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<title>Nepal Cabinet to introduce guidelines for swearing-in ceremony</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The government is set introduce new guidelines for the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected Constituent Assembly (CA) members.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Koirala requests India to provide uninterrupted fuel supply</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As the fuel crisis deepens in Nepal, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala today requested India to provide an uninterrupted supply of petroleum products to Nepal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 08:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Maoists wish to form new government quickly </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In a sign of loosing patience, Maoist leader Prachanda in a meeting today tabled a proposal to open the way for the formation of a new government.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 08:28:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China quake toll crosses 51,000  </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The death toll from the earthquake in China's Sichuan province has increased to over 51,000, with another 30,000 people missing. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 08:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indian envoy calls on Koirala</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ India's Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood called on Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at the latter's official residence in Baluwatar on Thursday.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 08:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN chief arrives in cyclone-hit Myanmar</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Myanmar on Thursday to press that country's military junta to accept a full-scale international relief operation for cyclone survivors.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 07:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nepalese Sherpa guide scales Everest for a record 18th time </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A veteran Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for a record 18th time. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 07:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>No mischief will be allowed with Pakistan: Iftikhar Chaudhry </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Deposed Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has praised the media and the civil society for their support to the lawyers' movement to have the sacked judges restored. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 06:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oregano oil as effective as synthetic insecticides to combat common beetle pest</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24683_Oregano-oil-as-effective-as-synthetic-insecticides-to-combat-common-beetle-pest.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A new study from National Polytechnic in Algeria has found that Oregano oil can be as effective as synthetic insecticides to combat infestation by a common beetle found in stored cereals.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 06:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>British universities have become costly: HEPI </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ British universities have comparatively become costlier for overseas students than other universities excluding the US, a report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) suggested today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 05:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Celeb chef Gordon Ramsay eats contestant's thumb!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24677_Celeb-chef-Gordon-Ramsay-eats-contestants-thumb.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay gave finger food a whole new meaning when the thumb of a contestant on his reality TV show ended up in the food.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 05:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dungeon dad's incest child making 'miraculous recovery'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24675_Dungeon-dads-incest-child-making-miraculous-recovery.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Kerstin, one of the children Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl fathered with his daughter Elisabeth, is showing signs of a miraculous recovery as she fights for her life in coma.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 05:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prince Harry 'incensed' over candid snaps at Peter Phillips' wedding</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24670_Prince-Harry-incensed-over-candid-snaps-at-Peter-Phillips-wedding.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Prince Harry is reportedly furious after candid snaps of him at his cousin Peter Phillips' wedding were splashed all over a celebrity magazine.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 04:41:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brit dog may be the oldest pooch in the world!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24669_Brit-dog-may-be-the-oldest-pooch-in-the-world.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The owners of a Labrador that has lived to the ripe old age of 29 believe that she is oldest pooch in the world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 04:28:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wanted: 438,000 cigarette butts for Aussie artist!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24663_Wanted-438000-cigarette-butts-for-Aussie-artist.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Aussie Adrian Avenell, of Devonport, needs 438,000 cigarette butts to make a sculpture for an anti-smoking project and he wants Tasmania's smokers to help him.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 03:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Meet the man who has had sex with 1,000 cars!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A stunning woman won't set his heart racing but a car is more than enough to leave Aussie bloke Edward Smith gasping for more.
Smith claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars insisting that he would prefer a car over a woman any day. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 03:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>World Bank, IMF responsible for food, fuel crisis: India</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24658_World-Bank-IMF-responsible-for-food-fuel-crisis-India.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ India has blamed the policies of World Bank, IMF and "excessive and unsustainable" demand in developed countries for the present crisis arising out of rising food and fuel prices. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 03:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Over 50pc Oz women 'not satisfied in bed'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24657_Over-50pc-Oz-women-not-satisfied-in-bed.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A survey has revealed that over 50 per cent Australian women have difficulty getting sexual satisfaction. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 02:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Germans summoning exorcists from abroad to drive the Devil away</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24655_Germans-summoning-exorcists-from-abroad-to-drive-the-Devil-away.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Hundreds of Germans are on the search for priests who can help them get rid of their demons - literally.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 02:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Former New York Governor's wife back in public eye after hooker scandal   </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24652_Former-New-York-Governors-wife-back-in-public-eye-after-hooker-scandal--.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Silda Spitzer, wife of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, shedding the shame of her husband's downfall emerged from self-imposed exile looking stunning in an orange evening dress to attend a charity event.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 02:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MIC takes up case of 187 Indian students for scholarship</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24633_MIC-takes-up-case-of-187-Indian-students-for-scholarship.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) has appealed to the Government to reconsider the appeal of 187 Indian high achievers who were unsuccessful in their applications for Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships this year.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 12:41:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scrabble turns sixty</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24616_Scrabble-turns-sixty.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It's no Xbox or PlayStation, but board game Scrabble has something to boast about that the other two don't - sixty years of entertaining kids and adults.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:28:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China readjusts Olympic torch relay route following quake</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24614_China-readjusts-Olympic-torch-relay-route-following-quake.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) today decided to adjust the route of the Olympic torch relay because of the May 12 earthquake.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hillary may take her fight all the way to Democrat Convention in August</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24613_Hillary-may-take-her-fight-all-the-way-to-Democrat-Convention-in-August.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has sent out new signals that she might take her fight for the nomination all the way to the party's convention in August. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Condoms-with-vodka drinks campaign raises stink </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24608_Condoms-with-vodka-drinks-campaign-raises-stink-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[  A promotional campaign in which free condoms are handed out with every purchase of Vodka Cruisers has been slammed as "poor form" by a national alcohol body.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 10:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Woman bares all to stop road workers' wolf whistles!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24607_Woman-bares-all-to-stop-road-workers-wolf-whistles.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Some overly appreciative Kiwi road workers got more than what they bargained for when an Israeli tourist, tired of their wolf whistles, stripped in front of them.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 10:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN chief flies to Myanmar to facilitate aid</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24603_UN-chief-flies-to-Myanmar-to-facilitate-aid.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday flew to Myanmar to press upon the ruling military junta to allow full-blown international aid effort for the 2.4 million victims of Cyclone Nargis. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dalai Lama appeals for no protests when Olympic torch passes through Tibet</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24599_Dalai-Lama-appeals-for-no-protests-when-Olympic-torch-passes-through-Tibet.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, has asked the Tibetans to stop protesting against the Olympic torch relay and refrain from demonstrating when the symbol of the games passes through their homeland. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Animal activists ask European court to declare chimp a 'person'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24597_Animal-activists-ask-European-court-to-declare-chimp-a-person.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Austrian animal rights activists are fighting to get a 26-year-old chimpanzee legally declared as a "person" so the animal can enjoy "human rights".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dr Manmohan Singh's childhood pal from Pak hopes to meet him, Bhabhi, kids</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24596_Dr-Manmohan-Singhs-childhood-pal-from-Pak-hopes-to-meet-him-Bhabhi-kids.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Raja Ali Muhammad, a farmer hailing from Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's ancestral village Gah, in Chakwal district in Pakistan, who studied with the latter in a primary school before Manmohan's family moved to India after the Partition, has been granted visa to visit India. Though no arrangement has yet been made to allow him to meet the Indian premier, he hopes media help could arrange a meeting.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 08:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US 'reserves judgment' on Swat 'peace pact'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24595_US-reserves-judgment-on-Swat-peace-pact.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The US has said that it was closely monitoring the situation in Pakistan's tribal areas where the new PPP-led government had inked a "peace pact" with the Pro-Taliban militants, and that it would "reserve its judgment" over the new development.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 08:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NWFP Government, local Taliban ratify peace truce </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24580_NWFP-Government-local-Taliban-ratify-peace-truce-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The NWFP Government and local Taliban have agreed to a peace agreement under which "Shariah" laws will be promulgated in Swat and Malakand districts and security forces will be withdrawn, while the Taliban have agreed to acknowledge the writ of the government. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 04:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>'India and Britain should work together to find technology solutions'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24578_India-and-Britain-should-work-together-to-find-technology-solutions.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Minister of State for Industry Ashwani Kumar today met Lord Digby Jones, British Minister of State for Trade and Investment and discussed wide ranging issues in order to reinforce the India-UK bilateral economic and commercial relationship.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 04:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Witty emails don't lead to love</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24559_Witty-emails-dont-lead-to-love.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ An Australian researcher has warned online daters to be cautious of witty emails, as they don't lead to love.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 01:53:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jesus 'answers' pilot's prayers </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24558_Jesus-answers-pilots-prayers-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ 'Prayers are always answered' - this phrase saw reality when two men prayed for divine intervention amid air when their plane's microlight ran out of fuel mid-flight and they still managed to land safely on ground next to a "Jesus is Lord" sign.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 01:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Immigrants getting British citizenship every three minutes in the UK</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24545_Immigrants-getting-British-citizenship-every-three-minutes-in-the-UK.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Becoming British is getting much easier these days, for immigrants are getting British passports at a rate of one every three minutes, which in itself is a record till date.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 22 May 2008 12:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The car wash that comes with bikini clad pole dancers and erotic videos!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24544_The-car-wash-that-comes-with-bikini-clad-pole-dancers-and-erotic-videos.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Kittens car wash in Australia is in trouble for offering a service not provided by other car wash centers - bikini clad pole dancing staff and erotic videos.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 11:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kerala Minister calls all god men in the state frauds </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24538_Kerala-Minister-calls-all-god-men-in-the-state-frauds-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Government of Kerala appears to be on a collision course with religious groups in the wake of the several scandals associated with them, which the political leadership feels has done damage to the image of the state.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 11:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Putin still the power behind Russian 'throne', says key adviser</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24531_Putin-still-the-power-behind-Russian-throne-says-key-adviser.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[
Moscow, May 21 (ANI) : Vladimir Putin remains the country's real power ,Russian president Dmitry  Medvedev ,one of his closest allies has confirmed. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Flying phallus attacks Garry Kasparov!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24530_Flying-phallus-attacks-Garry-Kasparov.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Former World Chess Champion and Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov was attacked by radio-controlled flying phallus during a meeting of opposition activists. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Meet the Brit women who've been neighbours for 72 years!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24513_Meet-the-Brit-women-whove-been-neighbours-for-72-years.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Two women who have lived next door to each other in Cambridge for an amazing 72 years are set to clinch a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as Britain's longest continuous neighbours.   ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 08:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The most common ways to die at work</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24512_The-most-common-ways-to-die-at-work.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ There are many who go by the motto 'work is life', but now a new Government report in Australia has listed ways in which life can actually end at workplace.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 07:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Inhaling laughing gas on duty can get you sacked!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24504_Inhaling-laughing-gas-on-duty-can-get-you-sacked.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A paramedic has been fired for inhaling laughing gas in the ambulance for a quick high while on duty.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 06:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Malaysian thieves who struck for sex not money!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24497_The-Malaysian-thieves-who-struck-for-sex-not-money.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Looks like money is not always the first choice for thieves, at least not in the case of these Malaysian burglars who chose sex over cash when they struck at a housing estate.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 05:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Naked women posse rides through London for charity!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24496_Naked-women-posse-rides-through-London-for-charity.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A group of naked women rode horses through London's Hyde Park on May 19 to take part in the naked 'Lady Godiva' ride.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 05:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Archaeologists uncover quarry from Second Temple period in Israel</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24493_Archaeologists-uncover-quarry-from-Second-Temple-period-in-Israel.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Archaeologists have uncovered another Second Temple Period quarry in Israel, whose stones were used to build the Western Wall. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 05:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Negroponte says Pentagon ready to equip, train Pak Army</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24487_Negroponte-says-Pentagon-ready-to-equip-train-Pak-Army.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The US is working hard to help Pakistan acquire the necessary will and tools to conduct aggressive and sustained counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations in the years to come, and the Pentagon will equip and train special operations units of the Pakistan Army for the purpose, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte has said. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 04:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nawaz says "Presidency 're-energising' itself after rift in ruling coalition</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24477_Nawaz-says-Presidency-re-energising-itself-after-rift-in-ruling-coalition.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has said that President Pervez Musharraf was gaining strength after the recent rift in the ruling coalition, as a result of which his party walked out of the government.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 03:28:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Seven Malay women languishing in Pak jails on drug charges</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24476_Seven-Malay-women-languishing-in-Pak-jails-on-drug-charges.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Seven Malaysian women, who claimed they were duped into becoming drug mules, are languishing in Pakistani jails. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 03:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title> Malay Indian ISA detainee tortured in captivity </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24471_-Malay-Indian-ISA-detainee-tortured-in-captivity-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The wife of a Malay Indian Internal Security Act detainee has lodged a police report against the Home Ministry, police and the Kamunting Detention Centre in Perak, claiming that her husband had been tortured. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>HINDRAF leaders seek judicial review of their incarceration</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24468_HINDRAF-leaders-seek-judicial-review-of-their-incarceration.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The five leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) have filed an application for a judicial review of the Federal Court decision which rejected their habeas corpus appeal. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prachanda holds talks with UML leaders</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24462_Prachanda-holds-talks-with-UML-leaders.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has held discussions with Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) leaders with the aim of breaking the political deadlock in Nepal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Five million Chinese homeless after May 12 quake</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24461_Five-million-Chinese-homeless-after-May-12-quake.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Nine days after an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the open-ended Richter Scale hit China's south-western Sichuan Province, the authorities are grappling with the next urgent task of finding shelter for up to five million residents.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Valley shutdown affects normal life in Kathmandu</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24460_Valley-shutdown-affects-normal-life-in-Kathmandu.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The valley shutdown called by relatives of Ramhari Shrestha, who was killed by the Maoist in Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA) in captivity has affected the normal life and business activities in Kathmandu.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:41:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Liz Hurley, Cherie Blair wear Indian for Asian Women of Achievement Awards</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24459_Liz-Hurley-Cherie-Blair-wear-Indian-for-Asian-Women-of-Achievement-Awards.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Liz Hurley and Cherie Blair looked resplendent as they got into the spirit of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in London.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>World's first online lovers celebrate 25th wedding anniversary!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24457_Worlds-first-online-lovers-celebrate-25th-wedding-anniversary.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ If you thought falling in love online was a new thing, think again, for a couple who met via online in 1982 just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US concerned over Pak's peace pact with pro-Taliban militants</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24450_US-concerned-over-Paks-peace-pact-with-pro-Taliban-militants.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Expressing its concerns against the recent peace pact signed between the Pakistan Government and the pro-Taliban militants, the US has reportedly warned Islamabad that the deal might allow the tribal extremists to plot attacks in Pakistan and abroad.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 12:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Afghan minister warns Pak against 'appeasement' of tribal militants</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24448_Afghan-minister-warns-Pak-against-appeasement-of-tribal-militants.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan's policy of 'appeasing' the Taliban was dangerous and the peace talks between Islamabad and militants would lead to more cross-border attacks, said Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 12:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oz woman uses Pammie's 'boobs' to lure teen to sex!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24446_Oz-woman-uses-Pammies-boobs-to-lure-teen-to-sex.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Even a photograph of Pamela Anderson's boobs is potent enough to lure men. And, this has been proved by a 32-year-old Aussie woman who sent a picture of the actress' breasts to a 15-year-old workmate into an affair.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 12:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China's quake-hit dams safe, but risks remain, says official</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24432_Chinas-quake-hit-dams-safe-but-risks-remain-says-official.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Most of the lakes and damaged dams in China's Sichuan Province are currently safe, but face the danger of heavy rain and aftershocks in the next few days, an official has warned.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 11:42:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>HINDRAF lawyer and MP receives a death threat</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24431_HINDRAF-lawyer-and-MP-receives-a-death-threat.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Bukit Gelugor MP and HINDRAF lawyer Karpal Singh received a death threat with a live bullet enclosed on Tuesday afternoon.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 11:41:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Row over Dalai Lama's visit to Britain</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24430_Row-over-Dalai-Lamas-visit-to-Britain.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A row has cropped up over the 11-day visit of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, with critics accusing the Gordon Brown Government of deliberately downgrading his visit by having the meeting at Lambeth Palace instead of the official 10, Downing Street. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 11:28:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Arcelor-Mittal acquires nearly 15 percent stake of Australian coal giant Macarthur</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24428_Arcelor-Mittal-acquires-nearly-15-percent-stake-of-Australian-coal-giant-Macarthur.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Indian-owned steel conglomerate Arcelor-Mittal has acquired a 14.9 per cent stake in Australia's Macarthur Coal and entered into discussions with company regarding a potential transaction.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 11:07:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ted Kennedy diagnosed with malignant brain tumour </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24424_Ted-Kennedy-diagnosed-with-malignant-brain-tumour-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Democrat Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and been diagnosed with a malignant form of brain tumour.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama claims Democratic nomination for president  'within reach'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24423_Obama-claims-Democratic-nomination-for-president-within-reach.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Senator Barack Obama believes that he has amassed enough additional delegates to claim a nearly insurmountable advantage in his race to win the Democratic Party's nomination for president against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>60-year-old woman miraculously survives 196 hrs after China quake</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24422_60-year-old-woman-miraculously-survives-196-hrs-after-China-quake.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ If a human-being survives without food and water for nearly 200 hours, what else could it be described than a miracle of miracles. After last Monday's earthquake of 7.8 magnitude, a woman lay buried under the rubble of a temple, only to be rescued after 196 hours, and that too without any major injury.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hindus urge UK film organisations to halt Hollywood movie "The Love Guru" </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24421_Hindus-urge-UK-film-organisations-to-halt-Hollywood-movie-The-Love-Guru-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Hindu groups have contacted cinema or film related organizations in UK urging them not to distribute or screen upcoming Hollywood movie "The Love Guru" till its presenter Paramount Pictures makes necessary changes to it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indo-Pak talks elicit mixed reactions from J-K</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24416_Indo-Pak-talks-elicit-mixed-reactions-from-J-K.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The ongoing India-Pakistan peace talks have elicited mixed reactions from political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 09:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Elisabeth Fritzl taught kids grammar, language and math in cellar</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24409_Elisabeth-Fritzl-taught-kids-grammar-language-and-math-in-cellar.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Austrian cellar mum Elisabeth Fritzl's lawyer has revealed that she taught her kids math and grammar while incarcerated in her dad's dungeon. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 08:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cellar mum plans to sue Josef Fritzl</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24408_Cellar-mum-plans-to-sue-Josef-Fritzl.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Elisabeth Fritzl - the Austrian girl who was held captive by her father in a cellar for 24 years - is planning to sue her monster dad Josef for his fortune, her lawyer has revealed. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 08:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>More cross border CBM's are on the cards, No breakthrough on Siachen yet</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24400_More-cross-border-CBMs-are-on-the-cards-No-breakthrough-on-Siachen-yet.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ After day long marathon meetings between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan, and Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee's meetings with Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari and Asfayandar Wali Khan, both countries reportedly are very  close to signing an  agreement on cross border trade, which may include the opening of  the road between Kargil and Skardu, increasing the frequency of buses plying between the two Kashmirs, the launch of a bilateral postal service and also the launch of an ambitious helicopter service between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 03:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan offers to share nuke technology with Bangladesh</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24396_Pakistan-offers-to-share-nuke-technology-with-Bangladesh.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan has offered to help Bangladesh with the latter's proposed first nuclear power reactor.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 03:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China earthquake toll surpasses 40,000</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24391_China-earthquake-toll-surpasses-40000.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The death toll from last week's earthquake in south-west China has climbed to 40,075, according to sources. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nepal Maoist leader to meet Naxal groups in Kolkata</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24387_Nepal-Maoist-leader-to-meet-Naxal-groups-in-Kolkata.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Nepal Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai is planning to visit Kolkata in June to meet Naxal groups.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Resolving sacked judiciary issue is the key to ending impasse in Pak: Sharif</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24382_Resolving-sacked-judiciary-issue-is-the-key-to-ending-impasse-in-Pak-Sharif.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan Muslim League-N chief and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif believes that reinstating the judges who were sacked by President General Pervez Musharraf on November 3, 2007, would ensure the resolution of the country's other problems. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Musharraf must not be equated with Pak, nor Pak with him: Nawaz</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24354_Musharraf-must-not-be-equated-with-Pak-nor-Pak-with-him-Nawaz.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said that the PPP-led coalition government must emerge out from the shadow of Pakistan President Musharraf, who, according to him, had dominated Pakistan and its relationship with the US for too long. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:07:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>World's first pregnant man is desperate for some 'man-ternity clothes'!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24353_Worlds-first-pregnant-man-is-desperate-for-some-man-ternity-clothes.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ He is happy and content with being the world's first pregnant man but when it comes to 'man-ternity' clothes things get a bit dicey for Thomas Beatie, who is just over six weeks away from giving birth.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Plans to turn 'The Sound of Music' home into hotel raises a stink </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24349_Plans-to-turn-The-Sound-of-Music-home-into-hotel-raises-a-stink-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Plans to make a hotel out of a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in the 1960s film 'The Sound of Music' have fuelled fierce resistance from neighbours, who fear that the move will see the area flooded by tourists.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 09:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cherie feels disappointed by criticism over her autobiography </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24345_Cherie-feels-disappointed-by-criticism-over-her-autobiography-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie Blair has expressed disappointment over the storm of criticism stemming from the publication of excerpts of her autobiography 'Speaking For Myself'.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 09:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pet owner turns dead cat into black diamond ring!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24336_Pet-owner-turns-dead-cat-into-black-diamond-ring.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A British woman left distressed over the death of her pet cat has turned him into a one-third-of-a-carat black diamond with the help of a U.S. firm. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 07:53:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hungry man in a hurry rams Merc into curry house!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24333_Hungry-man-in-a-hurry-rams-Merc-into-curry-house.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It was certainly a 'thrust of hunger', when a man drove his car right into a curry house smashing it through the front entrance of a restaurant.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 07:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Huge phone, e-mail database may see UK turn into a `Big Brother' state</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24324_Huge-phone-e-mail-database-may-see-UK-turn-into-a-`Big-Brother-state.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The British Home Office is reported to have sounded out telecommunication firms and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) about creating a huge database on every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 06:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pak military searching for key Taliban trainer's killing evidence</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24317_Pak-military-searching-for-key-Taliban-trainers-killing-evidence.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[
Speenkay Raghzai (Pak-Afghan Border): The Pakistan Military has claimed to have intercepted Taliban militants' communications saying that Qari Hussain, the Taliban's chief ideologist and principal suicide bombing trainer, was killed in "Operation Zalzala", and has started looking for evidence of his death.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 05:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anti-Neo-Nazi hotline created in Germany</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24311_Anti-Neo-Nazi-hotline-created-in-Germany.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Germany has created a neo-Nazi hotline and website for parents who are worried about their children getting attracted to far-right extremists. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 04:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Archaeologists find 238-yr-old Spanish shipwreck in Chile</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24307_Archaeologists-find-238-yr-old-Spanish-shipwreck-in-Chile.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A private archaeological excavation firm has discovered the remains of a 238-year-old shipwrecked Spanish galleon on the coast near the Chilean town of Curepto, located in Chile's Region VII.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 04:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Maoists distribute seized land to squatters in Nepal</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24301_Maoists-distribute-seized-land-to-squatters-in-Nepal.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Maoist cadres in Nepal have started distributing the land which they seized during insurgency to the families of freed kamaiya (bonded laborer) and landless squatters in Kailali District. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 03:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Two million Britons emigrate in 10 years</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24300_Two-million-Britons-emigrate-in-10-years.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Two million British citizens have left the UK in the last decade, and new figures suggest that this is the greatest exodus from the country in almost a century. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 03:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>400 Indian delegates to attend 3-day peace moot in Pak from Sat</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24297_400-Indian-delegates-to-attend-3-day-peace-moot-in-Pak-from-Sat.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ At least 400 Indian delegates are likely to pass through the Wagah Border on Friday to participate in the Eighth Joint Convention of Indo-Pak Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), in Peshawar from May 24 to 27.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 03:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dungeon dad 'cries himself to sleep'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24294_Dungeon-dad-cries-himself-to-sleep.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Austrian incest beast Josef Fritzl cries himself to sleep in prison, it has emerged. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 02:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Elisabeth Fritzl to speak about cellar hell in TV interview</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24275_Elisabeth-Fritzl-to-speak-about-cellar-hell-in-TV-interview.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Austrian incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl held captive and sexually abused by her father for 24 years, is set to give her first televised interview revealing details of her cellar nightmare.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 01:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>"Gangajal" fallout sees Karachites taking law into their own hands</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24274_Gangajal-fallout-sees-Karachites-taking-law-into-their-own-hands.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ With the recent increase in the incidents of people setting robbers afire publicly or beating them to death, it is believed that Bollywood film "Gangajal" has cast a long lasting impression on the Pakistani populace.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 01:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama tells Republicans to lay off his wife </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24273_Obama-tells-Republicans-to-lay-off-his-wife-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama has warned Republicans not to hit on his wife Michelle, and to lay off her.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 12:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Political parties still at odds over power-sharing in Nepal</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24269_Political-parties-still-at-odds-over-power-sharing-in-Nepal.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Major political parties have not made any progress toward power-sharing in the formation of new government in Nepal. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 12:28:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Aftershock of magnitude 6 to 7 likely to hit China quake area</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24261_Aftershock-of-magnitude-6-to-7-likely-to-hit-China-quake-area.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ An aftershock of six to seven on the Richter scale is likely to hit the Wenchuan earthquake area in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, Xinhua quoted the local seismological bureau, as saying.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 11:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Paparazzo injures guard at dungeon family's hospital</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24255_Paparazzo-injures-guard-at-dungeon-familys-hospital.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Austrian hospital, where the family of incest fiend Josef Fritzl is being treated, will be guarded by security officers in teams of two and a police dog. Such a move has been made after a guard was severely injured by a paparazzo photographer and had to be treated in hospital.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 11:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indian-born woman to get Asian Woman Achievement Award</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24252_Indian-born-woman-to-get-Asian-Woman-Achievement-Award.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ An Indian-born woman is among the chosen few to be selected for the 2008 Asian Women of Achievement award.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>"Resolution for reinstating pro-Musharraf judges being drafted"</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24250_Resolution-for-reinstating-pro-Musharraf-judges-being-drafted.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Top officials in the Pakistan Prime Minister Office are said to be preparing a draft resolution for the reinstatement of the deposed judges acceptable to President Pervez Musharraf.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:28:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rocket attacks on Peshawar govt officials' residences, no damage</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24234_Rocket-attacks-on-Peshawar-govt-officials-residences-no-damage.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Two rockets were fired at the residences of an intelligence official and a WADPA (Water and Power Development Authority) official last evening, though no loss of life and property was reported.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 08:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sikh doc tops child heath diploma exam in Pak</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24233_Sikh-doc-tops-child-heath-diploma-exam-in-Pak.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Dr Mimpal Singh has become the first Pakistani Sikh not only to successfully pass the examination of Diploma in Child Health (DCH), but also topped the examination conducted by the Services Institute of Medical Sciences.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 08:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistani Taliban accepts responsibility for Mardan suicide attack</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24219_Pakistani-Taliban-accepts-responsibility-for-Mardan-suicide-attack.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[  Pakistani Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for a weekend suicide attack in Mardan city in North West Frontier Province in which 13 people lost their lives.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tuesday, 20 May 2008 12:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NATO beefs up forces along Afghan-Pakistan border </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24215_NATO-beefs-up-forces-along-Afghan-Pakistan-border-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) on Monday strengthened troops along the Afghan border fearing the peace deals between Pakistan and the Taliban will lead to increase in militant attacks into Afghanistan, NATO's commander in Afghanistan General Dan McNeill said. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 11:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Court acquits Zardari in drugs case </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24211_Court-acquits-Zardari-in-drugs-case-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A Lahore court has acquitted the Co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, Asif Ali Zardari, in a drugs case.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 11:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nearly 50 per cwnt of British youngsters don't use condoms with new partners</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24199_Nearly-50-per-cwnt-of-British-youngsters-dont-use-condoms-with-new-partners.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Despite constant attempts to create awareness about condom use, British teenagers still lack adequate knowledge and nearly half of all under-25s don't use condoms with new partners, a new survey by Ipsos MORI has revealed.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 09:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China mourns quake dead </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24192_China-mourns-quake-dead-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Millions of people in China and overseas observed three minutes silence at 2:28 p.m. Monday to mourn thousands of people killed in an earthquake which hit the nation's on May 12.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 08:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brit kids as young as eight carrying weapons to school</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24185_Brit-kids-as-young-as-eight-carrying-weapons-to-school.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Apart from carrying books and stationary, British children, as young as 8 years, use their school-bags as an all purpose kit for school-brawls, equipped with guns, knives and axes, reveals a new report.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 08:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brits spend 18 years of their working lives commuting to work!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24182_Brits-spend-18-years-of-their-working-lives-commuting-to-work.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Commuters in Britain spend up to 18 years of their working lives reaching and getting back from office.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 07:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Peter Phillips quaffed champagne just 90 minutes before tying the knot</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24181_Peter-Phillips-quaffed-champagne-just-90-minutes-before-tying-the-knot.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Royal groom Peter Phillips downed bottles of champagne with his dad and friends at a pub- just 90 minutes before tying the knot. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 07:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Chinese woman's miraculous survival after 150 hrs post-quake ordeal</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24179_Chinese-womans-miraculous-survival-after-150-hrs-post-quake-ordeal.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Survival tales continue in the Chinese province of Sichuan, the worst hit in Monday's earthquake of 7.8 magnitude. A woman was rescued last evening after remaining buried under the debris for more than 150 hours.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 07:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Experts condemn Fritzl's incest family reunion</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24178_Experts-condemn-Fritzls-incest-family-reunion.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Authorities of the Austrian hospital where the family of incest monster Josef Fritzl are being treated have been severely panned the reunion of the two sets of siblings involved in the case.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 07:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sotheby's dealer tries to conquer the Everest</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24166_Sothebys-dealer-tries-to-conquer-the-Everest.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ After a failed attempt, Andre Zlattinger, head of Scottish pictures at auction house Sotheby's, is attempting to conquer the Everest in a bid to raise funds for the hospital where his mother was treated for cancer before her death.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 05:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pak, US reaffirm commitment to fight terror</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24154_Pak-US-reaffirm-commitment-to-fight-terror.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ At the first meeting between the heads of government after a new democratic government assumed office in Islamabad, Pakistan and the US are learnt to have reaffirmed their commitment to the fight against terrorism and extremism.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 04:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>"Musharraf will say goodbye at the right time"</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24151_Musharraf-will-say-goodbye-at-the-right-time.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's Press Secretary Rashid Quereshi has said Musharraf wants to be a Constitutional President and will quit the office at the "right time".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 03:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indian-born nuke expert warns China to ensure safety of its quake-hit nuke plants</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24143_Indian-born-nuke-expert-warns-China-to-ensure-safety-of-its-quake-hit-nuke-plants.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Indian-born Dr Anupam Srivastava, director of the University of Georgia's Asia programme and a nuclear consultant, has reportedly ruled out leakage of radioactive material in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan Province, but cautioned the authorities in that area to take steps to ensure proper storage and safety of the stockpile.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 02:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jairam Ramesh to discuss bilateral issues with Egyptian ministers</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24141_Jairam-Ramesh-to-discuss-bilateral-issues-with-Egyptian-ministers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh, who is representing India at World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Egypt, is scheduled to meet Egyptian ministers this afternoon, to discuss bilateral issues. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 02:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indian conglomerate pumps RM15 billion into Malaysian project</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24140_Indian-conglomerate-pumps-RM15-billion-into-Malaysian-project.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ An Indian conglomerate is the latest investor to pump money into the Iskandar Malaysia project in Johor.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 02:28:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India dispatches more relief to quake-hit China</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24139_India-dispatches-more-relief-to-quake-hit-China.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ India dispatched another planeload of relief to earthquake-hit China today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 02:28:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UK black and Asian police officers not getting the top jobs </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24138_UK-black-and-Asian-police-officers-not-getting-the-top-jobs-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Black and Asian police officers are not being considered for top jobs in the force, according to a senior police chief.
The Chief Constable of Cheshire constabulary, Peter Fahy, admitted that officers from ethnic minorities were being unfairly discriminated against.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 02:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Slain Bugti's grandson rejects Pak govt's talks-offer</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24137_Slain-Bugtis-grandson-rejects-Pak-govts-talks-offer.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Barhamdagh Khan Bugti, the grandson of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti, has reportedly rejected the Pakistan government's offer for talks, saying that the government's claims of providing relief to Balochistan were designed to secure an "honourable retreat for the defeated forces".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 02:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>HINDRAF leader says his passport was revoked</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24135_HINDRAF-leader-says-his-passport-was-revoked.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leader P. Waytha Moorthy continues to claim hat his Malaysian passport has been revoked despite the government stating otherwise. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 01:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Burmese kids risk facing starvation deaths </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24132_Burmese-kids-risk-facing-starvation-deaths-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Burmese children affected by Cyclone Nargis face the risk of dying of starvation unless food is rushed to them, international aid agencies have warned.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 01:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indian cabbie bashing stirs up strong protests in Adelaide</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24131_Indian-cabbie-bashing-stirs-up-strong-protests-in-Adelaide.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In a second similar incident in less than three weeks in Australia, strong protests by taxi drivers' continued for two days on the streets of Adelaide yesterday, following an incident wherein one cabbie Balraj Singh was brutally bashed up by two unidentified men last weekend.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 01:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US convey reservations against IPI gas pipeline project</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24130_US-convey-reservations-against-IPI-gas-pipeline-project.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan should desist from carrying forward the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project because the present "financial, political, legal and security" circumstances did not favour it, and even Iran might eventually stall the pipeline project as it might short of resources, said a US State Department official.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 01:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nepali Congress leaders doubt Maoist's intention</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24128_Nepali-Congress-leaders-doubt-Maoists-intention.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Nepali Congress (NC) acting president Sushil Koirala has said that his party is still not assured about the intention of the Maoists in Nepal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 12:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Manmohan Singh confident democratic experiment would succeed in Nepal</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24127_Manmohan-Singh-confident-democratic-experiment-would-succeed-in-Nepal.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that he is confident that Nepalese political parties would make a success of the "democratic experiment" they are involved in through electoral process in Nepal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 12:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UK's MI5 cornered over prostitute orgy scandal </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24119_UKs-MI5-cornered-over-prostitute-orgy-scandal-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ British intelligence outfit MI5 has been accused of failing to vet recruits properly after it emerged that one of its surveillance officers was married to a prostitute who exposed Max Mosley's involvement in a sado-masochistic orgy. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 11:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Now, a beer brewed especially for dogs!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24118_Now-a-beer-brewed-especially-for-dogs.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Now, you can actually enjoy a chilled mug of beer with your best friend - thanks to a no-alcohol beer brewed especially for dogs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 11:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Malaysian man must prove physical, financial state for netting fourth wife!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24117_Malaysian-man-must-prove-physical-financial-state-for-netting-fourth-wife.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It seems that Mohamed Nor Awang, an odd-job worker in Malaysia, will not get a fourth wife so easily.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 11:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Miracle, as woman rescued after 124 hrs of China quake with only mild back injuries</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24103_Miracle-as-woman-rescued-after-124-hrs-of-China-quake-with-only-mild-back-injuries.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A young woman survived without food and water for nearly 124 hours in a Chinese province before she was rescued from under the debris of a five-storey building which collapsed during last Monday's earthquake of 7.8 magnitude. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 11:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top kashmiri leader to meet prime minister of India</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24101_Top-kashmiri-leader-to-meet-prime-minister-of-India.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Will seek assurance of free and fair polls

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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 11:04:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fritzl's dungeon son 'thrilled McDonald's is real'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24099_Fritzls-dungeon-son-thrilled-McDonalds-is-real.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Dungeon victim Felix Fritzl couldn't believe it when he was taken to a secret trip to McDonald's - because he thought that the ads for the burger giant were fiction.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 10:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Aussie dads are world's laziest fathers!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24097_Aussie-dads-are-worlds-laziest-fathers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ When it comes to being lazy, dads the world over are no competition for Aussie fathers.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 10:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Landslides during China quake results in formation of 21 lakes</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24094_Landslides-during-China-quake-results-in-formation-of-21-lakes.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Massive landslides resulting from the strong earthquake of 7.8 magnitude last Monday in southwest China, have led to the formation of at least 21 lakes in various cities after land blocked the rivers flow. Water has been flowing over some of these blockages in Qingchuan county, but posed no danger.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 10:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indian Air Force plane leaves with second batch of aid for China </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24093_Indian-Air-Force-plane-leaves-with-second-batch-of-aid-for-China-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Indian Air Force (IAF) flight carrying a second consignment of 30 tonnes of relief supplies for the quake-affected people of China left from here today. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 10:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Menon to leave for talks with Pak</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24091_Menon-to-leave-for-talks-with-Pak.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Foreign Secretary Shiv Shanker Menon is leaving for Islamabad today for Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 09:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Afghan envoy urges Pak to abandon peace talks with tribal 'militants'</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24081_Afghan-envoy-urges-Pak-to-abandon-peace-talks-with-tribal-militants.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Afghanistan's ambassador in Washington, Saeed Jawad has reportedly urged Pakistan to abandon negotiations with tribal elders at areas along the Pak-Afghan border, who, according to him, were 'militants'.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 08:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pranab's Pak visit may pave way for release of 96 Indian prisoners</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24079_Pranabs-Pak-visit-may-pave-way-for-release-of-96-Indian-prisoners.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Pakistan beginning Tuesday, may pave the way for the release of at least 96 Indian prisoners languishing in various Pakistan prisons and who have already completed their jail sentences.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 08:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Time ripe to resolve Kashmir issue, Bush tells Gilani</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24077_Time-ripe-to-resolve-Kashmir-issue-Bush-tells-Gilani.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In his first meeting with new Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, US President George W. Bush reportedly told him that it was the right time to settle the Kashmir issue which has been pending for more than two decades now.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Monday, 19 May 2008 08:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hard work is required for democracy in Middle East: Bush</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24069_Hard-work-is-required-for-democracy-in-Middle-East-Bush.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Addressing Middle East leaders at the World Economic Forum, US President George W Bush said on Sunday that if they want to advance democracy and civil liberties in their region, they will have to work hard.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 05:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China announces three-day mourning period for quake victims </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24066_China-announces-three-day-mourning-period-for-quake-victims-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ China has announced three-day national mourning period for May 12 earthquake victims. Flags are to be kept at half-mast and all public amusements will be suspended for three days from Monday. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 05:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US and UK pushing PPP to make deal with Musharraf': Guardian</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24058_US-and-UK-pushing-PPP-to-make-deal-with-Musharraf-Guardian.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The brewing disturbances in Pakistan People's Party-Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) coalition will leave no alternative with the PPP but to deal with President Pervez Musharaff, the Guardian reported. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 02:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Army supports Government's peace initiatives in tribal areas: Masood</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24057_Army-supports-Governments-peace-initiatives-in-tribal-areas-Masood.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan Corps Commander Peshawar Lt-Gen Masood Aslam has said that Army fully supports Government's peace initiatives in the tribal areas and seeks its direction for the resolution of the issues in the conflict-hit areas.
Talking to reporters at the screening of a documentary 'Sipahi Maqbool Hussain' at the Garrison Auditorium here, he said, "The Army is a part of the government and is fully on board in the peace process now under way in the tribal areas and Swat."]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 02:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NC, TMDP agrees to entrust government leadership to Maoist</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24045_NC-TMDP-agrees-to-entrust-government-leadership-to-Maoist.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Nepali Congress (NC) and the Terai Madhes Democratic party (TMDP) on Sunday agreed that the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), which has emerged as the largest party in the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections, should lead the next government.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 01:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US to extend help to Pakistan in food crisis: Bush </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24041_US-to-extend-help-to-Pakistan-in-food-crisis-Bush-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ US President, George W. Bush has assured US help for Pakistan to meet the food crisis in the country. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 12:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich - the mystery buyer of Bacon-Freud's masterpieces </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24040_Russian-tycoon-Roman-Abramovich---the-mystery-buyer-of-Bacon-Freuds-masterpieces-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The mystery buyer of Francis Bacon's 'Triptych', which was sold for 86.3 million dollars and Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, which fetched 33.6 million dollars, is Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, according to reliable sources. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 11:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wedding bells for Prince William and Kate Middleton?</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24033_Wedding-bells-for-Prince-William-and-Kate-Middleton.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Looks like Prince William and long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton are all set to take their relationship to the next level, for according to sources, the royal heart-throb is planning to wed the love of his life. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 10:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Most expensive T-shirt in Adelaide comes at A$1000</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24023_Most-expensive-T-shirt-in-Adelaide-comes-at-A$1000.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A Canadian label, Dom Rebel, is offering a T-shirt studded with Swarovski crystals for 1000 Australian dollars - making it the most expensive T-shirt in Adelaide.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 09:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lizard found inside chicken egg</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24013_Lizard-found-inside-chicken-egg.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A man was shell-shocked, quite literally, when he cracked an egg while preparing a meal and to his astonishment found a fully formed gecko inside the shell.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 08:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scot rabbi creates world's first official Jewish tartan</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24011_Scot-rabbi-creates-worlds-first-official-Jewish-tartan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The world now has the first official Jewish tartan thanks to a Scottish rabbi.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 07:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Women make better bus drivers than men</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24009_Women-make-better-bus-drivers-than-men.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ One of Sydney's largest bus operators will now be able to exclusively recruit women drivers and not be worried about being sued for discrimination.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 07:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The man who ditched his bride-to-be to wed stag-night girl</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24006_The-man-who-ditched-his-bride-to-be-to-wed-stag-night-girl.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ He was about to say 'I do' to his bride but at the last minute Ray Shabi changed his mind and escaped wedlock to marry a woman he met on his stag night. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sunday, 18 May 2008 06:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bush Administration taking a tougher line on providing military aid to Pakistan: US expert</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_24001_Bush-Administration-taking-a-tougher-line-on-providing-military-aid-to-Pakistan-US-expert.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Daniel Markey, a South Asia expert at the US Council on Foreign Relations, said on Saturday that Washington is more circumspect about providing military equipment to Pakistan as it feels that much of the money is used by the South Asian country to stoke up terror attacks against arch enemy India, rather than fighting the Al Qaedas terror network.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 11:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN Secretary-General not expecting UNMIN's mandate extension</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23989_UN-Secretary-General-not-expecting-UNMINs-mandate-extension.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has remarked that he does not anticipate the extension of the term of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 09:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US plans a new big prison for its "big" plans in Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23987_US-plans-a-new-big-prison-for-its-big-plans-in-Afghanistan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Pentagon is planning to build a new 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, which means that the US intends to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come. Ostensibly the reason for constructing the new prison is to overcome serious health risks to Afghan detainees, in general, and American military personnel, in particular, at the Bagram military base prison in Afghanistan, which presently holds 630 prisoners (much more than its capacity).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 09:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>'Cyclone Nargis to have bigger impact than Tsunami</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23969_Cyclone-Nargis-to-have-bigger-impact-than-Tsunami.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ World Vision chief executive Tim Costello, who returned after a 10-day visit to Myanmar, has said that Cyclone Nargis is going to have a bigger impact on the country than the (Boxing Day) tsunami did on Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 07:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Now, Oz politician Troy Buswell accused of grabbing MP's testicles!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23962_Now-Oz-politician-Troy-Buswell-accused-of-grabbing-MPs-testicles.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Barely has the scandal of West Australian Opposition leader Troy Buswell sniffing a female colleague's chair and pulling another's bra strap died down that he's been accused of squeezing another MP's testicles.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 06:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pak has no control over two airstrips in its tribal areas meant for exclusive US use</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23957_Pak-has-no-control-over-two-airstrips-in-its-tribal-areas-meant-for-exclusive-US-use.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Belying Pakistan's claims that it won't allow any foreign troops to operate from its soil, it has been learnt that two airstrips - one near Wana and the other near Nokundi (both tribal areas bordering Afghanistan), are for the exclusive use of the US for security operations in Afghanistan and the Tribal Areas, and that they were not under the direct control of either Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), or the Pakistan Air Force.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 05:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Warm weather will increase risk of disease in Chinese quake hit areas</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23955_Warm-weather-will-increase-risk-of-disease-in-Chinese-quake-hit-areas.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA) has said that regions around the epicentre of the earthquake will experience warmer weather over the next three days.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 05:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>46 injured need evacuation as lake burst imminent in China's quake hit zone </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23954_46-injured-need-evacuation-as-lake-burst-imminent-in-Chinas-quake-hit-zone-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Forty-six people were seriously injured and are in dire need of help in Beichuan county of the Sichuan province, which was the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude quake that has so far killed 22,069 people in China.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 05:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The martial arts expert who drilled his own head!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23950_The-martial-arts-expert-who-drilled-his-own-head.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A martial arts expert stunned the audience by holding a running drill to his head and walking away without a scratch. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 04:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>"Rivalry-bitten Pak politicians 'sabotaging' democracy"</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23940_Rivalry-bitten-Pak-politicians-sabotaging-democracy.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ With the PML-N walking out of the ruling PPP-led alliance, hopes for national unity and revival of democracy in Pakistan, which had risen after the February 18 elections, had been dashed, and the country's traditional political rivals were solely to be blamed for it, said an editorial in The Times.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 03:28:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>"30 pc of US aid siphons off as 'overhead expenses' before reaching Pak, Afghanistan"</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23939_30-pc-of-US-aid-siphons-off-as-overhead-expenses-before-reaching-Pak-Afghanistan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Nearly 30 per cent of the US' aid for Afghanistan and Pakistan is siphoned off as "overhead expenses", in the form of consulting fee and other costs, before it reaches the region, said US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher during a recent hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 03:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Humiliated Sikh traffic warden files another complaint against colleagues in Pak</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23935_Humiliated-Sikh-traffic-warden-files-another-complaint-against-colleagues-in-Pak.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Gulab Singh, the only Sikh warden in traffic police in Lahore who had even put in his papers last month alleging misbehaviour by his colleagues, has once again complained of humiliation in public by his seniors.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 02:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Islamabad Bar says Zardari-Musharraf nexus obstructing restoration of judges </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23929_Islamabad-Bar-says-Zardari-Musharraf-nexus-obstructing-restoration-of-judges-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is impeding the reinstatement of the deposed judges by joining hands with President Musharraf, said Riasat Ali Azad, General Secretary of the Islamabad Bar Association.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 02:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Quake-hit China to probe collapsed schools' construction quality</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23927_Quake-hit-China-to-probe-collapsed-schools-construction-quality.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ China's Ministry for Housing and Urban and Rural Construction has reportedly decided to probe the construction quality of the schools which collapsed in Monday's earthquake, of 7.8 magnitude, killing a large number of school kids.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 01:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Oz Muslim TV comedy show depicting human side of Islam a hit</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23916_New-Oz-Muslim-TV-comedy-show-depicting-human-side-of-Islam-a-hit.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A new weekly TV comedy show "Salam Cafe" in Australia, depicting the "human side" of the Muslims and providing viewers an insight into the inaccurate perceptions of Islam, has been a hit, even more than "Newstopia" which previously occupied the Wednesday night timeslot.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 12:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Most extensive preservation project for Great Wall of China launched</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23915_Most-extensive-preservation-project-for-Great-Wall-of-China-launched.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has launched the most extensive preservation project for the Great Wall of China, with a survey and repair already in progress. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 12:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ancient Turkish city might have housed world's first stock exchange</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23912_Ancient-Turkish-city-might-have-housed-worlds-first-stock-exchange.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[  If reports are to be believed, the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey might have housed the world's first stock exchange.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 11:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Works of 'World's Worst Poet' rakes in more than Harry Potter at auction!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23908_Works-of-Worlds-Worst-Poet-rakes-in-more-than-Harry-Potter-at-auction.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ He was dubbed as the "world's worst poet", but now Scottish Bard William McGonagall has had the last laugh, for his odes have raked in more money than the very famous Harry Potter books at an auction.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 11:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kids admit violent video games make them aggressive</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23901_Kids-admit-violent-video-games-make-them-aggressive.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A majority of kids in Britain believe that playing violent computer games, such as the recently launched Grand Theft Auto IV, are responsible for aggressive behaviour, according to a new survey.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 10:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Trapped China quake survivor ate cigarettes, paper tissues, drunk urine</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23897_Trapped-China-quake-survivor-ate-cigarettes-paper-tissues-drunk-urine.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A 46-year-old survivor of the Monday's earthquake of 7.8 magnitude ate cigarettes, paper napkins and drunk his urine to keep himself alive before being rescued after 100 hours of ordeal. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 09:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Archaeologists discover pre Achaemenid era city in Iran </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23896_Archaeologists-discover-pre-Achaemenid-era-city-in-Iran-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A team of archaeologists from the Yazd Cultural Heritage Center (YCHC) in Iran has discovered the Achaemenid era predecessor of the city of Yazd.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 09:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Manmohan Singh dedicates Tala Hydropower Project to India and Bhutan</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23893_Manmohan-Singh-dedicates-Tala-Hydropower-Project-to-India-and-Bhutan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Friendly ties between India and Bhutan took another step forward with Prime Ministers Dr. Manmohan Singh and Jigmi Y. Thinley dedicating the 1020 megawatt Tala Hydroelectric Project in Bhutan's Chukha Valley to the two countries.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 09:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>When trapped Chinese school kids sang "Let's write our ending together"</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23891_When-trapped-Chinese-school-kids-sang-Lets-write-our-ending-together.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Teenagers trapped under the debris of their school building after the earthquake of 7.8 magnitude hit southwest China on Monday afternoon, sang pop song "Let's write our ending together", which gave them strength enough to help getting though the ordeal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 09:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Being pretty helps in politics, says female Italian minister</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23889_Being-pretty-helps-in-politics-says-female-Italian-minister.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Beauty may have nothing to do with politics, but former showgirl and now, an Italian cabinet minister Mara Carfagna, begs to differ. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 08:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Manmohan Singh assures India is ready for SA peace </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23888_Manmohan-Singh-assures-India-is-ready-for-SA-peace-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said that India was ready to assist in making the region more peaceful, secure and prosperous. He was addressing the Bhutan Parliament this morning. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 08:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Margaret Thatcher tried to 'seduce' Sir Edward Heath, claims BBC drama</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23887_Margaret-Thatcher-tried-to-seduce-Sir-Edward-Heath-claims-BBC-drama.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ During her hunt for a Conservative seat, Margaret Thatcher once tried to seduce Sir Edward Heath, a new BBC drama has claimed. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 08:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Malaysian govt confirms HINDRAF leader's passport not revoked</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23885_Malaysian-govt-confirms-HINDRAF-leaders-passport-not-revoked.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar has said that the Government had not revoked HINDRAF chairman P. Waythamoorthy's passport, and that he was still in possession of his passport in London.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 08:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dungeon kids take first steps in 'magical' outside world</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23883_Dungeon-kids-take-first-steps-in-magical-outside-world.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Freed dungeon boys Stefan and Felix Fritzl have taken their first ever steps in the "magical" outside world. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 08:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PM says India, Bhutan have a challenge to evolve sustainable development</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23880_PM-says-India-Bhutan-have-a-challenge-to-evolve-sustainable-development.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[  Having spent the better part of his two-day official visit to Bhutan lauding that country's emergence as the youngest democracy in the world and for its improving relations with India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, cautioned that the challenge before both would be to evolve a "model of sustainable, inclusive and equitable development in the coming years."]]></description>
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<pubDate>Saturday, 17 May 2008 07:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>BRIC nations join chorus for Security Council reforms </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23876_BRIC-nations-join-chorus-for-Security-Council-reforms-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Making its presence felt in the first ever stand alone Brazil-Russia-China--India (BRIC) meet here, Brazilian Foreign Minister Cellos Amorin said if the Security Council will not start responding in a just and fair manner then nations will start looking for alternatives.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 11:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India and Brazil rubbish blames of world food shortage  </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23874_India-and-Brazil-rubbish-blames-of-world-food-shortage-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In the first standalone Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC) meeting which concluded on Friday at the little known industrial Russian town of yeketerinburg, both the emerging economies, India and Brazil rubbished the blame on world food crises and have traded their guns on the developed world for the shortage. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 11:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India deeply values its ties with Bhutan, to enhance it: Manmohan Singh</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23872_India-deeply-values-its-ties-with-Bhutan-to-enhance-it-Manmohan-Singh.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Welcoming Bhutan into the fraternity of democratic nations, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today assured the Bhutanese leadership of India's full support and cooperation, as it "embarks upon a new and exciting journey".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 11:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India, Bhutan to target hydroelectricity generation of 10,000 MW by 2020</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23871_India-Bhutan-to-target-hydroelectricity-generation-of-10000-MW-by-2020.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ India and Bhutan on Friday agreed to double the target of hydroelectricity generation to 10, 000 megawatts from 5,000 megawatts by 2020, a reflection of the level of confidence and trust shared presently between the leaderships of the two countries.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 11:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PM visits Bhutan to strengthen ties between the two countries</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23869_PM-visits-Bhutan-to-strengthen-ties-between-the-two-countries.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached Bhutan on Friday on a two-day visit, to the Himalayan kingdom to boost economic and bilateral ties.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 10:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>BRIC nations urge for U.N. reforms to make it more efficient</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23866_BRIC-nations-urge-for-UN-reforms-to-make-it-more-efficient.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), the world's emerging and rapidly growing economies, have urged for reforming the United Nations to make it more efficient to deal with the emerging global challenges.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 10:28:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Manmohan Singh gets grand ceremonial guard of honour</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23865_Manmohan-Singh-gets-grand-ceremonial-guard-of-honour.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It was a ceremonial guard of honour worth replicating for its precision and panache. Visiting Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was given a grand welcome at the Tashichhodzong, the seat of government in Bhutan Capital Thimphu on Friday afternoon.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 10:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Laden vows to reclaim every inch of Palestine on Israel 60th anniversary</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23864_Laden-vows-to-reclaim-every-inch-of-Palestine-on-Israel-60th-anniversary.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In an audio message released today, deliberately timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Israel's foundation, Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has reportedly vowed to reclaim "every inch of Palestine".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 10:07:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>5,000 pounds compensation for woman tormented by 'farting boss'!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23860_5000-pounds-compensation-for-woman-tormented-by-farting-boss.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ This can surely be termed as a 'smelly compensation', quite literally, for a woman has won herself a whopping 5,000 pounds after her boss kept teasing her by farting in her direction.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 09:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bacon masterpiece sets auction record with 43m pounds</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23859_Bacon-masterpiece-sets-auction-record-with-43m-pounds.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Renowned artist Francis Bacon's masterpiece - 'Triptych', has set a new record in sales by fetching a whopping 43 million pounds at an auction in New York.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 09:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ISI briefs Pak PM, Zardari about security issues</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23854_ISI-briefs-Pak-PM-Zardari-about-security-issues.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his party boss Asif Ali Zardari today visited ISI headquarters where they were reportedly briefed about security issues the country was facing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 08:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Animals, clouds not true indicators of earthquake: Chinese scientists</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23847_Animals-clouds-not-true-indicators-of-earthquake-Chinese-scientists.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Chinese scientists have said that the migration of toads or unusual cloud formations cannot be the true indicators of earthquakes.
Zhang Guomin, a senior researcher at the China Earthquake Administration, said on the government's website that predictions cannot simply be based on the movement of animals.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 08:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Woman bites off partner's cheek in drunken lover's tiff at 30,000ft!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23845_Woman-bites-off-partners-cheek-in-drunken-lovers-tiff-at-30000ft.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Love took an ugly turn mid-air when a woman bit her partner's face during a drunken row at 30,000ft and "ripped part of his cheek off", it has emerged.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 07:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pak EC allows Sharif brothers to contest by-polls</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23839_Pak-EC-allows-Sharif-brothers-to-contest-by-polls.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif had a sigh of relief last evening when the country's Election Commission accepted their nomination papers for the June 18 by-polls. Interestingly, the same Election Commission had rejected the duo's nomination papers ahead of the February 18 general elections, saying that they were involved in different 'cases'.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 07:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brit woman claims to have seen alien spaceship</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23834_Brit-woman-claims-to-have-seen-alien-spaceship.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A woman in London claims that she has seen an alien spaceship hovering over Golders Green.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 06:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brit girls increasingly taking to life of crime </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23830_Brit-girls-increasingly-taking-to-life-of-crime-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The number of recorded offences committed by girls in Britain has risen by 25 percent in the last three years, according to a new report.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 05:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prince William snubs royal wedding for ex-girlfriend's Kenyan bash </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23825_Prince-William-snubs-royal-wedding-for-ex-girlfriends-Kenyan-bash-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Kate Middleton will attend a royal wedding on May 17 alone, while Prince William travels to Africa for another bash with his ex.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 05:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fears over possibility of plague outbreak in Sichuan</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23824_Fears-over-possibility-of-plague-outbreak-in-Sichuan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Four days after the devastating earthquake which shattered Sichuan province of China, claiming over 20,000 lives, the place is likely to become home to many diseases as the victims' bodies are still trapped in debris and not buried.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 05:07:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hindus urge Canadian film organisations to not screen "The Love Guru" </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23816_Hindus-urge-Canadian-film-organisations-to-not-screen-The-Love-Guru-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Hindu groups have contacted various film related organizations in Canada urging them not to distribute or screen upcoming Hollywood movie "The Love Guru" till its presenter Paramount Pictures makes necessary changes to it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 04:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Manmohan Singh given rousing welcome in Bhutan</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23798_Manmohan-Singh-given-rousing-welcome-in-Bhutan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, was given a rousing welcome on his arrival at Paro International Airport on Friday morning by both Bhutanese dignitaries and locals.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 03:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lara Bingle's moving eulogy to dad flanked by Clarke</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23796_Lara-Bingles-moving-eulogy-to-dad-flanked-by-Clarke.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Australian model and would be Mrs Michael Clarke, delivered a moving eulogy before hundreds of mourners in a farewell message to her father.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 02:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Former New York Governor's call girl booker ready to reveal all</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23795_Former-New-York-Governors-call-girl-booker-ready-to-reveal-all.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Temeka Lewis, the primary booker for a prostitution ring whose clients included former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, has agreed to tell a grand jury all she knows.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 02:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama hits back at Bush over his "foolish delusion" remarks</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23792_Obama-hits-back-at-Bush-over-his-foolish-delusion-remarks.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama, who is on the verge of winning the Democratic nomination, has reacted swiftly after President George Bush assailed him for his professed willingness to engage in diplomacy with terrorists and tyrants.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 02:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Afghan hijacker working as BA cleaner at Heathrow</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23788_Afghan-hijacker-working-as-BA-cleaner-at-Heathrow.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A member of a gang who hijacked a plane at Stansted Airport in 2000 is now working at Heathrow Airport.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 01:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Breakaway JKLF group forms new party in London</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23787_Breakaway-JKLF-group-forms-new-party-in-London.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[
London, May 15: Claiming to be founder members of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), the erstwhile former members formed the Kashmir National Party in London on Thursday, and accused the JKLF leadership of having compromised the front's ideology by making "private deals with secret agencies of India and Pakistan".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 01:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cherie Blair should quit bench over 'disgraceful memoirs', says ex-judge </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23780_Cherie-Blair-should-quit-bench-over-disgraceful-memoirs-says-ex-judge-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Cherie Blair should be sacked as a judge over her "disgraceful memoirs" that "demean the legal profession", a leading lawyer said on May 15.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 12:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US toughens stance on Pakistan's talks with militants </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23774_US-toughens-stance-on-Pakistans-talks-with-militants-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The United States has toughened its stance on a proposed agreement with the militants in the Federal Administered Tribal Areas, saying that "any deal Pakistan reaches with them should be worth more than the paper it is written on".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 12:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reaches Bhutan </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23773_Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh-reaches-Bhutan-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today arrived in Bhutan on a two-day official visit.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 11:53:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nirmala Deshpande's ashes to be immersed near Sukkur</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23766_Nirmala-Deshpandes-ashes-to-be-immersed-near-Sukkur.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The ashes of Indian peace activist Nirmala Deshpande will be immersed in the Indus River near Sukkur on Saturday.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 11:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Weakness in Oz police case to keep Haneef in detention exposed</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23765_Weakness-in-Oz-police-case-to-keep-Haneef-in-detention-exposed.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Australian Federal Police (AFP) considered placing Indian born doctor Mohamed Haneef on a control order or in preventative detention just three days after he was arrested, but were advised there was insufficient information to support their move.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 10:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ogling man's chest is legal, but not woman's boobs, rule judges</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23750_Ogling-mans-chest-is-legal-but-not-womans-boobs-rule-judges.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Ogling at 007's chest is perfectly fine but dare not leer at any of his girls, well that is not only the warning of James Bond but also the ruling on what constitutes voyeurism by a panel of leading judges at the Court of Appeal on May 15.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 09:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Malaysian man's three wives happy to see him get fourth!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23749_Malaysian-mans-three-wives-happy-to-see-him-get-fourth.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Having two wives at the same time is certainly not the best idea for any man, considering all the bickering and vying for hubby's attention - but with Mohamed Nor Awang, an odd-job worker, the case is 'bit' different.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 09:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dungeon dad's threats to gas cellar family were 'a bluff': Police</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23747_Dungeon-dads-threats-to-gas-cellar-family-were-a-bluff-Police.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl's threats to his cellar family that he would gas them to death if they tried to escape their underground dungeon were a mere bluff, cops have revealed. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 09:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MIC wants more scholarships for Indian students</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23746_MIC-wants-more-scholarships-for-Indian-students.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) is unhappy with the low percentage of Public Service Department overseas scholarships allocated to Indian students. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 09:07:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Western experts looking for signs of damage in Chinese N-sites in earthquake</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23745_Western-experts-looking-for-signs-of-damage-in-Chinese-N-sites-in-earthquake.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ China's main centres for designing, making and storing nuclear arms lie in the shattered earthquake zone, and leading Western experts are looking for signs of any damage that might allow radioactivity to escape. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 09:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India, Pak should clinch all issues in Islamabad on May 20: Sharif </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23744_India-Pak-should-clinch-all-issues-in-Islamabad-on-May-20-Sharif-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Rebutting the speculations about split between the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that both the parties will "clinch all issues" with India in the forthcoming meeting in Islamabad on May 20. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 08:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pak Presidency set to restore judges minus Iftikhar Chaudhry</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23739_Pak-Presidency-set-to-restore-judges-minus-Iftikhar-Chaudhry.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan Presidency has finalised its proposals for the re-appointment of all sacked judges minus former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 08:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US encourages discussion to resolve J-K issue</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23738_US-encourages-discussion-to-resolve-J-K-issue.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The United States has reiterated its support for the peaceful settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir issue, saying it would continue encouraging discussion among parties to resolve the dispute.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 08:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dungeon dad smuggled daughter to hospital while wife was on holiday</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23737_Dungeon-dad-smuggled-daughter-to-hospital-while-wife-was-on-holiday.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl took his sick girl, Kerstin to hospital while his wife was on holiday, it has emerged.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 07:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Appointment of Taseer as Punjab Governor 'part of conspiracy': PML-N</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23731_Appointment-of-Taseer-as-Punjab-Governor-part-of-conspiracy-PML-N.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan today said that no consultations were made with PML-N leaders for the appointment of the new governor in Punjab. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 04:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN to hold emergency Myanmar summit: British PM </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23729_UN-to-hold-emergency-Myanmar-summit-British-PM-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the United Nations is to organise an emergency summit on the Myanmar cyclone disaster, and added that it would be held in Asia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 04:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ban on LTTE extended by two years</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23716_Ban-on-LTTE-extended-by-two-years.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Central Government has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an unlawful association by two years. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 02:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>RIC troika calls for clamp down on spread of heroin from Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23710_RIC-troika-calls-for-clamp-down-on-spread-of-heroin-from-Afghanistan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Raising concerns over the illicit drugs trade going on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Russia-India-China troika in the joint communique has called for the creation of a security belt around Afghanistan to halt the spread of heroin.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 02:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Silvio Berlusconi in trouble for 'flirty' note to female MPs</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23707_Silvio-Berlusconi-in-trouble-for-flirty-note-to-female-MPs.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been caught passing a flirtatious note during a parliamentary session to two young female politicians.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 01:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sharif to contest election from NA-123 </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23703_Sharif-to-contest-election-from-NA-123-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ An election tribunal on Thursday accepted the nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif to contest election from NA-123. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 01:07:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lush staff strips off for the environment!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23698_Lush-staff-strips-off-for-the-environment.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In a bid to protect the environment, staff at Lush in Christchurch launched an unwrap campaign, publicising the evils of too much packaging by stripping off.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Friday, 16 May 2008 12:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cherie reveals Blair was left shell shocked by Di's death</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23692_Cherie-reveals-Blair-was-left-shell-shocked-by-Dis-death.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In her autobiography, 'Speaking for Myself,' Cherie  Blair has opened up about her and Tony's reaction to the bombshell news of Princess Diana's death.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Star Wars-obsessed couple tie the knot the intergallactic way</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23679_Star-Wars-obsessed-couple-tie-the-knot-the-intergallactic-way.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ When it came to their wedding day, Star Wars-obsessed couple Bramwell Brightey, 33, and his girlfriend Tamsyn Lofts, 29, decided that nothing could be more perfect than exchanging their vows as Han Solo and Princess Leia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:07:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cherie fell in love with Tony Blair on top deck of bus No.74</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23669_Cherie-fell-in-love-with-Tony-Blair-on-top-deck-of-bus-No74.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In the latest extract of her memoirs, 'Speaking for Myself,' Cherie Blair disclosed that she found love with her future husband on the top deck of a Number 74 bus.
In her autobiography, Cherie Blair said that she was already seeing two boyfriends when she met Tony Blair and that their love blossomed during a journey home on a Routemaster. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 06:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Swiss 'Rocket Man' flies at 8,200ft</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23657_Swiss-Rocket-Man-flies-at-8200ft.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ After strapping an 8ft jet-powered wing to his back, a former Swiss fighter pilot became a human 'rocket man' flying at 8,200ft for more than five minutes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 05:29:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India takes tough stand on terrorism at RIC troika talks (Flash)</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23648_India-takes-tough-stand-on-terrorism-at-RIC-troika-talks-Flash.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Talking tough on the issue of terrorism, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today told his Russian and Chinese counterparts here that there can be no justification for any terrorist acts, and added that there should be zero tolerance towards this menace. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 04:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Court says detention of HINDRAF leaders legal</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23642_Court-says-detention-of-HINDRAF-leaders-legal.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A Malaysian federal court has ruled that the detention of the five Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leaders at the Kamunting Detention Centre is legal, and they will remain incarcerated for another 19 months at least. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 03:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Row over new Muslim police officers group in Scotland</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23640_Row-over-new-Muslim-police-officers-group-in-Scotland.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A row has broken out over the creation of Scotland's first faith-based police group.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 03:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Man tries selling 'slag' wife on eBay!</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23632_Man-tries-selling-slag-wife-on-eBay.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A husband who accused his wife of having an affair with a colleague in her office took the ultimate online revenge - by placing her for sale on eBay.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 02:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ex-German Chancellor Kohl marries woman 35 years younger </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23631_Ex-German-Chancellor-Kohl-marries-woman-35-years-younger-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has married a woman 35 years his junior in a ceremony at the hospital where he has been undergoing treatment since February.
Kohl, 78, who oversaw the reunification of Germany in 1990, married Maike Richter, a 44-year-old economist, last week at a hospital in Heidelberg in the presence of close friends.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 02:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Washington `Madam' pleads guilty in Spitzer prostitution probe   </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23627_Washington-`Madam-pleads-guilty-in-Spitzer-prostitution-probe--.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Ashley Dupre's madam Temeka Lewis has pleaded guilty to promoting a prostitution and money laundering racket that nailed former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 01:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Madame Tussaud's drops plans for Gordon Brown waxwork</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23603_Madame-Tussauds-drops-plans-for-Gordon-Brown-waxwork.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Madame Tussaud's has dropped plans to immortalise British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in wax.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Russians take to yoga to beat the stress</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23596_Russians-take-to-yoga-to-beat-the-stress.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ As the growth story of Russia's burgeoning economy continues, Russians have actively taken to yoga to beat the stress of their cosmopolita...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Josef Fritzl enjoyed romps with teenage rent-boys, transsexual hookers</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23583_Josef-Fritzl-enjoyed-romps-with-teenage-rent-boys-transsexual-hookers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl enjoyed romps with teenage rent-boys and transsexual hookers in a Thai sex paradise, it has emerged. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:07:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dungeon dad's family thanks public for support</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23581_Dungeon-dads-family-thanks-public-for-support.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Weeks after Josef Fritzl's crime surfaced, his family has for the first time expressed gratitude for the support they have received - and to wish for a "normal life" in the future. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dungeon kids reveal their hopes for the future</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23580_Dungeon-kids-reveal-their-hopes-for-the-future.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ After being freed from the clutches of sex beast Josef Fritzl, his children have revealed their hopes for the future. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sir V.S.Naipaul's biography tipped to win Samuel Johnson prize</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23579_Sir-VSNaipauls-biography-tipped-to-win-Samuel-Johnson-prize.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A shocking biography of the Nobel laureate Sir V.S.Naipaul, 'The World Is What It Is', which exposes his cruelty towards those closest to him, is tipped to win the Samuel Johnson prize.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>U.S. drone kills dozen militants in Pak's Bajaur Agency (Lead:)</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23578_US-drone-kills-dozen-militants-in-Paks-Bajaur-Agency-Lead-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ At least a dozen militants have been killed in a suspected United States missile strike in the Damadola area of the Bajaur tribal Agency.
According to a senior security official, two missiles, apparently fired by a US drone aircraft, destroyed a house and a compound used by suspected al Qaeda militants]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>India could use Jaipur blasts to create a crisis with Pakistan: STRATFOR</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23574_India-could-use-Jaipur-blasts-to-create-a-crisis-with-Pakistan-STRATFOR.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ India could use Tuesday's serial bombings in Rajasthan capital Jaipur to create a crisis with Pakistan, America's private intelligence gathering agency STRATFOR has claimed]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pak judges discussing new oath offer</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23573_Pak-judges-discussing-new-oath-offer.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Pakistan Government's latest move to create dissension within the ranks of the judiciary by offering to 're-appoint' judges of the high courts, appears to be succeeding partially as the affected judges have started to discuss the merits and demerits of accepting the new oath offer.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pranab Mukherjee visits Russia to enhance strategic ties</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23569_Pranab-Mukherjee-visits-Russia-to-enhance-strategic-ties.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee reached the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Wednesday to attend a trilateral meeting of F...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>British Film Institute assures protesting Hindus not to release or screen "The Love Guru"</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23568_British-Film-Institute-assures-protesting-Hindus-not-to-release-or-screen-The-Love-Guru.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The prestigious British Film Institute (BFI) has assured protesting Hindus that it will not screen or release the upcoming Hollywood movie "The Love Guru".]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dozen militant killed in suspected U.S. missile strike</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23565_Dozen-militant-killed-in-suspected-US-missile-strike.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ At least a dozen militants have been killed in a suspected United States missile strike in the Damadola area of the Bajaur tribal Agency.
According to a senior security official, two missiles, apparently fired by a US drone aircraft, destroyed a house and a compound used by suspected al Qaeda militants]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Legal hurdles preventing sacked judges' restoration: Sindh Deputy Speaker</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23564_Legal-hurdles-preventing-sacked-judges-restoration-Sindh-Deputy-Speaker.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Assembly, Shehla Raza, has said that legal hurdles are coming in the way of the immediate reinstatement of the deposed judges in Pakistan. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistani insurgents pose threat to US and the world: Boucher</title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23562_Pakistani-insurgents-pose-threat-to-US-and-the-world-Boucher.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ US Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia and South Asia Affairs, Richard Boucher, has said insurgents in Pakistan's frontier region continue to pose a serious threat to the United States and the rest of the world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sharif urges people to take to the streets for sacked judges restoration </title>
<link>http://www.thecheers.org/news/World-news/news_23560_Sharif-urges-people-to-take-to-the-streets-for-sacked-judges-restoration-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has urged the people to take to the streets for the restoration of sacked Pakistani judges.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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