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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Costly Asylum-Seeker Policy Contributes to Nation&#8217;s Deficit Woes</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/14/australias-harsh-asylum-seeker-policy-is-a-staggeringly-expensive-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 03:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lloyd Neubauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered the national budget yesterday, he blamed the nation&#8217;s $17.8 billion deficit on the stubbornly high Australian dollar, softening company-tax revenue and a slowdown of the China-driven mining sector. But an estimated $2 billion to $3 billion of that deficit (the true figure won&#8217;t be known until September) comes from the blowout of the government&#8217;s controversial border-protection budget.  And for that there’s nothing and nobody to blame but the ruinously expensive policy known in Australia as the “Pacific Solution.” Conceived as a deterrent against illegal immigration by former Prime Minister John Howard in 2001, the policy has seen thousands of mostly Afghani and Iraqi boat people intercepted at sea after leaving Indonesia on rickety boats. They are then interned at offshore detention centers — essentially squalid tent cities — in Pacific backwaters like Nauru and Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Manus Island, which are breeding grounds for malaria and mental illness. The solution was described as “costly, unsustainable and wrong as a matter of principle” by current Prime Minister Julia Gillard when in opposition in 2003 and suspended when her party was swept to power in 2007. But following a sharp increase in boats — attributed in part to a new wave of Tamil asylum seekers fleeing poverty and persecution in Sri Lanka — Gillard reintroduced the Pacific Solution in August. (MORE: Why Does Australia Want to Send Refugees to Malaysia?) As a deterrent, the policy is a failure: the boats have kept on coming and then some. Stretched to breaking point, Australian naval and police vessels have plucked more than 20,429 asylum seekers from leaky fishing boats in the Indian Ocean since the start of this financial year on July 1. Based on current projections, the opposition has predicted the cost of border protection under the Pacific Solution will rise as high as $6.38 billion across the next three years — a $5.18 billion overspend on the $1.2 billion Swan originally budgeted for the same period. Australia&#8217;s foreign-aid budget will be raided to make up some of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86389&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harsh Sentence a Warning to Australia&#8217;s Youthful Muslim Zealots</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/14/harsh-sentence-a-warning-to-australias-malcontent-muslim-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Lloyd Neubauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In almost any circumstance, pushing a police officer and kicking a police dog aren’t considered smart things to do. But does that behavior — even if it took place during the chaos and fury of a riot — deserve four years and one month in prison? Yes, say the Australian courts in what appears to be a draconian ruling for a country with a relatively progressive legal system. Bear in mind it was no ordinary riot. Part of the worldwide protests that followed the publishing last September on YouTube of anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims, the Sept. 15 riot turned Sydney’s central business district into a war zone where Muslim protesters attacked police, destroyed public property and carried placards reading “Behead all those who insult the Prophet.” And it took place in Hyde Park, a lush green space consecrated to monuments honoring Australia’s war dead, including Sydney’s largest ANZAC War Memorial, the Pool of Remembrance. The wheels of justice finally turned on May 9 when a 26-year-old Australian man, plumber Mahmoud Eid, became the first of 12 defendants to be jailed over the affray. On handing Eid the maximum sentence for kicking a police dog and pushing a female police officer, New South Wales deputy chief magistrate Jane Culver said she would have locked him up for longer if the law allowed it. (MORE: Circle Sentencing: Alternative Justice in Australia) The trial and sentencing throw into sharp relief the gulf that exists between the mainstream Australian public and an at times vocal class of disaffected, ethnically Arab youth. The sprawling, low- and middle-income suburbs of Western Sydney may be a long way from the Parisian banlieues and the grimy streets of East London, but each is home to disaffected migrants and locally born second generations, who consider themselves socially excluded from, and culturally at odds with, their new countries. Granted, they are in the minority. Sitting in Al Andalas Cafe, a popular North African haunt in the southwestern suburb of Lakemba, an Algerian-born migrant in his 40s who identified himself<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86261&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Search Ends for 2 Australian Cruise Passengers</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/09/2-cruise-passengers-fall-overboard-off-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SYDNEY) — Police late Friday ended the ocean search for two cruise ship passengers lost overboard two days earlier off eastern Australian. Aircraft and ships that covered 4,670 square kilometers (1,360 square nautical miles) of ocean during the search north of Sydney did not find any sign of the Australian couple, New South Wales state police said in a statement. Paramedic Paul Rossington, 30, and his 26-year-old girlfriend Kristen Schroder were discovered missing Thursday morning after the Carnival Spirit docked at Sydney&#8217;s Circular Quay at the end of a 10-day South Pacific cruise. The search began within hours. Surveillance camera footage showed the couple was outside their cabin when they fell more than 20 meters (65 feet) from the ship&#8217;s mid deck Wednesday night, Police Superintendent Mark Hutchings said. At the time, the ship was about 120 kilometers (65 nautical miles) off the coast of Forster, a city 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of Sydney. Carnival Spirit is owned by Miami-based Carnival Corp., the world&#8217;s largest cruise operator. Carnival Corp.&#8217;s representative in the South Pacific region, Ann Sherry, chief executive of Carnival Australia, said safety was paramount for the company, noting that the railing over which the couple fell was 5 centimeters (2 inches) higher than industry safety regulations mandate. The apparent tragedy is the latest high-profile problem for Carnival Corp. Last year, the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people. Also last year, the Costa Allegra caught fire and lost power in the Indian Ocean, leaving passengers without working toilets, running water or air conditioning for three days. Costa is a division of Carnival Corp. In February, passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph spent five days without power in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine-room fire disabled the vessel. Those on board complained of squalid conditions, including overflowing toilets and food shortages. MORE: Caribbean Cruises for Less Than $50 a Day? Fire Sales (Quite Literally) from Carnival<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85871&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Epic Vistas of the World&#8217;s Largest Algae Farm</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/26/hutt-lagoon-pink-lake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariana McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Back&#8217;s work might look like a series of Rothko paintings, but they are, in fact, stunning pictures of algae. Hutt Lagoon is a Western Australian salt lake that contains the world&#8217;s largest system of algae farms; they get their bright hues from algae that secrete many colored substances, especially beta-carotene, which is commonly used as red food coloring. An architectural photographer, Back was on assignment in the area when he first became interested in photographing the algae. He rented a small aircraft and headed southwest for the islands off the coast. While flying over the lagoon he was struck by the beauty and symmetry of one particular farm just south of Kalbarri. “I had seen the lakes from ground level and they are actually quite unimpressive – you just see the muddy foreshore with lots of crystallites,” Back tells TIME, speaking from Australia. But the view was clearly different from the air. Drawing on his architectural roots, Back was drawn to the composition and form. “As I get older I’m much more interested in the purer expression of line and form,” says Back. The man-made pens in the middle of the lake play off each other, he adds, and the texture and lines trick the viewer into believing they are looking at a painting: “People don’t know what they are looking at,” says Back. “It invites the viewer to stop for a moment and ask what is actually going on.” Steve Back is an architectural and interiors photographer living in Sydney, Australia.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=76750&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Prisoner X: A Spy Caught Between Two Countries?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/14/israels-prisoner-x-a-spy-caught-between-two-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naïve is not a word often – maybe ever – used to describe the Mossad. The agency is after all Israel’s version of the CIA. But the case of Prisoner X, rapidly uncoiling now on websites from Canberra to Tel Aviv, owes a measure of its momentum to an assumption by Israeli spymasters that might be described as child-like in its hopefulness. The assumption was that a nameless prisoner could be placed in the most notorious cell in Israel – a whole prison wing, actually, specially built for the man who killed an Israeli prime minister – and somehow escape attention, even after he died inside it. The prisoner turned out to be Ben Zygier, also known as Ben Alon, also known as Ben Allen, sometimes as Benjamin Burrows. All were legal names he placed on passports during the 10 years he worked with Mossad, before that very agency abruptly placed him under arrest early in 2010. He died in Cell 15 in December of the same year, hanged in what an official investigation concluded was suicide. What Zygier &#8212; the name on his tombstone – did to bring arrest is not known. Nor is it known what he did for Mossad, though the numerous passports he held from his native Australia suggest possibilities. Agents with dual nationality are useful as scouts, moving freely in enemy countries such as Syria, Lebanon or Iran without the lingering concern that comes with traveling on forged documents. Australia turned out to be particularly helpful; by law, a citizen could legally change his or her name once a year. Zygier changed his three or four times. The first was after he decided to become an Israeli, in 2000. Many immigrants take a Hebrew name. The country’s founding president, David Ben-Gurion, was born David Grun in Poland. Zygier chose a name that implies steadfastness; Alon is Hebrew for “oak tree.” Why did he change it again? And again? That was the question Australian authorities asked Zygier early in 2010, when a dramatic event prompted a closer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69163&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Australian newspapers lead their front pages with the story of Ben Zygier on Feb. 14, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Australian Kids Face Birthday Candle Ban to Prevent Spreading Germs</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/07/australian-kids-face-birthday-candle-ban-to-prevent-spreading-germs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian children are to be banned from blowing out candles on birthday cakes under new hygiene regulations that have been slammed by the Australian Medical Association as “bubble-wrapping.” According to Australia&#8217;s Daily Telegraph, the guidelines, set by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), instruct daycare centers to provide birthday boys and girls with their own individual cupcakes to blow the candles out, to avoid the spread of germs. (MORE: Could Australia Get a New Flag?) “Children love to blow out their candles while their friends are singing ‘Happy birthday,’” the document states. “To prevent the spread of germs when the child blows out the candles, parents should either provide a separate cupcake, with a candle if they wish, for the birthday child and enough cupcakes for all the other children.” Daycare staff should also be required to clean toys, doorknobs, floors and cushion covers with germ-killing disinfectant on a daily basis, while youngsters must wash their hands with alcohol-based sanitizer before and after playing in sandpits, says the NHMRC. But Australian doctors say the guidelines go too far, noting how exposure to bacteria is essential for the development of a healthy immune system. &#8220;If somebody sneezes on a cake, I probably don&#8217;t want to eat it either — but if you&#8217;re blowing out candles, how many organisms are transferred to a communal cake, for goodness&#8217; sake?&#8221; AMA president Steve Hambleton told News Ltd. “It&#8217;s normal and healthy to be exposed to a certain amount of environmental antigens that build up our immune systems. If you live in a plastic bubble you&#8217;re going to get infections [later on] that you can&#8217;t handle.” The NHMRC also urged parents to allow their children to stay at home if feeling unwell in order to avoid unnecessarily spreading infections to their school classmates. Schools should ignore doctors&#8217; letters that state a pupil is healthy if teachers suspect otherwise, said the council. (MORE: Background TV: Children Exposed to Four Hours a Day)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67648&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wildfires Scorch Australia As Temperatures Reach Record Highs</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/09/wildfires-scorch-australia-as-temperatures-reach-record-highs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia Bureau of Meteorology The heat wave across Australia has spiked to unfathomable levels as the ominously-labeled &#8220;dome of heat&#8221; blankets the continent, sparking wildfires that have caused more than $60 million in damage and claimed more than 120 homes. The average temperature stretched above 39° Celsius (102° F) for six consecutive days, and local temperatures were so high that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was inclined to add a new hue to their heat map &#8212; a deep purple shade &#8212; which indicates a temperature above 50° C (122° F).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=62855&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Massacres Force Change: Lessons from the U.K. and Australia</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/17/when-massacres-force-change-lessons-from-the-u-k-and-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gun-control advocates in the U.S. are hoping 2012 marks a turning point in the country’s struggle with gun violence. The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary — where most of the 26 victims were killed with an assault rifle similar to the M-16 rifle issued to U.S. soldiers — might spur Washington lawmakers into action following a year of grisly, tragic mass shootings. There are now calls to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons; the weeks ahead may see a heated debate over the long-enshrined place of guns in American society. In other words, 2012 may be the watershed moment 1996 was for two countries that have shared histories and bonds with the United States. Separate mass shootings 16 years ago in the U.K. and Australia prompted soul-searching, anger and a rapid political response in both London and Canberra. Anti-gun legislation passed then, say many experts, has had a lasting, positive impact in both countries. (MORE: Outside the White House, Gun-Control Activists Make a Subdued Call to Action) In an attack not dissimilar to what took place at Sandy Hook, a shooter burst into a gymnasium of a school in the Scottish town of Dunblane on March 13, 1996, and turned his four handguns on a group of unsuspecting 5- and 6-year-olds assembled there. Sixteen children and one teacher were killed; the gunman, a deranged unemployed shopkeeper, then turned his weapon on himself. Among the dazed pupils forced to take cover during the assault was British tennis champ Andy Murray, then 8 years old. The outcry in the U.K. was immense. &#8220;We must take this as a warning that we are becoming like America and act before it is too late,&#8221; said one governing Conservative Party legislator, quoted by TIME. What followed was a drastic overhaul of existing British gun laws by the sitting Tory government. The Christian Science Monitor sums up the changes: a ban on handguns and automatic weapons, as well as an onerous system of ownership rules involving hours of paperwork, criminal reference checks, and mandatory references designed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60081&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, August 13, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power Struggle &#8211; Al Jazeera English reports on the Egyptian president&#8217;s decision to dismiss the powerful head of the army, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, and force several senior generals to retire. The confrontational surprise move Sunday by Mohamed Morsi cancels constitutional amendments restricting presidential powers issued by the military just prior to his June election. &#8220;All of this has happened very fast, and it was unexpected,&#8221; said its Cairo correspondent. Berlin Vs. Brussels &#8211; Der Spiegel explores &#8220;the gathering momentum&#8221; in Germany for holding a referendum on transferring power to the E.U. &#8220;Chancellor Angela Merkel wants Europe to move toward an ever closer union in a bid to solve the euro crisis,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;But she is already pushing at the limits of what is possible under the constitution.&#8221; The German weekly goes on to outline three ways a vote could occur: the voluntary way, the forced way or the European way. Asylum Advice &#8211; The Sydney Morning Herald details the much-anticipated release of an expert panel report on asylum policy which recommends Australia process asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, while its contentious people swap deal with Malaysia &#8220;be built on further.&#8221; It also urges the country&#8217;s humanitarian program be increased immediately to 20,000 places a year (from the current 13,750), with a possible increase to 27,000 within five years. Happy and Glorious &#8211; The curtain has been brought down on the 30th Olympics in London with a closing ceremony which received mixed reviews. The event showcased one of Great Britain&#8217;s main exports to the world &#8212; music &#8212; with an outpouring of material from the past few decades, taking in the likes of Queen, The Who, George Michael and even the reforming of the Spice Girls. The Washington Post noted &#8221;the coupling of Olympic solemnity with English humor and a wave of euphoria in a host nation that seemed to rediscover the &#8220;great&#8221; in Great Britain.&#8221; But India Today thought the show was &#8220;even more madly bonkers&#8221; than the actual Olympics.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=39949&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, July 10, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South China Sea &#8211; The BBC reports the Association of South East Asia Nations (Asean) has adopted &#8221;key elements&#8221; of a code of conduct for resolving disputes in the South China Sea, China&#8217;s state-run Global Times issues another stern warning to Tokyo over contested islands. &#8220;Japan underestimates China&#8217;s determination to safeguard its own sovereignty,&#8221; wrote Zhou Yongsheng, deputy director of the Japan Study Center at China Foreign Affairs University. Crisis Looms &#8211; As India continues to await late southwest monsoon rains, the Hindu reports on &#8220;an alarming depletion&#8221; in water levels at key reservoirs. It said the worsening situation prompted the central government to issue an advisory to Indian states Monday to make “judicious and regulated” releases of water. &#8220;The States have been advised to give preference to drinking water and irrigation and enhance groundwater use to meet current needs,&#8221; it wrote. Mr. Controversial &#8211; Australia&#8217;s Global Mail interviews commentator Thilo Sarrazin, who &#8220;discomfits Germans with his blunt take on what he thinks ails them.&#8221; Among his comments: “I tell the German people you shall pay for Europe because your ancestors murdered the Jews” and “we should stop immigration from the Middle East and from Africa altogether. This is a very serious long-term demographic and cultural risk for Europe, not only for Germany.” Power Struggle &#8211; &#8221;In a raw contest between Egypt’s competing centers of power,&#8221; the New York Times writes that the Egyptian parliament has &#8220;defied the country’s highest court and its most senior generals by holding a brief session of the dissolved Parliament.” It reconvened at the order of President Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ruling party, creating &#8220;another chapter in the long-running battle between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military.” Warlord Jailed &#8211; The Guardian describes the first sentence handed down Tuesday by the international criminal court a decade after its inception, &#8220;jailing for 14 years a Congolese warlord who recruited and used child soldiers.” In March, Thomas Lubanga also became the first person convicted by the permanent war crimes tribunal. He operated in the Democratic Republic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=34862&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 3, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dependent Dissident – As Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng undergoes medical procedures at a Beijing hospital after leaving his refuge at the U.S. Embassy in China, the Washington Post poses questions about the deal brokered between the U.S. and China, which would allow the activist to live freely in China. The piece notes that it “could prove disastrous” but is a “risk worth taking” to break China’s record of “hounding” political dissidents, and argues that the Obama Administration is responsible for defending him. Rough Justice &#8211; The Jerusalem Post highlights comments by Richard Falk, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, voicing support for 1,550 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israel over their treatment. “Israel’s wide use of administrative detention flies in the face of international fair trial standards,” the newspaper quoted Falk as saying in a statement released from his Geneva headquarters. Sectarian Stalemate &#8211; Australia&#8217;s Global Mail reports from Bahrain, where it says protests continue to divide the kingdom along dangerous fault lines, with nightly clashes between protesters and police and armed, pro-government civilian militias. &#8220;Above it all, one question looms large – will this quest for democracy result in Bahrain being taken over by its neighbor, Saudi Arabia?&#8221; asks the online-only magazine. Truth Behind the Scream – In light of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s iconic painting, The Scream, auctioning for a record $120 million at Sotheby’s, the Guardian analyzes the details of the enigmatic piece, suggesting the orange sky is “not a natural sky at all but an inner mood,” describing the distant ship as “Dracula’s vessel come to bring death,” and saying of the subject himself, “this face does not scream: rather it is a scream.” Formidable Flanby – Following a heated televised debate between the two French presidential candidates before Sunday’s run-off, The Economist argues that François Hollande, the Socialist front-runner, dispelled his image as a “Flanby” – a wobbly dessert – as he “kept his calm and held his own” against incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, whose ripostes were “not quite enough.” It concludes that Sarkozy “needed to dominate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=25456&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After a Week of Bad News, NATO Talks Endgame in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shadow of American misdeeds fell over a NATO summit of defense and foreign ministers in Brussels. A visibly irritated Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta apologized for the acts of U.S. soldiers who posed in front of the corpses of slain Taliban fighters, pictures of which were published by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. Panetta “strongly condemned” the soldiers’ behavior, saying it “violates our regulations and more importantly our core values.” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also condemned the photos and the acts depicted, insisting they didn’t represent NATO’s “principles.” In a year where such revelations have sparked protests and violence in Afghanistan, Rasmussen made this lament: “I hope there will be no spillover.” That’s hardly the confidence-boosting sound byte NATO wanted to air, especially at the current conclave in Brussels—where NATO has set about putting a brave face over the longstanding headache of Afghanistan, the venerable alliance’s most important mission. A train of bad news has snaked through the past few weeks: from U.S. Sgt. Robert Bales’ grisly slaughter of Afghan civilians to Sunday’s 18-hour Taliban assault on Kabul to Wednesday’s announcement by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard that she would withdraw her nation’s troops — the largest non-NATO member force in Afghanistan — by mid-2013. Speaking to the press, NATO officials and leading diplomats were forced to fight fires even while extolling the progress the alliance and its allies have made in bringing stability to Afghanistan. (MORE: The Taliban Offensive: NATO and Karzai Clash Over Messaging) “The big picture is clear,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was also in attendance. “The transition is on track, the Afghans are increasingly standing up for their own security and future, and NATO remains united in our support.” NATO officials insisted the Australian withdrawal was not a wrinkle in the plan, but rather part of the alliance’s slow, but steady handover of control to local Afghan forces. Says one official — almost all NATO civil servants are mandated to speak on condition of anonymity —“What’s happening is happening<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=24256&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: April 17, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinly Veiled &#8211; Following Monday&#8217;s U.N. Security Council censure of North Korea for its recent failed rocket launch, China&#8217;s Global Times issued a stern editorial — &#8220;Pyongyang must remember to heed China&#8217;s advice.&#8221; The semi-official mouthpiece continued: &#8220;Pyongyang should treat China as a friend as China does it. It will pay the price if it really tries to abduct China&#8217;s North Korea policy.&#8221; In case that wasn&#8217;t clear, it then added: &#8220;China&#8217;s prosperity and strength are crucial to Pyongyang&#8217;s political stability. North Korea needs to be fully aware of this.&#8221; South of the Border &#8211; Boston-based Global Post launches an in-depth series on Latin America&#8217;s &#8220;drug rethink,&#8221; noting that a &#8220;critical mass&#8221; of regional leaders are now discussing alternatives to the war on drugs, including decriminalization. The online-only outfit says conservative heads of state allied with the U.S. are mulling a legal narcotics trade, worrying President Barack Obama. &#8220;The taboo is broken. &#8216;Legalize it&#8217; is gaining ground,&#8221;  it writes. Smoking in Court &#8211; The Guardian reports on four tobacco companies&#8217; high court bid to stop the introduction of cigarette plain-packaging in Australia. The country has legislated for cigarettes to be sold in drab packs with large health warnings and no brand logos. &#8220;The case&#8230; will claim the new laws are unconstitutional and mean the government will illegally acquire their intellectual property without compensation,&#8221; the paper says of the closely-watched test case. Italian Renaissance – As former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi continues to be tried for allegedly having sex with an underage prostitute, new premier Mario Monti is pushing through reforms to fix the economy. Al Jazeera suggests that left-wing voters in Italy “want Berlusconi back,&#8221; preferring the “political impasse” under his rule to Monti’s “determination” to execute policy, such as labor reform,  “regardless of the vital demands of his country.” Appointment Disappointment – As Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim is appointed to head the World Bank, Nairobi radio station Capital FM issues an article arguing that the decision was “sadly predetermined,&#8221; undermining Nigerian candidate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s chance of taking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=24081&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mounting Pressure - Hot on the heels of allegations Monday by the BBC&#8217;s Panorama program that a News Corp. subsidiary company used a computer hacker to sabotage its biggest U.K. rival, the Australian Financial Review has now published details of a four-year probe into a secret unit within Rupert Murdoch’s company that it claims promoted a wave of high-tech piracy against its pay TV competitors. See more on Murdoch and the state of British politics in the latest piece by TIME&#8217;s Catherine Mayer. Israeli Politics &#8211; The Jerusalem Post reports on the Kadima Party&#8217;s primary election Tuesday when Shaul Mofaz, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, bested incumbent Tzipi Livni, winning 61.7% of the vote &#8211; albeit on a low turnout of just 40% of the party’s 95,000 members. &#8220;From tonight, the path to unseating Netanyahu has begun,&#8221; Mofaz said in a victory speech. The next election must be held by October 2013. African Lion &#8211; The Guardian details the energy boom&#8217;s impact upon Mozambique, which is poised to become the world&#8217;s biggest coal exporter within the next decade and recently discovered two massive gas fields in its waters that promise huge windfalls. &#8220;As African lions outpace Asian tigers, one of the world&#8217;s poorest states is moving from civil war bust to boom – but who will gain?&#8221; the newspaper asks. Syrian Peace &#8211; Foreign Policy notes the caution of the international community in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad acceptance of the same U.N. peace accord he rejected just two weeks ago. A diplomatic solution is beneficial for all involved, but the Syrian&#8217;s governments actions have not always matched its words was the tone of the article. Retrofitting Community &#8211; The New York Times explores the urban renewal of the outskirts of Paris, where housing projects have been demolished in favor of parks, schools and low-rise housing. Architects Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal see the limitation of improving communities by design. Architects couldn’t fix the neighborhood or provide 24-hour security guards, Lacaton tells the newspaper. Crime and Punishment &#8211;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=22535&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: March 26, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noisy Neighbors &#8211; China&#8217;s Global Times reacts to the Hong Kong election Sunday, by a small elite circle, of Leung Chun-ying as new Chief Executive with an opinionated ode for the region and the mainland to improve their sometimes fractious relationship. &#8220;Both sides need to look at each other rationally &#8230; We are both Chinese, and can surely tolerate each other&#8217;s differences,&#8221; the paper pleads. Corporate Assassin- The Sydney Morning Herald profiles an apparent contradiction in terms: a successful businessman more concerned with preserving the environment than profits. Australian Geoff Cousins led a successful campaign against the destruction of Tasmania&#8217;s native forests and now spearheads efforts to stop a gas-processing plant in one of the world&#8217;s last great wilderness areas. Looking West &#8211; GlobalPost reports on the new Western Studies Institute at an ultraconservative Islamic University in Saudi Arabia, its first NGO dedicated to promoting understanding between the West, particularly the U.S., and the Middle East. Its significance? &#8220;It is notoriously difficult for anyone — a Saudi or a foreigner — to get government permission to set up an NGO of any kind,&#8221; it writes. Democracy Wins &#8211;  The New York Times examines the role of youth culture in the recent presidential election in Senegal. Support from the country&#8217;s young population aided president-elect Macky Sall&#8217;s victory over two-term president Abdoulaye Wade. TIME&#8217;s Alex Perry explores what the ousting of Wade means for democracy in the West African nation. Standing Alone &#8211; The Washington Post reports that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has taken its last nuclear reactor offline, leaving only one working nuclear facility in Japan, out of 54. The remaining reactor, on the northern island of Hokkaido, is scheduled to go offline in May for maintenance. It&#8217;s unclear if the facility will be restarted, as none of the other facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster in March 2011 have been restored. Church and State - Many religious groups in Hungary now risk losing their status as churches. Die Welt looks at a new law, which gives parliament the ability to downgrade religious organizations from churches to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=22269&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Floods in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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