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		<title>As the Horsemeat Hysteria Spreads, E.U. Opens a Mad-Cow Can of Worms</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/as-the-horsemeat-hysteria-spreads-e-u-opens-a-mad-cow-can-of-worms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like humor, the key to successful politics is frequently timing. That may explain why a recent food-policy decision by E.U. officials is going over like a lead balloon. On Feb. 14, members of the E.U.’s executive body took a break from Europe’s horsemeat-impersonating-beef scandal to reauthorize a type of animal feed that was banned in 1997 to battle mad-cow disease — an illness that infected nearly 500,000 animals in Europe and killed around 200 people. Observers now grimly marvel at mad-cow-era precautions being rolled back at the very moment the horsemeat flap is raising new concerns about the safety of Europe’s food industry. (MORE: Whoa, Nelly! European Leaders Scramble to (Sur)Mount Horsemeat Scandal) “It’s not a good time,” lamented Guillaume Garot, France’s Junior Minister for the Food Industry, on Feb. 15 — just four days ahead of the Tuesday news that Europe’s horsemeat scandal had spread to Nestlé, the world’s largest food group. “You’d have to have the political sense of an oyster to damage peoples’ perception of Europe this way,” Isabelle Thomas, a French member of the European Parliament, said of the move to lift the mad-cow-related animal-feed ban just now. “We demand the commission immediately revise this decision.” Though the timing of the move, which ends the 15-year prohibition of using animal remains to feed other livestock, was terrible at best, E.U. officials defend reauthorization of processed-animal proteins (PAP) as scientifically sound. The initial interdiction was motivated by suspicions that PAP — whose content often turned livestock into de facto cannibals of fellow species members — may have played a role in ruminants developing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which later spread to human consumers of meat. The new rules allow feed made of restricted parts of pigs and poultry to be used to feed fish starting June 1. Poultry and pig farmers may use feed made from each other’s species as of 2014. The ban on feeding ruminants&#8217; PAP (i.e. of cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) — or using them to produce such meal — remains prohibited. “The most recent scientific findings [demonstrate] the risk of BSE transmission is negligible<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69832&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Photo</dc:creator>
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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>The Fight Goes On: Bono&#8217;s Unwavering Quest to End AIDS</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/30/the-fight-goes-on-bonos-unwavering-quest-to-end-aids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recognition of this year&#8217;s World AIDS Day, U2 singer and global activist Bono is stepping up his fight against HIV/AIDS by personally lobbying American legislators to maintain funding for global AIDS initiatives and awareness. His plea comes at a moment when Washington is embroiled in tensebudget debates over how to avoid the so-called &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; which would trigger automatic spending cuts and tax hikes. Bono showed up in Washington a few weeks after the presidential election to make his case and he didn&#8217;t just bring star-appeal, he brought data. His international advocacy organization, The ONE Campaign, recently released a report, warning that despite scientific strides made in combating the pandemic, the United Nation&#8217;s goal to achieve the “beginning of the end of AIDS by 2015” will fail if funding is cut to AIDS programs. The report also says financial and political commitment to AIDS efforts from the usual donor countries are varied, with the U.S., U.K. and France leading efforts while Germany, Canada, Japan and Italy lag behind in funding. Bono pushed lawmakers to continue to make AIDS financing a priority. Given the current status, the beginning of the end ofAIDS—defined as when the number of new HIV infections each year is surpassed by the number of people receiving treatment—will not be reached until 2022. American support is key to reaching the ambitious goals set by the United Nations. When Bono sat down with TIME’s managing editor, Rick Stengel last year, he shared his confidence in the Obama Administration’s financial commitment and praised the U.S’s role in leading efforts to fight the virus. “It is an extraordinary thing that the United States has done, which is in the war against this tiny little virus, which has caused so much destruction and heartache, American leadership has been the turning point,” said Bono in the interview. “Five million lives have been saved around the world because of American leadership.” Despite the anxiety over whether lack of fiscal support will slow the momentum the movement has already achieved, Bono’s organization, The ONE Campaign and its fundraising division (RED), are continuing to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=57373&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">U2 lead singer and co-founder of ONE and (RED) Bono participates in a round-table discussion with others leaders on World AIDS Day at the Jack Morton Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University December 1, 2011 in Washington, DC.</media:title>
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		<title>Can Female Genital Mutilation Be Surgically Undone?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/20/can-female-genital-mutilation-be-surgically-undone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lloyd George / Paris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. &#8220;All I could remember was being in a bath full of blood,&#8221; she says grimacing. &#8220;I thought I had made it all up in my head&#8221;. Like millions of women all over the world, Aïssa was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) &#8211; her clitoris was cut off, and her labia sewn up, all before she could even talk. For years, Aïssa, who was born in France but whose family is originally from Mauritania, says she denied what had happened and suffered as a result. &#8220;Even when it made me feel empty, or it made me to lose my confidence, and even when I had relationship problems, I still did not accept what had happened to me.&#8221; Up until May this year, like so many other women, in America, in Europe, and around the world,  Aïssa suffered in silence. Then she met another woman who said the effects of genital mutilation could be reversed. After doing research,  Aïssa contacted Dr. Pierre Foldes, the French urologist and surgeon who invented a technique which she says has not only given her back a clitoris but also a voice and identity. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates between 130 &#8211; 140 million women have undergone FGM in the last 10 years.  As well as significant psychological effects, it is estimated that one third of females who undergo FGM are at risk of death. It was in Africa, working as a doctor on a humanitarian mission, that Foldes first learned of the damaging effects it had on women. &#8220;They would come in flocks complaining of pain and difficulties,&#8221; he told TIME half way through an operation at his clinic on the outskirts of Paris. &#8220;For hundreds of years we have known about the penis but we never knew anything about the clitoris. So that was the first step, to return to Paris<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=43990&#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>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/17/must-reads-from-around-the-world-27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese Health Care &#8212; Reuters examines the Chinese government&#8217;s struggles to overhaul the public health care system and make health care affordable for millions of its citizens. Although the central government in July banned public hospitals from marking up drug prices by 15%, critics point out that &#8220;efforts to cut treatment costs in public hospitals and defuse tensions do not go far enough and show little sign of reversing the violence of angry sufferers,&#8221; reported Reuters. In 2010, there were more than 17,000 cases of violent attacks, including beatings, threats, kidnappings, verbal abuse, and even killings, directed at physicians and other health care providers. Lawyer Up&#8211; As expected, lawyers for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have lodged a criminal complaint in Paris over the topless photos of Kate Middleton which have been seen in certain publications. The couple would like French magazine Closer withdrawn from shelves, with their lawyer set to ask French prosecutors to bring criminal charges against the photographer responsible. The BBC delves deeper into the drama, noting that &#8220;most lawyers seem to agree that under strict French law the pictures represent an undisputed breach of privacy &#8211; an open-and-shut case.&#8221; Theoretically, under French law, damages could be in the tens of thousands of euros with the editor going to jail for a year. Investment in Burma &#8212; Foreign investment is set to reach a record-high this year thanks to oil companies interested in tapping into the southeast Asian country&#8217;s large reserves of oil and gas, notes Bloomberg. After the U.S. dropped economic sanctions on Burma in July for taking steps toward democracy, the country is now is planning its &#8220;biggest auction of exploration blocks for oil and gas by year-end,&#8221; it wrote. This year direct foreign investment into Burma will increase by 40% to a record $3.99 million, forecast the International Monetary Fund. As for Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, she&#8217;s about to begin a 17-day U.S. tour, which will see her honored in Washington and presented Congress&#8217;s highest award. Angola&#8217;s Land Mines &#8212; The civil war<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=45326&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How an Indian Patent Case Could Shape the Future of Generic Drugs</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/21/how-an-indian-patent-case-could-shape-the-future-of-generic-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elliot Hannon / New Delhi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India’s rising global presence is often associated with its booming tech sector. But in many poor countries, India&#8217;s role is that of a low-cost pharmacy. The country has become a leading supplier of affordable HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis medications and is the second leading provider of medicines distributed by UNICEF in the developing world. This, however, may change. On Wednesday, the Indian Supreme Court is set to hear a landmark patent case that could limit Indian companies’ right to make inexpensive copies of pricey drugs developed and patented in the U.S. and Europe. The high-profile case — the first of its kind to reach India’s highest court — has created a sharp divide between defenders of intellectual property rights, who demand that India do more to protect patented drugs developed in the West, and international aid groups who say excessive pharmaceutical patenting stifles generic competition that makes life-saving medication accessible to patients around the world. “This case is key because the scaling up AIDS treatment around the world has come from Indian made medicines,” says Leena Menghaney, manager of Doctors without Borders&#8217; access to medicines campaign in India. “If they did not exist or were not available most governments would not have ventured into starting large scale AIDS treatment programs.” (MORE: HIV Patients Should Start Drug Treatment Right Away, New Guidelines Say) At the heart of the current dispute is the breakthrough cancer drug Glivec  (Gleevec in the U.S.). Novartis, the Swiss drug company that helped develop the drug, is appealing the rejection of its 2006 patent application in India. In the U.S., where patent laws make it easier to register a patent claim, a monthly dose of Glivec can cost as much $5,000. In India, locally made generics cost patients $200. In 1970, the Indian government disallowed the patenting of drugs, paving the way for Indian pharmaceutical companies to freely produce medicines pioneered by foreign drug companies at a fraction of the cost. Today, India’s pharmaceutical industry is worth $10 billion a year and is one of the nation’s largest sectors. The price of HIV/AIDS treatment, a first-line<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41427&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Strongman Who May Be Missed: Meles Zenawi, 1955-2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meles Zenawi always said he didn’t intend to die in office. Speaking to TIME as long ago as 2007, the Ethiopian Prime Minister was talking about moving on: “I have been around for quite a long time,” he said. “Time to start thinking about doing new things.” In the event, Meles did not do anything else but stayed through another election in 2010 – rigged, said the U.S., E.U and human rights groups – in which his Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and its allies won 545 of the 547 seats in parliament and 1,903 of the 1,904 on nine regional councils. The result was not surprising but was at least less bloody than the previous poll in 2005 when Ethiopian security services shot dead 200 protesters – more like 1,000, said the opposition – who were demonstrating against the ERPDF’s victory in the streets of the capital Addis Ababa. Meles’s version of events was that the opposition, having lost a free and fair vote, were trying to win power by other means. “We felt we had to clamp down,” he said. “In the process, many people died. Many of our friends feel we overreacted. We feel we did not.” Still, though rights groups, opposition politicos and journalists he persecuted are understandably loathe to admit it, there was more to Meles Zenawi than a stereotypical African strongman. In the 1980s, Ethiopia was synonymous with famine and Live Aid, and a global symbol of African hopelessness. Under Meles, hunger still returned to Ethiopia every year (though that seemed partly a product of foreign provision of free emergency food aid, which saves lives in the short term but ruins commercial farmers in the longer term). But Meles’s regime ensured less and less of Ethiopia’s 85 million population was affected. Child malnutrition has fallen by more than a third since 2000. One of the most effective public health programs in the developing world also saw rates of malaria and child mortality halve between 2005-2011. Meles scored well too on that other answer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41417&#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>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/20/must-reads-from-around-the-world-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South American Support &#8211; Following Ecuador&#8217;s granting of political asylum to Julian Assange, the BBC reports that the Union of South American Nations has agreed to support its member state &#8220;in the face of the threat&#8221; to its London embassy, where Assange has been residing since June. The BBC&#8217;s Will Grant described the move as a &#8220;symbolic but important show of unity in a region which considers the UK government&#8217;s approach over Mr Assange to have been colonialist and threatening.&#8221; Koran Controversy &#8211; Pakistan&#8216;s Dawn reports on the arrest of an 11-year-old Christian girl under the country&#8217;s notorious blasphemy laws after she was accused by neighbors of burning sacred Islamic texts. &#8220;[The case] has broken the silence of the ruling PPP which has been quiet on the issue over the past year since the assassination of two of its leaders, Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti, for suggesting some changes in the controversial blasphemy law,&#8221; it added. Noisy Neighbors &#8211; The Times of India reveals controversy over land in the heart of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, reportedly promised to the Indian high commission but instead set to be sold to a Chinese state-owned aviation company. &#8220;While the sale of a plot to the Chinese may seem innocuous, the fact that it may come at the expense of India is likely to further exacerbate India&#8217;s growing concerns over Beijing successfully expanding its base in Sri Lanka,&#8221; it wrote. Beauty Business &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s The Nation newspaper examines the country&#8217;s surging cosmetic surgery industry &#8212; now worth an estimated $634.4 million a year &#8212; and its expansion into southeast Asian neighbors. &#8220;A drastic change in the public’s perception of cosmetic surgery over the past ten years has created a huge demand among Thai consumers, who contribute most of the Bt20 billion in income that surgery clinics enjoy each year,&#8221; it said. Still No President &#8211; As Somalia&#8217;s presidential election is further delayed, despite members of a new parliament being sworn in, Reuters analyzes the &#8220;several new faces&#8221; returning home &#8220;to try and lead the country<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41161&#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 9, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groundhog Days &#8211; Pakistan&#8217;s Dawn ridicules the never-ending power struggle between the supreme court and the president. The court has once again ordered a prime minister &#8212; this time Raja Pervez Ashraf &#8212; to appear before it, likely to face contempt of court charges for failing to order the reopening of a Swiss investigation into President Asif Ali Zardari&#8217;s finances. &#8220;Another prime minister, another walk of shame,&#8221; began its op-ed entitled, &#8220;Déjà vu.&#8221; Backroom Deal &#8211; The Japan Times reports Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda avoided a &#8220;double punch&#8221; no confidence vote and censure motion Wednesday by promising a general election &#8220;soon,&#8221; in an apparent deal with the Liberal Democratic Party. At stake: a contentious tax bill raising the national sales tax to 10%. &#8220;But Noda&#8217;s vague vow to hold an election in the near future leaves room for interpretation and it is not clear when he would actually call it,&#8221; it said. Profitable Climate &#8211; The New York Times reveals how coolant gas manufacturers use a U.N. compensation system for big financial gains. Instead of reducing carbon emissions, they instead destroy an obscure &#8212; but warming &#8212; waste gas and then sell their credits on international markets. The U.N. is struggling to undo &#8220;this unintended bonanza,&#8221; it writes. &#8220;The lucrative incentive has become so entrenched that efforts to roll it back are proving tricky, even risky.&#8221; Sinai&#8217;s Jihadists &#8211; The BBC considers why Egypt&#8217;s Sinai peninsula remains a &#8220;tempting location for jihadists,&#8221; noting that the &#8220;barren, partly mountainous triangle wedged between Africa and Asia has always been harder to police than the heavily populated Nile Valley and Delta of mainland Egypt.&#8221; Most of its inhabitants are ethnically different to mainland Egyptians and feel they have been distanced from the government-backed investment and economic development on the mainland. Rural Skeptics &#8211; While in the past year Burma&#8217;s former military junta has &#8220;embraced an economic and political opening that has won praise from Washington to Tokyo,&#8221; Reuters examines how in the farming heartland, home to the majority of the Burmese population, &#8220;change is coming either<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=39406&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melinda Gates Launches Global Crusade for Contraception</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Rauhala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melinda Gates wants to put birth control back on the agenda. In May, the billionaire philanthropist announced she plans to make family planning her signature, promising billions of dollars to promote contraceptive use, particularly in poor nations. Today, at the London Summit on Family Planning, co-hosted by the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K., she put the plan into action, officially launching a $4 billion fundraising campaign. It is being billed as landmark show of support for an issue that has long languished on the margins of development policy. Here, quickly, are three things you should know: (MORE: The World at 7 Billion) 1. This is big. And not just because of the money. Decades of research show, conclusively, that improving access to contraception is good for women, good for children, good for countries. Yet over the past 15 years, support for family-planning programs has plummeted. The redirection of development funds to HIV/AIDS programs explains some, but not all, of the drop. Coercive campaigns like China&#8217;s one-child policy and forced sterilizations in India have fostered suspicion about state-backed population programs. Conservative religious groups, particularly in the U.S., have tried to link family planning to forced abortion. In 2002, President George W. Bush cut funding to the U.N. Population Fund completely, turning birth control into a bad word. The cause has yet to recover. Backing from Gates, a Catholic who is respected by conservatives and liberals alike, could turn this around. 2. This could save lives. A Johns Hopkins University study published this week in a leading medical journal, the Lancet, estimates that contraceptive use prevents 272,000 maternal deaths per year. And yet, according to U.N. research, an estimated 220 million women have an unmet need for modern family planning. The Gates Foundation hopes to address this gap. If it succeeds, lives will be saved. 3. This is only the beginning. Family planning is not a panacea.  The London Summit and the Gates Foundation&#8217;s pledge are positive steps, but it is important to remember that contraceptives alone are not enough. Women need condoms and pills, yes, but they also need to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=35154&#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 3, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internal Shift &#8211; Der Spiegel takes stock of last week&#8217;s gathering of E.U. leaders. Its assessment: &#8220;Chancellor Merkel suffered a bruising defeat at last week&#8217;s Brussels summit after the leaders of Italy, Spain and France ganged up on her,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;Europe&#8217;s power relations have shifted as a result. It looks like Germany will no longer be calling the shots in the E.U.&#8221; Dire Straits &#8211; The New York Times reports Iranian defiance in the face of intensified Western sanctions aimed at stifling its oil exports, with the country &#8220;announcing legislation intended to disrupt traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital Persian Gulf shipping lane, and testing missiles in a desert drill clearly intended as a warning to Israel and the United States.&#8221; Bird Flu &#8211; With all eyes on the election of the PRI&#8217;s Enrique Peña Nieto, Al Jazeera English reports the Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency &#8220;in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry.&#8221; It added: &#8220;The agriculture ministry said&#8230; the &#8216;economic loss&#8217; from this epidemic &#8216;is and will be irreparable.&#8221; Damning Damascus &#8211; A new report presents strong evidence that “Syrian intelligence agencies systematically use torture and ill treatment that constitutes a crime against humanity,” the Guardian writes. The 81-page report, compiled by the New York-based Human Rights Watch, stems from over 200 interviews carried out since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011. Resetting the Agenda &#8211; Reuters analyzes the “biggest task yet” for the Burmese parliament, which reconvenes this week: “Debating an ambitious set of laws to reshape an economy that wilted during half a century of military rule.” Despite being “written off as a sham” when it first opened in January 2011, Reuters speculates that “the new session will be a test of their reformist mettle.” It coincides with reports that President Thein Sein has granted amnesty to 46 prisoners. Maritime Ties &#8211; Australia and Indonesia have “pledged increased co-operation on people smuggling,” the BBC reports, after the sinking of two<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=33677&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why India Is Still One of the Most Dangerous Places to Give Birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nilanjana Bhowmick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, Preeti Singh almost died giving birth. The 22-year-old resident of a village about a half hour’s drive from New Delhi was pregnant with twins and planned to give birth with the help of an untrained midwife. When things went wrong during the delivery, she rushed to three government hospitals in search of help before her family decided to take out a loan for $1,000 to send her to a private hospital. Singh and one of the twins survived. “Giving birth is not easy,” she says. “But maybe if I was taken to a hospital to give birth or a competent dai [midwife] was there, it would not have been so traumatic and my other child would have been saved.” Indeed, with basic maternity care, many lives in India would be saved. According to a 2010 study by the Harvard School of Public Health, 150,000 deaths could be prevented by 2015 if Indian women had access to better family planning and health care during their pregnancies and deliveries. But that medical help has yet to arrive. A new report by Save the Children suggests that, despite India’s booming economy, the country is still one of the most high-risk places in the world to give birth. It ranked India as the fourth worst country among 80 less developed nations in its survey, with nearly half of all births taking place without a trained health professional. “Even though India has made efforts to improve maternal health by encouraging institutional deliveries and taking other measures,” says Thomas Chandy, the head of Save the Children India, “the benefits have not yet appeared to bring about a shift.”  What’s frustrating, advocates say, is that the findings are in many ways old news — India has been trying to improve levels of maternal health for years. Though figures show the maternal mortality rate dropped by 66% from 1990 to 2010, India still has by far the highest number of women dying during childbirth on the planet each year, with 56,000 deaths in 2010, according to a U.N. report<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=29541&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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