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		<title>US Troop Surge: relying on the unreliable in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/us-troop-surge-relying-on-the-unreliable-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghan forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan militias]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama’s exit plan in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US President Obama’s troop pledge to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan rests on a gamble on unreliable and dubious allies supposedly working towards the pressing goals in that country. The troop surge will have to rely on the corrupt Karzai government, perceived to be one of the most corrupt political administrations in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The United States “Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act”: Massive Aid, Tough Love, Tall Order</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-united-states-%e2%80%9cenhanced-partnership-with-pakistan-act%e2%80%9d-massive-aid-tough-love-tall-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry-Lugar-Berman Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military cooperation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons-related materials]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With Obama signing the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act, otherwise known as the ‘Kerry-Lugar-Berman Bill,’ a five-year, $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan is assured, along with a promise of more to come. ‘It includes language proposing a subsequent tranche of $7.5 billion of aid for 2015 to 2019. There is yet more money for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cordaid Ad Campaign: Trying to Make Big Spenders Guilty to Gain Aid?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/cordaid-ad-campaign-trying-to-make-big-spenders-guilty-to-gain-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/cordaid-ad-campaign-trying-to-make-big-spenders-guilty-to-gain-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ad campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big spenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cordaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disparity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional appeal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stark reality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=29227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cordaid has come up with a very hard hitting &#8220;People in Need&#8221; campaign and has put the hard truth of stark disparity existing on our planet right in front of our eyes. This ad campaign is a play on emotions, guilt conscience and will surely generate lots of aid essential to reach out to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: Fate is Sealed</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/pakistan-fate-is-sealed/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/pakistan-fate-is-sealed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan has sealed its fate, to the tune of millions of dollars. It finally got what it wanted, or what it said it needed. Zardari just has to deliver now. Pakistan’s proxy mission for the West: to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda inside Pakistan in a struggle in which there are no guarantees of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In spite of overwhelming poverty in Honduras, EU freezes $90m aid</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/in-spite-of-overwhelming-poverty-in-honduras-eu-freezes-90m-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/in-spite-of-overwhelming-poverty-in-honduras-eu-freezes-90m-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benita Ferrero-Waldner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extreme poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political negotiations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unclean drinking water]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zelaya]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the apparent failure of political negotiations and blockade of dialogue to resolve the crisis, the European Commission announced on Monday that it is freezing $90m of aid to Honduras. “Given the circumstances, I have taken the difficult decision to suspend all budgetary support payments,” said External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner. For now, the aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan pleads for aid relief for its 2 million internally displaced persons</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/pakistan-pleads-for-aid-relief-for-its-2-million-internally-displaced-persons/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/pakistan-pleads-for-aid-relief-for-its-2-million-internally-displaced-persons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDPs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[military offensive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North West Frontier Province]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[refugee camps]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=15140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the hundreds of thousands displaced by the fighting in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, there has been very little actual assistance from both international NGOs and the Pakistani government itself. The numbers are mind-boggling: 200,000 additional internally displaced persons (IDPs) pouring in everyday into refugee camps. Pakistani military forces are deep in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Military Attacks Taliban in Swat valley</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/pakistan-military-attacks-taliban-in-swat-valley/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/pakistan-military-attacks-taliban-in-swat-valley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[militancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan military is finally showing its commitment to fight militancy. Pushed by US and advancing Taliban, Pakistan security forces have finally launched attacks in Mingora, the main town in Swat. More than 64 Taliban militants have been killed in the encounter. Swat Valley had been taken over by Taliban for quite sometime but once peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China, Russia, and Iran have been influencing Latin America</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/china-russia-and-iran-have-been-influencing-latin-america/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/china-russia-and-iran-have-been-influencing-latin-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 05:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[infuence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morales]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=13765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nations like China, Russia, and Iran have been making progress in influencing Latin American leaders, altogether producing an anti-US sentiment that was largely spurred by George W. Bush’s foreign policy that saw the US falling out with and drifting away from Latin America. This is a case of the cat being away and the mice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International&#8217;s Anti-war Campaign</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/amnesty-internationals-anti-war-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/amnesty-internationals-anti-war-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rehabilitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volunteers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=11614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There cannot be another befitting anti-war, anti-human rights abuse campaign than this new animation advertisement of Amnesty International, Portugal. There cannot be greater call of duty for humane souls than to stand up and help victims of war. The spot is right on dot with its message: “Everybody is Against Everybody. Somebody has to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Ossetia: Slow Rebuilding after War</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/south-ossetia-slow-rebuilding-after-war/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/south-ossetia-slow-rebuilding-after-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[destruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=9713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[South Ossetia was the battleground and bone of contention in the recent war between Russia and Georgia. Russia stepped in to defend this small rural land when it was attacked by Georgia in last August. South Ossetia is thankful to Russia for defending their sovereignty but after euphoria has died down they are facing long [...]]]></description>
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