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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Ventura County Star Stories: World</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/news/world/</link><atom:link href="http://venturacountystar.com/news/news/world/" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><description>Ventura County Star Stories: World</description><language>en-us</language><category>news/world</category><item><title>Pair who visited Iran call it warm and welcoming
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/pair-who-visited-iran-call-it-warm-and-welcoming/</link><description><![CDATA[Mark and Norma Maidel were apprehensive when they arrived in Tehran in April.  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/pair-who-visited-iran-call-it-warm-and-welcoming/</guid><category>news/camarillo</category></item><item><title>Iraq presses U.S. on pullout timeline 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/iraq-presses-us-on-pullout-timeline/</link><description><![CDATA[ Iraqi officials stepped up pressure on the United States on Tuesday to agree to a specific timeline to withdraw American forces, a sign of the government's growing confidence as violence falls.  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/iraq-presses-us-on-pullout-timeline/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>US, allies pledge to halve greenhouse gas by 2050
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/us-allies-pledge-to-halve-greenhouse-gas-by-2050/</link><description><![CDATA[ World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too uncertain.  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/us-allies-pledge-to-halve-greenhouse-gas-by-2050/</guid><category>news/environment</category></item><item><title>World Briefs: July 9
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/no-headline---na5vworldbriefs09it-fc/</link><description><![CDATA[ The United States and leaders of the Czech Republic agreed Tuesday to place a radar system in this former Soviet satellite that would warn of long-range missiles coming to Europe from the Middle East.  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/09/no-headline---na5vworldbriefs09it-fc/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>41 die near India embassy in Kabul
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/08/41-die-near-india-embassy-in-kabul/</link><description><![CDATA[ A suicide car bomb outside the Indian Embassy killed 41 people and wounded nearly 150 others Monday, ripping through the building's gates and scattering bodies and pools of blood across some of Kabul's most protected streets.  ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/08/41-die-near-india-embassy-in-kabul/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>World Briefs: July 8
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/08/no-headline---na9vworldbriefs08it-fc/</link><description><![CDATA[ Iraq's prime minister said Monday his country wants some type of timetable for a withdrawal of American troops included in the deal the two countries are negotiating.  ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/08/no-headline---na9vworldbriefs08it-fc/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Runners elude bulls on first day of festival
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/08/no-headline---na9vworldbriefwart08it-fc/</link><description><![CDATA[ Daredevils kicked off the running of the bulls Monday with a long, messy and particularly dangerous dash through the streets of Pamplona, with nine people suffering bumps and bruises but none were gored, officials said.  ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/08/no-headline---na9vworldbriefwart08it-fc/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Amazon tribe people Google themselves to help guard their land
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/amazon-tribe-people-google-themselves-to-help/</link><description><![CDATA[ On a recent afternoon deep in the Amazon's rain forest, members of the Surui tribe, which made contact with the outside world less than 40 years ago, could not resist that urge well-known to modern man — they Googled themselves.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/amazon-tribe-people-google-themselves-to-help/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>World Briefs: July 5
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/na11vworldbriefs05it-fc/</link><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD — Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party Friday in the city of Basra, police said.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/na11vworldbriefs05it-fc/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>African despots are not treated equally 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/african-despots-are-not-treated-equally/</link><description><![CDATA[ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa."

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</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/g-8-faces-darkening-economic-time/</link><description><![CDATA[ SAPPORO, Japan — Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/g-8-faces-darkening-economic-time/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Pringles not a potato snack in U.K., so tax-free 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/pringles-not-a-potato-snack-in-uk-so-tax-free/</link><description><![CDATA[ LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court has ruled that Pringles are not a potato snack, and thus are not subject to value-added tax.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/pringles-not-a-potato-snack-in-uk-so-tax-free/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Scientist says Pakistan knew of N. Korea nuclear shipment  
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/scientist-says-pakistan-knew-of-n-korea-nuclear/</link><description><![CDATA[ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday.

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</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/betancourt-arrives-in-france-with-tears-of-joy/</link><description><![CDATA[ PARIS (AP) — Arriving to a hero's welcome in France, Ingrid Betancourt said Friday that she cried a lot during her six years as a prisoner in the Colombian jungle. Today, she said, "I cry with joy."  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/betancourt-arrives-in-france-with-tears-of-joy/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Family barbecues, fireworks memories of home for troops
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/celebrating-the-fourth-in-iraq-family-barbecues/</link><description><![CDATA[ BAQOUBA, Iraq — It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/celebrating-the-fourth-in-iraq-family-barbecues/</guid><category>news/national</category></item><item><title>World summit provides look at Medvedev 
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/world-summit-provides-look-at-medvedev/</link><description><![CDATA[ MOSCOW — Dmitry Medvedev's grand debut on the world stage at the Group of Eight summit Monday promises insights into the riddle all Kremlinologists are trying to crack: Is he calling any of the shots as Russia's president — or is he merely a puppet of Vladimir Putin?  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/world-summit-provides-look-at-medvedev/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Presidential candidate taken by FARC still popular in polls
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/presidential-candidate-taken-by-farc-still-in/</link><description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia — Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia's next president?  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/05/presidential-candidate-taken-by-farc-still-in/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Britain releases second terror suspect
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/04/britain-releases-second-terror-suspect/</link><description><![CDATA[  A 45-year-old Algerian described by U.S. prosecutors as the mastermind of an abortive plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during millennium celebrations in 1999 has been released on tight bail conditions after seven years in British jails, court officials said Thursday.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/04/britain-releases-second-terror-suspect/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>Hostages said grueling existence as captives worsened recently
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/04/hostages-said-grueling-existence-as-captives/</link><description><![CDATA[ A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren't chained by the neck to trees, they were forced on long marches to new hideouts under the jungle canopy.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/04/hostages-said-grueling-existence-as-captives/</guid><category>news/world</category></item><item><title>McCain appeals to Mexicans on both sides of the border
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/04/mccain-appeals-to-mexicans-on-both-sides-of-the/</link><description><![CDATA[ From the white roses he laid before a likeness of Mexico's blessed saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, to the endorsement he gave for an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws, Sen. John McCain used a visit to Mexico on Thursday to appeal to residents of both sides of the border: Mexicans and, more urgently, their voting relatives and other Latinos in the United States.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/04/mccain-appeals-to-mexicans-on-both-sides-of-the/</guid><category>elections/national</category></item></channel></rss>