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		<title>French Ministers Disclose Private Assets Amid Political Scandal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/17/disclosure-of-ministers-assets-shatters-french-political-taboo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French have always had a difficult relationship with money — a love/hate affair that has left France’s rich and powerful as detested as they are envied by the rest of society. That tension came to the fore once more following the April 15 disclosure by French ministers of their personal wealth. That new obligation was denounced by critics as voyeuristic invasion in the private affairs of public officials, while backers praised it for shedding a little light on France’s opaque political class. The French public viewed it as both — and gobbled up details of their leaders’ holdings, even as a majority of people admitted their vote wouldn’t switch if preferred candidates turn out to be well-off. Monday’s publication of personal holdings by all 38 Cabinet members sparked as much excitement in France as it did head-scratching in countries where some form of financial disclosure by government officials is routine. The move was imposed by French President François Hollande in response to tanking public confidence in the political class after his former Budget Minister, Jérôme Cahuzac, admitted he repeatedly lied in denying he’d maintained a secret bank account in Switzerland. Public reaction to the resulting scandal sent Hollande’s approval rating down to 26%. (MORE: Swiss Account of Ex-Minister Further Darkens Hollande’s Political Fortunes) “The End of a Taboo,” trumpeted the April 16 headline of the left-leaning daily Libération. In airing conservative hostility to the measure as a cheap distraction from the Cahuzac scandal, by contrast, right-wing paper Le Figaro dismissed the wealth disclosures as “The Striptease of the Republic.” The less partisan newspaper Le Parisien opted for a more factually accurate (albeit wordier and less sensational) option, with its front-page reaction: “38 Ministers, 37 Houses, 29 Apartments, 40 Cars, 2 Boats and Three Bikes &#8230;” Indeed, the main takeaway from this parade of financial declarations — which are considered routine in Scandinavian countries and the U.S. — is if French pols are abusing their positions to fill their pockets, they’re doing a pretty cruddy job of it. Monday’s filings show<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=82150&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss Account of Ex-Minister Further Darkens Hollande&#8217;s Political Fortunes</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/03/swiss-account-of-ex-minister-further-darkens-hollandes-political-fortunes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The troubling political outlook for French President François Hollande darkened further April 2, after his former austerity-enforcing Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac admitted to possessing a secret Swiss bank account whose existence he previously denied. The avowal not only delivers a blow to Hollande’s campaign pledge to return transparency and accountability to government. It also undermines the President’s attempts to convince public opinion to accept deficit-reduction efforts he said were being exacted from all sections and actors of French society. Cahuzac resigned his cabinet position March 19 just hours after French prosecutors launched an official inquiry into suspicions of tax fraud. Despite that, the former amateur boxer never flinched from earlier, insistent denials of wrongdoing—and even launched slander proceedings against online Mediapart.fr publication that first broke the allegations. That position of innocence became harder to maintain after an audio recording Mediapart produced of someone fretting about the ability to keep his Swiss account secret from potential inquiry was verified by vocal testing to be that of Cahuzac. By March 26 he’d become sufficiently sure the truth would come out that Cahuzac wrote a letter to the two investigative magistrates overseeing the case to request an interview—a session of mea culpa Cahuzac revealed  on his web site Tuesday afternoon. (MORE: Amid the Depardieu Tax Debacle, France’s Budget Minister Accused of Dodging Taxes) “I met the two judges today,” Cahuzac wrote April 2. “I confirmed to them the existence of the account, and informed them that I’ve already given instructions necessary for all assets deposed in the count—which has not been added to for around 12 years—(worth) around €600,000 euros ($768,000) be repatriated to my Paris bank…Thinking I could avoid confronting a past I considered long gone was an unspeakable error. I will now face this reality in complete transparency.” He’ll have little choice. The result of his avowal to judges led to Cahuzac’s immediate placement under investigation —a step under France’s legal system akin to indictment. The crimes of tax evasion and money laundering involved carry potential prison terms in case of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79330&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s Battle With France&#8217;s Judiciary Leads to Death Threats</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/28/nicolas-sarkozys-battle-with-frances-judiciary-leads-to-death-threats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France’s rambunctious, razor-tongued former President Nicolas Sarkozy has never hidden his disdain of the nation’s judiciary. But despite his long-running battle with French judges, even Sarkozy could never approve of what&#8217;s arisen in the wave of his latest offensive: death threats leveled at legal authorities who’ve implicated Sarkozy in a roiling illegal finance scandal. On March 27, Bordeaux Judge Jean-Michel Gentil received a letter menacing his life, those of his intimates and leaders of the left-leaning Union of Magistrates (SM). The apparent reason: Gentil heads a trio of investigating judges who on March 21 officially placed Sarkozy under investigation for “abusing the weakness” and mental frailty of L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. That move — which under France’s inquisitorial justice system, is akin to being designated a suspect or being indicted in Anglo-American courts — was based in part on testimony from former Bettencourt employees claiming Sarkozy personally pocketed $193,000 in 2007 from Bettencourt as an illicit donation for his victorious presidential run. The death threat addressed to Gentil less than a week later promised revenge against the “group of red revolutionary judges; totalitarian, rabid and politically committed” involved in the case, and warned the magistrate and SM officials that “one of your people is going to disappear.” (MORE: French Police Raid Sarkozy’s Home, Offices in Illicit-Campaign-Funding Inquiry) Condemnation of the threat — which also carried in its envelope a blank bullet — was unified across the political sphere, but still left Sarkozy and his supporters in a particularly uncomfortable position. The reason: the already outraged reaction by fellow conservatives to Sarkozy’s official implication in the epic Bettencourt scandal. Sarkozy defenders not only mocked his designation as a de facto suspect in the case as ridiculous and politically motivated, but at times even singled out Gentil personally. “I object to the way [Gentil] does his work,” said Sarkozy’s former Élysée adviser Henri Guaino on Europe 1 radio on March 22. “I find it disgraceful. I believe [Gentil] has dishonored a man, state institutions [and] the justice system &#8230; It would be laughable<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=78317&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whoa, Nelly! European Leaders Scramble to (Sur)Mount Horsemeat Scandal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/15/whoa-nelly-european-leaders-scamble-to-surmount-horsemeat-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diners across Europe continue to cast wary glances at their meals despite new steps by authorities to respond to the region’s horsemeat scandal. On Feb. 15, E.U. experts met to prepare testing and control measures for member nations seeking to uncover any other beef-based food products containing horse. That move came just 12 hours after officials in France said they’d identified the French meat-processing company that allegedly sold equine meat as beef to companies producing frozen and fast food. Yet despite all the activity aiming to restore consumer confidence, other actions taken by food-safety authorities may have only increased public concern. On Feb. 14, British police arrested three people suspected of introducing horsemeat into the U.K.’s industrial-food system by selling it to unsuspecting clients as beef. That raised fears the horse-for-beef swindle might be a wider problem than feared — and one that has infiltrated the fresh-meat market as well as the processed-food chain. (MORE: Pony Burgers? Horsemeat Scam Makes Europe Gag) The scandal began in mid-January when authorities in Ireland discovered traces of horsemeat and pork in frozen hamburgers sold as pure beef. The resulting uproar expanded in February when industrially prepared food products containing beef in Britain were also found with varying levels of horseflesh. The turmoil spread to the continent, where supermarket chains quickly pulled beef products of suspect food brands from shelves. Testing has uncovered levels of horsemeat in nominally beef-based products running from 60% to 100%. About 17 Europe nations already implicated in the nag-in-the-nosh flap have launched investigations into slaughterhouses, meat suppliers and food processors. There were hopes Thursday that the horsemeat crisis might soon be resolved. French officials announced on Feb. 14 they’d established that the Spanghero processing company in southwest France had intentionally sold a reported 42 tons of horsemeat as beef to 28 client companies operating in 13 countries. French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoît Hamon said customs labels on meat Spanghero bought from suppliers in Romania and Cyprus clearly stated the meat was horse. Yet records Hamon cited indicate those horse deliveries were later<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69303&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France Celebrates Return of Convicted Kidnapper From Mexican Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France released a nation-wide sigh of relief Thursday as French citizen Florence Cassez arrived in Paris less than 24 hours after Mexico’s Supreme Court voted to free her from a prison where she’d been serving a 60-year sentence for kidnapping. Cassez—who has been in jail since her 2005 arrest and 2007 conviction—has consistently maintained her innocence and denounced significant irregularities in her case that previous court rulings had dismissed. In its 3-2 vote Jan. 24, Mexico’s Supreme Court declared Cassez’ rights had indeed been violated while under arrest and on trial; the tribunal invalidated her conviction and ordered her immediately freed. Cassez left the country within hours, touching down in Paris Thursday after seven years behind bars. “The plane has landed, but I think I’m still in the clouds,” said an ecstatic Cassez after her arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport—arguing her freedom was synonymous with acquittal. “I believe I was ruled innocent. The Supreme Court ordered my immediate and absolute liberation.” (MORE: France and Mexico Feud Over Kidnapping Case) While many of Cassez’s supporters in France and Mexico alike hailed the decision as a blow to an opaque and at times unaccountable Mexican justice system, some defenders of Mexico’s countless kidnap victims were outraged that the ruling was made on technical grounds rather than innocence or guilt.  French media broadcast interviews with families whose loved ones had vanished amid Mexico’s abduction epidemic—some of whom blamed the Cassez reversal on diplomatic pressure from Paris. Others massed outside the prison as the 38-year old Cassez left for home shouting “killer!” as she sped by. The decision ends a prolonged period of tension that had taken Franco-Mexican relations to the breaking point, as French public pressure to free Cassez met Mexico’s refusal to submit its national justice system to foreign diktat. Passions—and questions—were heavy on both sides. Cassez supporters noted she and boyfriend Israel Vallarta were held for 24 hours after their Dec. 8, 2005 arrest, as police prepared what was later broadcast on Mexican TV and described as a live bust<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65558&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amid the Depardieu Tax Debacle, France&#8217;s Budget Minister Accused of Dodging Taxes</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/09/amid-the-depardieu-tax-debacle-frances-budget-minister-accused-of-dodging-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it may not have the same celebrity appeal as the Gérard Depardieu exile controversy, France now faces another roiling scandal over alleged cross-border tax evasion — this one focusing on Socialist Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac. French justice officials announced on Jan. 8 that they’re launching an inquiry into claims Cahuzac hid money in a secret Swiss account as a tax dodge for nearly 20 years. Cahuzac — whose current job makes him France’s top tax enforcer — energetically denies the allegations, and had previously requested an official investigation he claimed would prove the charges false. That may well be borne out over time. But coming as it does amid swirling headlines of Depardieu’s flight from France to protest rising income taxes, the mere suspicion of a government official having illicitly stashed income away is creating new troubles for beleaguered French President François Hollande in dealing with France&#8217;s financial crisis. (MORE: France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional) Paris prosecutors said on Tuesday they’d initiated a preliminary investigation for tax evasion based on allegations Cahuzac used a Swiss account to hide money from French finance authorities. The claim was first made in December by French news site Mediapart. Its report cited an audio recording provided by a rival politician, in which Cahuzac is said to discuss the secret account with his financial adviser. The story also maintains funds held in Switzerland were transferred to an even more discreet bank in Singapore in 2010, just before Cahuzac became head of France’s parliamentary finance commission. Cahuzac denies both the accusation and authenticity of the recording, and has said he’s suing Mediapart for slander. His repeated calls for an inquiry he predicts will clear him have now been fulfilled. Contrary to most French legal investigations that endeavor to substantiate responsibility for crimes, the preliminary procedure announced on Tuesday only seeks evidence to establish whether any offense was committed as alleged — not determine guilt. Still, pressure is growing on Hollande to replace Cahuzac. Some opposition politicians have issued reminders of Hollande’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=62884&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: France&#039;s newly appointed Junior Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac attends a handover ceremony in Paris, May 17, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/23/photos-in-india-a-rape-sparks-violent-protests-and-demands-for-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An alleged gang rape in New Delhi has prompted calls for change by women&#8217;s-rights groups and violent clashes between police and anti-rape protests in the nation&#8217;s capital.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60922&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Demonstrators shout slogans and wave placards as they move towards India Gate in New Delhi on Dec. 27, 2012, during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student in the Indian capital. Protests across India over the last week against sex crimes have denounced the police and government, with the largest in New Delhi at the weekend prompting officers to cordon off areas around government buildings. One policeman was killed and more than 100 people injured in the violence.</media:title>
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		<title>Carry On Regardless in South Africa, as ANC Re-elects Zuma</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/18/more-of-the-same-in-south-africa-as-anc-re-elects-zuma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a normal democracy, a crushing victory at the polls by the incumbent generally means an overwhelming popular desire for more of the same. Tuesday&#8217;s triumph by South African President Jacob Zuma in a contest to lead the African National Congress (ANC) reveals something quite different: how removed Africa’s most famous liberation movement now is from the people it would represent. With the ANC&#8217;s two-thirds electoral majority — a legacy of its glorious, revolutionary past under Nelson Mandela — Zuma&#8217;s re-election to the presidency of the party all but guarantees him re-election as national President, keeping him in power until 2019, when he would be 77. But to confuse his popularity among the 4,000 party delegates assembled at Mangaung, a township on the outskirts of Bloemfontein where the party conference was held, with wider popular support would be a mistake. (MORE: As South Africa Reels from Mine Shooting, Social Inequality Threatens to Undo the Post-Apartheid &#8216;Miracle&#8217;) Zuma came to power in 2009 under a cloud. For years he had faced charges of corruption, racketeering, money laundering and fraud, only for them to be dropped weeks before he took power. Today he faces another scandal: the state spending of what the South African press say is $28 million on security upgrades at his private residence in his home province of Kwazulu-Natal. Those allegations — and hundreds of other accusations of corruption and criminality against ANC ministers and councillors — fixate the media. But it is the ANC&#8217;s failure to lift its natural constituency — the half of the country, according to the government&#8217;s own figures, that 18 years after the end of apartheid still live below the poverty line — which this year stirred violent and angry mass protests against it. The state&#8217;s brutal opposition to those demonstrations, which included police shooting dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine at Marikana in the north of the country in August, was both shocking in the manner it evoked the violence of apartheid and underscored the distance that now exists between South Africa&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60259&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Send in Sarkozy: Will Former French President Rescue His Imploding Party?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/27/send-in-sarkozy-will-former-french-president-rescue-his-imploding-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the accumulating days since members of France’s main conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), voted to chose their next leader Nov. 18, two major things have happened: a winner was declared, and fighting over that disputed result has pushed the divided, headless party to the brink of implosion. Now, that internecine struggle has gotten so ferocious — and surreal — that a third development is taking shape: former UMP champion Nicolas Sarkozy is reportedly entering the fray to resolve the crisis. And with that move coming just six months after Sarkozy’s re-election defeat led him to announce his retirement from political life, some observers wonder whether his UMP rescue mission may not mark the end of his short-lived adieu to French politics. According to French media reports, Sarkozy flew back from an economic conference in China to meet with his former Prime Minister and UMP leadership candidate François Fillon on Monday to discuss the astonishing chaos that has brought the party to the brink of collapse. The turmoil began when tight balloting Nov. 18 for the UMP’s top job led Fillon and his rival for the post, incumbent chief Jean-François Copé, to exchange accusations of electoral fraud. Despite apparent irregularities in voting and confusion surrounding counting, both men then declared themselves the winner before results were in. (MORE: France&#8217;s Right-Wing Civil War: Leadership Vote Plunges UMP into Chaos) On Nov. 19, the UMP election commission — staffed largely with Copé allies — pronounced the incumbent victorious by a 98-vote margin. Two days later, Fillon supporters revealed they had discovered ballots from three overseas territories that had been ignored in the tally, and when counted, gave the former Premier the win with a 26-vote margin. The election commission did not deny that accidental omission but called the initial outcome in Copé’s favor definitive. Since then, allegations, recriminations and insults between campaign opponents and their camps created the feel of a political soap opera, with Fillon refusing to recognize his enemy’s victory and Copé rejecting any proposals to end<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56358&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Former president Nicolas Sarkozy reacts after his defeat for re-election in the second round vote of the 2012 French presidential elections as he appears on stage before UMP party supporters at the Mutualite meeting hall in Paris, May 6, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>Congo&#8217;s Crisis: Rebels Launch Offensive in Country&#8217;s East</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/20/m23-rebels-in-congos-east-capture-key-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Pereira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the war-torn, mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, rebels belonging to an armed group known as the M23 have launched a devastating offensive against the government of President Joseph Kabila, capturing the main provincial capital of Goma in the country&#8217;s east, according to reports. Though denied by the Rwandan government, many believe the M23 is armed and backed by Rwanda, as regional governments jostle for influence and control over a part of the world blessed with teeming natural wealth but afflicted by decades of war and human-rights abuses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=55481&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congo&#8217;s Eastern Rebels Seize Goma: Will Rwanda Then Take Over?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/20/congos-eastern-rebels-seize-goma-will-rwanda-then-takeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I spent a few days with the M23 rebels of eastern Congo in August, they were clear that their April mutiny against the Congolese army and seizure of territory along the Rwandan and Ugandan borders was essentially a form of blackmail. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its President Joseph Kabila were weak and corrupt, they said, and constantly tried to cheat, steal from or even kill men from the east — who, like most of the M23, were former rebels integrated into the national army after a similar rebellion in the east in 2009. The mutineers were hardly angels themselves, with a string of human-rights violations to their names, including the recruitment of children, use of rape and sometimes execution of civilians. But they maintained they didn&#8217;t necessarily want to take the strategic eastern cities of Goma or Bukavu and certainly didn&#8217;t want to advance on the capital, Kinshasa; rather they wanted the government to honor the integration deal it agreed to on March 23, 2009, and since it hadn&#8217;t — withholding salaries, integrating soldiers at lower ranks, even continuing to kill a few easterners — the rebels were trying to force it to by taking territory. (PHOTOS: M23 Rebels in Congo’s East Capture Key City) I asked: What if Kinshasa still refused to come up with the goods? They&#8217;d take Goma, a base for one of the world&#8217;s largest U.N. peacekeeping and aid operations, to up their bargaining position and press their point. &#8220;Taking Goma would not be a battle,&#8221; said Major Emille Shabani, who had defected from the Congolese army to the rebels a few days before. &#8220;The government soldiers are tired and they know no one will look after their families if they die.&#8221; That&#8217;s the broad scenario that appeared to have played out Tuesday as M23 rebels rolled into Goma unopposed by government forces, who fled precisely as the rebels predicted, and peacekeepers from Monusco, the Congo U.N. force, who simply watched. Though there had been some sporadic fighting on the outskirts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=55419&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why a Cop Is France&#8217;s Favorite Politician</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/19/why-a-cop-is-frances-favorite-politician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is France’s most popular politician in this era dominated by bleak economic forecasts amid fears about the euro’s very existence? It isn’t the cabinet members struggling to balance public finances, halt plant closures, slow rising unemployment, or offsetting bitter austerity measures with huge, public-pleasing tax hikes for the rich. It also isn’t President François Hollande, who—like fellow Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault—has seen his approval ratings plunge. And it certainly isn’t any of France’s conservative heavyweights currently diving their time between attacks on the ruling left, and bashing each other in the battle for the leadership of France’s right. Instead, the darling of French voters is Interior Minister Manuel Valls, whose unapologetic hardline stance on law and order in responding to an alarming crime wave has won him fans on the left and right alike. Indeed, Valls’ activism on security issues (and ubiquitous presence in French media) has earned him comparisons from both sides of the political divide to conservative predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy. It was by serving as Interior Minister in the early- and mid-2000s that anti-crime crusader Sarkozy first won the admiration of safety-concerned voters who later flocked to his victorious 2007 presidential bid—an Elysée ambition Valls clearly shares. Yet if that likeness to Sarkozy has been much noted by French pundits—and grudgingly acknowledged by conservative politicians—it has sparked criticism from his own camp that Valls is actually a conservative in Socialist clothes. As such, Valls may France’s most popular official, but the least liked pol among his peers. Be that as it may, Valls’ popularity has confirmed the belief Sarkozy repeatedly embraced to scale to the top of political power: that at any given time, a majority of French voters will be just as concerned about security as they are about all other issues—and will reward leaders who take those worries seriously with action. Just how popular is top cop Valls? A new poll by Paris Match puts his approval rating at an impressive 75%. His lowest level in surveys is 57%—still tops in the field. By contrast,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=50592&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistani Hindus &#8212; Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus have been arriving in India over the past month to avoid alleged religious persecution in their home country, notes VOA News. Since August, roughly 400 Pakistani Hindus are believed to have arrived in India&#8217;s northwestern Punjab and Rajasthan states, which share a border with Pakistan. The Pakistanis reportedly told local media that they want to stay in India as refugees because many Hindus in Pakistan face &#8220;alleged harassment, forced conversion [to Islam], extortion, and forced marriages.&#8221; Turkey&#8217;s Human Rights &#8212; In These Times analyzes Turkey&#8217;s human rights record, stating that it&#8217;s raising troubling questions, as it tries to position itself as a model of democracy in the Arab world. &#8220;Long bedeviled by military coups, an intolerance for dissent, uprisings from the right and left and a worsening struggle with its large Kurdish minority and militants, Turkey is trapped by its disregard for human rights,&#8221; it noted. Because of Turkey&#8217;s &#8220;anti-terrorism laws that violate freedom of expression and fair trial rights,&#8221; dissenters are often imprisoned, making Turkey the world&#8217;s top jailer of journalists. 20 Nile Rivers &#8212; A study by a group of former leaders said the world has to find the equivalent of the flow of 20 Nile rivers by 2025 to produce enough food for a rising population and to prevent conflicts over water scarcity, reports Reuters. Issued by the InterAction Council of former leaders, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela, the report said that global agriculture alone will require another 240 cubic miles (1,000 cubic km) of fresh water annually &#8212; the same as the annual flow of 20 Niles or 100 Colorado Rivers &#8212; to feed one billion more people by 2025. Growing demand for water will be most pronounced in China, India, and the U.S. because of &#8220;population growth, increasing irrigation, and economic growth,&#8221; noted Reuters. Witch Hunt &#8211; The BBC investigates the &#8220;systematic and deadly persecution&#8221; of gay men and women by Iraqi law enforcement agencies, which the Iraqi government has refused to acknowledge. Analysts have avoided<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44565&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No End in Sight &#8211; Following the deaths of nine Turkish security officials in clashes with Kurdish rebels, Reuters examines the diminishing possibility of peace in the Turkish Kurd Conflict. &#8220;It is a vicious cycle,&#8221; said Soner Cagaptay from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. &#8220;Whenever there is a spike in violence, Turkey&#8216;s willingness to consider a political solution becomes weaker.&#8221; Over 40,000 people have so far been killed in the 28-year-old conflict, with militants striving to create a separate state in the predominantly Kurdish southeastern Turkey. Defense Partnership &#8212; The partnership between the U.S., the world&#8217;s top arms manufacturer, and India, one of the world&#8217;s top arms importers, is strengthening as American defense companies try to gain a larger foothold in India, according to the Washington Post. The U.S. defense department has started &#8220;easing defense trade and technology transfer to India,&#8221; and has also &#8220;begun to rework stringent export controls that hinder sharing of high-end technology.&#8221; Although the U.S. defense firms are trying to win more lucrative contracts from India, the country is closely guarding its strategic freedom and is hesitant to get too close with the American military, it reports. Growing Divide &#8212; The New York Times reports that the political elite in Vietnam, like their counterparts in China, &#8220;are struggling to reconcile their party&#8217;s message of social justice and equality with the realities of an elite awash in wealth and privilege.&#8221; Vietnam&#8217;s top political officials and their family members have benefited from the country&#8217;s rapid economic growth. Recent financial woes, however, are provoking resentment among the ordinary public against the upper class and spotlighting the nation&#8217;s economic model of crony capitalism, which is characterized by close ties between tycoons and political leaders. Buying American Assets &#8212; With many U.S. companies starved for cash, Chinese firms are buying up American assets at a record pace, notes the Los Angeles Times. Chinese companies are, &#8220;making huge bids for American energy, aviation, entertainment, and other businesses&#8221; as a way to &#8220;gain technological know-how and international reach,&#8221; it wrote. Analysts said this kind<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=43121&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boxed In &#8211; The New York Times examines Israeli reaction to the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report that sanctions have not slowed Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. &#8220;With the report that the country has already installed more than 2,100 centrifuges inside a virtually impenetrable underground laboratory, and that it has ramped up production of nuclear fuel, officials and experts here say the conclusions may force Israel to strike Iran or concede it is not prepared to act on its own,&#8221; it said. Talking Points &#8212; India&#8217;s Firstpost assesses Thursday&#8217;s meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran. &#8220;[It] was remarkable as much for what was not discussed as for what was,&#8221; it wrote. Pakistan&#8217;s Dawn agrees: &#8220;[It] achieved little beyond [Pakistan] reiterating the desire for close bilateral relations and improved trade and the Indian leader saying little &#8230;&#8221; Unusual Dissent &#8211; Following Xinhua news agency&#8217;s frank assessment that the government&#8217;s &#8220;failure to minimize deadly man-made accidents&#8221; endangers &#8220;the people&#8217;s trust,&#8221; China&#8217;s state-run Global Times follows up with another critical commentary. Headlined &#8220;Rumors More Credible than Officials for Many Netizens,&#8221; it calls for &#8220;change in the long-standing mechanisms of information release, in which the authorities pay little attention to interaction with the public.&#8221; Shifting Allegiances &#8211; The BBC interviews former Taliban fighters in Herat, Western Afghanistan, who are now siding with the government. One former commander said he joined the Taliban during the arrival of U.S.-led troops, as &#8220;they offered security at a time of insecurity.&#8221; His &#8220;alliance with the Taliban was not ideological but practical,&#8221; and it is pragmatism that has led him to switch sides, as he feels the government has become the stronger side. With foreign combat troops set to depart in 2014, he said, &#8220;we Afghans have to take the country for ourselves.&#8221; Islam and Russia &#8211; Reuters reports on growing signs of insurgency in Russia&#8217;s largely Muslim Caucasus mountain lands, with 185 insurgency-related deaths and 168 injuries recorded in the first half of 2012 alone. Meanwhile, the Economist<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42869&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa Massacre: Miners Charged over Colleagues&#8217; Deaths</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Aug. 31, 2012 at 8:10 a.m. EST The decision late Thursday by South Africa’s state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues — men who were actually shot dead by the police, as recorded by numerous television crews — marks a bizarre new low in a bloody scandal that threatens to strip the country&#8217;s postapartheid state of what remains of its moral authority. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesman Frank Lesenyego announced “34 counts of murder have been laid against the 270 accused” over the shooting dead by armed police of 34 fellow miners at the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in northern South Africa on Aug. 16. The miners, also accused of the attempted murder of 78 fellow miners who were injured, were charged under a law dating back to 1956 known as “common purpose,” said Lesenyego, in which members of a crowd present when a crime is committed can be prosecuted for incitement. In other words: the state says the miners provoked the police to kill them. (PHOTOS: The Bloody Scenes at Marikana) The law was used as a catchall by South Africa&#8217;s white supremacist apartheid regime to convict black antiapartheid leaders for, say, leading a march or demonstration where some crime was committed. The 34 dead miners were among 3,000 mineworkers who had walked out in the second week of August in a protest over pay which then rapidly deteriorated into a violent turf war between two rival unions. Their shooting by the police wielding machine guns had already evoked comparisons to the brutality of apartheid, in which the police shooting of demonstrators was a well-worn tactic of the regime. That only made the prosecutor&#8217;s additional application of an apartheid-era law even more shocking. Renegade youth leader Julius Malema, expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) this year, called it &#8220;madness.&#8221; He continued: &#8220;The policemen who killed those people are not in custody, not even one of them.&#8221; In a statement, the Congress of South African<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42846&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ideal Getaway &#8211; As Manmohan Singh heads to Tehran, the Economist analyses the latest crisis &#8212; over an official report into the contentious awarding of coal fields to private firms &#8212; engulfing India&#8217;s prime minister. &#8220;He may be the only world leader who enters Iranian airspace, breathes a sigh of relief and feels his blood pressure fall,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;It has escalated far above the level of soot and pick-axes to once again bring into question the government’s ability to run the country.&#8221; Down South &#8211; After Mexican federal police shot up a U.S. Embassy vehicle this week, the Los Angeles Times reports on the loss of faith in the country at the supposed war on corrupt police. &#8220;A trustworthy federal police force was to be one of the most important legacies of Calderon&#8217;s six-year term,&#8221; it said. &#8220;For many here, whether the attackers turned out to be corrupt or just bumbling, Calderon&#8217;s new and improved federal police force is just more of the same.&#8221; Neighborhood Ties &#8211; China&#8217;s state-run Global Times examines business ties between the Middle Kingdom and its rogue neighbor in the northeast, North Korea. &#8220;China sees a growing demand for energy behind its rapidly running economic engine,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;However, despite China&#8217;s status as the main aid donor to North Korea, doing business remains unpredictable, and contradictory stories can often be heard behind Chinese investments in North Korea.&#8221; Drawn-Out Conflict &#8211; As the BBC considers how Syria has become &#8220;engulfed in all-out war,&#8221; and &#8220;violence spreads to almost every corner&#8221;, Reuters interviews Basma Kodmani, who this week resigned from the opposition Syrian National Council. Kodmani said: &#8220;My sense was that the SNC was not up to facing the increasing challenges on the ground and was not up to the performance I would have liked it to be.&#8221; For more on the latest on Syria, TIME&#8217;s Tony Karon lists five reasons why the Assad regime survives. Community Destroyed &#8211; The Daily Telegraph reports on claims made by Amazonian tribal leaders that at least 80 members 0f the Irotatheri, a remote tribal community<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42744&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Occupy Movement Makes Its Last Stand in Hong Kong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson / Hong Kong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Occupy protests sprung up on Sept. 17 last year in New York City and spread around the world, there was little surprise that they reached Hong Kong. Like the Big Apple and London, the former British colony is a global financial center that thrives on the kind of cutthroat capitalism the Occupy movement decries. The U.S.-based Heritage Foundation has ranked the city the world’s freest economy for 18 consecutive years and — perhaps not coincidentally — its income inequality, by some measures, is the worst in the developed world. Remarkably, however, Occupy Central — Central is the name of the city’s main business district — remains the last visible holdout of the international movement. Although Hong Kong has its own political and civic freedoms enshrined in a miniconstitution, there is some irony that a “special administrative region” of authoritarian China, no less, finds itself as the final torchbearer for the 99%. The city’s Occupiers might also feel a certain pride that the site of this final resistance is not a public square (like Occupy Wall Street) or a cathedral concourse (as in Occupy London) but the very heart of Hong Kong’s financial system: the plaza that lies beneath the Norman Foster–designed headquarters of global banking giant HSBC. (PHOTOS: Protests and Camp Shutdowns Continue for Occupy Demonstrators) How much longer can the Occupiers hold out? Earlier this month, the Hong Kong High Court ordered them to vacate the site, which is both owned by HSBC and a public passageway, by Aug. 27. The 9 p.m. deadline came and went, and the protesters, mostly collegiate types, reportedly marked its passing in true Occupy style — with a drum circle. In stark contrast to the U.S. last Nov. 15 (when the NYPD forcibly cleared Occupy Wall Street) and the U.K. on Feb. 28 (when bailiffs and the Metropolitan Police evicted Occupy London), there were no riot squads itching to move in. The tacit grace period extended to the protesters may be about to end, however. Armed with a fresh court order, HSBC, in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42758&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek Compliance &#8211; Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel examines the perhaps surprising results of assessing Athens&#8217; austerity measures. &#8220;Many German politicians accuse Greece of not doing enough to cut spending,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;But studies show that, measured in relative terms, Athens has carried out the most brutal austerity program in the E.U.&#8217;s history. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is making it clear that he wants to change his country&#8217;s culture of cronyism.&#8221; Marital Breakdown &#8211; Reuters reveals comments made Wednesday by Husain Haqqani, Pakistan&#8217;s former ambassador to Washington, that the U.S. and Pakistan should &#8220;divorce&#8221; given unrealistic expectations in both countries. &#8220;If in 65 years, you haven&#8217;t been able to find sufficient common ground to live together, and you had three separations and four reaffirmations of marriage, then maybe the better way is to find friendship outside of the marital bond,&#8221; it reported he said. Rights Boost &#8211; The Los Angeles Times reports on a key decision by Mexico&#8217;s top court Tuesday over military trials of human rights abuses. The Mexican Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional part of the military law that allowed soldiers accused of abusing civilians to be tried by military tribunals. &#8220;&#8230; the court cited an article of the Mexican Constitution that states that military courts should &#8216;in no case and for no reason&#8217; have jurisdiction over civilians,&#8221; it said. Foreign Fighters &#8212; Reuters reports on the U.K. joining the U.S. in warning Syria over using the threat of chemical weapons as &#8220;completely unacceptable,&#8221; forcing them to &#8220;revisit their approach&#8221; to the conflict. Meanwhile, Al Jazeera English writes that &#8220;Syrians battling government forces in Aleppo&#8221; have expressed &#8220;disappointment&#8221; that &#8220;more local residents have not joined their cause.&#8221; Instead, the rebels have been joined by foreign fighters (some of whom have claimed allegiance to al-Qaeda), while the majority of young rebels have come from rural areas around the city. Old Wounds Reopened&#8211; CNN observes how the ongoing islands dispute between Japan and China has led to old tensions resurfacing. Known as the Diaoyu Islands by the Chinese and the Senkaku Islands by the Japanese, they&#8217;re &#8220;symbolic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41709&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the Chips Are Down: U.S. Casinos Discover Macau&#8217;s Murky Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson / Macau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macau, an autonomous region of China situated 65 km west of Hong Kong, is the international king of gambling towns. Last year, revenues for its 30-plus casinos totaled $33.5 billion, more than five times those of Las Vegas. Only in recent months has the global financial gloom started to dent the territory’s gaming intake, which at times has grown 70% annually. Still, record turnover is expected again this year. These phenomenal numbers would seem to suggest that Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Mirage — the big American players that entered Macau after the former Portuguese colony liberalized its gaming industry in 2002 — have hit the jackpot. But don’t bet on it. The U.S. operators went into the gambling enclave on short 20-years-or-less gaming licenses with no guarantees of renewal. They are reliant on mainland-Chinese punters for business, which in turn puts casinos at the mercy of Beijing’s immigration controls (mainlanders need a travel permit to visit Macau) and currency restrictions (mainland visitors can only take just over $3,000 with them). This also forces them to compete for the lucrative custom of high rollers — responsible for as much as 70% of revenue — brought to Macau by infamously shady promoters known locally as “junkets” after the lavish gambling sprees they organize. Even more worryingly, allegations of improper, and in some cases illegal, conduct in the territory are coming back to haunt — and potentially hurt — U.S. operators on their home turf. Tough domestic anti-money-laundering laws and Nevada gaming-license controls can be revoked for malpractice in foreign jurisdictions, making Macau something of a poisoned chalice. (VIDEO: Poker Comes to China) To be successful in Macau, casino operators need to establish the right connections both locally and in the mainland. Efforts at cultivating this guanxi are at the root of the problems now facing the American firms there, with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission currently conducting probes into whether Wynn Resorts and Las Vegas Sands have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In both cases, what began as internal company<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41463&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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