ship permitted to offload at Chennai]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A ship carrying aid for victims of war ravaged Sri Lanka, which had anchored off Chennai for more than a fortnight, has been permitted to berth at the Chennai port.]]></description> 
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