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        <title><![CDATA[Isobel Finkel]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Gets Pat on the Back From Moody’s Even as Debt Load Swells]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isobel Finkel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:31:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bessent and UK’s Reeves at Odds Over Iran War Before Meeting]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rose Henderson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:11:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UK’s Reeves Calls Out US ‘Folly’ in Iran War Without Exit Plan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:46:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Speculation Around UK Premier’s Future Won’t Go Away]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:05:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reeves Provides Strongest Hint Yet of Plans to Raise UK Taxes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[British Politics Is Fracturing in Populist Era]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Support for Farage’s Reform UK surges in poorest neighborhoods.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isobel Finkel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:07:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reeves Hires New Economic Advisers Ahead of UK’s Autumn Budget]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:59:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UK Tories Summon Up Thatcher With Tax-Slashing Survival Plan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:23:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UK’s 200-Year-Old Conservative Party Confronts Existential Risk]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Wickham]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Turkey Floats Limit on Bank CEO Tenures After Ponzi Scandal]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isobel Finkel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:18:22 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[British Far-Right Fury Bursts Starmer’s Bubble]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isobel Finkel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:18:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finland Airs Bill to Stop Russia’s Use of Migrants as Weapon]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 07:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin and NATO Share a Common Concern]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isobel Finkel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:00:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The World Risks Sliding Into a New Global War]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isobel Finkel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Ukrainian artillerymen load ammunition inside a self-propelled howitzer along the front line of Bakhmut, Donetsk region. Photographer: Ihor Tkachov/AFP</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ASML China Export Curbs Came Too Late, Dutch PM Frontrunner Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cagan Koc]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:16:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Latest Salvo in the Active-Passive War: Stock-Bond Correlations Are Gone]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:02:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Get caught up on what's moving markets.
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:20:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Brexit Quiz: One Year On]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lorcan Roche Kelly]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 04:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Protesters draped in European Union (EU) flags and a Union flag, also known as Union Jack, observe a minute of silence in memory of those who died in the Westminster terror attack, during a Unite for Europe march to protest Brexit in central London, U.K., on Saturday, March 25, 2017. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is ready to officially start the process to leave the bloc on March 29.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2017 10:31:48 GMT</pubDate>
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