<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - World</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/world?nav=rss_print/world</link><description>World</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Hu Jintao Tightens Party's Grip on Power]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12427-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12427-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chinese president is emerging as an unyielding leader determined to preserve the Communist Party's monopoly on power and willing to impose new limits on speech and other civil liberties to do it.]]></description><author> Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insurgent Violence Escalates in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12417-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12417-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ambushes and kidnappings targeting Iraqis and foreigners have surged this month while the new government is caught up in power struggles over cabinet positions.]]></description><author> Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Tells Journalists to Search for 'Truth']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI presented a smiling papacy to the world's news media Saturday while, in the background, the Vatican's battle over same-sex marriage legislation in Spain presented the pontiff with an early test of his moral authority.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS  --  Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. 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Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Koizumi, Hu Meet to Address Tensions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12397-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12397-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 23  --  Chinese President Hu Jintao urged Japan to translate its remorse over wartime atrocities into "actual action" during a much-anticipated meeting here Saturday that both sides said they hoped would ease dangerously heightened tensions between the two countries.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Self-Styled Class Warrior Has Major Battle at Hand in Mexico]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12651-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12651-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TUCTA, Mexico  --  Until 1977, this village in sweltering Tabasco state was a patch of misery surrounded by a swamp. Families lived in thatched huts, with no roads, electricity or relief from swarms of mosquitoes carrying malaria.]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islamic Activists Sweep Saudi Council Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12398-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12398-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, April 23  --  Saudi Arabia's limited 10-week experiment with electoral democracy ended here Saturday in a sweeping victory for slates of Islamic activists marketed as the "Golden List," who used grass-roots organizing, digital technology and endorsements from popular religious leaders to defeat their liberal and tribal rivals, even here in Jiddah, for decades Saudi Arabia's most diverse and business-driven city.]]></description><author> Steve Coll</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a Jail in Cuba Beat the Heart of a Poet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PESHAWAR, Pakistan  --  Among the old leather volumes in the library of Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost is a black plastic binder full of rumpled  letters he wrote, sent from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenmann</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraqi Tips Lead to Arrest of 6 in Helicopter Downing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12401-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12401-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, April 23  --  Assisted by tips from Iraqi civilians, U.S. soldiers on Saturday arrested six men suspected of shooting down a civilian helicopter carrying 11 people, including six American security contractors, U.S. military officials said.]]></description><author> Caryle Murphy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12557-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12557-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Palestinian Leader Names Security Heads <br>    GAZA  --   The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, named three new heads for the security forces and forced hundreds of their men into retirement on Saturday, pushing aside top commanders in Yasser Arafat's old guard.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[After-School Programs Go Multicultural]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13006-2005Apr24.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13006-2005Apr24.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's not every day you see an African American teaching an ancient Chinese art to Vietnamese and Cameroonians.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lashing Back at Taxes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12353-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12353-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:51:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In growing numbers, Montgomery residents are demanding an end to rising property taxes.]]></description><author> Cameron W. 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