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		<title>U.N. Assembly Expected to Approve Syria Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 07:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / EDITH M. LEDERER</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(UNITED NATIONS) — The U.N. General Assembly is expected to approve Wednesday an Arab-backed resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and strongly condemning President Bashar Assad&#8216;s regime for its escalating use of heavy weapons, U.N. diplomats said. But the resolution will not have as much support as the assembly&#8217;s previous resolution last August denouncing Syria&#8217;s crackdown on dissent, the diplomats said Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because consultations have been private. The 193-member world body is scheduled to vote Wednesday morning on the resolution which also condemns Syria&#8217;s &#8220;gross violations&#8221; of human rights, assembly spokesman Nikola Jovanovic said. (More: Syria’s Lurking Terror: A History of Sarin Gas) The Arab group decided to seek approval of a wide-ranging resolution on Syria in the General Assembly, where there are no vetoes, to reflect international dismay at the increasing death toll, now more than 70,000, and the failure to end the more than two-year-old conflict. Unlike Security Council resolutions, which are legally binding, General Assembly resolutions cannot be enforced. But approval of an assembly resolution would counter the paralysis of the deeply divided Security Council, where Syria&#8217;s allies, Russia and China, have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to end the violence. Russia&#8217;s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin has sent letters urging all U.N. members to vote &#8220;no&#8221; on the new resolution. He called it &#8220;one-sided and biased&#8221; as well as &#8220;counterproductive&#8221; given the understanding reached by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Moscow earlier this month to convene a follow-up international meeting on a political transition in Syria. Argentina&#8217;s U.N. Ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval, asked Qatar, the lead sponsor, to water down language welcoming the establishment of the Syrian National Coalition, the main opposition group, and to eliminate a reference to &#8220;the wide international acknowledgment&#8221; that it is the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. She said in a letter, written on behalf of a group of Latin American countries, that they also objected to language welcoming Arab League resolutions on a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86558&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN Report Wants Moratorium on Killer Robots</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/02/un-report-wants-moratorium-on-killer-robots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 02:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / PETER JAMES SPIELMANN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(UNITED NATIONS) — Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input &#8220;should not have the power of life and death over human beings,&#8221; a new draft U.N. report says. The report for the U.N. Human Rights Commission posted online this week deals with legal and philosophical issues involved in giving robots lethal powers over humans, echoing countless science-fiction novels and films. The debate dates to author Isaac Asimov&#8217;s first rule for robots in the 1942 story &#8220;Runaround:&#8221; &#8221;A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.&#8221; (More: Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Human Rights Group Thinks So) Report author Christof Heyns, a South African professor of human rights law, calls for a worldwide moratorium on the &#8220;testing, production, assembly, transfer, acquisition, deployment and use&#8221; of killer robots until an international conference can develop rules for their use. His findings are due to be debated at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on May 29. According to the report, the United States, Britain, Israel, South Korea and Japan have developed various types of fully or semi-autonomous weapons. In the report, Heyns focuses on a new generation of weapons that choose their targets and execute them. He calls them &#8220;lethal autonomous robotics,&#8221; or LARs for short, and says: &#8220;Decisions over life and death in armed conflict may require compassion and intuition. Humans — while they are fallible — at least might possess these qualities, whereas robots definitely do not.&#8221; He notes the arguments of robot proponents that death-dealing autonomous weapons &#8220;will not be susceptible to some of the human shortcomings that may undermine the protection of life. Typically they would not act out of revenge, panic, anger, spite, prejudice or fear. Moreover, unless specifically programmed to do so, robots would not cause intentional suffering on civilian populations, for example through torture. Robots also do not rape.&#8221; The report goes beyond the recent debate over drone killings of al-Qaida suspects and nearby civilians who are maimed or killed in the air strikes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84953&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The War in Mali: Does France Have an Exit Strategy?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/26/the-war-in-mali-does-france-have-an-exit-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s looking increasingly unlikely that France’s military intervention in Mali will be over anytime soon. Despite comments by French officials earlier this month that Paris hopes to begin withdrawing troops in March, it now seems evident the stiffening resistance of jihadi groups in the Sahel — pushed out of northern Mali&#8217;s cities by the French-led expedition last month — will require a lingering French presence for months, perhaps even years. (MORE: Mali’s War: After Surging into Islamist-Held North, Will France Retreat?) Over the past two weeks, French commandos have engaged in deadly combat with jihadi fighters, some linked to al-Qaeda, in the mountainous region in northern Mali. That included a Feb. 19 battle that killed 20 insurgents and also claimed France’s second fatality in the campaign. In the meantime, extremists have mounted suicide bombings, mine attacks and armed assaults in and around recently liberated Malian towns as proof that their capacity for violence and terrorism is anything but vanquished. Losses have been even heavier among forces from regional African nations that have deployed soldiers to reinforce — and eventually fully replace — France’s contingent in Mali. Authorities in Chad say they lost 23 soldiers — and killed 93 Islamists — in recent combat with retrenched Islamist units. The wider threat from regional extremists has been demonstrated in other ways. On Feb. 25, a video posted on YouTube by radicals claiming to represent the Nigerian group Boko Haram took responsibility for the Feb. 16 kidnapping of a French family of seven in northern Cameroon. That brought the total of French nationals held by Islamist groups in Africa to 15, with captors demanding the release of their jailed comrades as well as millions in ransom payments. French authorities refuse to negotiate with abductors and say their activity won’t undermine French resolve to battle the jihadi threat in Africa and beyond. Yet French authorities aren’t abandoning plans to begin withdrawal of France’s 4,000 troops from Mali next month. During background briefings on Feb. 25, officials in Paris said they still hoped conditions would be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=71377&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France&#8217;s Next Move: With Mali&#8217;s Islamists on the Run, Time to Talk to the Tuaregs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The surprisingly rapid advance  of France’s military offensive in Mali has freed all the major towns that had been under Islamist control, and driven al-Qaeda-linked militias back into the desert and mountainous regions in the north. Indeed, France’s intervention to halt extremist militias threatening to storm the entire country has been so successful that French President François Hollande announced a Feb. 2 visit to Mali’s capital Bamako—scarcely three weeks after the anti-Islamist operation began Jan. 11. When Hollande huddles with Mali’s interim president Dioncounda Traoré he is expected to discuss French plans to let troops from neighboring African states take over policing operations of the country with a re-constituted and –trained Malian army, as well as related security, development, and humanitarian concerns. But within that conversation, Hollande is also likely to push a particularly prickly issue with Bamako: reaching out to ethnic Tuareg rebels who joined forces with jihadi militias to declare the independence of northern Mali last year. Though long hostile to allied Islamist groups across the Sahel region, Tuareg nationalists have struggled for decades for more freedom and autonomy. Boosted by an influx of weapons from the looted arsenals of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, they accepted the help of Islamist militias when wresting control of half of Mali last year—only to then see the radicals unilaterally impose their own brand of brutal Sharia rule over stretches of the breakaway region. But with those extremists now scattered and in retreat, calls are now arising for the central government and Tuareg leaders to link up against the common jihadi foe. (MORE: Mali’s War: After Surging Into the Islamist-Held North, Will France Retreat?) “We understand the resistance in Bamako to dealing with Tuareg forces that participated in the recent southern offensive, but the long-term stability of Mali relies on the central government and the Tuaregs negotiating and coming to certain agreements,” says a French government official who declines to be quoted by name. “The Tuaregs made a terrible decision in banding with the Islamists, and Malian anger over the consequences<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=66954&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Westerners Kidnapped in North Africa &#8212; but Is France the Real Target?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/16/has-the-mali-intervention-made-france-al-qaedas-no-1-target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Jan. 17, 2013 at 4:15 a.m. EST Have France and the French moved to the top of the list of terrorist targets? French leaders are taking no chances. They have alerted their constituencies and the public in general to the increased terrorism threat following President François Hollande’s Jan. 11 announcement of France’s military intervention in Mali against al-Qaeda-linked forces controlling the northern half of the country. Tightened security measures sent hundreds of armed soldiers patrolling Metros, train stations, airports and tourist sites across France, while officials instructed the French people to be wary of the increased risk of attack at home — and abroad. &#8220;We&#8217;re facing an exterior enemy and an interior enemy,&#8221; Interior Minister Manuel Valls stressed Tuesday. On Wednesday, Jan. 16, al-Qaeda-allied groups in Africa proved that warning was well founded. News reports indicated Islamist radicals had kidnapped numerous French and European workers — and, the U.S. State Department confirmed, several Americans — from an oil installation in eastern Algeria. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its regional allies have long used hostage taking as a fundraising and terrorism method. Around the same time, Somalia’s al-Shabab militia announced it would execute a French spy it has held for three and a half years in response to a failed Jan. 12 commando mission to rescue him that left 17 extremists and two French soldiers dead (on Thursday, al-Shabab claimed it had killed him). Those developments came after warnings by a jihadi leader in Mali on Monday that by attacking Islamist forces in Africa, “François Hollande opened the gates of hell for all French people.” (MORE: The Crisis in Mali: Will French Air Strikes Stop the Islamist Advance?) All that action seemed to indicate that French anti-Islamist action in Mali and elsewhere in Africa had already set jihadi groups seeking retaliation — with France looming largest in their sights. &#8220;America gets a break from being top target on Islamist terrorists’ lists now that France has taken that spot,” a senior French security official darkly joked to TIME. “Our intervention in Mali will<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64107&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have fled their country&#8217;s brutal and increasingly sectarian civil war for refuge across the border in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The conditions at the Domiz camp may be squalid, but many of the Kurdish refugees have found new hope—having left a fractured nation—in the elusive promise of a new home.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61506&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look the Other Way, Please: What Are Those Secret Talks in Paris All About?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/look-the-other-way-please-what-are-those-secret-talks-in-paris-all-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a week after France brought the last of its combat troops home from Afghanistan, additional developments in the 11-year war are serving to bring the long-awaited end of the NATO-led intervention into sharper focus. On Dec. 19, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced an acceleration of the U.K.’s withdrawal of fighting forces from Afghanistan beyond the 500 soldiers scheduled to depart this month. On Wednesday, Cameron said 3,800 of the country’s current 9,500 troops would return from combat duty by the end of 2013. Meantime, in the northern Paris suburb of Chantilly, the warring factions in the Afghan conflict began a two-day series of hush-hush meetings — talks involving representatives of the Taliban and President Hamid Karzai’s government alike. The pair of independent moves shared a common objective: preparing the ground for a stable and conflict-free Afghanistan before NATO’s current operation comes to a close at the end of 2014. (MORE: Ceremony for Returning Troops Closes French Combat Mission in Afghanistan) The 48-hour string of huddles between enemy Afghan groups generated interest for several reasons — particularly the secrecy surrounding them. The closed meetings were organized in Chantilly by the independent think tank Foundation for Strategic Research and follow two similar gatherings last June and in November 2011. French diplomats say France’s Foreign Ministry supports that private initiative, but is maintaining an emphatic official distance from it. And for good reason: this time, representatives of the al-Qaeda-allied Taliban that continue battling NATO forces are participating in the talks. French authorities are careful to maintain a firewall between the state — any state — and the current discussions that they only agreed to provide basic, off-the-record information on the gathering. Indeed, French officials describe the encounters as a private effort to nurture dialogue between Afghan combatants — and not peace negotiations under any official auspices. All requests for further details were referred to the Foundation for Strategic Research. (Officials there declined to comment while meetings were still under way.) (MORE: The Loneliness of the Afghan President: Karzai on His Own) Why such<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60640&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mali&#8217;s Crisis: Is the Plan for Western Intervention &#8216;Crap&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/18/malis-crisis-is-the-plan-for-western-intervention-crap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s virtually total agreement within the international community that something must be done to force out the Islamist militants occupying northern Mali — an effort to both reunite the divided West African nation and eradicate the growing security and terrorist threat the extremists pose. The best way of achieving this, however, is a topic of considerable debate. There&#8217;s a divide between French officials — who now say a U.N.-mandated operation for Mali will be approved before Christmas — and dubious U.S. officials like U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who reportedly called the intervention plan supported by France and African nations “crap.” There’s even discord on how serious that disagreement is. Though French diplomats cheerfully acknowledge the “inimitable manner in which Susan Rice expresses her positions” on the Mali situation, foreign policy officials in Paris insist a U.N. agreement on intervention is quite close still. “There are 15 members of the Security Council, and at the moment 14 share France’s view,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told French media on Dec. 16, gesturing to the U.S.&#8217;s lone stance. “We’re trying to find a position that can unite everyone.” (MORE: Mali’s Looming War: Will Military Intervention Drive Out the Islamists?) Good luck with that — especially given the increased alarm and hardening cynicism surrounding a political and security dilemma in Mali that features several layers of complexity. That crisis began earlier this year when Tuareg separatists in northern Mali teamed up with Islamist radicals from across the Sahel region — including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) — to rout the Malian army from the area. The insurgency took on greater momentum following a coup launched by army commanders in the capital Bamako, who blamed the rebels&#8217; gains on the democratically elected government. Since then, junta officials have sought to tighten their hold on power under the fig leaf of a “national unity” cabinet including civil opponents. But that heavy-handed hypocrisy has only deepened divisions within Mali&#8217;s society and armed force — leaving the state even less capable of taking the north back from insurgents. During<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60267&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palestine&#8217;s U.N. Bid: UNESCO Experience May Be a Cautionary Tale</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/29/palestines-u-n-bid-unesco-experience-may-be-a-cautionary-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Walt / Paris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas pushes on Thursday for the U.N. General Assembly to upgrade the Palestinians&#8217; status in the international body to that of &#8220;observer state,&#8221; his movement&#8217;s experience of a year of full membership in the U.N. cultural body, UNESCO, suggests that such diplomatic upgrades are not always favorable to the Palestinian cause. Palestine, which doesn&#8217;t yet exist as a sovereign nation-state, was admitted as a full member of UNESCO in October last year, in what many saw as a dry run for this week&#8217;s vote in New York. The Palestinians hoped UNESCO membership would be a platform from which to press for diplomatic gains, but in interviews with TIME, diplomats say that the realpolitik of international organizations has turned out to be far different. &#8220;It has been an extraordinary year, and there have been some surprises,&#8221; a UNESCO diplomat told TIME on Wednesday. For the Palestinians, he said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it has unfolded the way they expected it to.&#8221; (MORE: The World Heritage Hustle: Why Being on UNESCO&#8217;s List Can Be a Curse) Last June, the Palestinian delegation to UNESCO launched its most high-profile campaign since becoming a member, at the World Heritage meeting in St. Petersburg: it sought to have the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem declared an emergency site, a relatively rare status typically reserved for treasures in imminent danger, for example if they are situated in the middle of a war zone. Over the objections of independent preservation experts who saw no immediate threat to the church, the Palestinians won the emergency status, but only by a single vote. Although UNESCO diplomats say the razor-thin victory was a shock to the Palestinians, they declared it a win, saying it showed how valuable their membership to a U.N. body was. &#8220;I have a voice in this new status,&#8221; Palestinian Ambassador to UNESCO Elias Sanbar told TIME on Wednesday. &#8220;This is an active participation. Palestine can now give its opinions.&#8221; But there was no way to put a positive spin on the Palestinians&#8217; defeat at UNESCO&#8217;s executive-board meeting in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56961&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>France Recognizes Syria&#8217;s Opposition—Will the West Follow Suit?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/14/france-recognizes-syrias-opposition-will-the-west-follow-suit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France has become the first Western nation to recognize the newly formed coalition of Syrian opposition groups as the legitimate representative of that war-torn nation. During the first major press conference of his presidency Tuesday evening, French President François Hollande saluted the united opposition formed in Qatar Nov. 11 as the basis for “future provisional government of a democratic Syria.” He also backed its efforts to topple the authoritarian regime of President Bashar Assad. “I announce today that France recognizes the Syrian National Council as the sole representative of the Syrian people, and as the future government of a democratic Syria bringing an end to Bashar Assad&#8217;s regime,&#8221; Hollande said during a two-and-a-half-hour press conference in a packed Elysée Palace. (MORE: Syria&#8217;s opposition wins Western backing, but what about guns?) The move is considered a potentially significant step in the conflict—one that began with Arab Spring civil protests extending to Syria, and evolved into full-blown civil war as Assad tried to suppress the movement with violence. With the significant exception of China and Russia, most governments around the world have called on Assad to halt the ruthless military offensive that has claimed countless civilian lives—some estimates count the 20-month toll at more than 30,000 dead—and either enter negotiations with opposition forces or simply give up power altogether. But until Sunday’s forging in Doha of a unified structure and leadership, foreign governments were largely limited to supporting Assad’s ouster, rather than backing a clearly identifiable successor amid the myriad groups opposing him. Hollande’s recognition of the Syrian coalition seeks to nurture the nascent political resolution to the conflict. Though it’s evident the very formation of the opposition structure largely relied on Western sponsorship, that support had remained qualified till Tuesday. Both the U.S. and U.K. saluted Sunday’s development as a positive step towards an eventual political solution, but stopped short of recognizing the coalition as Syria’s de facto government in exile. Similar vocal support expressed by the Arab League and European Union Tuesday failed to extend full recognition to the new Syrian opposition collective. Prior to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=54425&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What If Space Was the Next Frontier for War?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/03/what-if-space-was-the-next-frontier-for-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>World Economic Forum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a “what if” interview from the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network. To view the rest of the series, click here. While it may sound like science fiction, a number of the world&#8217;s major militaries are already preparing for combat in space. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with TIME, spoke with Theresa Hitchens, director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). She warns that strikes against satellites could push earth wars to a new level. (The views expressed here are her own, not those of the United Nations.) Is there really a threat for conflict in space? We may not be about to see a real life Death Star hovering into view, but we will see earth wars elevated into space. It is almost inevitable that if a major conflict arises between developed powers, satellites will become targets. This was not the case ten years ago, but since then satellites have increasingly been integrated into a nation’s ability to project power and pursue a war. They are used for military communications, for mapping and to guide bombs. A modern army could not operate in a satellite-free environment. This is worrying when you consider that, if a satellite is destroyed or damaged, it is not only the military functions that are taken out: most of them carry out all kinds of essential civilian services, too. What warning signs have you seen already? Three nations have tested anti-satellite weapons in the last three decades: the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s, then China in 2007. The latter shocked a lot of people. China sent a kinetic weapon – a solid warhead – slamming into one of its own weather satellites, causing an explosion which created thousands of pieces of debris in one of the most crowded orbits around earth. The worst part was not the demonstration of capability, as pretty much everyone knew China could do something like this, it was the question of why they chose to demonstrate it in the manner in which they<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=47861&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amid His U.N. Visit, François Hollande Is Haunted by French Economic Woes</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/25/amid-his-u-n-visit-francois-hollande-is-haunted-by-french-economic-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, French President François Hollande probably had to fight off the urge to cast concerned glances across the Atlantic. Because while his speech may have represented Hollande’s first solo moment in the global sun, the French leader remained painfully aware of the foul political weather raging back home — and storms he&#8217;s likely to confront in the perilous weeks to come. How bad could things actually be? For starters, economists expect August unemployment figures due Wednesday to show the French jobless level exceeding the 3 million mark — a dismal threshold not surpassed since 1993. If so, those numbers won’t take into account a flurry of lay-off announcements expected this week by large French companies. Those began on Tuesday with pharmaceutical giant Sanofi unveiling plans to shed 900 jobs by 2015 — a smaller number than feared, though only because Hollande’s Socialist-led government pressured the profitable group to limit cuts. Such restructuring moves by moneymaking and struggling companies alike come ahead of statistics due Sept. 28 that are likely to show French growth was flat in the second quarter of 2012 — the third consecutive period of 0% performance. And there’s more where that grim news came from. (MORE: French President Hollande Embarks on His Own Mission Impossible) About the time the Q2 GNP figures come out on Friday, Hollande’s government will unveil its proposed 2013 budget outlining $38.7 billion in spending cuts or increased revenues — two-thirds of which will come from tax hikes. That belt-tightening aims to fulfill Hollande’s pledge to lower France’s budget deficit from 4.5% of GDP this year to the E.U. limit of 3% by 2014. Yet even that pain may not suffice to meet the target. State auditors have said nearly $40 billion in 2013 budget savings will be needed to fulfill deficit objectives if growth equals 1%. Fully $50 billion will be required if the economy expands by 0.5%. Most economists call 0.5% more realistic — and a tad optimistic at that. The prospect of so much pain<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=46677&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.N. General Assembly: 5 Political Potholes for Obama</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/24/the-u-n-general-assembly-5-political-potholes-for-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blink and you may miss President Barack Obama’s appearance at the annual U.N. General Assembly this week. The President plans to make the briefest visit by a U.S. President in recent memory at the annual diplomatic shindig, holding the quick chat required by tradition with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon before delivering his own address and then hightailing it across town to address the Clinton Global Forum before leaving town altogether. With campaign duties calling, and more pitfalls than prospects on the global scene right now, the President will skip the customary bilateral meetings on the General Assembly sidelines, leaving the likes of France’s President François Hollande feeling a little, well, snubbed. And then there&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who arrives in New York City on Thursday, with unnamed officials of his government having told the Israeli media that Obama turned down a request for a meeting. The White House denies that claim, but don&#8217;t expect Netanyahu &#8212; some of whose previous remarks on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program are being used in attack ads against Obama running in Florida &#8212; to make life easy for the President among those voters who might take their cue from the Israeli leader come November. (PHOTOS: Obama’s Travels: Photos of Air Force One on the Campaign Circuit) The U.S. presidential election, now just five weeks away, will likely shape Obama&#8217;s own address, making it more likely to be a campaign speech rather than a form of diplomatic engagement. Expect to hear strong words on Iran&#8217;s nuclear defiance and some righteous scolding of Russia and China for using their veto power to block Security Council action on Syria. The President will likely reaffirm his commitment to Israel&#8217;s security, and no one ought be surprised if he repeats last year&#8217;s rebuke of the Palestinians for once again seeking U.N. recognition of their statehood claim. But a trickier challenge arises for Obama in honing a message on the recent surge in anti-American radicalism on display in the protest spurred by the Islam-bashing film made in California. That firestorm has been seized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=46128&#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>
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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>Must-Reads from Around the World</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/06/must-reads-from-around-the-world-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bullfighting on Live TV &#8212; Spanish public television aired a live bullfight Wednesday for the first time in six years, reports the Los Angeles Times, after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy reversed a ban on live broadcasts of the age-old sport. In 2006, the Spanish government banned the live airing of bullfighting because it considered showing the killing of animals in the early evening, when many children watch TV, as inappropriate. &#8220;The return of bullfighting to Spanish public TV is a victory for its advocates, who recently convinced the government to reclassify the practice as an art form, protected by the Ministry of Culture, rather than as a sport,&#8221; it wrote. Chemical Hazard &#8212; The U.N. Environment Program warns in its latest report that health and environmental hazards from chemical substances are rising, according to VOA News. &#8220;Global Chemicals Outlook&#8221; indicates that the world is overwhelmed by a growing number of chemicals but only a small portion of the roughly 143,000 chemicals that are produced have been assessed for their effects on human health and the environment. UNEP suggests that the &#8220;sound management of chemicals could save millions of lives and provide an economic bonanza to nations worldwide,&#8221; wrote VOA. Quest for Affordable Housing &#8212; Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Hong Kong&#8216;s top leader, Leung Chun-ying, is trying to make housing more affordable in one of the world&#8217;s most expensive cities. Leung, who took office in July, said he would increase public housing units and start drafting legislation that gives preference to local Hong Kongers over buyers from mainland China to help bring down property prices that have increased by 85% since 2009, wrote Businessweek. Experts, however, note that Leung faces a tough balancing act of introducing more property curbs to stem prices without disrupting the local property market amid the economic slowdown. World&#8217;s Most Dangerous City &#8211; Harking back to TIME&#8217;s cover story on Karachi as &#8220;Pakistan&#8217;s Dark Heart,&#8221; Al Jazeera English examines its &#8220;endemic political violence and crime,&#8221; deeming it &#8220;the world&#8217;s most dangerous megacity.&#8221; Crime statistics compiled from governments, police departments<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=43572&#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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		<description><![CDATA[Pivot Politics &#8211; As Reuters reports U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will take the Obama Administration&#8217;s pivot to Asia to the South Pacific this week, it also analyses expected delays to China&#8217;s first aircraft carrier. But as an op-ed last week in state-run Global Times made clear, Beijing&#8217;s intent is undoubted: &#8220;If a big power wants to become a strong power, it has to develop aircraft carriers,&#8221; wrote Li Jie, a senior researcher at the Chinese Naval Research Institute. Politely Declined -- Israel&#8217;s Haaretz newspaper (registration required) explores why Hamas canceled its participation in Iran&#8217;s Non-Aligned Movement summit, reportedly after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had refused to attend if Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh took up his invitation. &#8220;Palestinian unity was a factor,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;But the bloodshed in Syria is really straining the relations between Gaza and Iran.&#8221; Art Attack &#8211; Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel profiles Chinese artist Zhao Zhao &#8212; who it labels a protege of Ai Weiwei.&#8221;There&#8217;s plenty that suggests Zhao will one day become just as famous as his mentor,&#8221; the magazine said. &#8220;But the Chinese government doesn&#8217;t want another Ai, another globally admired rebel artist. It would rather the young artist Zhao simply fade into oblivion. Zhao isn&#8217;t afraid of those in power, but those in power seem to be afraid of Zhao.&#8221; Assad Optimistic &#8212; Al Jazeera English reports on Syrian President Bashar Assad&#8217;s defiant interview with the pro-government Addounia channel. Assad said: &#8221;I can summarise in one phrase: we are progressing, the situation on the ground is better but we have not yet won. This will take more time.&#8221; Assad also dismissed talk of buffer zones as &#8220;an unrealistic idea by hostile countries and the enemies of Syria,&#8221; and stated it is &#8220;not on the table.&#8221; Thus far, only short excerpts of of the interview have been released, but it will be aired in full Wednesday night. Death Penalty Upheld &#8211; The BBC states that India&#8217;s Supreme Court has &#8220;upheld the death sentence of Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman of the 2008<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42587&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strike Talk &#8211; The Jerusalem Post has learned that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told private meetings that setting Iran’s nuclear plans back a few years to buy time for regime change or other developments would be good, even if Israel cannot destroy the country’s nuclear program. It said Netanyahu compared the situation to the 1981 attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor, when intelligence circles feared they could only delay the program by a couple of years. Sectarianism &#8211; The Times of India reports on the recent exodus from southern Indian cities of Muslim migrants from the country&#8217;s northeast, fearing reprisals over spiraling communal violence in Assam and neighboring states. In an editorial style addition to the end of the article, the newspaper called for cool heads: &#8220;Those who deliberately spread rumors in a situation as tense as this one are no less guilty of fanning the flames than those who incite violence,&#8221; it wrote. The Latest Front &#8211; The Washington Post reports from towns along Niger’s long border with Mali and northern Nigeria, where al-Qaeda affiliate Boko Haram has intensified attacks this year. The newspaper wrote: &#8220;Boko Haram is trying to spread its hard-line ideology and violent aspirations in these border towns, and its fighters are using Niger as a gateway to join up with the Islamists in northern Mali, U.N. security experts and local officials say.&#8221; Contrasting  Elections &#8211; The Associated Press compares the Chinese and U.S. political campaigns over choosing their next leaders, as they both enter the final stretch. While &#8220;U.S. candidates ricochet from one electoral appearance to the next,&#8221; waging &#8220;loud, rah-rah campaigns with a clear timetable as they head toward the Nov. 6 presidential election,&#8221; the date for this fall&#8217;s Communist Party congress, which will determine who will replace outgoing leader Hu Jintao, has not even been announced yet. Assange Asylum Denounced &#8211; &#8220;The UK and Sweden have criticised Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange,&#8221; the BBC writes, &#8220;as the diplomatic row over what to do with him intensifies.&#8221; The WikiLeaks founder has taken<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40726&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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