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            <title>Egypt to deploy troops ahead of strike as PM paints grim picture</title>
            <description><![CDATA[More soldiers and tanks will be deployed across Egypt as a warning to activists planning a national strike on the anniversary of the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ruling generals said on Wednesday.

Protesters are planning mass walkouts and civil disobedience on Feb. 11 to]]></description>
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            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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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>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193469.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>Israeli President Peres sends message of peace to Iranians</title>
            <description><![CDATA[President Shimon Peres sent a message of peace to Iranians from the podium of Israel’s parliament on Wednesday, saying there was no need for the two peoples to be foes.
              
“We were not born enemies and there is no need for us to live as enemies,” Peres said in a speech marking]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193456.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>Ahmadinejad wants Pope Benedict to visit Iran</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would like Pope Benedict to visit Iran, Teheran&#039;s ambassador to the Vatican said on Wednesday.

‘If the pope decides to come, we will welcome him in an excellent way, and, as far as the government is concerned, we will welcome him with enthusiasm,’]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193454.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>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>Egyptian judges accuse NGOs of political meddling as U.S. receives charges</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The United States government has received a more than 100-page “formal charging document” concerning non-governmental organization (NGO) workers in Egypt who are under investigation, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.
    
“We now have a formal charging document,” State]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193439.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>Libya seeks Jordan help in fighting ex-regime officials</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Libya wants Amman to help fight remnants of slain dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s regime if found in Jordan, a government statement said on Wednesday as the two nations vowed to boost their ties.
              
Libya is “looking forward for Jordanian help in fighting remnants of the old regime if]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193435.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>Kuwait cancels festival concerts in solidarity with Syria</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Organizers of Kuwait’s annual shopping festival, “February Nights,” have cancelled all musical concerts in solidarity with the Syrian people, an organizer said on Wednesday.
              
“The situation is not suitable for staging concerts now since we are in a state of sorrow for what]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193431.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>Tunisia president in Morocco to promote Maghreb union</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tunisia’s new President Moncef Marzouki arrived in Morocco Wednesday to push for a revival of a dormant project to unify the Maghreb region on his first foreign tour since taking office.
              
“This year we will work to restore unity with our brothers in Algeria, Morocco, Libya and]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193416.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>Iraq wants to limit private security contractors</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Iraq deeply mistrusts private security companies and wants to limit their operations here, officials say, while the contractors themselves have faced bureaucratic delays and detentions.
              
This mistrust stems from perceived arrogant behavior by employees of these firms in the past and]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193414.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>Turkey plans conference on Syria, says Assad dares not to use ‘Kurds as a card’</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Turkey plans an international conference “as soon as possible” with regional players and world powers to solve the Syrian crisis, its foreign minister said on Wednesday.
              
“We are determined to establish a broad-based forum to promote international understanding with all]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193390.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>Yemen’s Saleh to return from U.S. to ‘attend and supervise vote’</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in New York for medical treatment after agreeing to step down following months of protests, will return to vote in presidential polls, a member of his party and state media said Wednesday.
              
“He will return and the General People’s Congress]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193386.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>Assad militia kills 3 families in Syria’s Homs</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least 20 civilians when they stormed the homes of three unarmed families on the edges of opposition districts in the city of Homs on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
    
“The shabbiha (Assad’s militiamen)]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193381.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>Syrian regime hunts down Arab journalists who are covering protests</title>
            <description><![CDATA[As part of an overall plan to cover up for atrocities committed against unarmed civilians, the Syrian regime has embarked on an expansive campaign to silence Arab journalists abroad particularly,  in Moscow.

The Syrian regime has accused Arab journalists based in the Russian capital of receiving]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193373.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 warns West against meddling in Syria, urges search for solution to crisis</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia on Wednesday warned against outside interference in Syria, as Britain and France expressed strong doubt Damascus would live up to promises to end its violent repression of dissidents. 
              
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants the search for a solution to the Syrian crisis to]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193366.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>Strike talks could be strategy to keep pressure on Iran: Israeli experts</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Israel is pursuing a studied ambiguity on whether it will attack Iran, keeping its options open on how to rein in Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons ambitions, Israeli experts say.

Speculation about an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities has reached fever pitch in recent weeks, driven]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193365.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>Hezbollah chief says group gets support, not orders, from Iran</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged on  Tuesday for the first time that his armed movement received financial and material support from Iran, but denied it took instructions from the Islamic Republic.
    
Nasrallah said Hezbollah previously only confirmed Iranian]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193327.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>ElBaradei calls on Egyptians to end military rule; civil disobedience planned</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Egyptians must overcome economic and political differences to unite and put the country on the path to democracy and away from military rule, former presidential candidate Mohammed ElBaradei said on Wednesday amid calls for civil disobedience on Feb. 11 to demand a swift handover of power to]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193308.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 senators see Egypt risking ‘disastrous’ rupture in ties with Washington</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A trio of leading U.S. senators Tuesday warned Egypt that the risk of a “disastrous” rupture in ties had “rarely been greater” amid an escalating row over the planned trial of U.S. pro-democracy activists.
              
Echoed by a bipartisan chorus of anger from U.S. lawmakers,]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193301.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>At least 117 killed in military attacks mostly across Syrian city of Homs</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Syrian army is using protesters in the flashpoint city of Homs as “human shields,” an Al Arabiya correspondent said late Wednesday amid reports of a car bomb exploding in a close by district.      

Several people were killed and wounded on Wednesday when a car bomb ripped through a]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/08/193298.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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