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      <title>A Guantanamo Tour: 'Much Ado About Nothing'?</title>
      <description>In vivid detail, Jason Leopold describes daily life for both the detainees and guards at the facility.</description>
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      <title>Guantanamo manual supports controversial drug</title>
      <description>Exclusive documents recommend use of Reglan, a drug known to cause neurological disorders, to hunger striking detainees.</description>
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      <title>Bi-nationals in Iran's prisons: No recourse?</title>
      <description>The hanging of Dutch-Iranian Zarah Bahrami shocked officials, but have they changed diplomatic tactics with Iran since?</description>
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      <title>Muslim jailed for Myanmar violence</title>
      <description>Man sentenced to 26 years in prison for attack on woman which triggered riots last month.</description>
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      <title>Arrests made over UK Islamic centre blaze</title>
      <description>Police step up patrols near sensitive sites in London amid rise in "Islamophobic crime" since soldier's murder in May.</description>
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      <title>Afghan refugees in Pakistan fear deportation</title>
      <description>More than 1.6 million people who fled Afghan conflict have been given a June 30 deadline to leave Pakistan.</description>
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      <title>Forced labour on Thai fishing boats</title>
      <description>Trafficked men are being forced to work for fishing industry in Thailand for little or no pay.</description>
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      <title>Cambodian factory workers clash with police</title>
      <description>Police use stun batons to end protest over pay at factory that produces Nike sportswear, injuring 23 workers.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 21:01:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guantanamo warden may be unfit for command </title>
      <description>US Military attorneys say Guantanamo Warden may have perjured himself, and may not be fit for command.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Limiting Myanmar's Rohingya?</title>
      <description>We ask if recent government measures are a violation of human rights, or a justifiable means to maintain security.</description>
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      <title>Bangladesh: The cost of fashion </title>
      <description>Is there any prospect of a properly regulated garments industry in the country, and what would it mean for the market?</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 10:12:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>License to kill</title>
      <description>Is Australia's moral compass being called into question as opinions change about euthanasia?</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 10:22:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Promised City</title>
      <description>A new West Bank eco-town is tempting some Palestinians with promises of a dream city, but it is not without its critics.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:50:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kuwait to jail woman for tweets against emir</title>
      <description>Teacher sentenced to 11 years in prison for insulting Gulf state's ruler and inciting regime change.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:35:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guantanamo prisoners allege widespread abuse</title>
      <description>Exclusive: Attorneys for Guantanamo detainees ask federal judge to intervene in order to end widespread prisoner abuses.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Violence against women rises in El Salvador</title>
      <description>Sexual attacks have risen 17 percent in the past year amid allegations of police corruption and entrenched "machismo".</description>
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      <title>Britain to compensate tortured Kenyans</title>
      <description>Foreign secretary says Mau Mau fighters who suffered abuse for resisting colonial rule will receive $30.8m.</description>
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      <title>Rights group slams Zimbabwe security forces</title>
      <description>Human Rights Watch says army and other security forces have interfered in country's political and electoral affairs.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:31:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US generals get flak over sexual assaults</title>
      <description>Senators say fundamental changes needed to open way to more prosecutions of sexual predators in the military.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:03:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Egypt jail terms for foreign NGO workers</title>
      <description>Court sentences in absentia 27 foreigners, including 16 Americans, for receiving illegal foreign funding.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:25:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>El Salvador abortion row baby dies</title>
      <description>Doctors perform caesarean section on mother to save her life, but child dies five hours after birth.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>UK urged to speed up detainee torture probes</title>
      <description>Watchdog "deeply concerned" by growing number of allegations linking British forces to abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:58:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Revised Guantanamo force-feed policy exposed</title>
      <description>Al Jazeera's exclusive publishing of a key Guantanamo prison military document lays bare the brutality of force-feeding.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:39:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ukraine's gays fear coming out of the closet</title>
      <description>Proposed new laws designed to stop media outlets from "promoting and propagating homosexuality" worry rights groups.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 15:58:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bangladesh media suffers crackdown</title>
      <description>Government shuts down TV stations and detains journalists in apparent bid to restrict the media.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/05/2013528153749695207.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 20:33:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq: War's legacy of cancer</title>
      <description>Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/2013315171951838638.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:24:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>African leaders accuse ICC of 'race hunt'</title>
      <description>AU urges Hague-based court to stop upcoming trials  of Kenyan president and his deputy over crimes against humanity.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 04:53:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Zealand to pay colonial compensation</title>
      <description>Kiwis wrap up three-decade long process to pay hundreds of millions to indigenous peoples for colonial injustice.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ugandan police shut down papers over 'plot'</title>
      <description>Media crackdown alleged as police raid two newspapers after reports on plan to murder officials opposed to president.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/2013525131824505686.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 14:50:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Striking Dubai workers face mass deportation</title>
      <description>Fallout from rare strike at Arabtec Construction continues.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/201352375248751541.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:14:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kurds flee for Iraq as Syria war slogs on</title>
      <description>About 50,000 Syrians, mostly Kurds, have fled to the Domiz camp in northern Iraq as violence rages at home.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/201352010390774966.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 09:28:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Worldwide protests held against Monsanto</title>
      <description>"March against Monsanto" held in 250 US cities and dozens of other countries over genetically modified foods.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/2013525195352236439.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 00:27:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Secret of the Seven Sisters</title>
      <description>A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/04/201344105231487582.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:12:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Maliki's Iraq: Rape, executions and torture</title>
      <description>Iraq is wracked by detentions, torture, and executions, and fingers are pointing at Prime Minister Maliki.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/03/201331883513244683.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guantanamo: A legacy of shame</title>
      <description>Despite Obama's promises to close it, the prison remains open with no end in sight.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/11/2012112281516833917.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:52:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns</title>
      <description>Senior Guantanamo physician dismisses ethical concerns about force-feeding prisoners, and defends the ongoing practice.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chile protesters call for education reform</title>
      <description>Demonstrators try to disrupt President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech to Congress.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2013/05/20135223950497889.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 03:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An increasingly unchecked surveillance state</title>
      <description>The US government extensively monitors its citizens' internet activities, with dangerous effects on personal liberties.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/05/2013515112828812589.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:03:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq: 'Disciplining' the media</title>
      <description>We assess the country's factionalised media as Nouri al-Maliki's government shuts down 10 satellite TV stations.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 12:58:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Will Obama close Guantanamo?</title>
      <description>As hunger strike by 100 detainees reaches its third month, the US president returns to calls for prison's closure.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 11:01:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Remittance woes for South Africa workers</title>
      <description>Migrant workers pay high fees for money transfers, but have no choice if they want money to reach home.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:49:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Protests in New York after gay man's murder</title>
      <description>Thousand march in New York's Greenwich Village to honour the memory of "gay angel Mark Carson".</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:29:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dubai workers hold rare strike for more wages</title>
      <description>Thousands of labourers at Arabtec, the emirate's largest construction company, hold second day of action over poor pay. </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jordan to host 'world's largest refugee camp'</title>
      <description>As violence in Syria continues, the al-Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan is on pace to become the largest in the world.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Hidden Genocide</title>
      <description>This is the story of a people fleeing the land where they were born - the Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:06:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Guantanamo policy: Genital "pat down" </title>
      <description>Guantanamo official confirms new policy requiring prisoners to a search a previous policy shunned.  </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:38:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'Baby factory' uncovered in Nigeria</title>
      <description>Six pregnant girls rescued from child traffickers who were planning to force the mothers to sell their babies.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:12:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report: Canada could see indigenous uprising</title>
      <description>Former military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an "insurgency" are ripe.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:21:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Q&amp;A: Defending Guantanamo prisoners</title>
      <description>Al Jazeera speaks to two Pentagon lawyers representing detainees held at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:27:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq's invisible refugee crisis</title>
      <description>As violence in Iraq reaches levels not seen in years, untold numbers of Iraqis are once again seeking refuge elsewhere.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 12:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A voice from Guantanamo</title>
      <description>Fayiz Al Kandari is one of two Kuwaitis still held in the controversial prison and he says he is innocent. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:28:08 GMT</pubDate>
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