How can I have a newline in a string in sh?

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Published on 2010-06-09T13:00:21Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 13:02 UTC
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This

STR="Hello\nWorld"
echo $STR

produces as output

Hello\nWorld

instead of

Hello
World

What should I do to have a newline in a string? I'm aware of echo -e, but I'm no sending the string to echo, the string will be used as an argument by another command that doesn't know how to interpret \n as a newline.

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