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		<title>Destination Kurdistan: Is This Autonomous Iraqi Region a Budding Tourist Hot Spot?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small / Rwanduz, Iraq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to image any tourists wanting to visit Iraq these days. “The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all but essential travel to Iraq given the security situation,” reads the latest U.S. warning from last August. “Travel within Iraq remains dangerous.” (Other countries have issued similar advisories.) But if you read on, you’ll notice a caveat to in the State Department&#8217;s warning: “The security situation in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR), which includes the governorates of Sulymaniya, Erbil, and Dohuk, has been more stable relative to the rest of Iraq in recent years,” it says. “There have been significantly fewer terrorist attacks and lower levels of insurgent violence in the IKR than in other parts of Iraq.” (PHOTOS: Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland) Kurdistan in northern Iraq — an autonomous region that retains a considerable amount of political freedom from Baghdad — is by far the safest and most accessible area of Iraq to visit. Unlike the rest of Iraq, tourists can wander bazaars freely. Hotels — and homes and businesses — don’t suddenly lose power for unpredictable amounts of time. There are malls and five-star luxury hotels, spas and historical spots like Erbil’s ancient Citadel, a UNESCO World Heritage site. In fact, Erbil has been named the Arab Council of Tourism’s 2014 tourism capital. “We have an ambition to be an international, worldwide destination by 2015,” says Mawlawi Jabar Wahab, head of Kurdistan’s General Board of Tourism. “We never thought our ambitions could be so big.” Iraqi Kurdistan has come a long way very quickly. In 2007 it had just 106 hotels, and it now boasts more than 400. They’ve built a $400 million state-of-the-art airport in Erbil and two others across Kurdistan. Marriott is building a massive complex in Erbil called the Empire that will include a five-star hotel, a condo village and a go-cart track. Hilton, Kempinski and Sheraton are also building hotels. In 2013, Kurdistan expects to bring in $1 billion in tourism revenues and hopes to quintuple that number in just<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61735&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fleeing Civil War, Syria&#8217;s Kurds Enter Another Geopolitical Minefield</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/27/fleeing-civil-war-syrias-kurds-enter-another-geo-political-minefield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small / Dohuk, Iraq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samira Selo cradled her 2-year-old on her hip and looked across the low valley toward Syria, a country that until a month ago she called home. Some sheep and goats grazed nearby. Behind her, in the old tiny tent she, her husband and three kids call home, her family’s possessions were rolled up under two thin mattresses still damp from a week’s worth of rain. The floor of her tent was mud, the same mud that formed, often knee-deep, every lane zigzagging through the Domiz refugee camp in the north of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is never easy being the new arrivals, especially in a refugee camp like this one, where resources have been stretched beyond their limits as more and more Syrian Kurds pour across the border each day. “Two weeks ago we had 35,000,” says Iraqi Kurdish Foreign Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir. Before Christmas they topped 60,000. Selo, 28, and her family fled Damascus in November “as the massacre was getting too close.” But they have found life on the fringes of this mushrooming refugee camp extremely difficult. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which oversees the camp, ran out of tents before they got there. They borrowed their hand-me-down one from a friend but can’t afford to buy a nicer one; used UNHCR tents are going on the black market for hundreds of dollars, says Selo. When it rains — and in Iraq in the winter it rains constantly — they and everything they own get soaked. Their kids have developed colds, and the weather is about to turn frosty, something that scares Selo even more than the damp. (MORE: Syria’s Kurds: Civil Wars Within a Civil War) They could have gone to Jordan, which is much closer to Damascus, but as Kurds, they felt it was safer with their ethnic compatriots, even if it meant driving all the way across war-torn Syria. Almost all the Syrian refugees that Iraq has accepted are Kurds into Iraqi Kurdistan, a semiautonomous state in the north that exercises<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61233&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Nechirvan Barzani: Will There Be an Independent Kurdistan?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/21/an-interview-with-nechirvan-barzani-will-there-be-an-independent-kurdistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small / Erbil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one man who deserves the credit for the growing Turkish-Kurd rapprochement, it’s Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani of Iraqi Kurdistan. Five years ago Kurds and foreigners alike laughed in his face when he told them that not only did he want Iraqi Kurdistan to export its own oil, but that he wanted to export it to Turkey, which has had an intractable problem with its own large Kurdish minority. Barzani’s strategy was one of patience: starting with confidence-building with the Turks and then coaxing small oil companies and then larger ones to risk Baghdad’s ire to drill for oil not only in the autonomous region but in territory disputed by both Barzani&#8217;s government and the Iraqi central government. Barzani sat down with TIME on December 13 to talk about the Turks, his stormy relationship with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the potential for an independent Kurdish state&#8211;and how that would affect members of the non-Arab ethnicity, which lives in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. He spoke sometimes in English and other times through the translation services of his Foreign Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir. Below are excepts from that interview: TIME: My understanding is that the people laughed at you when you first suggested that Kurdistan drill and export its own oil. True? Barzani: That’s true [laughs]…. We started with small projects. Small companies. I mean of course always we’ve been accused of bringing small companies but now we have big companies like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Total, Gazprom. It has been changed a lot. The total investment so far in spending has been about $15 billion. $15 billion they spending in this country. It’s a lot of change. But of course we have a long way to go – this is not all. So the first company that we started with was a Norwegian Company called DNO. Of course at the beginning there was a huge campaign on me personally as well [saying that] I’m corrupt, I’m benefiting from this personally, stories about me personally. But I resisted<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60792&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">IRAQ-KURDISTAN-POLITICS</media:title>
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		<title>Will Kurdistan’s Energy Wealth Lead to the Next Iraq War?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/18/will-kurdistans-energy-wealth-lead-to-the-next-iraq-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small / Kirkuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing tourists in one of the world&#8217;s most dangerous cities is not how we imagined we&#8217;d end up spending Tuesday, but there we were atop Kirkuk&#8217;s ancient citadel admiring &#8211; and mourning &#8211; the crumbling ruins of the five mosques that once occupied the plateau overlooking the contested city.&#8221;See, look,&#8221; says Akam Omar Osman, pointing to the north. &#8220;You see how in Kurdish areas we pick up the trash, we have services. And then how in the south,&#8221; he says, swinging around, &#8220;you have nothing.&#8221; Osman is the translator provided by the Peshmerga Kurdish forces who brought us here. The north does look to be relatively bustling, while storm clouds gather over the quieter southern areas of the city, filled with banks of trash. This pivotal oil city, home to Iraq&#8216;s main pipeline and numerous refineries, is part of the disputed territories between Iraqi Kurdistan and the Iraqi central government. And Kirkuk is now on the frontlines of a two-week old military stand-off. After a December shootout between Iraqi police and Peshmerga in another disputed city, Tuz Khormato, left one dead and several injured, both the Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army have ringed Kirkuk. (MORE: OK in Iraq, But Wounded At Home) But the tensions are far greater than just a singe firefight. Baghdad recently created a new command overseeing security forces in the disputed areas, angering the country’s ethnic Kurds. The Kurds were further incensed when Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir al- Zaidi, who has been linked to Saddam Hussein&#8216;s genocide of hundreds of thousands of Kurds in 1988&#8242;s Anfal campaign, was placed in charge of the Iraqi forces at their doorstep. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was infuriated when Kurdistan began inking its own oil contracts &#8211; including some in disputed areas &#8212; with Exxon, France&#8217;s Total, Russia&#8217;s Gazprom and Chervron. Not to mention a deal under way to build a pipeline between Turkey and Kurdistan, allowing the Kurds a route that did not have to cross the rest of Iraq to export the 45 million barrels believed to be beneath Kurdish<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60070&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Washington&#8217;s Two Opinions of Egypt’s Islamist President</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/29/washingtons-two-opinions-of-egypts-islamist-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small / Washington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington has a mixed view of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi&#8211;at once hopeful and fearful. Those who are in the latter camp believe they know him best. They’ve heard his incendiary rhetoric –  including so-called “truther” theories that the U.S. secretly orchestrated the 911 attack on itself – and they are the most pessimistic that Morsi  is nothing but an Islamist authoritarian in democratic clothing. “Mohamed Morsi’s function inside the Muslim Brotherhood was that of an enforcer. He would weed anyone out who didn’t agree with the Brotherhood’s strict doctrine or tactics,” says Eric Trager, a fellow at the Center for Near East Policy who has interviewed Morsi many times since 2010 as part of his dissertation on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. “Because they trusted him he was also appointed to handle negotiations with the Mubarak regime. They knew he wouldn’t concede anything. He’s not and never has been a moderate.” Nevertheless, other U.S. officials are hopeful. By early 2011, before he became president, they say Morsi was already moderating his tone to American visitors. “He said exactly the right things on Israel and the peace treaty,” says a U.S. official who participated in meetings with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood at the time. “Whether that’s because he really believed it or because it’s what he thought American interlocutors wanted to hear, it was note worthy.” (TRANSCRIPT: TIME’s Interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi) In fact, one of the things most cited by Washington politicians when they speak of Morsi is hispolitical skill, his chameleon-like ability to speak convincingly to Americans and Europeans as well as Egypt’s rightwing political parties and the street. “What’s interesting is he’s proven to be a politician who understands the different audiences that he’s speaking to which isn’t always the case for people who’ve been in the opposition for all, if not most, of their lives,” says a White House official. “He understands in Egypt there are very different audiences. There’s also an international community and a regional audience. He’s had a pretty nuanced in understanding how what<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56965&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Egypt&#039;s President Mohamed Morsi speaks to supporters in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Nov. 23, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>Ambassador Chris Stevens: The American Who Loved Libya (1960-2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small and Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courageous and optimistic, he knew the country he was assigned to like no other diplomat. His tragic  death leaves an enormous hole in the American foreign service—and in Washington’s fitful dealings with the Arab world<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44756&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Benghazi Consulate Attack, What&#8217;s Next for U.S. Relations with Libya and Egypt?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/12/after-benghazi-consulate-attack-whats-next-for-u-s-relations-with-libya-and-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outrage was the Obama Administration&#8217;s first reaction, Wednesday morning, to attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya &#8212; where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. &#8220;Today many Americans are asking, indeed I asked myself, how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate and a city we saved from destruction?&#8221; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday morning, referring to Benghazi, the city saved by NATO military intervention and where Stevens and his colleagues were killed at the U.S. Consulate. &#8220;It reflects just how complicated, indeed how confounding the world can be. This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or the government of Libya.&#8221; Added President Obama minutes later, &#8220;There is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence, none&#8230; This attack will not break the bond between the United States and Libya&#8230; Make no mistake, justice will be done.&#8221; (MORE: Slaying Highlights Libya&#8217;s Post-Gaddafi Struggles) Noticeably absent from the Administration&#8217;s response, though, was much mention of Egypt. While the attack in Libya was more violent and involved loss of life, the situation there is also more diplomatically straightforward. The Libyan government was quick to apologize for the attack, and to reaffirm its alliance with the U.S. Egypt, however, is a major diplomatic headache. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has yet to apologize, or say anything much at all. Riot police stood idly by overnight as protesters spray-painted insults on the embassy&#8217;s walls. Popular anger over a anti-Muslim film trailer produced by an Israeli real estate developer is being fanned by more radical rivals to the Muslim Brotherhood, leaving Morsi’s party, the Muslim Brotherhood, in an awkward position. The Brotherhood’s youth wing has said it will take part in a planned protest on Friday but otherwise thegroup has been as silent as Morsi. Morsi has prioritized getting the Egyptian economy on track. The attack forced a group of 100 American businessmen in Cairo for meetings on investing in Egypt to seek safety nearby.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44727&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Morsy Urges Iran to Help End Syrian Crisis</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/egypts-morsy-urges-iran-to-help-end-syrian-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy took Iran to task on Thursday for its role in the Syrian crisis. During a speech at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran, Morsy, though never directly criticizing Iran, repeatedly condemned the “unjust” and &#8220;oppressive&#8221; Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, Iran’s closest ally. “The crisis in Syria is hanging upon all of us. It is our responsibility. It is our responsibility,” Morsy repeated. “We have to be aware the bloodshed will not stop and will not be limited if we do not actively interfere to stop it.” Iran advocates a “Syrian-Syrian” solution free of “any external influences on the internal affairs of Syria,” as Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told TIME on Tuesday. (MORE: In Tehran, a Surprise Session with Iran’s Foreign Minister) Morsy was in Tehran to hand over the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement to his “dear brother,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Since Morsy took office, Iran has made several overtures to Cairo, hoping for a normalization of relations with Egypt. At one point, Ahmadinejad said he could be in Cairo in an hour if Morsy was willing to meet — an offer that went unanswered, as did an Iranian offer to take over the $1.3 billion in annual military aid Egypt receives from the U.S. So Iran was delighted when Morsy announced that he would be attending and speaking at the conference, even though the Egyptian leader would only spend a few hours in Tehran and refused all offers for bilateral talks. “Egypt is there not because of Iran but because of the Non-Aligned Movement,” says Dennis Ross, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama on the Middle East. “Morsy&#8217;s playing it up as Egypt being independent, not owned by anybody and not owing anybody anything.” (MORE: Will Iran’s Third-World Jamboree Hasten an Israeli Attack? Probably Not) Iran initially pushed for a resolution on Syria as part of the conference’s declaration, but backed down when it became clear such a move would provoke a fight with Sunni nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42821&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Case of Iranian Whispers at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/28/on-the-sidelines-of-the-non-aligned-movement-summit-a-case-of-iranian-whispers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Iran lays out the red carpet for dozens of world leaders at the NAM summit, the foreign press pack has been starved of real news<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42511&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Tehran, a Surprise Session with Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/28/in-tehran-a-surprise-session-with-irans-foreign-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was clearly surprised by the accent of the two women who&#8217;d approached him on his way into the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Tehran on Tuesday morning. Having studied in Boston, he recognized it as American — which was not quite in tune with the anti-U.S. slogans flying around the diplomatic extravaganza being staged in the Iranian capital. Barbara Slavin, formerly of USA Today and currently of Al-Monitor, had called out to him as he was about to enter the proceedings and assume chairmanship of the 120-nation group. She and I are two of only seven Americans in the huge international press corps covering the event in Tehran. Apparently intrigued by our presence (&#8220;TIME magazine, really?&#8221;), he granted us a brief interview on a range of subjects before heading in. As expected, he condemned the severe economic sanctions imposed on Iran by dozens of countries led by the U.S. over Tehran&#8217;s controversial nuclear-development program. &#8220;We want unilateral sanctions refuted by the participants,&#8221; Salehi told us in English. &#8220;You cannot claim your eagerness for democracy, human rights and all these things and through unilateral sanctions try to put all sorts of suffering and inflict suffering and hardship to other people. This is a contradiction.&#8221; By Salehi&#8217;s definition, anything not endorsed by the U.N. is unilateral, never mind that the sanctions against Iran involve dozens of countries, some of which were in attendance at the conference. (MORE: Will Iran&#8217;s Third-World Jamboree Hasten an Israeli Attack? Probably Not) Iran&#8217;s goal in playing host to more than 50 heads of state has been to show the world that it is not isolated and has broad support, particularly in the developing world, for its right to develop nuclear power. Tehran has inserted language in the conference resolution condemning &#8220;unilateral&#8221; sanctions. In the past two months, a E.U. embargo on Iranian oil and U.S. financial restrictions have isolated Iran&#8217;s economy and its banks from the global market, resulting in a 50% devaluation of its currency, the rial. The sanctions were put<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42514&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Generals Who Rule Egypt: How They Get Along With Washington</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/29/the-generals-who-rule-egypt-how-they-get-along-with-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abby Hauslohner and I have this week&#8217;s cover story on the Egyptian military and who&#8217;s really in control of the North African country. Mohamed Morsy may have won the election, but a committee of 19 generals have retained most of the power for themselves. Given that they are basically functioning as the de facto parliament, have stripped the executive branch of much of its power and, most analysts say, also control the courts, they are without question the most powerful institution in Egypt right now. In the story, we pull back the curtain a bit on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Egypt&#8217;s military is very different from the U.S. armed forces. It has traditionally played a much more powerful role in Egyptian society while trying to seem above the fray. For example, in addition to external security SCAF also has the responsibilities of the National Guard, stepping in to deal with natural or man made crises; at the same time officers are barred from voting and live often in cloistered suburbs built just for them. &#8220;No one knows these guys because they&#8217;ve always felt if the military gets involved in the politics of country, it gets corrupted,&#8221; says Graeme Bannerman, who was the generals&#8217; consultant in DC for nearly 20 years before retiring in 2005. So, who make up the SCAF? There is a core of 19 generals led by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, 76, Egypt&#8217;s top military commander and defense minister since 1991, appointed by now-deposed president Hosni Mubarak. The members of SCAF are the heads of the military branches, air force, navy, infantry, plus the regional generals who form the backbone of Egypt&#8217;s defense, as well as the head of military intelligence. Tantawi has recently added a few advisers, so often the number is reported to be 36, but the additions are temporary and have been brought in for their expertise in law, politics and the economy, subjects the generals feel they need advice on since assuming power after the fall of Mubarak in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=33127&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s Little Startup: How the U.S. Is Using Technology to Aid Syria&#8217;s Rebels</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/13/hillarys-little-startup-how-the-u-s-is-using-technology-to-aid-syrias-rebels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abu Ghassan looks more like a hipster than a revolutionary. Decked out in a pink shirt and black jeans, he clutches a pack of cigarettes and begins to talk hesitantly about his activities. He is eager to get back to the beleaguered city of Homs in Syria  but quickly warms to questions about how he learned to fight Bashar Assad with an AK-47, a video camera and the Internet—and how Americans helped turn him into a cyberwarrior. Abu Ghassan (not his real name) told TIME on June 8 that he has been a two-fisted warrior for a while—with the scars to show for it. While filming an antiregime demonstration in December in Homs, he heard a blast and was told that two government tanks were headed toward the crowd. Abu Ghassan, 26, had to decide: Keep filming or pick up a weapon? He decided to do both, grabbing an AK-47 from his car and setting down his video camera in an elevated spot to catch the action. As he ran ahead, an armored Land Rover swerved in front of the crowd, and regime soldiers opened fire. Abu Ghassan and fighters with the Free Syrian Army, the rebel force protecting the demonstrators, fired back to allow the civilians to scramble for cover. As bullets whizzed back and forth, Abu Ghassan was clipped in the shoulder by shrapnel. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how I didn&#8217;t get more injured or killed,&#8221; he says. As the opposition was then just learning to do, Abu Ghassan uploaded the combat video to the Internet. Soon after, local dissident leaders picked the former engineer to go abroad for even-more-sophisticated training in computer encryption, circumvention of government firewalls and secure use of mobile phones—courtesy of the U.S. State Department. The training has helped give the rebels the upper hand in one front in the battle against Syria&#8217;s President. Even as the Assad regime&#8217;s army crushes the opposition on the ground, the dictator has been losing the war online. (PHOTOS: Syria’s Year of Chaos: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=30511&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Princelings Become a U.S. Media Phenomenon</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/04/19/chinas-princelings-become-a-u-s-media-phenomenon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday morning, Jodi Seth, the communications director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was swamped with calls on a subject she knew little about: Chinese “princelings,” or the children and grandchildren of prominent members of China’s Communist Party, many of them studying and living in the U.S. Seth wasn’t the only one flooded with inquiries she could do little to answer. Her counterparts at the State Department, the FBI and Harvard were experiencing a similar phenomenon. The princelings, it seems, have become somewhat of an American fascination. Of course, all this started with the story of a single princeling, Bo Guagua, and his parents. Bo&#8217;s grandfather was Bo Yibo, a former Vice Premier of China and one of the most illustrious revolutionaries of the Mao Zedong era. His father Bo Xilai is governor of Chongqing and was on the fast track to becoming a ruling member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party until a scandal embroiled him and his wife. Now Bo Xilai stands accused of what is called &#8220;serious discipline violations,&#8221; and Guagua&#8217;s mother is implicated in the alleged cyanide murder of a British businessman. But perhaps the most interesting twist in the charges against the family is the naming of Bo Guagua as a person of interest, despite the fact that the 24-year-old has spent most of the past two years 7,000 miles away at Harvard’s Kennedy School earning a master’s degree. What was the sin of the son? His extravagance. “What the higher levels have tried to portray for many years now is the notion that the higher levels are clean and they’re trying to reduce or limit the corruption at the local levels [of the government and the party]. So even if you’re angry at the local levels, you should at least have faith in the system,” says Ken Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution. “The danger here is, it runs the risk of communicating to people that the top of the system itself is highly corrupt. Whereas Bo Xilai was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=24322&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton and Russia Spar Over U.N. Resolution on Syria</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/01/31/clinton-and-russia-spar-over-u-n-resolution-on-syria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know things are bad when Russia won’t return Hillary Clinton’s calls. For more than two days now, Clinton has been waiting for Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to call her back to discuss a pending United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria. Lavrov is traveling in Australia, prompting some members of the U.S. diplomatic press corps to wonder if Russian relations with the Land Down Under now trump those with the United States. “I’ll refer those questions to the Russian embassy,” Mark Toner, a spokesman for the State Department, coughed politely to reporters Tuesday afternoon. So much for resetting that reset button. (READ: Why ousting Assad is easier said than done.) Clinton, meanwhile, traveled to New York Tuesday to try and convince the Security Council to impose sanctions recommended by the Arab League against Syria. Arab League monitors left Syria over the weekend due to escalating violence – fighting that rocked the suburbs of Damascus this weekend. Human rights groups estimate that more than 100 people were killed Sunday and more than 6,000, including 4,500 civilians, have been killed since anti-Assad protests began in mid-March. “The United States urges the Security Council to back the Arab League’s demand that the Syrian Government immediately stop all attacks against civilians and guarantee the freedom of peaceful demonstrations,” Clinton told the Security Council. “In accordance with the Arab League’s plan, Syria must also release all arbitrarily detained citizens, return its military and security forces to their barracks, and allow full and unhindered access for monitors, humanitarian workers, and journalists.” While the Arab League’s plan has the support of the U.S. and Europe, Russia seems likely to veto it – thus the cold shoulder from Lavrov. Russia and China vetoed a similar resolution on Oct. 4, objecting to language that they said amounted to a call for regime change in Syria. The two countries, both of whom wield Security Council vetoes, grudgingly let through a comparable resolution on Libya last year, a resolution that the U.S. and Europe took as license to empower<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=16481&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Independent Scotland? Q&amp;A with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/11/04/an-independent-scotland-qa-with-scottish-first-minister-alex-salmond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For this story on Scottish independence out in this week’s International dead tree edition of TIME, I sat down on Sept. 30 with Alex Salmond at Bute House, the official residence of the Scottish First Minister. The following are excerpts from the more than hour-long interview. TIME: The elections… AS: We won. Your platform is essentially independence, so does this victory mean independence? No, the victory means that there will be a referendum. The mandate is to hold a referendum on independence, which we’ll be in favor of. It’s also a mandate for additional powers to the Scottish parliament as specified in our campaign and in our manifesto. Generally speaking it’s always good for politicians and the politics of the party to accept the verdict of the people. There have been occasions in British history when I didn’t think that was a good idea, but by in large I think it’s a good idea to let democracy work, it’s a reasonable concept. So what would the referendum look like? Would there be one? Would it be straight out independence? There’ll be one referendum. The question is: how many questions can we have…. You can ask two questions on the referendum but only have one referendum… To simplify things, there are essentially three options. You can have something which is what we have at the present moment or something very like it, something that adds minor powers of no great consequence, maybe interesting to have the ability to set the speed limit on major roads but not minor roads – sort of additions like that. The second option is to have a Parliament within the United Kingdom but with full economic powers in other words you would reserve to the United Kingdom the monetary policy, defense and foreign affairs and everything else would be run in Scotland. So you get full economic powers. And independence is clearly the most understood form. Independence is independence as understood in the context of the European Union in the context of some almost 30 countries at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=11807&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Magazine: Gangless in Glasgow</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/10/04/gangless-in-glasgow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After covering the Tottenham riots, I was curious why England rioted and Scotland didn&#8217;t. Glasgow, after all, has far greater problems of economic inequity and youth violence. In some neighborhoods, the average life expectancy for a man is just 54 compared to 82 in neighboring areas. So, I went up to Glasgow to take a look at what lessons England might draw from the Scottish experience. And while the comparison isn&#8217;t apples to apples, there are certainly teachable moments that those further south could and should look at as they prepare for the London Olympics next summer. Here&#8217;s the story that ran in this week&#8217;s print version of the magazine. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=10283&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneur Launches Rival to Challenge His Own Airline</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/09/26/entrepreneur-launches-rival-to-challenge-his-own-airline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his family are on track to make £70 million from their 38% stake in easyJet this year. And, yes, Haji-Ioannou was knighted for his “entrepreneurship” in founding the discount airline in 1995. But that doesn’t seem to have stopped the Greek-Cypriot billionaire from launching a rival airline. According to a terse release on easyJet’s website, Haji-Ioannou informed them of his intentions to set up FastJet airlines. The FastJet.com website has already been set up and simply reads “By Stelios. Coming soon!” From easyJet’s release: easyJet has a number of rights under its agreements with Sir Stelios and easyGroup IP Licensing Ltd (a subsidiary of easyGroup Holdings Limited) as described in the Circular to shareholders dated 16th November 2010. To the extent that any activity of Fastjet, Sir Stelios or any company controlled by him infringes or would infringe those rights, easyJet will take necessary action to protect the rights of easyJet and the interests of its shareholders. Sir Stelios also alleges that easyJet has breached the terms of the binding comfort letter between him and easyJet of 10 October 2010 and that that letter is no longer in force, claims which easyJet emphatically rejects. easyJet continues to seek constructive dialogue with easyGroup and Sir Stelios. This isn’t the first time Haji-Ioannou and the airline have clashed. As mentioned in the release, the two sides ended a two-year branding dispute in October 2010 over the airline’s right to use the name easyJet and expand partnership activities on their own. Stelios also owns easyGroup, which runs easyCar, easyCruise, easyBus, easyHotel, easyInternetcafe, easyMoney, easyCinema, easyCinemada DVD rental, easy4Men, easyMusic, easyMobile, easyGym, amongst other businesses. That dispute was resolved after Haji-Ioannou renounced any claim to easyJet’s chairmanship in exchange for 0.25% of easyJet’s annual revenue for the use of the easy brand. Still, a few months later Haji-Ioannou was back in headlines protesting over a £2.5 million bonus package easyJet paid to its former chairman in February 2011. But by letter of the Oct. 10 agreement, Haji-Ioannou could have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=9926&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Close of the LibDem Conference, Has Cleggmania Returned?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/09/21/at-the-close-of-the-libdem-conference-has-cleggmania-returned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleggmania has returned. Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t reached the Beatle-level hysteria the Liberal Democrat leader enjoyed in the lead up to last year’s elections. But the angry party recriminations that plagued Clegg earlier this year seem to have evaporated – or at least are simmering deep below the surface. This week the Liberal Democrats presented a unified face, or really a kind of gritted grin, to the world in voicing their support not just for Clegg but the coalition government which they are part of alongside the Conservatives of Prime Minister David Cameron. “Liberal Democrats, we have now been in government for 500 days. Not easy, is it?” Clegg asked a jovial crowd in his speech closing the conference held this year in Birmingham. “Yes, it has been hard. And adversity tests the character of a Party just as it tests any person. We’ve shown – you’ve shown – immense strength. After being hit hard, we picked ourselves up and we came out fighting… Not doing the easy thing, but doing the right thing. Not easy, but right.” “Not easy, but right,” was the mantra of Clegg’s speech. Indeed, it has been his mantra for the last six months. Day by day Clegg has reminded his Party that in the face of the economic crisis they could have chosen to remain outside of government and, while politically more expedient – they probably wouldn’t have lost seats in the May elections – it wouldn’t have been the right thing to do. Just like all those compromises on austerity and cuts – tough, but there wasn’t much of a choice. And the sales pitch seems to have worked. “I didn’t vote for him when we had leadership elections,” says Peter Morris, chair of the East Midlands LibDems. “But he came to Leicester last spring and he was just very, very good at speaking to members. I’ve come to the conclusion that the Party made the right choice.” Clegg has honed his professional political image in the last year. He entered<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=9779&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatch from Birmingham: Despite Many Travails, Nick Clegg and LibDems Brim with Optimism</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/09/19/dispatch-from-birmingham-despite-many-travails-things-are-looking-up-for-libdems-and-nick-clegg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a moment during Nick Clegg’s Q&#38;A Monday at the annual Liberal Democrat Party conference in Birmingham where a questioner asked if Clegg was feeling “hopeless and embarrassed” to be sharing a government with British Prime Minister David Cameron. The question had to do with a scandal earlier this year over the hiring of interns, and Cameron’s assertion that it wasn’t wrong to favor the children of friends. The surprise wasn’t in the question – indeed, if the British press is to be believed, the Liberal Democrats are at the point of insurrection; they’re so unhappy with Clegg’s power sharing – but in the response. Hundreds of LibDem delegates collectively murmured “No,” or outright booed. A year ago, a similar question might have been cheered at such a gathering. Emphatic defeats in local elections and the slapping down of the much-discussed Alternative Vote System — long a central plank in the LibDem platform — in a referendum hardly helped the mood. But what a difference a year makes. As Clegg and Cameron grapple the first coalition government in 70 years, Liberal Democrat unhappiness with power sharing – indeed with governing as a whole – seems to have found its ceiling and is slowly coming down. “I’ve heard a lot of complaints from local supporters,” says Therese Evans, a Liberal Democrat on Winchester City Council. “But [Clegg] is quite right, we had to do what we did, we have no other choices, and he said exactly what I can take back to [LibDem voters] and tell them.” (SEE: Top 10 moments from the 2010 U.K. general election.) Clegg was unapologetic about the path he has led his party down. “Last year we had to show people that coalition government was possible,” he told the audience. “Remember those stories in the last weeks before the election. If there’s a hung Parliament locusts will descend from the heavens, your mortgage will go up… Ludicrous.” At the same time, he acknowledged that now that they are settling down to the business of governing,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=9678&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The UBS &#8216;Rogue Trader&#8217; Scandal: Just Who Is Kweku Adoboli?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/09/15/the-ubs-rogue-trader-scandal-just-who-is-kweku-adoboli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By all accounts Kweku Adoboli was a quiet, affable guy. An amateur photographer who loved music and cycling, friends in his artsy circle hardly knew he was a banker, let alone one who’d be accused of losing UBS $2 billion in rogue trades. “He was a great fan of beautiful things,” says Sanjhana Moon, a photographer who met Adoboli more than three years ago and gave him tips on his own art. “He was a very regular, kind, honest, generous guy.” If friends are now referring to Adoboli in the past tense, it’s because no one’s sure if and when they’ll hear from him again. Early Thursday morning, police arrested Adoboli and he remains in custody as UBS works “to get to the bottom of the matter as quickly as possible,” the company said in a memo to its 65,000 employees. (SEE: 25 people to blame for the financial crisis.) The 31-year-old is Ghanaian, or of Ghanaian descent. He is the son of a senior United Nations official and grew up in Israel, Syria and Iraq before being sent to the £26,000-a-year Ackworth School in West Yorkshire where he was head boy, according to the Times of London. In his profile on the school&#8217;s site he says he wanted to be an athlete or a chemical engineer when he grew up. &#8220;If life is all about winning and losing then how can sport not be about winning and losing,&#8221; he wrote. Adoboli graduated from the University of Nottingham in July, 2003 with honors and degrees in computer science and management. According to his LinkedIn social networking profile, he worked for the last five years for UBS’s Equity Trading division as a trade support analyst in the bank’s “City” office, the nearer of London’s two eastern financial centers. Until four-and-a-half months ago, he lived in a posh $6,320-per-month loft on Brune Street, a 13-minute walk from his office. His former landlord, Philip Octave, asked Adoboli to move so that the apartment could be refurbished. Octave described his former tenant as a well-dressed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=9551&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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