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		<title>South African Minister Cwele’s Wife Faces Serious Drug Trafficking Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa is again in news because of controversy surrounding arrest of Sheryl Cwele, wife of Siyabonga Cwele who is South Africa’s intelligence and security minister. Sheryl Cwele is also director of health and community services at the Hibiscus Coast Municipality. She is said to be involved along with Tessa Beetge who was recently arrested [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></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>Is Hamid Karzai really such a bad option? The Afghans may not think so.</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/is-hamid-karzai-really-such-a-bad-option-the-afghans-may-not-think-so/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/is-hamid-karzai-really-such-a-bad-option-the-afghans-may-not-think-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access to health care in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babrak Karmal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education for girls in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamist barbarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karzai’s reelection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohammad Najibullah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohammed Daoud Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mullah Mohammed Omar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pashtun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radical Islamists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warlord backing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zahir Shah]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=28348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the classic tight spot between the devil and the deep blue sea. Afghans are caught between having a corrupt and election-cheating Karzai as president and a historical scenario dominated by the likes of Mullah Omar, languishing in a civil war, or the Soviet regime. By Afghan standards, these are better times in Afghanistan. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No choice but to accept Karzai, the US will now work with a tainted Afghan president</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/no-choice-but-to-accept-karzai-the-us-will-now-work-with-a-tainted-afghan-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan fraudulent elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[checks and balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt regime in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decentralization of power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karzai cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local and regional leaders in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban insurgency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unity government in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US investments in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=28317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether the US wants Hamid Karzai for Afghanistan leadership or not is now moot. Karzai’s opponent backed out of the runoff and the country is left with no choice but to accept Karzai’s ‘reelection,’ amidst prevailing speculation of massive electoral fraud. ‘Nearly a third of the votes cast in Mr. Karzai&#8217;s favor in presidential elections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US backing corrupt Karzai: real hindrance to Afghan peace</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/us-backing-corrupt-karzai-real-hindrance-to-afghan-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/us-backing-corrupt-karzai-real-hindrance-to-afghan-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan counter-insurgency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Karzai animosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt Afghanistan government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effective government for the Afghans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraudulent reelection of Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tainted government in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US soldiers in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington support of the Karzai government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=25539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As one observer noted, ‘The Taliban-led insurgency is increasingly an insurrection against the behavior of the Karzai government—not against the religion or civilization of its international partners.’ The basic concept behind an insurgency, after all, is revolt against current political administration. As Thomas L. Friedman stated, “When you are mounting a counterinsurgency campaign, the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women in the Congo</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/hillary-clinton-and-the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-in-the-congo/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/hillary-clinton-and-the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-in-the-congo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congolese President Joseph Kabila]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US funding to combat violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vaginal mutilation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violation of women’s rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=21535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During her official trip to Africa, Hillary Clinton had planned to impress upon her interlocutors the need to fight against corruption. The head of American diplomacy even insinuated that people take to the streets to protest against their corrupt governments. Among the themes that the US Secretary of State had chosen for this trip is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One in four Iraqis live on $2.50 or less per day</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/one-in-four-iraqis-live-on-250-or-less-per-day/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/one-in-four-iraqis-live-on-250-or-less-per-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 03:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Statistics Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failing infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food ration cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food rationing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impoverished people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muthanna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein’s regime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sulaiminiyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US-led invasion of Iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a study conducted by the Iraqi government agency Central Statistics Authority, nearly a quarter of all Iraqis live below the poverty line that is demarcated as living on $2.50 or less per day. As the country starts its rehabilitation after the 6-year war spurred by the US-led invasion in 2003 to defeat former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I, Drug Lord</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/i-drug-lord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 19:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coddling drug traffickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diego Osorno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug lord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug-related killings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Felipe Calderon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gatopardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican convicted drug trafficker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcotraffickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oppression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[‘Diaries of the Boss of Bosses’]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, be a top Mexican drug lord, then aim to be the ‘Godfather of Mexican Cocaine,’ next write down your experience, then hope that your writings get into the hands of an investigative journalist. Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo did just those. His writings, portions of which were passed to investigative journalist Diego Osorno and published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did West Bengal Voters Snub the Left?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/why-did-west-bengal-voters-snub-the-left/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/why-did-west-bengal-voters-snub-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPI(M)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mamata Banerjee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nandigram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nepotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinamool congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Bengal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If there has to be one stunning outcomes of recent Lok Sabha elections in India, it certainly is the debacle of Left and CPI(M) in West Bengal, one of the long standing communist states of the country. No one expected leading Opposition party, Trinamool Congress, led my not so popular a political figure, Mamata Banerjee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas to do ‘Wall Street’ sequel</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/oliver-stone-and-michael-douglas-to-do-%e2%80%98wall-street%e2%80%99-sequel/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/oliver-stone-and-michael-douglas-to-do-%e2%80%98wall-street%e2%80%99-sequel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 02:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art &amp; Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allan Loeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalistic greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Sheen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate raider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decade of the 80s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Pressman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Gekko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sequel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shia LaBeouf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stockbroker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=13573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas have agreed to do the sequel of the film ‘Wall Street’ (1987). Fox Studios is also negotiating with actor Shia LaBeouf for a role in the film. Allan Loeb wrote the screenplay. Ed Pressman, producer of the original film, will likewise finance the sequel. Filming is expected to start this [...]]]></description>
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