<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - minister</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/minister</link><description>Newsvine - minister</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:17:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:12:48 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>2nd Haiti minister resigns in as many days</title>
<description><![CDATA[Haiti's communications minister has resigned from her post, becoming the second Cabinet member to step down in as many days, media outlets reported Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708539-2nd-haiti-minister-resigns-in-as-many-days</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708539-2nd-haiti-minister-resigns-in-as-many-days</guid><category>haiti</category><category>resignation</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>cb</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:31:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad resigns</title>
<description><![CDATA[Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad resigned on Saturday, leaving the Palestinians without one of their most moderate and well-respected voices just as the U.S. is launching a new push for Mideast peace.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammed Daraghmeh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mohammed Daraghmeh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17699127-palestinian-prime-minister-fayyad-resigns</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17699127-palestinian-prime-minister-fayyad-resigns</guid><category>palestinians</category><category>minister</category><category>mahmoud-abbas</category><category>world-news</category><category>prime-minister</category><category>ml</category><category>salam-fayyad</category><category>salaam-fayyad</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:56:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=55494de4-e097-4de7-b152-f12b46bce4d2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=55494de4-e097-4de7-b152-f12b46bce4d2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this  June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials said Thursday, April 11, 2013, that Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas as part of an increasingly bitter conflict over authority. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0a780263-c63f-450c-b173-0e85591ca056.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0a780263-c63f-450c-b173-0e85591ca056.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this  Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials say Fayyad has officially submitted his resignation, and is waiting for a reply from President Mahmoud Abbas.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Portugal official quits amid university inquiry</title>
<description><![CDATA[Portugal's minister for parliamentary affairs has resigned after months of allegations he received favorable treatment to obtain a university degree in the space of one year.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/04/17601280-portugal-official-quits-amid-university-inquiry</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/04/17601280-portugal-official-quits-amid-university-inquiry</guid><category>eu</category><category>portugal</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>quits</category><pubDate>Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:33:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Hollande pledges clean sweep amid corruption probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[For a French president who came to power on a promise of "irreproachability," naming a lying tax-dodger to be his chief tax collector was probably not the best move.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Keller]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Greg Keller]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/02/17571135-hollande-pledges-clean-sweep-amid-corruption-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/02/17571135-hollande-pledges-clean-sweep-amid-corruption-probe</guid><category>eu</category><category>france</category><category>ex</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>francois-hollande</category><pubDate>Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:15:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24c6184d-1827-42a2-bf4c-39af05580e93.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="374" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24c6184d-1827-42a2-bf4c-39af05580e93.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="164" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, France's Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac leaves the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris.  French President Francois Hollande is decrying an unforgiveable moral error by his former budget minister, who admitted Tuesday, April, 2, 2013 in his blog to lying about a once-secret foreign bank account. A spokeswoman for Paris prosecutors said that authorities filed preliminary charges Tuesday against Cahuzac for alleged money laundering. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fb56c8f4-2b94-4df9-b19b-9e4ad80c1959.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="353" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fb56c8f4-2b94-4df9-b19b-9e4ad80c1959.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this March 20,2013 file photo, outgoing French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, reacts during the handover ceremony with his successor Bernard Cazeneuve, unseen, in Paris. French President Francois Hollande is decrying an unforgiveable moral error by his former budget minister, who admitted Tuesday, April, 2, 2013 in his blog to lying about a once-secret foreign bank account. A spokeswoman for Paris prosecutors said that authorities filed preliminary charges Tuesday against Cahuzac for alleged money laundering. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5bbb29f1-58a9-45bd-94d0-7c08a653d31e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="273" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5bbb29f1-58a9-45bd-94d0-7c08a653d31e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;French President Francois Hollande, gestures as he speaks during as he awards French sociologist Alfred Grosser, unseen, with the Grand Officier of the Legion d'Honneur during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Italy foreign minister quits over India case</title>
<description><![CDATA[Italy's foreign minister resigned Tuesday to protest his government's decision to send two marines back to India to face trial in the deaths of two fishermen.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/26/17476965-italy-foreign-minister-quits-over-india-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/26/17476965-italy-foreign-minister-quits-over-india-case</guid><category>eu</category><category>italy</category><category>resigns</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:01:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>French minister resigns in face of tax-fraud probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[France's budget minister, ensnared in a ballooning scandal over suspected tax fraud and money laundering, on Tuesday became the first resignation in President Francois Hollande's 10-month-old Socialist government.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamey Keaten]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jamey Keaten]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/19/17373374-french-minister-resigns-in-face-of-tax-fraud-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/19/17373374-french-minister-resigns-in-face-of-tax-fraud-probe</guid><category>eu</category><category>france</category><category>probe</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>francois-hollande</category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:04:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Egypt's Interior Minister won't allow &quot;militias&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[
CAIRO&nbsp;&mdash; Egypt's interior minister on Sunday declared he would not allow vigilantes or militias to take over police duties, while admitting his police force has been strained by daily protests, clashes and criticism.
Minister Mohammed Ibrahim was speaking a day after&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leafydebater]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Leafydebater]]></source><link>http://leafydebater.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/10/17259366-egypts-interior-minister-wont-allow-militias</link><guid>http://leafydebater.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/10/17259366-egypts-interior-minister-wont-allow-militias</guid><category>egypt</category><category>middle-east</category><category>muslim</category><category>mob</category><category>official</category><category>militia</category><category>minister</category><category>interior</category><category>islam</category><category>world-news</category><category>allow</category><category>refuse</category><category>arab-spring</category><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:38:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=leafydebater876FA24E-0498-9A0D-8284-C40A3A39DEE6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="100" width="140" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=leafydebater876FA24E-0498-9A0D-8284-C40A3A39DEE6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>New Belgian finance minister nominated</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Belgian government spokesman says economics professor Koen Geens has been nominated to head the finance ministry.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/06/17206302-new-belgian-finance-minister-nominated</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/06/17206302-new-belgian-finance-minister-nominated</guid><category>eu</category><category>belgium</category><category>finance</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>koen-geens</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:58:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ea38b65-9cb8-4bd4-a196-562c87932847.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="304" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ea38b65-9cb8-4bd4-a196-562c87932847.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Belgium's newly appointed Minister of Finance Koen Geens, right, takes the oath of office in front of Belgium's Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo at the Royal Palace in Brussels on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Geens was appointed on Tuesday after Belgium's Minister of Finance Steven Vanackere resigned. (AP Photo/Bruno Fahy, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f4dd2aeb-c604-47d8-bb90-e8e37555b66a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f4dd2aeb-c604-47d8-bb90-e8e37555b66a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Belgium's newly appointed Minister of Finance Koen Geens, right, shakes hands with Belgium's King Albert II, after taking the oath of office at the Royal Palace in Brussels on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Geens was appointed on Tuesday after Belgium's Minister of Finance Steven Vanackere resigned. At center is Belgium's Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. (AP Photo/Bruno Fahy, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=895ba721-3bed-4fc4-99b9-984ed3b4fe24.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=895ba721-3bed-4fc4-99b9-984ed3b4fe24.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Belgium's newly appointed Minister of Finance Koen Geens, right, takes the oath of office in front of Belgium's King Albert II, left, and Belgium's Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, center, at the Royal Palace in Brussels on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Geens was appointed on Tuesday after Belgium's Minister of Finance Steven Vanackere resigned. (AP Photo/Bruno Fahy, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Bulgaria's prime minister sacks finance minister</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bulgaria's prime minister has sacked Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov in the wake of nationwide protests against skyrocketing electricity bills.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/18/17002556-bulgarias-prime-minister-sacks-finance-minister</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/18/17002556-bulgarias-prime-minister-sacks-finance-minister</guid><category>eu</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>bulgaria</category><category>sacked</category><category>simeon-dyankov</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:56:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ddc4d5fe-04e6-4990-b218-5987851ebb34.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ddc4d5fe-04e6-4990-b218-5987851ebb34.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Bulgarian woman shout slogans during a protest against higher electricity and heating bills, in Sofia,  Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Thousands of angry Bulgarians chanted &quot;mafia&quot; and &quot;resignation&quot;  demanded the expulsion of the three foreign-controlled power distributors that control the local market: Czech Republic's CEZ and Energo-Pro, and Austria's EVN   (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6d456569-661b-424f-821f-8cca84a96a17.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6d456569-661b-424f-821f-8cca84a96a17.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Bulgarians block the traffic at main road juncture during a protest against higher electricity and heating bills, in Sofia,  Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Thousands of angry Bulgarians chanted &quot;mafia&quot; and &quot;resignation&quot;  demanded the expulsion of the three foreign-controlled power distributors that control the local market: Czech Republic's CEZ and Energo-Pro, and Austria's EVN   (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=23a454d8-a5c3-46fb-b570-0121acc6fcc8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=23a454d8-a5c3-46fb-b570-0121acc6fcc8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Bulgarians shout slogans as they block the traffic at main road juncture during a protest against higher electricity and heating bills, in Sofia,  Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Thousands of angry Bulgarians chanted &quot;mafia&quot; and &quot;resignation&quot;  demanded the expulsion of the three foreign-controlled power distributors that control the local market: Czech Republic's CEZ and Energo-Pro, and Austria's EVN   (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d3188fb4-81b3-45e1-9fbb-17f3740509d4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d3188fb4-81b3-45e1-9fbb-17f3740509d4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Bulgarians shout slogans and carry poster reading &quot;CEZ - Czech pirates&quot; as they protest against higher electricity and heating bills, in Sofia,  Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. Thousands of angry Bulgarians chanted &quot;mafia&quot; and &quot;resignation&quot;  demanded the expulsion of the three foreign-controlled power distributors that control the local market: Czech Republic's CEZ and Energo-Pro, and Austria's EVN   (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>German education chief replaced after plagiarism</title>
<description><![CDATA[Germany has sworn in a new education minister after her predecessor stepped down over claims that she plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis decades ago.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/14/16961236-german-education-chief-replaced-after-plagiarism</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/14/16961236-german-education-chief-replaced-after-plagiarism</guid><category>eu</category><category>germany</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>plagiarism</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:35:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=152a27b3-492d-4650-975b-7d52d6a5c61a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="227" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=152a27b3-492d-4650-975b-7d52d6a5c61a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former German Science Minister Annette Schavan, right, attends the inauguration of her successor Johanna Wanka, center, by German President Joachim Gauck, left, at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Schavan resigned last Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=19fac54a-1528-4e18-8aa2-ade61ef756ef.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="463" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=19fac54a-1528-4e18-8aa2-ade61ef756ef.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="139" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, arrives to attend a ceremony to dismiss German Science Minister Annette Schavan, left, and to inaugurate her successor Johanna Wanka, right, at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Schavan resigned last Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=62249427-9e2a-4dd1-b93d-d98afdfcdbd6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="293" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=62249427-9e2a-4dd1-b93d-d98afdfcdbd6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, shakes hands with outgoing German Science Minister Annette Schavan, right, after an inauguration ceremony for Schavan's successor Johanna Wanka, left, at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Schavan resigned last Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d035b98b-a526-4891-97a0-efeb7e7e18d6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d035b98b-a526-4891-97a0-efeb7e7e18d6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;German Science Minister Johanna Wanka attends a ceremony for her inauguration at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013.  Her predecessor Annette Schavan resigned last Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>German education minister quits in plagiarism case</title>
<description><![CDATA[Germany's education minister resigned Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis &#8212; an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as it prepares for elections later this year.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geir Moulson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Geir Moulson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/05/16856044-german-education-minister-quits-in-plagiarism-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/05/16856044-german-education-minister-quits-in-plagiarism-case</guid><category>eu</category><category>germany</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>plagiarism</category><category>chancellor-angela-merkel</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Feb 2013 19:42:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e8ad589e-7ed2-42a1-810c-d9d99f6bc965.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e8ad589e-7ed2-42a1-810c-d9d99f6bc965.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - in this Dec. 13, 2012 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks to Education Minister Annette Schavan during a session of the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. Schavan says she will not resign after a university stripped her of her doctorate because of plagiarism, and vowed to fight the ruling. Speaking on a trip to South Africa on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, Schavan said she &quot;will not accept&quot; the school's decision and would take legal action against it. (AP Photo/dpa, Rainer Jensen, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=88bd8268-35bd-4ed8-8b6c-c5d70060cae2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="245" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=88bd8268-35bd-4ed8-8b6c-c5d70060cae2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - The Oct. 18, 2012 file photo shows German Science Minister Annette Schavan, left, as she talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, during a meeting of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin. Germany's education minister has been stripped of her doctorate following an investigation into allegations that she plagiarized parts of her thesis, which explored the formation of conscience. German news agency dpa reports that a committee of academics at Duesseldorf's Heinrich Heine University took the decision late Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 after considering the case against Annette Schavan. Schavan denies the allegations, first raised by an anonymous blogger last year, that she failed to properly cite passages of her 1980 thesis in philosophy.  (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=49b44512-20ee-49ec-aca3-5acfcf904a2b.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="249" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=49b44512-20ee-49ec-aca3-5acfcf904a2b.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="247" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this May 9, 2012 file photo German Science Minister Annette Schavan waits for the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Schavan says she will not resign after a university stripped her of her doctorate because of plagiarism, and vowed to fight the ruling. Speaking on a trip to South Africa on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, Schavan said she &quot;will not accept&quot; the school's decision and would take legal action against it. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=df4ea4fd-8775-475b-9e21-c1a7f0bd4261.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=df4ea4fd-8775-475b-9e21-c1a7f0bd4261.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2012 file picture German chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks with education  minister Annette Schavan during a session of the German parliament in Berlin. Germany's education minister has resigned Saturday Feb. 9, 2013, after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis - an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government months before national elections.  (AP Photo/dpa, Rainer Jensen,File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1fcbf586-659d-4b11-a2d8-edf16380abdb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="293" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1fcbf586-659d-4b11-a2d8-edf16380abdb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this May 20, 2012 file picture German education minister  Annette Schavan attends a press conference in Erfurt, eastern Germany.  Germany's education minister has resigned Saturday Feb. 9, 2013, after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis - an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government months before national elections. (AP Photo/dpa,Martin Schutt,File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1fa6338a-1481-467a-a709-c988b17bd2b7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1fa6338a-1481-467a-a709-c988b17bd2b7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;German chancellor Angela Merkel , right, and education minister  Annette Schavan, left, arrive for a statement in Berlin Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. Germany's education minister has resigned after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis - an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government months before national elections.  (AP Photo/dpa, Wolfgang Kumm)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7f6766de-b484-4bfc-936b-7f3a17595c07.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="265" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7f6766de-b484-4bfc-936b-7f3a17595c07.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan gives a press statement to announce her resignation, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany,Saturday Feb. 9,  2013. Germany's education minister has resigned after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis &amp;#8212; an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's  government months before national elections.   (AP Photo/dpa, Wolfgang Kumm)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1392fd4f-9946-48cf-8a50-92f6a6a605e3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="256" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1392fd4f-9946-48cf-8a50-92f6a6a605e3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;German chancellor Angela Merkel , right, and education minister  Annette Schavan, left, address the press  in Berlin Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. Germany's education minister has resigned after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis - an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government months before national elections.  (AP Photo/dpa, Wolfgang Kumm)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1e5f35d9-a78a-4db9-98d3-b6be0533a36a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="238" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1e5f35d9-a78a-4db9-98d3-b6be0533a36a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2012 file picture Lower Saxony education minister, Johanna Wanka , attends a press conference in Hannover.  Germany's education minister Anette Schavan  has resigned Saturday Feb. 9, 2013, after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis - an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government months before national elections. Schavan will be replaced by Johanna Wanka, the outgoing regional education minister in the state of Lower Saxony, Merkel said. That state's conservative-led government narrowly lost a regional election to the center-left opposition last month.  (AP Photo/dpa, Holger Hollemann,File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>German education minister faces plagiarism probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[A German university will formally investigate allegations that the country's education minister plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis, which explored the formation of conscience.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/22/16646785-german-education-minister-faces-plagiarism-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/22/16646785-german-education-minister-faces-plagiarism-probe</guid><category>eu</category><category>germany</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>plagiarism</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:05:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Former Austrian minister convicted of corruption</title>
<description><![CDATA[A court has found a former Austrian interior minister and EU lawmaker guilty of corruption after he fell for a sting operation by two British journalists and sentenced him to four years in prison.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/14/16506995-former-austrian-minister-convicted-of-corruption</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/14/16506995-former-austrian-minister-convicted-of-corruption</guid><category>eu</category><category>ex</category><category>austria</category><category>minister</category><category>convicted</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:26:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7dde1360-1722-4b0b-86cd-5d1c3556575c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="296" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7dde1360-1722-4b0b-86cd-5d1c3556575c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2012 file photo former Austrian Interior Minister and former member of the EU parliament Ernst Strasser waits for the start of his trial at the main court in Vienna, Austria. Strasser was found guilty of corruption on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, rejecting his arguments that he thought he was being set up by U.S. intelligence agents posing as lobbyists and played along to catch them red-handed. He was sentenced to a four-year prison term after the verdict was pronounced, marking the end of a trial closely followed by the Austrian public as a test of accountability to the law by former senior officials. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ef20496b-ec55-4fcd-b47f-83b184e282de.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="358" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ef20496b-ec55-4fcd-b47f-83b184e282de.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="108" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2012 file photo former Austrian Interior Minister and former member of the EU parliament Ernst Strasser waits for the start of his trial at the main court in Vienna, Austria. Strasser was found guilty of corruption on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, rejecting his arguments that he thought he was being set up by U.S. intelligence agents posing as lobbyists and played along to catch them red-handed. He was sentenced to a four-year prison term after the verdict was pronounced, marking the end of a trial closely followed by the Austrian public as a test of accountability to the law by former senior officials. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b30a0750-4430-47e9-8e73-c72a783616a0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="354" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b30a0750-4430-47e9-8e73-c72a783616a0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo former Austrian Interior Minister and former member of the EU parliament  Ernst Strasser arrives at the main court for his trial for attempted corruption in Vienna, Austria. Strasser was found guilty of corruption on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, rejecting his arguments that he thought he was being set up by U.S. intelligence agents posing as lobbyists and played along to catch them red-handed. He was sentenced to a four-year prison term after the verdict was pronounced, marking the end of a trial closely followed by the Austrian public as a test of accountability to the law by former senior officials. (AP Photo/dapd, Ronald Zak, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Offshore account dispute snarls top French taxman</title>
<description><![CDATA[The man at the forefront of France's fight against fiscal fraud is now one of those being investigated.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Hinnant]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lori Hinnant]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/08/16414135-offshore-account-dispute-snarls-top-french-taxman</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/08/16414135-offshore-account-dispute-snarls-top-french-taxman</guid><category>eu</category><category>france</category><category>probe</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:09:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=29be1a87-f474-413b-a88e-707544cf9999.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=29be1a87-f474-413b-a88e-707544cf9999.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;France's Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac, reacts to journalists questions, as he leaves the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. The Paris prosecutors office says it is opening a preliminary investigation into allegations that France's budget minister hid money from French tax authorities in offshore accounts. A statement Tuesday from the prosecutors office said it also intends to open a probe for defamation based on a complaint over the allegations filed by Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=97e5f9ef-b342-4322-8c46-1bc8e62257bf.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=97e5f9ef-b342-4322-8c46-1bc8e62257bf.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;France's Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac, reacts to journalists questions, as he leaves the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. The Paris prosecutors office says it is opening a preliminary investigation into allegations that France's budget minister hid money from French tax authorities in offshore accounts. A statement Tuesday from the prosecutors office said it also intends to open a probe for defamation based on a complaint over the allegations filed by Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>  SCOTUS To Georgia Gun Zealots: No Guns In Places Of Worship</title>
<description><![CDATA[he U.S. Supreme Court sent GeorgiaCarry.org and a Georgia minister a  clear message today: the ban on having firearms in churches will not be  overturned in Georgia. This comes after repeated attempts to overturn a  state law that allows gun holders to carry firearms in many publ&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></source><link>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/07/16399828-scotus-to-georgia-gun-zealots-no-guns-in-places-of-worship</link><guid>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/07/16399828-scotus-to-georgia-gun-zealots-no-guns-in-places-of-worship</guid><category>scotus</category><category>church</category><category>georgia</category><category>politics</category><category>minister</category><category>guns</category><category>weapons</category><category>firearms</category><category>gun-control</category><category>handguns</category><category>united-states-supreme-court</category><category>1st-amendment</category><category>2nd-amendment</category><category>concealed-carry</category><category>u-s-supreme-court</category><category>gun-lobby</category><category>house-of-worship</category><category>georgiacarry-og</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2013 23:57:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=don-overtonF6B7844B-0313-7792-CCF4-5E47E0FF3FE6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=don-overtonF6B7844B-0313-7792-CCF4-5E47E0FF3FE6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>UK 'plebgate' scandal becomes police crisis</title>
<description><![CDATA[The "plebgate" scandal started with an angry exchange over a bicycle in front of Downing Street. The controversy over what a senior politician did or didn't say to officers guarding the prime minister's official residence has now grown into a full-blown crisis which is raising new questions about the ethics of Britain's largest police force.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/17/15965936-uk-plebgate-scandal-becomes-police-crisis</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/17/15965936-uk-plebgate-scandal-becomes-police-crisis</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>minister</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>outburst</category><category>world-news</category><category>downing-street</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:10:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e8c91436-5f76-405f-acc5-5007acd28cb5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="318" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e8c91436-5f76-405f-acc5-5007acd28cb5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="96" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, Andrew Mitchell arrives at Downing Street, London. Mitchell, who resigned from a government post over allegations that he used derogatory remarks against police officers called on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 for a full inquiry into the dispute amid new claims that police fabricated the evidence. Mitchell quit as the government's chief whip in September after he was accused of swearing at police officers who stopped him from wheeling his bicycle through the Downing Street gates. (AP Photo/PA, Yui Mok, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Mali gets new prime minister after forced ouster</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mali's interim president has named a replacement prime minister after soldiers behind a coup earlier this year forced out his predecessor and placed him under house arrest, provoking international condemnation.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15863530-mali-gets-new-prime-minister-after-forced-ouster</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15863530-mali-gets-new-prime-minister-after-forced-ouster</guid><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>prime-minister</category><category>mali</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mali's PM forced to resign, after arrest by junta</title>
<description><![CDATA[Soldiers arrested Mali's prime minister and forced him to resign before dawn on Tuesday, showing that the military remains the real power in this troubled West African nation despite handing back authority to civilians after a coup in March.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15829513-malis-pm-forced-to-resign-after-arrest-by-junta</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15829513-malis-pm-forced-to-resign-after-arrest-by-junta</guid><category>arrested</category><category>minister</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>prime-minister</category><category>west-africa</category><category>mali</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:27:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4caf4fd1-bc7a-44fc-b45c-203b1188afab.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4caf4fd1-bc7a-44fc-b45c-203b1188afab.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this March 27, 2012 file photo, Malian soldiers loyal to coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo secure the location as he arrives at his headquarters at Kati military base, just outside Bamako. A policy officer and an intelligence official have confirmed that Mali's Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra was arrested at his home late on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, by the soldiers who helped lead the recent coup. For several weeks, tension has been mounting between the soldiers who led Mali's March 21 coup and Diarra, the civilian prime minister they were forced to appoint when they handed back power to a transitional government.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5c839d0c-5206-4920-b8b0-2608003749b4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="508" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5c839d0c-5206-4920-b8b0-2608003749b4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="152" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012 file photo, Mali Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York. A policy officer and an intelligence official have confirmed that Mali's prime minister was arrested at his home late on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, by the soldiers who helped lead a recent coup. For several weeks, tension has been mounting between the soldiers who led Mali's March 21 coup and Diarra, the civilian prime minister they were forced to appoint when they handed back power to a transitional government.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5d6a7a12-ed34-43be-b4bc-79c7f0b88972.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5d6a7a12-ed34-43be-b4bc-79c7f0b88972.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this still frame made from video provided by ORTM Mali TV, Mali's Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra resigns during a broadcast on state television from Bamako, Mali on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, hours after soldiers who led a recent coup burst into his home and arrested him. (AP Photo/ORTM Mali TV) MALI ACCESS OUT&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Sources: North Korea replaces defense minister</title>
<description><![CDATA[North Korea has replaced its defense minister with a hardline military commander believed responsible for deadly attacks on South Korea in 2010, diplomats in Pyongyang said Thursday. It is the latest in a series of high-profile appointments leader Kim Jong Un has made since he took power nearly a year ago.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hyung-Jin Kim]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Hyung-Jin Kim]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15532850-sources-north-korea-replaces-defense-minister</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15532850-sources-north-korea-replaces-defense-minister</guid><category>nkorea</category><category>north-korea</category><category>minister</category><category>south-korea</category><category>defense-minister</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><category>kim-jong-un</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:15:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7ba72699-b8f1-4411-be26-b85be2cddda8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="264" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7ba72699-b8f1-4411-be26-b85be2cddda8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 15, 2012 file photo, North Korean soldiers march in front of flower waving civilians during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung.  North Korea has replaced its defense minister with a hardline military commander believed responsible for deadly attacks on South Korea in 2010, diplomats in Pyongyang said Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. It is the latest in a series of high-profile appointments leader Kim Jong Un has made since he took power nearly a year ago.  (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Former Austrian minister on trial for corruption</title>
<description><![CDATA[A former Austrian interior minister and EU lawmaker accused of influence peddling pleaded innocent Monday, telling a court he suspected U.S. secret service agents had set him up and that he had played along to catch them red-handed.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[George Jahn]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[George Jahn]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/26/15455202-former-austrian-minister-on-trial-for-corruption</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/26/15455202-former-austrian-minister-on-trial-for-corruption</guid><category>eu</category><category>trial</category><category>ex</category><category>austria</category><category>minister</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ffb36be8-09d6-49a2-adf9-26f8b9bd36b5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="354" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ffb36be8-09d6-49a2-adf9-26f8b9bd36b5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="107" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The former Austrian Interior Minister and member of the EU Parliament Ernst Strasser waits for the start of his trial for attempted corruption in Vienna's main court, Austria, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. Strasser  goes on trial for corruption in a case that made headlines after two British reporters posing as lobbyists captured him on video promising to push for changes in EU rules in exchange for money. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a2a4e4e9-9961-4554-8e41-5079c6e62fca.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="212" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a2a4e4e9-9961-4554-8e41-5079c6e62fca.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="64" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The former Austrian Interior Minister and member of the EU Parliament Ernst Strasser waits for the start of his trial for attempted corruption in Vienna's main court, Austria, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c2d39e4a-b8f3-4277-9fc8-078f0372833b.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="444" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c2d39e4a-b8f3-4277-9fc8-078f0372833b.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="133" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The former Austrian Interior Minister and members of the EU Parliament Ernst Strasser waits for the start of his trial for attempted corruption Vienna's main court, Austria, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Ivory Coast: New prime minister named</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara has tapped Foreign Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan to serve as prime minister in a new government one week after the surprise dissolution of cabinet.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/21/15339103-ivory-coast-new-prime-minister-named</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/21/15339103-ivory-coast-new-prime-minister-named</guid><category>minister</category><category>coast</category><category>world-news</category><category>prime-minister</category><category>ivory</category><category>af</category><category>alassane-ouattara</category><category>daniel-kablan-duncan</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Minister Arrested for Solicitation, Again </title>
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GASTON COUNTY, N.C.  &mdash; A Gaston County minister was charged with solicitation on Monday, and it is not the first time that he has faced that charge. Gaston County Police arrested Clinton Feemster last Wednesday.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[maddad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[maddad]]></source><link>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15135024-minister-arrested-for-solicitation-again</link><guid>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15135024-minister-arrested-for-solicitation-again</guid><category>pastor</category><category>time</category><category>investigation</category><category>arrested</category><category>religion</category><category>police</category><category>minister</category><category>2nd</category><category>crime</category><category>prostitution</category><category>week</category><category>preacher</category><category>undercover</category><category>sex-crimes</category><category>solicitation</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:20:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Pastor who 'offered homosexual counselings arrested for sexually assaulting male clients'  </title>
<description><![CDATA[
A Midwest pastor has been charged with sexually assaulting two male clients he was counseling to help them 'escape their homosexual tendencies'
Rev. Ryan J. Muehlhauser, who had served as the senior pastor of the Lakeside Christian Church in Cambridge, Minnesota, was charged w&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></source><link>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15055537-pastor-who-offered-homosexual-counselings-arrested-for-sexually-assaulting-male-clients</link><guid>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15055537-pastor-who-offered-homosexual-counselings-arrested-for-sexually-assaulting-male-clients</guid><category>minister</category><category>crime</category><category>us-news</category><category>homosexual</category><category>u-s-news</category><category>sexual-abuse</category><category>gay-therapy</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2012 21:20:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=onesearch4-29716BEC7-5925-96A9-26FE-39E4491B8171.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="185" width="308" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=onesearch4-29716BEC7-5925-96A9-26FE-39E4491B8171.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>&quot;Apostle&quot; &amp; Wife Found Guilty of Child Sex Charges</title>
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ORLANDO, Fla. &mdash; It took a jury of eight women and four men two hours and 15 minutes to convict Luis Morales, who calls himself Apostle Tito, and co-defendant Rebeca Rivera, of child sex and trafficking charges.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[maddad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[maddad]]></source><link>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14963713-apostle-wife-found-guilty-of-child-sex-charges</link><guid>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14963713-apostle-wife-found-guilty-of-child-sex-charges</guid><category>arrested</category><category>wife</category><category>religion</category><category>woman</category><category>man</category><category>minister</category><category>charges</category><category>crime</category><category>child-sex-abuse</category><category>apostle</category><category>child-sex-trafficking</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:03:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=maddad04679FF40D92-EFC9-231B-11BB-5D17D0FE056C.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=maddad04679FF40D92-EFC9-231B-11BB-5D17D0FE056C.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Man with knife stopped from approaching Finnish PM</title>
<description><![CDATA[Security guards stopped a knife-wielding man on Monday from approaching Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections, government officials said.  Police said he did not attempt to attack the Conservative leader, who was unhurt.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matti Huuhtanen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Matti Huuhtanen]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/22/14617000-man-with-knife-stopped-from-approaching-finnish-pm</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/22/14617000-man-with-knife-stopped-from-approaching-finnish-pm</guid><category>eu</category><category>minister</category><category>finland</category><category>world-news</category><category>prime-minister</category><category>jyrki-katainen</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:56:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=732bda34-e9db-46b8-8edb-0a05317a3c00.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="238" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=732bda34-e9db-46b8-8edb-0a05317a3c00.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011 file photo, Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 that security guards stopped a knife-wielding man from stabbing Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=56ca1a19-2eb9-410a-905a-76945c56d837.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=56ca1a19-2eb9-410a-905a-76945c56d837.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 16, 2011 file photo, Jyrki Katainen, center, chairman of The National Coalition Party and candidate for the Finnish Parliament canvasses during the party's election campaign in downtown Helsinki, Finland. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 that security guards stopped a knife-wielding man from stabbing Finland's prime minister Jyrki Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Sari Gustafsson, File)  FINLAND OUT, NO SALES&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9da5ec73-2736-4da5-82e2-b7194eeea93d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="219" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9da5ec73-2736-4da5-82e2-b7194eeea93d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="66" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011 file photo, Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen speaks to the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 that security guards stopped a knife-wielding man from stabbing Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>