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Obviously there is a problem with the RSS feed. Yes.
What do you want to hear? You didn't even post the RSS feed itself.
But since there is no official news module anymore and even the author of News 1.4 does not continue developing it, you probably won't get a reply.
Xoops is - more or less - dead. There is no central coordination person/team that wants to organize things a bit.
Either you have to live with it or you have to look for another portal/CMS. It's that simple.