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		<title>French Soccer Clubs Aren&#8217;t Safe From François Hollande&#8217;s 75% Tax on the Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even people who hate soccer (especially people who hate soccer) may want to consider how the beautiful game has become a battleground political clash over France’s financial future. Because as TIME’s Michael Schuman demonstrates in his excellent story titled &#8220;Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World,&#8221; surging class conflict is increasingly shaping political priorities across the world — and now even staging an unusual pitch invasion in French football. On April 2, France’s leftist government issued a denial that the country’s soccer elite will be protected from Socialist President François Hollande’s decision to hit the country’s top salaries with a 75% income tax. The previous day, the head of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graet, played an unintentional April Fools&#8217; gag by telling the daily Le Parisien he’d gotten government assurances that France soccer stars and their clubs would be spared from a revamped 75% income tax scheme Hollande revealed March 28. Unlike the initial proposal applicable to people earning over of $1.28 million annually, Hollande’s new plan will leave large companies paying those salaries on the hook for the 75% tax. (MORE: France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional) Yet on Monday, Le Graet claimed that pro soccer clubs — which he defined as medium-sized businesses despite their employment of sweaty multimillionaires — would be exempt from the measure. Clearly not amused, the government promptly disabused Le Graet and the public of that idea. As a result, team owners, pundits and fans alike are asking whether those new costs — coming atop heavy taxes all French businesses and employees already pay — won’t further handicap the nation’s notoriously modest pro clubs struggling to compete with their financially flush English, Spanish and Italian rivals. (The one exception at the moment in France is table-topping Paris St.-Germain, which is bankrolled by investors from Qatar.) As a lifelong soccer fan and weekend player himself, Hollande had been expected by some observers — Le Graet first among them — to provide French football an umbrella from his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79240&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The White Stuff: Mining Giant Rio Tinto Unearths Unrest in Madagascar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Hatcher / Fort Dauphin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For five days in January, a few hundred protesters armed with slingshots in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, blocked the road to one of the country’s largest economic assets, a $940 million mining operation run by the British-Australian company Rio Tinto. Their grievances were local: high unemployment, alleged political corruption and unsatisfactory reimbursement for relocating homes to make room for the mine. But the protest’s effects were global and relate to anyone who wants to brush their teeth, put on sunscreen or whitewash their house. Fort Dauphin could have supplied a tenth of the world&#8217;s ilmenite, a mineral used to make titanium dioxide, the white pigment commonly found in toothpaste, cosmetics and paint. The product is a staple of household goods in the West and global demand is growing, especially in India and China. But three weeks after the Fort Dauphin standoff, which ended when the Malagasy military dispersed the crowd with tear gas, Rio Tinto announced a major scale-back in Madagascar. The company is shelving plans for a second — and larger — mine in nearby St. Luce, which leaves only one of three planned sites in operation. The cuts mark a potential setback for Madagascar, where 70% of the population lives on less than $1 per day. The African nation has hydrocarbon deposits, gold and half of the world&#8217;s sapphires, and the arrival of mining companies like Rio Tinto brought the prospect of improved economic conditions. But the protesters in Fort Dauphin say the mine exploited them, a charge the company denies. (PHOTOS: To See the World: Marc Riboud’s Eye of the Traveler) Fort Dauphin is a small stretch of arable land bordered by mountains and sea in southeastern Madagascar. When Rio Tinto moved in to set up its mine, the only land it could offer in compensation to displaced locals had little agricultural value, so the company gave out cash. It had a profound effect on the culture. &#8220;We’re fishermen, we’re not used to handling large amounts of money,” said Hasoavana Mahalomba, 33, a construction contractor in Fort Dauphin. “People were buying cars, TVs, generators, drinking. It was like a party every<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67814&#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>Kurdish Assassinations in Paris Turn a Spotlight on Turkey-PKK Talks</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/10/kurdish-assassinations-in-paris-turn-a-spotlight-on-turkey-pkk-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French justice authorities scrambled for clues Thursday into the assassination of three women in a Kurdish institute in Paris — a crime that appeared to have clear political overtones. Two of the victims were shot in the head, in what Interior Minister Manuel Valls said was &#8220;no doubt an execution.&#8221; One of them was Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group that has waged an often violent Kurdish separatist struggle against Turkey and which has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the E.U. The slayings come at a sensitive time. Turkish media report that the Ankara government has recently made progress toward ending the nearly three decades of violence through unpublicized peace talks with some PKK leaders, included jailed PKK chief Abdullah Ocalan. Such peace talks are not supported by all PKK militants — a strategic division that may have caused a schism within the group. (MORE: How the Kurds Have Changed Turkey’s Calculations on Syria) Reports on Thursday quoted top Turkish politicians speculating that the Paris murders were a result of &#8220;an internal feud&#8221; within the PKK. But that claim was rejected by many of the hundreds of Kurds who gathered Thursday morning outside the Kurdish Information Center in Paris where the killings took place; instead, they blamed Ankara. &#8220;The murder of these three Kurdish women, at this time, is a political crime,&#8221; Berivan Akyol, a worker at the center, told French news channel i-télé. &#8220;These three victims &#8230; represent all Kurds.&#8221; The deceased had apparently been shot Wednesday afternoon and were discovered around 1 a.m. Thursday after concerned colleagues failed to reach them by phone. In addition to PKK co-founder Cansiz, a woman described as a representative of the Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress was among the dead. According to the Firat news agency — which is considered sympathetic to the Kurdish cause — two of the women were shot in the head and a third in the stomach by a silencer-fitted gun. French security officials tell TIME it&#8217;s too early to openly speculate about who was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63122&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Clichy: After 2005 Riots, France&#8217;s Suburbs Are Still Miserable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley / Clichy-sous-Bois, France</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were he alive today, Bouna Traoré would be 22. Instead, he’s frozen in French minds at 15. That was Traoré’s age on Oct. 27, 2005, when he and friend Zyed Benna died of electrocution while fleeing cops. Harassment by the police was common in their rough Clichy-sous-Bois housing project north of Paris, where marginalization, anger and poverty have long festered. Their deaths occurred as they hid in a high-voltage transformer, fleeing police who—as it turns out—were chasing the boys on the logic that if they were running away, they must have been making trouble. The fatalities that resulted after the officers&#8217; ill-fated intervention infuriated locals and set off a powder keg of resentment among Clichy-sous-Bois youths. Their nightly battles with phalanxes of cops set off fires in disaffected suburbs across France—unleashing nearly three-weeks of rioting that left some 10,000 cars burned, hundreds of public buildings damaged, around 3,000 people arrested, and a state of emergency imposed in many areas surrounding major French cities. It also traumatized France: as the smoke cleared, the country was forced to ask itself how it had become so violently polarized into camps of complacent haves and alienated have-nots. (READ: France&#8217;s Restless Youth) Now, seven years after that suburban uprising, Traoré, Benna, and Clichy-sous-Bois residents have finally seen a glimmer of positive change stemming from the violence of 2005. On Oct. 31, a Paris high court reversed years of previous rulings blocking police officers from standing trial for their potential responsibility in the boys’ deaths. For many in Clichy-sous-Bois and other blighted French project towns, it’s the first sign that there can indeed be justice for all—no matter how removed from the order and comforts of mainstream French society their lives may be. “Two boys who died are finally getting their day in court, and so is everyone who has insisted these seven years that there can’t be one kind of justice for most of France, and a lesser kind for us,” says Siyakha Traoré, Bouna’s 30-year old brother, of the ruling. “It’s an important decision for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=58313&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France &#8216;Biggest Problem&#8217; in Euro Crisis, Say German Officials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given their self-appointed role as the European Union’s austerity enforcers, German leaders aren’t exactly troubled by being among the least popular figures within the crisis-rocked euro zone. That’s doubly good, given the German penchant of wrapping tough love within even tougher language—a combo now raising hackles in France after months of it ticking off debt-laden nations of southern Europe. Officials in Paris have been stung by recent comments from Berlin targeting France as the “real problem” in Europe’s continuing debt emergency. Worse still, media reports say German government officials have asked economic advisers to identify urgent reforms the French should be applying—and presumably aren’t—to turn Europe’s second largest economy away from its slow slide towards calamity. What’s German for  &#8217;France sucks&#8217;? (PHOTOS: Europe Rises Up: Day of Anti-Austerity Rage Grips the Continent) “Is France the New Greece?” offered the Oct. 31 headline in Bild, echoing rising German concern about France becoming the euro’s weakest and most dangerous link. That tone isn’t just coming from Germany’s petulant tabloids. Of late, even staid German figures have expressed concern that French Socialist President François Hollande has employed largely superficial measures to address France’s budget deficit, but avoided deep structural reforms German experts call vital to restore lasting health to the slumping French economy. &#8220;The biggest problem at the moment in the euro zone is no longer Greece, Spain or Italy, instead it is France, because it has not undertaken anything in order to truly re-establish its competitiveness, and is even heading in the opposite direction,&#8221; German economist Lars Feld told Reuters Nov. 7. “France needs labor market reforms, it is the country among euro zone countries that works the least each year, so how do you expect any results from that? Things won&#8217;t work unless more efforts are made.&#8221; It gets worse for France from there. Feld’s comments came in a Reuters report revealing German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has ordered the board of economists advising the government to examine ways France needs to put its economic house into order. Responding to a flurry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=54274&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Gay Marriage Too Progressive for the French?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/08/is-gay-marriage-too-progressive-for-the-french/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the leftist government of French President François Hollande initiated draft legislation legalizing marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. But it&#8217;s a bill already generating stronger opposition than many expected in this famously progressive society. Indeed, while the bill unveiled on Nov. 7 aims to fulfill one of Hollande’s more popular campaign pledges, recent polls show support sagging for moves to extend gay couples the same rights enjoyed by heterosexual unions. Some reports claim even the President may be less than convinced about the necessity of reform. The clamor against gay marriage in France flies in the face of a country famous for its supposedly open-minded attitudes on a host of social and behavioral issues. And ironically, that hesitation also comes just as American voters — whom many French consider pathologically puritanical — passed same-sex-union ballot initiatives in three states on Nov. 6. Contrasting with those progressive American election results are comments by French industrialist and conservative legislator Serge Dassault on the same day. Responding to Hollande&#8217;s same-sex-marriage reform, Dassault warned that its goal of giving gay and lesbian couples the same legal status as heterosexual unions meant the &#8220;end of the family, the end of child development &#8230; an enormous danger for the entire nation.&#8221; (PHOTOS: A Visual History of the Gay-Rights Movement) &#8220;Look at history — it&#8217;s one of the reasons for the decadence of Greece,&#8221; Dassault told France Culture radio in comments about legalizing same-gender marriage. &#8220;There will be no more reproduction, so what&#8217;s the point? Do we want a nation of gays? If so, in 10 years, there&#8217;ll be no one left. It&#8217;s stupid.&#8221; Just who’s the prude now, chers français? The French legislation, dubbed Marriage for All, was introduced on Nov. 7 at the weekly Cabinet meeting as the first stop in its journey toward parliamentary debate in January. Its stated objective is to “open marriage to couples of the same sex” and “consequentially also open the path to adoption for married people of the same sex”. Extending same-gender couples the same legal recognition and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=53514&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Algeria&#8217;s Ghosts: France Acknowledges a 1961 Police Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five decades after a peaceful antiwar demonstration in Paris ended in the deaths of Algerian participants, French President François Hollande officially paid “homage to the victims” of what he termed “a bloody repression” by police. That violence marked one of the most notorious — and long-denied — actions by French security forces in the nation’s vicious fight to prevent Algerian independence. Hollande’s announcement Wednesday evening — exactly 51 years after the infamous Oct. 17, 1961 massacre — was cheered by observers who’ve long called on France to recognize what they maintain was premeditated police brutality that led to as many as 200 deaths. But detractors countered that Hollande has saddled the republic with undeserved guilt for the violence — and the moral and civil responsibilities that go with it. Hollande’s terse statement solemnly noted, “On Oct. 17, 1961, Algerians who were protesting for independence were killed in a bloody repression.” By most accounts, that violence exploded after police were ordered to break up the march on grounds that it violated a curfew that had been imposed to deter pro-independence attacks exported from tumultuous Algeria — then a colonized department of France — to the French mainland. According to many historians, eyewitnesses and participants, marchers were set upon by baton-wielding police, who allegedly bludgeoned fleeing and cornered demonstrators. People who saw the clash maintain police acted with such efficiency — and brutality — that their offensive must have been planned beforehand. Those accusers say bodies of victims were thrown off bridges into the Seine by security forces — some while still alive but unconscious. Those accounts have invariably been dismissed by officials as hysterical and false. Police files on the matter have been kept sealed, and independent research and books on the clash were long banned by officials. That willful obscurity is one reason why the death toll has ranged from scores to hundreds (or just two, according to French media reports the following day). For that reason — and even without mentioning the role of police forces in the melee —<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=50393&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain&#8217;s Anti-Austerity Movement Rocks Madrid</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/30/spains-anti-austerity-movement-rocks-madrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanner Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Spanish economy teetering on a precipice, the ruling government of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced new austerity measures—a move that triggered mass protests in the country&#8217;s capital. Led by the organizers of the longstanding indignado movement—which, in many respects, inspired Occupy Wall Street in the U.S.—protesters marched on the Spanish parliament, but were confronted with violence from riot police. Over 60 were injured, while dozens were arrested.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=46977&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Syrian Rebels May Be Guilty of War Crimes</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/19/why-the-syrian-rebels-may-also-be-guilty-of-war-crimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryn Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For weeks, politicians in European capitals and in the U.S. have debated how, and if, they should assist Syrian rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad. The mounting civilian toll — more than 23,000 dead and more than a million displaced, according to the U.N. — has led many to argue that inaction is tantamount to genocide. But the Assad regime, despite the grotesque atrocities it has committed in the past year, isn&#8217;t responsible for all the brutality. A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report sheds new light. The report, released Monday, details incidents of torture, illegal detention and extrajudicial killings committed by the antigovernment militias loosely organized under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Some could be potentially considered war crimes. “Torture and extrajudicial or summary executions of detainees in the context of an armed conflict are war crimes, and may constitute crimes against humanity if they are widespread and systematic,” asserts the report&#8217;s summary. (MORE: Syria&#8217;s Secular and Islamist Rebels: Who Are the Saudis and the Qataris Arming?) Of course, the reports’ findings — a dozen cases of extrajudicial killings and summary executions along with six confirmed cases of torture and scores of illegal detentions — pale in comparison to the well-documented “gross violations of human rights” committed by the Syrian regime, according to a recently released U.N. report. Still, the rebels have a greater responsibility to uphold the very rights they claim to be fighting for, says Nadim Houry, HRW’s deputy Middle East director. “Time and again Syria’s opposition has told us that it is fighting against the government because of its abhorrent human-rights violations. Now is the time for the opposition to show that they really mean what they say.” When confronted with evidence of extrajudicial executions, three opposition leaders told HRW that those who were killed deserved to be killed, and that only the worst criminals were being executed. Furthermore, other opposition leaders said they did not consider the practice of falaqa, beating the soles of the feet, to be torture “because it did<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=45710&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Japan Protests Hit China&#8217;s Capital</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/17/anti-japan-protests-hit-chinas-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Japanese sentiment is no stranger to Chinese public opinion, where the horrors of World War II still fan nationalist flames. Tensions over a tiny archipelago claimed by Japan — the Chinese refer to the spits of land as the Diaoyu Islands, the Japanese as the Senkaku Islands — have heightened in recent months, prompting Japanese businesses to shutter in China and sparking mass protests in a number of Chinese cities. U.S. officials have warned of the threat of armed conflict between the two Asian powers. The following are Hipstamatic images shot by one photographer at a demonstration near the Japanese embassy in Beijing.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=45487&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street, One Year Later: A History in Masks</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/17/occupy-wall-street-one-year-later-a-history-in-masks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Ronk and Olivia B. Waxman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 17, 2011, members of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) started camping out in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan’s financial district, and since then the movement has spread to 1,500 cities. One of its most enduring icons has been the Guy Fawkes mask, popularized by the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta and a constant presence at protests worldwide. MORE:  Occupy Wall Street, One Year Later<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44886&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China: Island Dispute Spurs Anti-Japan Protests</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/17/china-island-dispute-spurs-anti-japan-protests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Japanese protests flared all weekend in major cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Qingdao, and Hong Kong. People came out in force to demonstrate against Japanese claims to a group of disputed islands known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. Tensions have been growing for months between Asia&#8217;s two biggest economies. This most recent spate of protests comes after the Japanese government announced last week that it purchased some of the islands. (MORE: Turf Wars: A Guide to East Asia’s Troubled Waters) (PHOTOS: Anti-Japan Protests Hit China’s Capital)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=45354&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinians Take to the West Bank&#8217;s Streets in Protest</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/11/palestinians-take-to-the-west-banks-streets-in-angry-protests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian demonstrators fed up with high prices and unpaid salaries shuttered shops, halted traffic with burning tires and closed schools throughout the West Bank on Monday in the largest show of popular discontent with the governing Palestinian Authority in its 18-year history. The embattled Palestinian Authority, cash-strapped and ineffectual, scrapped proposed tax hikes in a bid to appease the protesters. Observers fear this discontent could spur another mass Palestinian uprising.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44434&#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/2012/08/31/must-reads-from-around-the-world-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The Global Occupy Movement Makes Its Last Stand in Hong Kong</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/the-occupy-movement-makes-its-last-stand-in-hong-kong/</link>
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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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		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/28/must-reads-from-around-the-world-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pushback &#8211; Syria&#8217;s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem gives his first Western interview since the uprising began against Bashar Assad &#8212; and uses it to lampoon the U.S. &#8220;We believe that the USA is the major player against Syria and the rest are its instruments,&#8221; he tells the Independent. &#8220;You must read well what you did in Afghanistan and Somalia. I don&#8217;t understand your slogan of fighting international terrorism when you are supporting this terrorism in Syria.&#8221; Morsy Moves &#8211; Reuters interviews Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy ahead of trips to China and Iran &#8211; the first by a leader of Egypt in three decades. State-run Global Times barely contains its glee at Morsy choosing Beijing before D.C.: &#8220;Li Guofu, a researcher with the China Institute of International Studies, [said] the trip signifies a major shift in Egypt&#8217;s foreign policy, which used to be firmly in Washington&#8217;s camp.&#8221; The Washington Post also weighs up the visits. Peace Talks &#8211; The Los Angeles Times reports on Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos&#8217; announcement of &#8220;exploratory discussions&#8221; with the country&#8217;s largest rebel group &#8212; the FARC &#8212; to end decades of conflict. His guiding principles: &#8220;We will learn from the errors of the past so as not to repeat them&#8230;the process has to bring an end to the conflict, not its prolongation [and] we will maintain military presence and operations over every centimeter of national territory.&#8221; Regaining Power &#8211; The BBC shadows the Mali military as it attempts to wrest control of the north of the country from Islamist insurgents. When asked how his men could &#8220;successfully take on the well armed and, in some cases, battle-hardened al-Qaeda-linked Islamists,&#8221; considering that, &#8220;earlier this year, they did run away from them, with scarcely a shot fired,&#8221; Colonel Didier Dako told the BBC&#8217;s Mike Thomson: &#8221;We were beaten by the Islamists not because of their strength but because of our weakness. We are working on that and are quite sure we can conquer these areas.&#8221; Maritime Rivalries &#8211; The Washington Post considers &#8220;deep divisions created by China&#8217;s increasingly assertive territorial claims in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42344&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Low &#8211; Boston-based Global Post reports from Daraya, in Syria, on &#8220;what appears to be the single worst atrocity of the 17-month uprising: the killing of between 300 and 600 people, most of them civilians, in a four-day assault on the opposition stronghold&#8230;&#8221; The online outlet wrote the barrage was led by the forces of Maher Assad, the president’s brother, according to the opposition. &#8220;The Assad regime wants to kill every Sunni in Daraya,” one man said. Risky Business &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Kyodo news network reports Sunday the Japanese government is in &#8220;serious behind-the-scene talks&#8221; with the family that owns islands in the South China Sea whose sovereignty is contested by China and Taiwan. The Japan Times, which carries the report, says the government will bid $25 million for the territory, known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and Diaoyu Islands in China, and wants to bring them &#8220;under state control as early as September.&#8221; Indonesian Intolerance &#8211; The Jakarta Globe reports two people were killed and five injured in an attack Sunday on a group of Shia students and teachers in East Java. &#8220;[The community] has been the target of violent attacks and incidents of intimidation in the past,&#8221; it wrote. The paper notes U.S.-based Human Rights Watch recently called on the government to amend or repeal the country&#8217;s notorious blasphemy law, which has been used a further tool of persecution. Will It Only Get Worse?— The latest bad news out of Afghanistan? Insurgents in a Taliban-heavy area of the country burst in on a local wedding and beheaded over a dozen of its guests. Earlier, our Tony Karon explained why the grim situation there won&#8217;t occupy the American airwaves during the final months of the presidential election campaign: no one has a solution.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42137&#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>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realpolitik &#8211; The New York Times explores the battle between U.S. interests and ideals following the death of Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi. &#8220;He extracted prized intelligence, serious diplomatic support and millions of dollars in aid from the United States in exchange for his cooperation against militants in the volatile Horn of Africa, an area of prime concern for Washington,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;But he was notoriously repressive &#8230;” Labored Response &#8211; Reuters reports that an auditors&#8217; probe has concluded Apple and production partner Foxconn have improved working conditions at Chinese factories making iPads and iPhones, but the toughest tasks still remain. &#8220;The Fair Labor Association said on Tuesday local labor laws require the companies &#8230; to reduce hours by almost a third by 2013 for the hundreds of thousands working in Foxconn plants across Southern China,&#8221; the news agency said. Roma Back on Agenda &#8211; The Guardian says France&#8217;s new Socialist government is to hold emergency talks on the plight of the country&#8217;s Roma after a wave of evictions of makeshift camps prompted accusations that President François Hollande was following Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s lead in persecuting the ethnic minority. &#8220;Human rights groups expressed outrage at a recent dawn raids and forced evacuations of caravan sites and squats across France,&#8221; it reported. Sectarian Conflict &#8211; As fighting over Syria spills further into Lebanon, the BBC examines how ethnic and religious minorities within Syria are being drawn into the increasingly sectarian conflict. The Christian and Druze communities, who form 10% and 4-5% of Syria&#8217;s population respectively, had thus far avoided taking sides, but have come under pressure to join the government&#8217;s &#8220;Popular Committees&#8221; which are &#8220;tasked with protecting neighbourhoods from attack.&#8221; But to many, they are seen as &#8220;just groups of pro-government thugs.&#8221; Forgotten War &#8211; The Associated Press considers how the Afghan conflict, once dubbed a &#8221;war of necessity,&#8221; is becoming &#8220;America&#8217;s forgotten war.&#8221; It has been scarcely mentioned in the U.S. presidential campaign trail or in congress, &#8220;even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41546&#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>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/21/the-strongman-who-may-be-missed-meles-zenawi-1955-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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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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