"no luck.. Is there anything else i can change inside the code to get the xml data stored in the txt?"

What happened when you tried? You didn't get the warning you mention here. See How do I post a question effectively?.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = new XML::Simple;

my $data = $xml->XMLin("news2Obama.xml");

open (FH , '>', 'new_output.txt') or die "can't open file: $!";
    my $fh_o = Dumper ($data);
    print FH $fh_o;   
close FH or die "can't close file:$!";
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