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            <title>Afghan forces will be ‘good enough’ to take over: U.S.</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan’s forces will be “good enough” to take over its security by the end of 2014, even though only a small number of them now operate independently from NATO-led troops, a top U.S. general said Wednesday.
              
Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti, deputy commander of U.S.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Syria sanctions have wide backing in EU, says diplomat</title>
            <description><![CDATA[European Union governments have reached an agreement in principle to impose sanctions on the Syrian central bank this month as part of new measures intended to force President Bashar al-Assad out of power, a senior EU diplomat said on Wednesday.
    
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the]]></description>
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            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>London tackles gangs six months after UK riots</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Six months after Britain was struck by five nights of rioting, London police launched a major crackdown on streets gangs which politicians blamed for the country’s worst disorder for decades.

London’s new police chief, installed in the job in the wake of last August’s riots, said a new]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193441.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Top U.S. envoy met Taliban leaders in Qatar, Afghan official says</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Washington’s chief envoy to Afghanistan met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of U.S. efforts to bring the insurgents to the negotiating table, a senior Afghan official said on Wednesday.
              
The talks between the Taliban and Marc Grossman came in late January, after he met Afghan]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193421.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Maldives mob smashes Buddhist statues in national museum</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Police said Wednesday a mob had stormed the Maldives national museum and smashed Buddhist statues, an act of vandalism which former president Mohamed Nasheed blamed on Islamic radicals.  
              
“A mob entered the museum yesterday (Tuesday). They smashed many statues. This included some]]></description>
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            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Santorum sweeps Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A resurgent Rick Santorum won Republican presidential caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado on Tuesday night, a stunning sweep that raised fresh questions about front-runner Mitt Romney’s ability to appeal to the ardent conservatives at the core of the party&#039;s political base.]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193349.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Russia’s U.N. envoy denies reports he threatened to annihilate Qatar</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia’s U.N. Ambassador on Tuesday denounced as lies a report that he had threatened Qatar with annihilation during an argument with the Gulf state’s prime minister over a draft Security Council resolution on Syria that was vetoed by Moscow.

“There is a lie, there is a blatant lie. One]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193273.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>U.S. mulls providing humanitarian aid, not arms, to Syrians suffering crackdown</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The United States said Tuesday it was working with friends to discuss how to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian people caught in the government crackdown and said it was not considering providing arms to Syrian opposition groups.
              
“We are exploring the possibility of providing]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193270.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>French MPs storm out after opposition lawmaker compared interior minister to a Nazi</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Members of France’s ruling UMP party stormed out of parliament in protest on Wednesday after an opposition legislator appeared to compare Interior Minister Claude Gueant to a Nazi for remarks he made that not all civilisations were equal .

Serge Letchimy, a Socialist ally representing the]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193266.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Two arrested in Germany suspected of spying for Syria</title>
            <description><![CDATA[German police arrested two men in Berlin Tuesday accused of spying on opponents of the Syrian regime in raids involving some 70 officers, federal prosecutors said.

The suspects were identified only as 47-year-old German-Lebanese citizen Mahmoud El A. and 34-year-old Syrian national Akram O., the]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193235.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>‘Baseless accusations’ jail ex-Guantanamo detainee in Algeria</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Concerns over the deteriorating health of ex-Guantanamo detainee Abdul Aziz Naji have angered groups fighting for his freedom after he was jailed again this week in his native Algeria for what they deem to be “baseless accusations.”

Naji, who is currently on hunger strike and enduring  the]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193201.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Maldives president under army guard at home after resigning</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Hours after his dramatic resignation, Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed was hunkered in his family home Tuesday, with armed soldiers surrounding the residence, family members and sources told AFP.

The president’s brother, Nazim Sattar, said the situation was very tense as it was unclear whose]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193121.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Philippines quake rescuers dig for survivors; death toll rises to 15</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only bodies. The death toll climbed to 15 on Tuesday, and at least 73 people were still missing.
              
Monday’s 6.9-magnitude earthquake also]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193107.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Gingrich derides trial of Egypt NGO workers; army cancels meet with U.S. officials</title>
            <description><![CDATA[White House hopeful Newt Gingrich likened Cairo’s apparent plans to put 19 Americans on trial over charges of illegal funding of aid groups to the Iran hostage crisis, as an Egyptian military delegation abruptly cancelled its scheduled meetings with U.S. lawmakers in Washington.]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193098.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>France inaugurates first official Muslim cemetery</title>
            <description><![CDATA[France inaugurated its first municipal Muslim cemetery in the city of Strasbourg on Monday, a move hailed by Islamic leaders as a step in recognizing one of the country’s largest minority groups.

Local officials and Muslim leaders attended a ceremony in the northeastern French city to launch]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/193039.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>UK court releases ‘Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man’ on bail</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A radical Islamic preacher Britain believes poses a threat to its national security was granted bail on Monday, despite attempts by the Home Office to keep him in prison.

Abu Qatada, a Jordanian once described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe,” is expected to be released]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/193030.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Norway gunman asks for immediate release, says massacre was ‘preventive against traitors’</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Norway gunman who killed 77 people in twin attacks in July asked an Oslo court on Monday to release him immediately, saying his massacre was a “preventive attack against state traitors.”

 “I do not accept imprisonment. I demand to be immediately released,” Anders Behring Breivik, a]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/192991.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>British lawmakers urge Internet service providers to tackle violent extremism</title>
            <description><![CDATA[British Internet service providers should clamp down on websites used by violent extremists, both Islamists and increasingly the far right, lawmakers said in a report Monday.

The Internet is a more significant vehicle for promoting radicalism than prisons, universities or places of worship, and]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/192981.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Islamist prisoners spread radicalization in UK jails, report finds</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Islamist prisoners in the United Kingdom are preaching radical Islam to new inmates, recent findings in a nine-month inquiry by the home affairs select committee have revealed on Monday.

The report states that despite extreme security in UK jails, in some cases inmates were being persuaded to]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/192969.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>French interior minister says not all cultures are of ‘equal value’</title>
            <description><![CDATA[French Interior Minister, Claude Guéant, has revived the controversy surrounding the clash of civilizations and anti-Islamism by stating that “all cultures are not of equal value” under his ruling party&#039;s republican principles.

Guéant, who is a member of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/192945.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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