<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs5.com/worldview/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports</title><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:23:34 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Good News From The Middle East?]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/Turkey.stable.engaged.2.1316489.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/Turkey.stable.engaged.2.1316489.html</link><description><![CDATA[While the Obama Administration struggles with military setbacks in Afghanistan, and Congress with a divisive health care debate, there is unprecedented good news from a part of the world that is usually synonymous with crisis. For the first time in three decades covering the Middle East, I returned from a recent assignment there with optimism about the future. The reason, in a word, is Turkey. 
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:26:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Brink Of Disaster In Afghanistan]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/afghanistan.war.disaster.2.1201006.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/afghanistan.war.disaster.2.1201006.html</link><description><![CDATA[A death knoll rings out from churches throughout Italy. The bells toll for six Italian paratroopers, mostly young men in their twenties, victims of a suicide bomb in Kabul. But even louder than the bells are growing calls for Italy's withdrawal from the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, which mounted to a deafening chorus within hours of the September 17 attack. 
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:52:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside The Medical Gulag]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/inside.medical.gulag.2.1143503.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/inside.medical.gulag.2.1143503.html</link><description><![CDATA[Like almost every other American expatriate I know in Europe, I've been following the debate over President Obama's proposed health care reforms with astonishment, dismay and mounting anger. 
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:42:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind G-8: Italy's Struggles To Redefine Politics]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/italy.politics.g8.2.1074195.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/italy.politics.g8.2.1074195.html</link><description><![CDATA[The rubble that will surround world leaders in L'Aquila, the earthquake-devastated Italian city where the G-8 summit meeting opens on July 8, is an apt metaphor for the political systems that await many of them back home.
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:54:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Iran: Islam At The Crossroads Of History]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/iran.election.islam.2.1050351.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/iran.election.islam.2.1050351.html</link><description><![CDATA[In their narrowest definition, the angry demonstrations surging through the streets of Iran are about a disputed election. But at a deeper and more consequential level, they are also about a looming sea change in history &#150; not only Iran's, but that of the entire Middle East and points as distant as North Africa and Southeast Asia.
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:45:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiananmen Square, 20 Years Later]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/tiananmen.square.anniversary.2.1028550.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/tiananmen.square.anniversary.2.1028550.html</link><description><![CDATA[The morning was already sweltering at 5 am when I walked out of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xian, China. A middle-aged man grabbed my arm, and my first thought when I looked into his watery eyes was the overwhelming heat and humidity. Then he sobbed and I knew what had happened. "Our children," he said. "They are killing our children in the streets of Beijing." <br />
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Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989. Twenty years ago. From the perspective of China in 2009, it may as well be a century. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:54:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last Days Of The Tamil Tigers]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/sri.lanka.worldview.2.1005038.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/sri.lanka.worldview.2.1005038.html</link><description><![CDATA[In a cataclysm of terrible bloodshed, the Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka has reached its end. The last 1,500-2,000 fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the main rebel force, were inextricably penned into the island nation's northeast corner by government forces in the final week of April. The Tigers' defeat climaxes a 26-year war that killed more than 100,000 Sri Lankans, minority Hindu Tamil and majority Buddhist Sinhalese alike &#150; the oldest ongoing major conflict on Earth, according to the UN. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 23:22:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let UN Lead An Air War Against Piracy]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/UN.piracy.battle.2.989516.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/UN.piracy.battle.2.989516.html</link><description><![CDATA[A crisis, as Barack Obama has frequently observed, may also be an opportunity. Obama's reference was to the worldwide economic plunge, but it also applies to global diplomacy. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:17:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ominous Future Of Hugo Chavez]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/hugo.chavez.venezuela.2.972637.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/hugo.chavez.venezuela.2.972637.html</link><description><![CDATA[The posters and graffiti, still blaring from the walls of every town and city in Venezuela, couldn't be simpler. Roughly half scream "Si!" and the other half "No!" <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:20:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Revolution Was Born In Iran, Will It End There?]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/worldview/iran.world.view.2.951280.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/worldview/iran.world.view.2.951280.html</link><description><![CDATA[The headlines from Iran have been especially bleak these days, which is saying something for a nation that pioneered state-sponsored Islamic extremism 30 years ago and has been at its forefront ever since. 
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