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		<title>Germany&#8217;s Neo-Nazi Trial: The Banality of Evil Has a New Face</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/15/germanys-neo-nazi-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beate Zschäpe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Beate Zschäpe arrived at Munich&#8217;s Upper Regional Court on Tuesday, wearing a plain gray suit, her calm appearance contrasted with what some commentators are calling one of the most important trials in Germany’s postwar history. The 38-year-old stands accused of being a member of a neo-Nazi cell responsible for a series of racially motivated murders across the country. Her first appearance the week before prompted one German newspaper to editorialize that &#8220;Evil has a face. An ordinary face.&#8221; The case, which finally commenced this month after many delays, features 600 witnesses, 49 lawyers representing 71 joint plaintiffs and a bill of indictment against Zschäpe — who if convicted could be sentenced to life in prison — that runs nearly 500 pages. With more than 80 days allocated for the trial, which German legal experts say could drag on till 2014, Zschäpe and right-wing extremism will be sure to be under the media spotlight in Germany for a while. Three days into the trial, the defense lawyers have already begun arguing for it to be stopped on the basis that the case has been prejudged as a result of the government paying out compensation to the families of the victims. The trial is the culmination of the search for the perpetrators of a seven-year killing spree that took place between 2000 and 2007 across Germany. Ten people were murdered during the spree, eight of whom were of Turkish descent. A ninth victim was of Greek descent; the final victim a German policewoman. (MORE: Germany’s Angst: A Country’s Culture Bumps Up Against Its Nazi Past) German police got a break in their investigation in November 2011 when the bodies of Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, two members of the self-styled National Socialist Underground (NSU) movement, were found in the eastern city of Eisenach. They had apparently committed suicide following a bank robbery. Zschäpe, the alleged co-founder and comrade of the two bank robbers, turned herself in to authorities saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m the one you are looking for,&#8221; after setting fire to a house in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86627&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Defendant Beate Zschaepe enters court with law enforcement officers on the first day of the NSU neo-Nazi murder trial in Munich, on May 6, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>&#8216;End of an Era&#8217;: Sir Malcolm Rifkind Remembers Margaret Thatcher</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/08/an-end-of-an-era-sir-malcolm-rifkind-on-margaret-thatcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[U.K.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iron Lady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Rifkind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Malcolm Rifkind became a Member of Britain&#8217;s Parliament in 1974 when Margaret Thatcher’s star was on the rise. He went on to serve in her government and in that of her successor, John Major—one of the longest uninterrupted Ministerial services in British political history. Sir Rifkind, who is now chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, spoke with TIME about his admiration for&#8211;and disagreements with&#8211;the Iron Lady. What was your reaction to the news of Baroness Thatcher’s death? That it’s an end of an era. I was a member of her government for the whole eleven years she was Prime Minister, so I have a lot of personal memories of her. What are your earliest memories of Thatcher? My first memories of her was when I entered the House of Commons in February 1974. We had just lost the election under Ted Heath, and Thatcher, who was one of his ministers, increasingly came to the fore as a candidate for leader. I was aware of her name before then, but when I saw her I thought she was one of the most forceful, energetic and dynamic front bench ministers. To everyone’s surprise she put herself forward as leader. In the first round I voted for Heath – it was out of loyalty. I had met Heath and I hadn’t met her. But then I voted for her in the second round, I had increasingly become impressed by her sheer vigor and energy. Her opponents William Whitelaw and Geoffrey Howe were closer to me in terms of politics, but I thought she was more likely to be a successful leader and win elections. I remember a few minutes after it was announced she had won the leadership, she was crossing Westminster Hall and I offered her my congratulations&#8211;she was very excited. Forty-eight hours later she made me her junior spokesman. (MORE:  Farewell to the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)) Did you feel at the time that her election to Prime Minister was a watershed moment in British politics? I thought it was extraordinary<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=80472&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan&#8217;s Deputy Chief Justice Wants Judges to Carry Out Amputations</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/18/sudans-deputy-chief-justice-wants-judges-to-carry-out-amputations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amputations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporal punishment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sudan’s Deputy Chief Justice caused alarm among human rights campaigners last week when he announced at a press briefing that Sudanese judges may receive special training to perform amputations on convicts should doctors refuse to do so. The pronouncement comes a month after doctors at al-Rhibat hospital in Khartoum followed a court order to amputate the right hand and left foot of 30-year-old Adam al-Mutha, who was found guilty of an armed robbery in 2006. Mutha’s conviction of armed robbery falls under article 167 of the 1991 Sudanese Penal Code – a sentence that he attempted unsuccessfully to appeal through higher courts, including the constitutional court. His punishment was met with condemnation from both within Sudan as well as from international human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights. The Sudanese Doctors Union, a campaign group based in the U.K., has reportedly also sent a letter to the Sudanese Medical council stating that the amputation was against the ethics of the medical profession. It is against this criticism that the Deputy Chief Justice Abdul Rahman Sharfi made his controversial comments regarding training judges to carry out amputations. “We cherish the book of Allah and not the Hippocratic Oath,” he said of the judiciary. Sharfi also suggested that doctors who refused to carry out such punishments could themselves face prosecution. Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir has recently affirmed that he wishes to make the country a ‘hundred percent’ Islamic state, noting that doctors should have no shame in implementing Shar’ia law. He added that more than 16 cases of similar amputations had been carried out since 2001. Amnesty International believes that Sharfi’s comments suggest that the punishment of amputation may be more pervasive, or at least underreported, than first believed. It was initially thought that Mutha’s amputation in February was the first documented case since 2002. Sudanese lawyer Kamal al-Jazouli, in an interview with Reuters, claimed that the government is once more using amputations as a tool to silence people over issues such as corruption and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74963&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Falkland Islands&#8217; Referendum a Farce or a Landmark Moment?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/11/is-the-falkland-islands-referendum-a-farce-or-a-landmark-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Falkland Islands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When asked about her identity, Laura Jayne Minto Ceballos, a 19-year-old Falkland Islander studying in the U.K., has a less than straightforward answer. Her father’s family hails from Scotland and her Chilean mother was born in Argentina. “But when it comes to talking about the Falklands,” she says, “I am definitely British.” It’s a sentiment that’s been echoed by her fellow islanders in the March 10-11 referendum that asked them a simple question: whether they wish to remain an overseas territory of the U.K. It was never in doubt how the islanders would respond – bookmakers in Britain referred to it as “the biggest certainty in political betting history”—but like the Falklands conflict in 1982, when Argentina and the U.K. went to war over the archipelago, the outcome of the referendum won&#8217;t settle a bitter sovereignty dispute between London and Buenos Aires. For Ceballos and many of her compatriots, that perhaps misses a wider point: “I think we are finally getting our voices heard and finally making a momentous stand for ourselves.” Geopolitical tensions flared up last year—the 30th anniversary of the 1982 conflict—when politicians in both the U.K. and Argentina rehashed the same arguments about who is the rightful owner of the islands, which the Argentinians call Las Malvinas. In a bid to settle the matter, the U.K. proposed a referendum to ask the 1,672 individuals eligible to vote (there are fewer than 3,000 people on the archipelago) whether they would like to remain British. Argentina dismissed it outright as a rigged ballot, arguing that the vote essentially asks a group of British settlers if they wish to remain British. (PHOTOS: British Photographer Jon Tonks searches for Empire) So far in the dispute, the Falkland Islanders themselves have played a minor role. The U.K. is responsible for the territory&#8217;s foreign policy and defense, and Argentina refuses in any case to deal directly with them, a state of affairs that has caused great frustration among the islanders. “You could say we feel like the duck in the basket in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74396&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Mandela: Nelson Mandela&#8217;s Granddaughters Get a Reality-TV Show</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/being-mandela-nelson-mandelas-granddaughters-get-a-reality-tv-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[south africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being Mandela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cozi TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela is a globally recognized activist, former President of South Africa and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He&#8217;s now also something entirely unexpected: the grandfather of two reality-television stars. American audiences are now able to tune in to Being Mandela, a 13-part program being broadcast on NBC’s Cozi TV network that focuses on the lives of Mandela&#8217;s two 30-something granddaughters, Swati Dlamini and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway. (MORE: Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership) Similar to the format of many other reality-television shows, Being Mandela is presented by Cozi TV as a 30-minute program that follows the trials and tribulations of family as they go about their lives. In a brief explainer, the channel says the program will follow “the next generation of this unique South African family,&#8221; giving the audience “a window into their daily lives.” On a press tour before the launch of the show, the sisters, who spent much of their childhood in the U.S. and speak with distinctly American-tinged accents, explained that the program was an opportunity to show the world that they really are “just a regular family” as well as a chance to show U.S. audiences a look inside modern-day South Africa. (MORE: Unlikely Fashion Mogul: Nelson Mandela’s Foundation Launches Fashion Line) Highlights are said to include an emotional visit to Robben Island, the prison where their grandfather spent part of his 27 years imprisoned by the apartheid regime. The two sisters explained that this was the first time they visited the prison since his imprisonment. Dlamini-Manaway also meets the prison guard who she says allowed her into the prison as a baby so that Mandela could hold her. Their 94-year-old grandfather, who was recently hospitalized for a lung infection, makes no appearances in the show, although he&#8217;s mentioned throughout. The clothing line that the two sisters launched with their brother is named after his autobiography, A Long Walk to Freedom. The producers of Being Mandela claim that unlike many other reality-TV dramas, no part of the series is scripted. “They were very vocal about what they like<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69103&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Story: TIME’s Karl Vick Discusses Israel&#8217;s Upcoming Elections</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/17/behind-the-story-times-karl-vick-discusses-israels-upcoming-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Israeli voters prepare for elections on Jan. 22, they have been wooed in increasing numbers by right-wing politicians who support the Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Naftali Bennett, a former commando and high-tech entrepreneur, leads the party that best encapsulates this swing to the right—the Jewish Home party. The growing popularity of Jewish Home has taken some by surprise—not least Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, when he called for the early election in October, did so from a position of strength. TIME’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Karl Vick, wrote this week’s magazine story (available to subscribers here) on the burgeoning strength of pro-settlement parties in the run up to Israel’s national elections. TIME spoke with Vick to get the story behind the story. (MORE: When Palestinians Use Settler Tactics: A Beleaguered Netanyahu Responds) What sparked the rightward shift in Israeli society and politics, and why is that shift stronger among young people? People say the turning point was 2006. That was the year Hamas took over Gaza and began sending out missiles. It was also around the time of the Second Lebanon war. The lessons seemed to be, if you leave a land you formerly occupied, it becomes a launching pad. So therefore, what’s the incentive to leave the West Bank, which is very close to the heart of Israel? Around March 2003 there was a lethal attack inside Israel every day of the month. That was just shattering to this society—especially to their faith and hope in a resolution. So that is what the searing memory has been for young Israelis, this is what they have grown up in. Naftali Bennett has emerged as the face of this rightward shift—what’s the story behind Bennett’s move from Netanyahu’s chief of staff to being his opponent in this race? Do you see similarities between him and Netanyahu? Bennett doesn’t talk about why he doesn’t talk with Bibi anymore. The accepted truth is that he ran afoul of his wife Sara, who is supposedly the power behind the throne. I’d only been in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64318&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Recovery: Malala Yousafzai Discharged from Hospital</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/04/the-road-to-recovery-malala-yousafzai-discharged-from-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CORRECTION APPENDED: Jan. 4, 2013 Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head in October by a Taliban assassin, has been discharged from the British hospital that had been treating her since Oct. 16. In the space of three months, the teenager from the Swat Valley has become a symbol for women&#8217;s rights and girls&#8217; right to education. She first rose to prominence when, as an 11-year-old, she began writing an anonymous blog for the BBC Urdu service, describing her life under the Taliban’s growing influence. She also wrote about education, a passion inherited from her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, a teacher and education-rights activist. (TIME&#8217;s Person of the Year Runner-Up 2012: Malala Yousafzai, the Fighter) Described by many around her as a precocious child, Malala has proved to be an articulate and capable orator: In 2008, her father took her to a local press-club event in Peshawar, where she delivered a speech titled “How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?” Since her shooting, this speech and many others have gone viral on the Web, even inspiring a speech competition in her name in Dubai. Indeed, the Taliban’s violent response to her increasing outspokenness has amplified her voice far more than anyone believed possible. Flown to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, after the shooting, Malala underwent intense treatment under an equally intense media spotlight. Part of her skull had been removed by doctors in Pakistan to relieve pressure on her swelling brain. The gunman&#8217;s bullet pierced the skin on the left side of her head and ended up in her shoulder. She now has a titanium plate in place of the part of the skull that was removed. (Person of the Year: Interactive Timeline of Malala&#8217;s Journey) Malala is set to continue her treatment at her family’s temporary home in Birmingham before undergoing further cranial-reconstruction surgery in late January or early February, according to the hospital’s trust. Experts believe that it will be some time before the long-term effects can be understood. “It’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=62160&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Story: TIME&#8217;s Aryn Baker Discusses Qatar&#8217;s Outsize Influence</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/behind-the-story-times-aryn-baker-discusses-qatars-outsize-influence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar, a tiny desert nation no larger than Connecticut, is emerging as one of the most influential countries in the Arab world. Showcasing its enviable oil and gas wealth, Qatar’s government has engaged in a global shopping spree, buying up everything from skyscrapers in London to paintings by modern masters. It will host the 2022 football World Cup and has recently built some world-class museums. It is the gulf nation’s foreign policy ambitions, however, that have attracted the most attention. Qatar has positioned itself at the heart of politics in the Middle East, acting as both a mediator and military supporter of opposition forces from Libya to Syria. Most recently its Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, paid a visit to Gaza, reaffirming his country’s support of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. TIME’s Middle East bureau chief Aryn Baker reported this week on Qatar’s disproportionate influence in Arab politics, its foreign policy goals and what problems it faces internally for the magazine. TIME spoke with Baker to get the story behind the story. Qatar has the highest ratio of migrants to citizens in the world. How has that affected its internal politics? In addition to the labor class you have an elite, educated migrant population who have come for good, interesting and well-paid jobs. No one wants to jeopardize that; they don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them. So people are loath to speak negatively about the government. Many people I spoke to didn’t want to talk on the record, and there’s a fear of offending either the government of their employer. That’s why I say there is not much in the way of a political class, as few of the expatriates want to rock the boat as it is their job at stake. With the labor class, their treatment in Qatar is marginally better than elsewhere in the Gulf, but that is not to say they are treated well. There is another big problem that no one really discusses, which is the lack of political and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59794&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Story: TIME&#8217;s Aryn Baker Discusses Imran Khan&#8217;s Chances of Becoming Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/07/behind-the-story-times-aryn-baker-discusses-imran-khans-chances-of-becoming-pakistans-prime-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opinion polls in Pakistan consistently show that Imran Khan, the former captain of his country’s cricket team, is by far the most popular politician in Pakistan. Frustratingly for Khan and his supporters, it is not popular support that matters in Pakistan’s political system but patronage and feudal power. But even though most political analysts say Khan’s popularity will be almost impossible to turn into real political power, the charismatic leader of a party that currently has no seats in parliament believes his populist message and appeal to middle-class and young voters will help him and his party overcome entrenched voting blocs. He is convinced that he will win a parliamentary majority—and the position of Prime Minister—in next year’s elections. TIME’s Middle East bureau chief Aryn Baker, who covers both Pakistan and Afghanistan, interviewed Khan for her magazine story on the sporting hero who believes his greatest glories lie ahead of him. TIME spoke with Baker to get the story behind the story. (TIME COVER STORY: Imran Khan&#8217;s Game Plan) If Imran Khan is, as you say in the article, a “long shot,” what drew you to profiling him? He is a long shot but he is also pretty compelling–he has international stature as a cricket star and was married to this drop-dead gorgeous socialite. There is that side of him, and then there is that part of why he is a long shot that is so revealing about the way the Pakistani political system works. It is not based on popularity. He would win by a landslide if it were based on his popularity. He is an unmitigated hero because he brought Pakistan the Cricket World Cup in 1992. Politics in Pakistan does not work that way, however; it is much more of a “what can you get for me” culture, what you can do for individuals in each village. He is also one of those people as a journalist you want to talk to because he is so quotable, he is likely to say something off-kilter. He seems very<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=58516&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Story: TIME&#8217;s Karl Vick Discusses the Cycle of Violence in Israel and Gaza</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/22/behind-the-story-times-karl-vick-discusses-the-cycle-of-violence-in-israel-and-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent conflict in Gaza and Israel, now halted by a cease-fire agreement, was strikingly similar to the past war, begun in December 2008, between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. There were subtle differences this time, however. The Arab Spring has led to changes in leadership in countries including Tunisia, Libya and, most crucially, Egypt, which borders Gaza and is invariably a key mediator in cease-fire agreements between Israel and Hamas. Egypt’s new President, Mohamed Morsy, was a leading figure in the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is an offshoot of the Brotherhood and so Morsy has a natural kinship with Hamas. But Morsy, for all his condemnation of Israel, played a crucial role as peacemaker, as his predecessor Hosni Mubarak did. He had little choice: Egypt is a close ally of the U.S., which views Hamas as a terrorist organization and has a longstanding peace deal with Israel. Morsy and President Obama spoke on the phone several times in the run-up to the cease-fire announcement on Wednesday. TIME’s Israel correspondent Karl Vick, who is based in the Jaffa section of Tel Aviv, wrote this week’s magazine story on the Gaza conflict. TIME spoke with Vick shortly before the cease-fire and just after a bus was bombed in Tel Aviv, to get the story behind the story. (MORE: Who Won in Gaza? Body Language and the Cease-Fire) How did you feel when you heard the first rocket land? It was a little alarming, just because I was out in the open at the time. I didn’t go into it in the story, but it turns out we were in the middle of what is one new component in this cycle of bombings: the rockets hitting Tel Aviv and the attempts to rocket Jerusalem. I was right underneath the first one to come to Tel Aviv. I had been in the house all day so my wife and I — we don’t live far from the old port of Jaffa, it’s kind of a boutique, yuppie area — decided to go<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=55892&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind The Story: TIME&#8217;s Simon Shuster Discusses Putin&#8217;s Russia</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/16/behind-the-story-times-simon-shuster-discusses-putins-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin may have only returned to the Presidency in May of this year, but it has not taken him long to re-establish his domineering grip over political life. A former agent of the KGB, the notorious spy agency active during the Cold War, he rose to power a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union—a political collapse he openly laments. While Putin&#8217;s Russia, with its oligarchs and gaudy materialism, may look little like the days of the U.S.S.R., there has been a perceptible shift to a more repressive, closed nation under Putin&#8217;s watch—even as Moscow&#8217;s geopolitical heft grows on the world stage. In place of the communist KGB is the FSB. It may not carry the same shadowy stigma as its predecessor, but, like Putin, is hardly immune to the habits of the past. TIME&#8217;s Moscow correspondent Simon Shuster, who was born in Russia and has reported from there for the past six years, focused on the increasingly ominous nature of Putin&#8217;s regime in his recent magazine story. TIME spoke with Shuster to get the story behind the story. The FSB have been dubbed the not-so-secret service, could you tell us more about the culture of that organization compared to the KGB? It&#8217;s always important when comparing the KGB and the present day security service, the FSB, to remember the following: In the days of Stalin the KGB was responsible for mass-murders, Gulag prison camps and sent hundreds of thousands if not millions of Russians to their deaths. We are no longer living under Stalin&#8217;s regime by any means. But I think it is fair to compare the present day security services to the late Soviet period. The similarities lie in the way the FSB defines its enemies and goes after them. The tactics they&#8217;ve also recently engaged in have changed, at least in the sense that they are not trying to be subtle about what they&#8217;re doing. (MORE: Is Moscow Developing Super Duper Secret Mega Weapons?) The FSB have been targeting and intimidating western diplomats, which some have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=54795&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice for the Mau Mau: Court Case in the U.K. Sheds Light on Grim Colonial Past</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/10/justice-for-the-mau-mau-court-case-in-the-u-k-sheds-light-on-grim-colonial-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time after time they stood defiant; slight, frail figures before the imposing grandeur of Britain’s Royal Courts of Justice, in the heart of London. The three elderly Kenyans—Paulo Muoka Nzili, 85, Wambugu Wa Nyingi, 84, and Jane Muthoni Mara, 73—stood in the same spot many times over the past four years, waiting patiently as they held aloft placards with the words, “Human Rights For All.” They came to the U.K. to ask for justice for horrors allegedly perpetrated against them over five decades ago in Kenya, when the British colonial powers that then ran the country cracked down brutally on the armed pro-independence movement, Mau Mau. On Oct. 5, their wait for their day in court finally came to an end when the British High Court ruled that their legal case, which accuses the British government of carrying out torture half a centuryago, could proceed. The three elderly claimants—one says he was briefly a member of Mau Mau, the other two say they were mistakenly suspected of being members—had set  out to ask for an apology from the British government and a welfare fund to cover their medical needs as a result of the torture they suffered in the British-run detention camps. Yet throughout, the Foreign Office, the government department responsible for Britain’s foreign affairs, has maintained that the current government should not be held accountable for the actions of an earlier administration. The case could set a precedent that might allow past victims of British colonial rule to seek compensation for mistreatment. A lawyer for the three Kenyans believes there are an estimated 5,000 further Kenyan survivors of physical and psychological abuse by former British colonial authorities who could possibly bring similar cases for compensation as a result of this ruling. (MORE: The Bloody Mau Mau Revolt) In coming to its decision, the High Court rejected a series of arguments from the British government, which initially pushed for the case to be dismissed because responsibility for cases involving colonial-era torture had technically passed to the Kenyan government following independence in 1963. The second argument, which the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=48336&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Story: TIME&#8217;s Tim Padgett Discusses Venezuela&#8217;s Coming Election</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/28/behind-the-story-times-tim-padgett-discusses-venezuelas-coming-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the contours of the Cordillera de la Costa, the mountain range that dominates the view around the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, sit the precariously balanced slums — barrios known as los ranchos — that have long been the heart of President Hugo Chávez’s political base. One barrio in particular, known as Catia, has been an election bellwether since 1998, when Chávez swept to power as a populist revolutionary figure. Now, as support for el Presidente begins to diminish in a neighborhood whose residents once banged on pots and pans to celebrate his arrival on the political scene in the early 1990s, the hugely popular strongman appears susceptible to defeat in the Oct. 7 presidential election. Chávez’s opponent is a young centrist called Henrique Capriles Radonski, whom observers regard as the most serious challenger to Chávez since he first took office in 1999. Chávez may increasingly look like a caricature of his former self — a stubborn, leftist leader who rails against the U.S. — but he nevertheless remains a figure of enormous importance in the region. He spearheaded the creation of today&#8217;s anti-imperialist, left-leaning bloc in Latin America, and his departure would mean the loss of a key ally for leftist governments in countries such as Ecuador and Bolivia. (MORE: Venezuelan Video Scandal Fizzles: Can Capriles Still Unseat Chávez?) The residents of Catia, however, have more local concerns, says Tim Padgett, TIME’s Latin America correspondent. Their grievances are with the very real problems they face in their everyday lives. Chief among these is crime; on average, 50 homicides occur per week in Caracas. Padgett, who has a long personal connection with Venezuela, recently visited Catia — where he once worked — to report on the shifting mind-set of Chávez’s formerly loyal supporters for his magazine story (available to subscribers here). TIME spoke with Padgett to get the story behind the story. (MORE: Will Venezuela’s Pandemic of Crime Destabilize Chávez’s Regime?) Why does the presidential election in Venezuela on Oct. 7 matter? I get a lot of flak in Miami, where I live and whose<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=47143&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Story: TIME&#8217;s Alex Perry Discusses Rwandan President Paul Kagame</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at a map of Africa you could be forgiven for assuming that the actions of the President of the tiny, landlocked country of Rwanda are not hugely consequential on the international stage. After all, Rwanda is a country just 1% the size of its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo. But Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame, is a political actor of great importance for the whole continent. Most importantly, he is a key playmaker in the politics of central Africa. And it’s for his actions in that role that he is increasingly the target of criticism from the West, from organizations like Human Rights Watch to aid donors and governments, including those of the U.S. and Britain. Eighteen years after defeating the genocidal militias who murdered 800,000 fellow Rwandans, mostly of a different ethnicity from theirs, in 100 days, the perception of Kagame’s leadership among many Western officials and governments has shifted from one of a celebrated visionary to that of a calculating autocrat waging a proxy war in neighboring territories. The turning point came in June, when a U.N. report into Rwanda’s involvement in the ongoing conflict in eastern Congo directly accused the Rwandan military of backing a rebel group with an appalling human-rights record and whose leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Court on war-crimes charges. (MORE: Alex Perry&#8217;s Q&#38;A with President Kagame) TIME’s Africa bureau chief, Alex Perry, spent several hours with Kagame over five days in early August. In his magazine story (available to subscribers here), which is the cover of TIME in Africa this week, Perry asks a key question: Has the man once heralded around the world as a savior of his people turned into a despot who is fueling a war for his and his country’s own gain? But Perry asks other important questions also, about the West’s own troubling history in Africa and its complicated relationship with a continent whose economic and political power is growing every year. Before he could sit down with Kagame, however, Perry first set about seeing for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44859&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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