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		<title>SARTRE Vehicle Platooning: The Next Evolution In Fully Automated Cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajeev 
Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ricardo plc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RWTH Aachen University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safe Road Trains for the Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tailgaiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Robotiker-Tecnalia Technology Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volvo Car Corporation.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most ambitious projects financed by the European Union (EU), SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), that aims at making vehicle platooning or tailgating as streamlined as possible with automated cars, has now finally come out of the simulators and has conducted its first ever successful demonstration of this cutting edge technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinea: on the verge of a civil war</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/guinea-on-the-verge-of-a-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arms embargo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bauxite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conakry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinea President Moussa Dadis Camara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinea Vice-President Sekouba Konate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lansana Conté]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military junta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to BBC breaking news, ‘Guinea&#8217;s vice-president has returned from business abroad to take charge of the country after an attempted assassination on the president. President Moussa Dadis Camara was flown to Morocco, where a spokesman said he underwent a &#8220;minor operation&#8221; after being shot on Thursday. Vice-President Sekouba Konate returned from Lebanon to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Safe Road Trains for the Environment Set to Revolutionize Highways</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/eu-safe-road-trains-for-the-environment-set-to-revolutionize-highways/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/eu-safe-road-trains-for-the-environment-set-to-revolutionize-highways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carpool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Safe Road Trains for the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Highways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SARTRE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=28396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SARTRE is a futuristic project envisioned by E.U as a part of the EU Safe Road Trains for the Environment. It comes with minimal technology and uses navigation systems that communicate with the lead vehicle and gadgets that control acceleration and steering. It is akin to carpooling and could bring order to the highways and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka: ethnic reconciliation is an elusive dream</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/sri-lanka-ethnic-reconciliation-is-an-elusive-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/sri-lanka-ethnic-reconciliation-is-an-elusive-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defeated LTTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic conflict between Tamils and Sinhalese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic reconciliation in Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarter of a million interned Tamils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism in Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racist Sinhalese state in Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-determination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[separate Tamil homeland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinhalese government of Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil internally-displaced people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil refugee camps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil separatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamils feel abused in Sri Lanka]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reconciliation between Tamils and the Sinhalese-dominated government in Sri Lanka is elusive as ever, even if the government tries to recruit Tamils into government service such as police work. ‘But such measures look paltry against an internment policy that the EU’s report calls a “novel form of unacknowledged detention”. The government justifies it by citing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The European Union and Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-european-union-and-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-european-union-and-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptation to climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[altering biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[altering marine ecosystem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changing temperatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changing water levels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gas emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international cooperation on adaptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investing in a low-carbon economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitigating climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promoting energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social and economic impacts of climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uptake of green products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather-related natural disasters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Climate change causes significant changes in the quality and availability of water resources, affecting many sectors including food production, where water plays a crucial role. Climate change will increasingly drive ecosystem including marine ecosystems and biodiversity loss, affecting individual species and significantly impacting ecosystems and their related services, on which society depends. It increases land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aung San Suu Kyi Sentenced to 18 months of House Arrest</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-18-months-of-house-arrest/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-18-months-of-house-arrest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house arrest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military regime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verdict]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=21406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Burmese Court and Burma’s military dictatorship did what the world and Aung San Suu Kyi herself had been speculating. They found her guilty of violating terms of previous house arrest and sentenced her to 18 more months of house arrest. She had committed ‘crime’ of giving shelter to an eccentric American. Meanwhile American John Yettaw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are Romania’s Orphans?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/where-are-romania%e2%80%99s-orphans/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/where-are-romania%e2%80%99s-orphans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bucharest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceausescu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orphanages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orphans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The most shocking reality of Ceausescu’s regime in Romania was discovery of thousands of children who were found locked away in some 600 notorious institutions. Who were these children? They were victims of Ceausescu’s policy against contraception. Romanian couples were forced to have more children and when they could not afford to raise them, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras: on the brink of civil war because of grinding poverty and abuse of power</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/honduras-on-the-brink-of-civil-war-because-of-grinding-poverty-and-abuse-of-power/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/honduras-on-the-brink-of-civil-war-because-of-grinding-poverty-and-abuse-of-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuses of power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic and social degradation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU aid freeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grinding poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manuel Zelaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military regimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ousted leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second to the poorest country in Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US insistence to return Zelaya to power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Central America’s political climate is not unique. Wherever there is a leader that aspired to be a dictator, there always seems to be a military coup fashioned to topple him, and whenever there is insurmountable civil oppression due to abuses of power, there always seems to be a resulting civil war. Confrontations in Central America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Economic Crisis on Public Health</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-impact-of-economic-crisis-on-public-health/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-impact-of-economic-crisis-on-public-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sci + Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centre for Crime and Justice Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee reintegration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact of economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King's College London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor market programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy makers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wates Foundation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A research study of 26 countries of the European Union, dated 1970-2007, and featured in the latest issue of The Lancet, reveals that more suicides and crimes have come about because of rises in unemployment. The current global economic crisis portends a similar situation as investments fall, bringing about a rise in employment layoffs, thus [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[political tension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suspension of aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unclean drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water-borne diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zelaya]]></category>

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		<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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