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            <title>Iran’s Oscar contender has ‘universal’ appeal, actor says</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Iranian film “A Separation” which is vying for an Oscar at the US Academy Awards, is a “universal” tale that resonates strongly with foreign audiences, its lead actor told AFP on Wednesday.
              
The movie’s international popularity -- evidenced by multiple festival prizes]]></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>Mecca the spiritual homeland for billions</title>
            <description><![CDATA[From every corner of the world, Arabs and Africans… Caucasians and Asians… Europeans and mixed race Whole convoys cross stretches of land to reach this destination in a long journey that unravels man’s eagerness to go through the most exhausting of challenges in order to quench the thirst of]]></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>Indian state ministers resign over sex video</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Three state ministers from southern India, including one holding a portfolio for women and child development, quit on Wednesday after being accused of watching porn in the local assembly.
              
The ministers from the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were filmed by]]></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>Brad Pitt moves from onscreen to behind-the-scenes</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Never content to be just another Hollywood hunk, Brad Pitt these days is not just one of America’s most bankable film stars but also a sought-after and influential movie producer.
              
Pitt and his life partner Angelina Jolie are Hollywood’s gilded first couple, a fixture on the Big]]></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>Anfield cat becomes internet hit</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A cat that invaded the famous Anfield turf for three minutes during Liverpool’s 0-0 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Monday has become an internet celebrity. 
    
Several Twitter sites claiming to be the real deal sprung up within hours of the moggy’s Lionel Messi-like slalom]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/07/193148.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>Saleh target of shoe-attack in incident reminiscent of Bush in 2008</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ali Abdullah Saleh was greeted by groups of protestors as he left and returned to his hotel in New York Sunday.  

As Saleh came out of the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South in New York a group of two dozen Yemeni Americans was protesting against his presence in the United States. Saleh has been]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/192957.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>Simpson dolls join Barbie on Iran ban list</title>
            <description><![CDATA[An Iranian government-affiliated agency has banned dolls of the Simpsons cartoon characters, who join Barbie and others on a toy blacklist, an independent newspaper reported on Monday.
              
The report said that the Simpsons were banned to avoid the promotion of Western culture. But]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/06/192894.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>Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep join Arab Spring at the Berlin film festival</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Arab Spring uprisings and political turmoil in the West will dominate the 62nd Berlin film festival starting Thursday, as Hollywood royalty sprinkles stardust in the frigid German capital.

Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Robert Pattinson, Antonio Banderas and Christian Bale are]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/05/192684.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Palestinian bookshop owner wins right to remain in E. Jerusalem</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The owner of a famed bookshop in East Jerusalem has won the right to remain in the city after a six-year-long battle to regain residency.

Munther Fahmy, the Palestinian owner of QBD The Bookshop in the American Colony Hotel, has been granted a temporary residency permit after years of running]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/05/192660.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Fidel Castro publishes memoirs ‘Time Guerilla’</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cuban leader Fidel Castro is publishing two volumes of his autobiographical memoir entitled “Time Guerrilla,” the Cuban news media reported Saturday.
              
The memoirs trace his life from infancy until 1958, when he succeeded in leading a revolution that turned Cuba into a communist]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/05/192617.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Qatar’s royal family pays world record sum for Cezanne’s art work</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Qatari royal family has paid £158million ($250 million) for Paul Cezanne’s “The Card Players” painting, making it the highest sum ever paid for an art work according to The Telegraph. 

The sale beats the previous record of £88.7 million paid for Jackson Pollock’s “No 5, 1948”]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/04/192504.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Storm over climate change among weather forecasters</title>
            <description><![CDATA[You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
    
But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate their viewers on the link between human activity and the change in the]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/03/192381.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Iran considers partial ban on Samsung after Israeli ad shows bombing of nuke facilities</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A commercial in Israel featuring Mossad agents disguised as Iranian veiled women who end up blowing up an Iranian nuclear plant using a Samsung tablet has earned the wrath of the Islamic republic. 

The commercial which angered Muslim internet users, now has Iran mulling a partial ban of products]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/03/192262.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Indonesian atheist’s arrest sparks tension online</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A defiant declaration of atheism by an Indonesian civil servant has inflamed passions in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, pitting non-believers and believers against each other.
              
The trouble began when civil servant Alexander Aan posted a message on the Facebook page of]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/02/192028.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Israeli commercial ridicules veil, angers Muslims</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of Muslim internet users were outraged by a commercial that makes fun of the Muslim veil. 

The commercial, which was produced by Israelis, spread rapidly on the social networking website Facebook and the video sharing website YouTube. It depicts four male Mossad agents]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/02/192110.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Evictions tarnish Azerbaijan’s Eurovision glitz</title>
            <description><![CDATA[In the shadow of an enormous Azerbaijani flag, a landmark concert hall is rising from the Caspian Sea shoreline as the oil-rich ex-Soviet state prepares to host the Eurovision song contest in May.
              
But a human rights dispute has marred Azerbaijan’s preparations for the pop]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/01/191880.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Group calls on scholars to issue fatwa on sanctity of Iraqi blood</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Iraq’s Ulama and Intellectual Group urged religious scholars in a statement on Tuesday to issue a fatwa forbidding the killing of Iraqis.  

The group also called on the Iraqi society to put forth a mechanism to educate Iraqis to wither violence by cooperating with the country’s civil society]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/01/191868.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Divine intervention saves shell-struck Syrian convent</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Divine intervention prevented a shell that pierced the walls of a Syrian convent from detonating, swears the mother superior of Our Lady of Saidnaya, a spiritual retreat near Damascus.
              
“The Virgin Mary stopped the shell from exploding with her own hands,” said Mother Verone,]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/01/191867.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Iran launches Spanish-language news channel</title>
            <description><![CDATA[President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday officially launched Iran’s latest foreign-language news channel, a 24-hour satellite broadcaster aimed at Spanish speakers worldwide.
              
“Viva España, viva America Latina,” he said in Spanish at the end of a televised speech to]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/31/191668.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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            <title>Play about Guantanamo opens this week in London</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A theatre in east London is staging a new play “Guantanamo Boy” this week, focusing on the U.S. detention camp as it marks its 10th anniversary and engaging local Muslims in political debate.

The production, based on a 2009 novel of the same name by Anna Perera, opens on Tuesday at Stratford]]></description>
            <link>http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/31/191644.html</link>
            <dc:creator>Al Arabiya</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT</dc:date>
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