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		<title>Turkey joins U.S. Aegis missile defense program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has engaged with a major U.S. ballistic missile defense project. Turkey&#8217;s state-owned Havelsan has been participating in the U.S. Aegis program, designed to intercept ballistic missiles from the sea. Havelsan has contributed naval combat management capabilities to enhance Aegis, led by Lockheed Martin. Aegis has been procured by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soldier shortage: Israel&#8217;s Army &#8216;half as big as it was 30 years ago&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel&#8217;s military has reported a manpower shortage. Officials said the military, particularly the Army, was facing a growing gap in manpower requirements. They attributed the gap to a decreasing pool of conscripts as well as cuts in the defense budget. &#8220;The corps is half as big as it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion watch: Hamas won&#8217;t allow Western styles that lower &#8216;standards of manhood&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — Hamas has ordered security agencies to quell Western fashion in the Gaza Strip. Officials said the Interior Ministry has outlined standards of dress for young Muslims that rule out Western styles or haircuts. They said the ministry has recruited both the police and security forces for the campaign. &#8220;They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports scandal entertainment dominates the headlines in an India not that obsessed with China</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — It’s a toss-up what’s of more concern to India’s 1.2 billion people — border disputes with China or the arrests on bribery charges of stars of India’s most popular sport, the old British game of cricket. India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh mingled firmness with smiles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Nixon’s historic opening to the new U.S.-China world order: Now what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John J. Metzler NEW YORK — Dr. Henry Kissinger called for the United States and China to collaborate on a new global order, and a groundbreaking new report, “U.S.- China Economic Relations in the Next Ten Years,” underscored the deepening commercial engagement between the two Pacific powers. Indeed with President Barack Obama meeting his Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Air Force chief warns a multi-front war could be imminent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 18:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel issued one of the starkest warnings of an imminent war that could include Hizbullah and Syria. In an address to a combat air conference, Eshel said Israel, already engaged in a shooting war with Syria, faces a range of low- and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kremlin cracks down on recruiting in former USSR by Syrian rebels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has launched a crackdown on efforts to recruit fighters for the Sunni revolt in Syria. Officials said the Kremlin has ordered authorities to intensify monitoring of Islamist groups in Russia to stop the recruitment of fighters to Syria. They said hundreds of Russians as well as other Muslims in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi policewomen to get training, &#8216;exposure to American culture&#8217; in U.S.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department has sponsored a visit by a delegation of Iraqi police officers for a training course in cooperation with the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The department&#8217;s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs oversaw a three-week training course for 10 Iraqi women officers on criminal investigation and other issues. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt lowers the boom on Sinai and wins release of security officers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has employed negotiations and heavy military pressure to defuse an insurgency crisis in the Sinai Peninsula. The regime of President Mohammed Morsi has won the release of seven Egyptian soldiers and security officers held in Sinai. Officials said Bedouin gunmen released the seven unharmed on May 22 in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Jong-Un completes generational shift in the top military leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un has put the final touches on his year-long drive to reorganize the powerful military by replacing aged defense minister with younger loyalists. The sweeping generation shift that affected dozens of key posts is likely help Kim put the military under full control, but could [...]]]></description>
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