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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apcontinue="Barbados" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="729" ns="0" title="Baby&#039;s Boat" />
      <p pageid="743" ns="0" title="Baby Mine" />
      <p pageid="5792" ns="0" title="Baby Names" />
      <p pageid="1957" ns="0" title="Bahamas, The" />
      <p pageid="1958" ns="0" title="Bahrain" />
      <p pageid="6751" ns="0" title="Bahrain and the Hague Convention" />
      <p pageid="5365" ns="0" title="Baiteke (under Kiribati)" />
      <p pageid="5072" ns="0" title="Baiteke and Adoption (under Kiribati)" />
      <p pageid="1959" ns="0" title="Bangladesh" />
      <p pageid="6753" ns="0" title="Bangladesh and the Hague Convention" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
</api>