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		<title>LOOKING TOWARDS OBAMA</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/03/02/looking-towards-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=8170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ALI SUKHANVER
The war against Pakistan’s nuclear program seems more vibrant and more violent and certainly more popular than the international war against terrorism. These two wars are being headed by two different countries separately; one is the super power of today and the other is aspiring to be the super power of tomorrow. The most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International calls to end repression in Burma</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/02/19/amnesty-international-calls-to-end-repression-in-burma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nava Thakuria
The Burmese military rulers, who are trying to earn credibility from international communities after declaring the general election some time in October this year, has received a brickbat from the Amnesty International.
The London based influential rights body has warned the military junta of Burma (Myanmar) ‘halt its repression of ethnic minority activists before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assam: Where people defy militant’s diktat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nava Thakuria
Who says Assam is a land of separatists, where the concept of Indianness is yet to gain popular support! Look how the common people of the insurgency stricken State have shown their braveness to defy the diktats of the separatist militants. They came out in larger number to pay their gratitude to the motherland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This A Strategic Partnership?</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/01/29/is-this-a-strategic-partnership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ishrat Ali Khan
While US President Obama and his hawkish associates term the use of drones strikes against the suspected militants in Pakistan as “very successful”, it is drawing strong reaction against Americans throughout in Pakistan because the drones kill hundreds of innocent civilians along with few militants. The two top US visiting officials, Senator Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INNOCENCE IS A CRIME : SINCERITY IS A SIN</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/01/27/innocence-is-a-crime-sincerity-is-a-sin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ALI SUKHANVER
Innocence and sincerity are no more admirable traits of a human character; they are simply a sin and a crime. A sincerely innocent person is always rewarded with the violation of his basic human rights. This world of modern temperament never lets an innocent and sincere person live a life of calm and peace; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE NAXALITE MILITANTS</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/01/25/the-naxalite-militants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ALI SUKHANVER
In the second week of the last December , the Central Board of investigation , India (CBI) issued its 66 pages probe report into the alleged rape and murder of two kashmiri women Nilofar Jan and her seventeen years old sister-in-law Asiya Jan . The dead bodies of these two women were found in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A TALE OF DISHONEST SOLDIERS</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/01/25/a-tale-of-dishonest-soldiers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ALI SUKHANVER
The enigmatic dreamlike valley of the Indian held Kashmir belongs to the people of Kashmir; says the history. The Kashmiris are a nation, having an individual identity, a separate culture and independent traditional values. It might be the fertility of their lands or the geographical importance of their sky-kissing hills which are pouring out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh readies to hang Bangabandhu killers</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/01/24/bangladesh-readies-to-hang-bangabandhu-killers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nava Thakuria
The days for the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder-president of People&#8217;s Republic of Bangladesh and also the Father of the Nation, who led 1971 liberation war have been numbered.
Mujib, who was popularly known as Bangabandhu (friend of Bengal) was killed with almost all his family members within four years of the successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Film Festival begins tomorrow in the City</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/01/17/international-film-festival-begins-tomorrow-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=7010</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nava Thakuria
Guwahati: The prime city of Northeast will host an important international film festival starting from tomorrow. Organized by Cine Arts Society, Assam (CineASA) for the second consecutive year, the weeklong Guwahati festival will showcase nearly 40 films from international arena for the film goers of the region.
The Second CineASA Guwahati International Film Festival 2010 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VICTORY THAT WILL NEVER BE</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/12/26/victory-that-will-never-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=6646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Bassam Javed
Afghanistan has been the battle ground for many outside invaders since centuries but none could prevail therein. The resolute Afghans have always resisted foreign occupation and the respective misadventures turned into “graveyard of empires” over time. The latest in the list is the United States of America, the only super power that invaded [...]]]></description>
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