<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Finland, Iceland top the 2007 list of press freedom : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>18641</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/18641/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Finland, Iceland top the 2007 list of press freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freedom of the Press 2007 points to improvements in several countries such as Italy, Nepal, Colombia, and Haiti; however, it shows mixed trends in Africa, as well as a continuation of a longer-term pattern of decline in press freedom in Asia, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>31</score><crdate>5/1/2007 7:50:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-01T19:50:58+01:00</atomdate></link><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/politics/l/18641/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (4)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/politics/l/18641-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/politics/l/18641-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/politics/l/18641-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/politics/l/18641/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><comment><id>51422</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/18641/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[makri @ 5/1/2007 10:08:54 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/18641/1/#q4"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>BrownTrout</b> : Makri, you didn't color the United States purple on your map, did you? ;)</i></div>Shared 16th spot isn't all that bad, nicely in the mid pack of western world, even beating Canada.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/1/2007 10:08:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-01T22:08:54+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>51389</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/18641/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[BrownTrout @ 5/1/2007 8:42:42 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Makri, you didn't color the United States purple on your map, did you? ;)]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/1/2007 8:42:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-01T20:42:42+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>51373</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/18641/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[makri @ 5/1/2007 7:58:26 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[The Nordic countries top the list, but the press release points out:<br/><div class='qp pad d'><i>However, increasing threats from far-right and Islamist groups during the year resulted in modest declines for a number of top-performing countries, particularly those in Scandinavia and northern Europe.</i></div>]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/1/2007 7:58:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-01T19:58:26+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>51372</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/18641/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[rambler @ 5/1/2007 7:57:32 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Interesting, that!  Especially the Map of Press Freedom 2007.  Cool to see that Ghana, where I live/work now, has almost as much press freedom as Greece, and a bit more than South Africa..., but in any case considerably more than her neighbours in West Africa.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/1/2007 7:57:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-01T19:57:32+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>