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		<title>On this day November 1, 1951</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6,500 American soldiers are exposed to &#8216;Desert Rock&#8217; atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada, the participation is not voluntary.

The test was one of a series of seven, six atmospheric and one underground, conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site.
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		<title>Chirac ordered to stand trial on corruption charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A French magistrate has ordered former President Jacques Chirac to stand trial on embezzlement charges dating back to the 1990s, when he was mayor of Paris. The order is unprecedented, and follows several other trials targeting former high-level politicians.
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		<title>On this day October 31, 1973</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after a hijacked helicopter landed in the prison&#8217;s exercise yard.

The escape made headlines around the world and was an embarrassment to the Irish coalition government led by Fine Gael&#8217;s Liam Cosgrave, which was criticised by opposition party Fianna Fáil.
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		<title>PM of Mongolia resigns for health reasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bayor was admitted to a hospital in Ulan Bator in October 2009. Due to his declining health, Bayar announced his resignation in a letter to Mongolia&#8217;s parliament one week later on 26 October 2009.
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		<title>On this day October 30, 1961</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Sea as a test. With a yield of around 50 megatons, it was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated to date.

 Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11556&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil&#8217;s dengue fever cases down 46.3%</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil&#8217;s number of dengue fever cases in the first seven months totaled 406,883, down 46.3 percent year-on-year, Brazil&#8217;s Health Ministry announced Thursday.
According to the ministry, from January to July, in addition to the Federal District, a total of 20 Brazilian states registered a reduction of dengue fever cases. The state of Rio de Janeiro, where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11563&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN Security Council extends Ivory Coast sanctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Security Council voted unianimously on Thursday to extend the arms embargo on the Ivory Coast (otherwise known as Côte d&#8217;Ivoire) for a year.
In addition, the 15-member council renewed a ban on exporting diamonds and foreign travel, as well as an asset freeze for persons who are discovered to have violated human rights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11559&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Governor declares swine flu emergency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to US health officials, New York state governor David Paterson has declared a state of emergency in the state as a result of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak.
The Associated Press news agency reports that the six-page declaration was issued because at least 75 people have died of H1N1 related illnesses in New York since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11553&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s to close all locations in Iceland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McDonald&#8217;s, the international fast food restaurant chain, will cease all operations in Iceland by the end of October.

The company blames the closure of the nation&#8217;s three outlets on drastically increased costs of importing its food ingredients, which mainly came from Germany.
McDonald&#8217;s corporation says the current economic slump is to blame for rising costs, along with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11524&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home demolitions in East Jerusalem continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite international calls for an end to home demolitions in East Jerusalem, Israeli authorities tore down five Palestinian homes yesterday; claiming they were built illegally. These home demolitions come after repeated calls from the UN and international community to stop settler activity and home demolitions.
The five demolitions took place early morning. Israeli authorities said the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11540&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day October 29, 1787</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mozart&#8217;s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague with the composer conducting.
The opera, full title Il Dissoluto Punito ossia il Don Giovanni Dramma giocoso in due atti, was rapturously received.
The Prager Oberamtszeitung reported, &#8220;Connoisseurs and musicians say that Prague has never heard the like,&#8221; and &#8220;the opera &#8230; is extremely difficult to perform.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11548&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientology is convicted of organized fraud in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 27 October 2009, the Church of Scientology was convicted of defrauding recruits out of their savings. One woman claimed she lost more than €20,000 in the 1990s.
Judges ordered the Scientology Celebrity Center and bookshop to pay a €600,000 (888,000 USD) fine; earlier plans by the prosecution to force the Church to disband completely could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11561&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day October 28, 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney&#8217;s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
On July 14, 2003, Washington Post journalist Robert Novak effectively ended Valerie Plame&#8217;s career with the CIA (from which she later resigned in December 2005) by revealing her identity as a CIA operative in his column.
Legal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11543&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day October 27, 2005</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/on-this-day-october-27-2005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers, involving mainly the burning of cars and public buildings at night starting on 27 October 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois. Events spread to poor housing projects (the cités HLM) in various parts of France.
A state of emergency was declared on 8 November 2005. It was extended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11520&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland and Norway donate emergency aid relief to Ethiopia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ireland has pledged €1.35 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia, in order to help quell the ongoing food crisis in the country.
According to figures by the Ethiopian government released on Friday, the number of people needing food aid in the country is 6.2 million.
Irish Minister of State for Overseas Development Peter Power said that he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11565&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tunisia to hold elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisians were to vote on Sunday in a presidential election, largely expected to be another landslide victory for the incumbent president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Elections will also be held to select members of parliament.

There are three opposition candidates on the ballot, among them Mohamed Bouchiha, the general secretary of People&#8217;s Unity Party, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11534&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan prepares for runoff election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan is getting ready for a second-round presidential election between President Hamid Karzai and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. The second round comes after the election commission nullified nearly one million votes cast in August&#8217;s presidential polls.
The investigation brought Mr. Karzai&#8217;s vote count below 50 percent, enough to trigger a runoff. The United Nations has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11530&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day October 26, 2001</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law, commonly known as the &#8220;Patriot Act&#8221;, is a statute enacted by the United States Government that President George W. Bush signed into law on October 26, 2001.

The Act increases the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11517&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu as national emergency</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/swine-flu-as-national-emergency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US president Barack Obama declared a swine flu emergency in the country on Saturday, according to a statement released by the White House.
Obama signed a declaration late on Friday, authorising health secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass some federal rules, in order to let health officials respond more efficiently to the outbreak of the H1N1 virus.
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11499&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baghdad car bombs near government offices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least 132 people were killed on Sunday after two car bombings struck the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Over 500 were hurt in the attacks, which were the worst to strike the country in over two years.
The attacks occurred at the Justice Ministry building and a provincial government office close to the high-security Green Zone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&blog=953471&post=11497&subd=formaementis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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