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missile</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/05/korea.missile/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/05/korea.missile/index.html</guid><description>North Korea test-fired a seventh missile Wednesday -- amid international furor over the regime's launch of six missiles just hours earlier.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Japan to take N. 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Security Council, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary said, and the United States called the tests "provocative."</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. officials: North Korea tests long-range missile</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/04/korea.missile/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/04/korea.missile/index.html</guid><description>North Korea test-fired a long-range missile and five shorter-range rockets early Wednesday, but the closely watched long-range test failed within a minute, U.S. officials said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. Navy test intercepts warhead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/23/navy.ustest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/23/navy.ustest/index.html</guid><description>A U.S. warship has successfully knocked down a short-range missile fired from Hawaii, the Pentagon has said, amid global concerns about a possible North Korea missile test.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush to push for more Iraq aid</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/21/bush.europe0415/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/21/bush.europe0415/index.html</guid><description>U.S. President George W. 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Bush and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao made little headway on trade after a White House ceremony, which was disrupted by a lone heckler and the misidentification of China's anthem.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Roving investigator</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/12/cia.leak.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/12/cia.leak.tm/index.html</guid><description>Reporters like to be the ones asking the questions, but the Valerie Plame leak investigation just hasn't been working that way. In his quest to find out whether White House officials leaked that Plame was a CIA officer as a way to punish her husband Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador and a critic of the White House case for the Iraq war, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has got testimony from a parade of journalists, including Judith Miller of the New York Times, Matthew Cooper of TIME, NBC's Tim Russert and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. Now add one more to the list: TIME correspondent Viveca Novak.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Cheney raps Democrats on war charges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/17/cheney/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/17/cheney/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday lambasted Democrats accusing the Bush administration of misleading the country on prewar intelligence about Iraq, calling their allegations "one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city."</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush adviser: Intelligence accusations 'flat wrong'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/14/iraq.intelligence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/14/iraq.intelligence/index.html</guid><description>President Bush's national security adviser defended the administration Sunday against accusations that it misled the nation about the need for war with Iraq as Democrats stepped up their attacks on the president's candor.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Prewar CIA report doubted claim that al Qaeda sought WMD in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/10/iraq.intel/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/10/iraq.intel/index.html</guid><description>A January 2003 CIA report raised doubts about a claim that al Qaeda sent operatives to Iraq to acquire chemical and biological weapons -- assertions that were repeated later by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations in making the case for the invasion of Iraq.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush arrives for Summit of the Americas</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/11/03/bush.summit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/11/03/bush.summit/index.html</guid><description>President Bush arrived Thursday night in Argentina for a summit with other leaders from across the Americas, where trade issues and fighting poverty are expected to be major topics of conversation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>EU looks into 'secret CIA jails'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/03/eu.cia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/03/eu.cia/index.html</guid><description>The European Commission has said it will look into reports that the CIA set up secret jails for al Qaeda captives in eastern Europe.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: CIA operates secret prisons</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/02/terror.suspects/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/02/terror.suspects/index.html</guid><description>Suspected terrorists in U.S. custody are being treated humanely, Bush administration officials said Wednesday after a report that American agents are holding prisoners in a worldwide network of secret facilities.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Was Mohammed Atta overlooked?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/22/atta.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/22/atta.tm/index.html</guid><description>That question has recently been buzzing around Washington, but now the chairman of the defunct 9/11 commission has lashed out at the Bush Administration for failing to address publicly claims that the panel ignored a tip that Atta had been flagged in the U.S. as a terrorist well before he led the 2001 attacks.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>More talk, little progress with NK</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/17/koreas.talks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/17/koreas.talks/index.html</guid><description>South Korea has agreed to hold another day of negotiations with the North after failing to convince Pyongyang to rejoin stalled six-country talks on its nuclear ambitions.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 02:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seoul bids to woo NK back to talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/koreas.talks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/koreas.talks/index.html</guid><description>On the first day of talks between South and North Korea in nearly a year, the delegation from the South offered the North a "significant proposal" to rejoin the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 22:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan seizes 'al Qaeda No. 3'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/pakistan.arrest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/pakistan.arrest/index.html</guid><description>The alleged No. 3 man in al Qaeda -- believed responsible for the terror group's global operations -- has been captured in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, Pakistani and U.S. officials said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2005 11:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush urges Saudis to increase oil production</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/25/bush.saudi/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/25/bush.saudi/index.html</guid><description>With gas prices soaring at the pump, President Bush met with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on Monday to discuss oil output and a host of other issues, but officials said the meeting ended with no promises from Riyadh to increase its short-term oil production, as the White House had hoped.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush arrives for summit with Putin</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/23/bush.europe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/23/bush.europe/index.html</guid><description>President Bush landed Wednesday in Slovakia for the final stop on his European tour, ahead of a summit Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush looking to reconcile with 'old Europe'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/19/bush.europe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/19/bush.europe/index.html</guid><description>President Bush left for Europe on Sunday with an ambitious agenda for patching relations with "old Europe," bolstering support from the eastern European nations newly emerged from the end of the Cold War, and spreading democracy throughout the world.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ties vital, Bush to tell Europe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/17/bush.europe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/17/bush.europe/index.html</guid><description>President Bush says he plans to use his upcoming trip to Europe to tell people on both sides of the divide that shared interests are stronger than past differences.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice 'resting comfortably' after surgery</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/18/rice.health/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/18/rice.health/index.html</guid><description>National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's nominee to be the next secretary of state, is doing well after successful surgery, Jim Wilkinson, deputy national security advisor, told CNN Friday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:48:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>