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<title >Chirac eyes strategic partnerships with China</title>
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<pubDate>October 24th, 2006 04:33:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[French President Jacques Chirac, who is due to visit Beijing this week, said Monday he hoped to strike strategic partnerships with China in areas such as nuclear energy and rail transport. ]]></description>
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<title >India Accuses Pakistan Of Seeking To Infiltrate Its Military</title>
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<pubDate>October 24th, 2006 04:11:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[New Delhi accused Pakistan of encouraging Indian soldiers to betray their country on Monday and said it had launched a massive operation to weed out those who had become spies. ]]></description>
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<title >Taliban head vows fierce fighting</title>
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<pubDate>October 24th, 2006 04:08:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has used the holiest Muslim holiday of the year to warn that his men will intensify their fighting in Afghanistan to "surprising" levels to drive out foreign infidels. ]]></description>
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<title >Iraq to control half of provinces by year end: deputy PM</title>
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<pubDate>October 24th, 2006 04:06:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Nearly half of Iraq's 18 provinces will be under Iraqi control by the end of the year, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh said, despite growing concerns about increased violence. ]]></description>
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<title >Defence lines dug as Somalia stand-off worsens</title>
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<pubDate>October 24th, 2006 04:06:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Somali pro-Islamist fighters and rival Ethiopian troops supporting the interim government both dug defensive positions around their outposts, after the Islamists retook a strategic town ]]></description>
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<title >British defence ministry bans news broadcaster from embedded reporting</title>
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<pubDate>October 24th, 2006 04:02:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[The British defence ministry has temporarily banned television news broadcaster ITV from embedding their journalists with British troops ]]></description>
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<title >US Iraq war debate heats up ahead of legislative vote</title>
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<pubDate>October 23rd, 2006 04:46:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[US lawmakers kept up pressure on President George W. Bush to revise his Iraq policy a day after a senior US diplomat said Washington had shown "stupidity" in the conflict. ]]></description>
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<title >Eye on Iraq: What is going wrong in Iraq?</title>
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<pubDate>October 23rd, 2006 04:38:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[The Iraq conflict is not stabilizing, it is rapidly getting worse. And current U.S. policies are not helping. ]]></description>
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<title >Devilish details could undermine Sri Lanka peace talks</title>
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<pubDate>October 23rd, 2006 02:48:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Sri Lanka's warring parties were bracing for talks aimed at saving a tattered truce, but arranging next weekend's parley is becoming a logistical "minefield" that could blow up before the meeting begins. ]]></description>
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<title >Shaping the China's Security Environment</title>
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<pubDate>October 20th, 2006 05:17:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[This volume addresses the role of the Chinese military in shaping its country’s security environment. The PLA itself is shaped and molded by both domestic and foreign influences. ]]></description>
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<title >China Holds Its Biggest Anti-Terrorism Exercises: Report </title>
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<pubDate>October 20th, 2006 05:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[China on Oct. 19 wrapped up its biggest-ever anti-terrorism exercises, which involved over 2,700 policemen and soldiers, state press said. ]]></description>
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<title >Suicide bombers won't stop us in Afghanistan: NATO chief</title>
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<pubDate>October 20th, 2006 04:44:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has said that suicide bombers would not defeat the military alliance's efforts to ensure democracy prevails in Afghanistan. ]]></description>
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<title >Force May Be Needed To Guard Lebanese Airspace: UN</title>
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<pubDate>October 20th, 2006 04:22:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[U.N. peacekeepers may at some point resort to force to prevent repeated Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace, the commander of the U.N. force in southern Lebanon ]]></description>
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<title >Breakthrough as Sri Lanka rebels agree to peace talks</title>
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<pubDate>October 20th, 2006 04:20:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels agreed to attend peace talks with the government this month in a breakthrough announcement after a week of bloody attacks left over 250 dead. ]]></description>
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<title >Croatia Gets New Boost For 2008 NATO Entry Bid </title>
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<pubDate>October 20th, 2006 04:09:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Croatia won new backing for its bid to enter NATO in 2008 on Oct. 19 when conservative leaders from around Europe joined Washington in urging an alliance summit next month to begin steps to welcome it in. ]]></description>
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<title >Proper Use Of Intelligence Empowers Soldiers</title>
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<pubDate>October 19th, 2006 05:19:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Lt. Gen. James J. Lovelace, deputy chief of staff, G-3, addressed the use of intelligence in the "Actionable intelligence for the command and Soldier" forum at this week's Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting. ]]></description>
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<title >France, Libya in Arms Talks</title>
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<pubDate>October 19th, 2006 05:07:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[France is in talks with Libya about modernizing the north African country’s weapons arsenal as part of the defense cooperation deal they renewed in 2005 ]]></description>
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<title >French defense chief arrives in US to discuss NATO, NKorea</title>
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<pubDate>October 19th, 2006 05:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie arrived in Washington for a four-day visit to discuss NATO and the North Korea nuclear crisis with US officials. ]]></description>
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<title >President Signs 2007 Defense Authorization Act</title>
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<pubDate>October 19th, 2006 04:40:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[The fiscal 2007 National Defense Authorization Act provides more than $530 billion to maintain the military in the shape it must be to win the war on terror.  ]]></description>
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<title >Canada presses NATO to do more in Afghanistan</title>
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<pubDate>October 19th, 2006 04:40:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> <![CDATA[Canada is pressing other NATO countries to send more troops to Afghanistan and lift restrictions on the soldiers already stationed there ]]></description>
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