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		<title>Sao Paulo Officials Reverse Subway, Bus Fare Hike</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/19/sao-paulo-officials-reverse-subway-bus-fare-hike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Bradley Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SAO PAULO) — Brazilian leaders in Sao Paulo say they are reversing a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares that has sparked widespread protests across the nation. Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad and Sao Paulo state Gov. Geraldo Alckmin said at a joint news conference Wednesday that the fare increase is now reversed. However, it was not clear what impact the action would have on the protests that have broken out in several Brazilian cities. The protests have evolved into communal outcries that have moved well beyond the original demand that public transportation fares be lowered. Protests are continuing in Rio&#8217;s sister city Niteroi and in northeastern Brazil.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=90923&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>G-8 Exposes Rift Among Leaders on Syria</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/17/putin-us-russia-positions-on-syria-dont-coincide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Julie Pace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland) — Deep differences over Syria&#8217;s fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad&#8217;s regime. But there were also fissures among the three Western nations, despite their shared belief that Assad must leave power. Britain and France appear unwilling — at least for now — to join President Barack Obama in arming the Syrian rebels, a step the U.S. president reluctantly finalized last week. The debate over the Syria conflict loomed large as the two-day summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations opened Monday at a lakeside resort in Northern Ireland. The lack of consensus even among allies underscored the vexing nature of the two-year conflict in Syria, where at least 93,000 people have been killed as rebels struggle to overtake Assad forces buttressed by support from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia. Obama and Putin, who already have a frosty relationship, did little to hide their differing views on the matter while speaking to reporters following one-on-one talks on the sidelines of the summit Monday evening. The two-hour meeting marked the first time the leaders have met in person since last year. &#8220;We do have different perspectives on the problem,&#8221; Obama said of their divergent views on Syria. The Russian leader, speaking through a translator, agreed, saying, &#8220;our opinions do not coincide.&#8221; (MORE: How Standing Tough on Syria Helps Putin at Home) But despite their seemingly intractable differences, Obama and Putin did express a shared desire to stop the violence in Syria and convene a political conference in Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. officials said they were still aiming to hold the summit next month, though that prospect was looking increasingly unlikely given the deepening violence. It&#8217;s also unclear who would participate in such a meeting or whether the rebels, given their weakened position, would have any leverage if they did. U.S. officials say Obama&#8217;s decision to send the rebels weapons and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=90591&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Anti-Gay Bill Passes, Protesters Detained</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/11/russian-anti-gay-bill-passes-protesters-detained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Mansur Mirovalev and Nataliya Vasilyeva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MOSCOW) — A bill that stigmatizes Russia&#8216;s gay community and bans the distribution of information about homosexuality to children was overwhelmingly approved by the lower house of parliament Tuesday. More than two dozen protesters were attacked by anti-gay activists and then detained by police, hours before the State Duma approved the Kremlin-backed legislation in a 436-0 vote. The bill banning &#8220;propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations&#8221; still needs to be passed by the appointed upper house and signed into law by President Vladimir Putin, but neither step is in doubt. The measure is part of an effort to promote traditional Russian values as opposed to Western liberalism, which the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church see as corrupting Russian youth and contributing to the protests against Putin&#8217;s rule. The only parliament member to abstain Tuesday was Ilya Ponomaryov, who has supported the protest movement to the aggravation of the leadership of his pro-Kremlin party. Before the vote, gay rights activists attempted to hold a &#8220;kissing rally&#8221; outside the State Duma, located across the street from Red Square in central Moscow, but they were attacked by hundreds of Orthodox Christian activists and members of pro-Kremlin youth groups. The mostly burly young men with closely cropped hair pelted them with eggs while shouting obscenities and homophobic slurs. Riot police moved in, detaining more than two dozen protesters, almost all of them gay rights activists. Some who were not detained were beaten by masked men on a central street about a mile away. The legislation will impose hefty fines for providing information about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community to minors or holding gay pride rallies. Breaching the law will carry a fine of up to 5,000 rubles ($156) for an individual and up to 1 million rubles ($31,000) for media organizations. After the bill was given preliminary approval in January, lawmakers changed the wording of &#8220;homosexual propaganda&#8221; to &#8220;propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations,&#8221; which backers of the bill defined as &#8220;relations not conducive to procreation.&#8221; Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89547&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of the Disappearing Gaddafis</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/25/the-case-of-the-disappearing-gaddafis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivienne Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aftermath of the fall of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi continues to generate drama. The current mystery is the disappearance of four family members from Libya&#8217;s neighbor Algeria. In a fresh twist to the outsize dynastic saga, Gaddafi’s second wife Safia, his daughter Aisha and his sons Mohammed and Hannibal have vanished without a trace from their comfortable exile in an upscale seaside community outside Algiers. Safia and Hannibal are both subject to international arrest warrants issued by Interpol at the request of Libya’s new government. So far, there is no clue to where the four have gone. “I cannot comment on their whereabouts,” Nick Kaufmann, a Gaddafi family attorney, told TIME on Monday. “There is no information I can pass on to you.” For weeks, reports in Arab-language media speculated that Safia and three of her offspring appeared to have quietly slipped out of Algeria. When TIME traveled to Algeria last month, officials would say only that interviews with the Gaddafis were out of the question, but refused to say exactly where they were living. The first confirmation that they had in fact left the country came on Saturday, when Algeria’s ambassador to Libya, Abdel-Hamid Bouzaher, was quoted by the Libyan news agency saying that the four Gaddafis had left Algeria “a long time ago.&#8221; He did not say when they had left, how or where they were headed. When rebels stormed into Tripoli in August 2011, the Gaddafis scattered in different directions as fighters closed in on their fortress-like compound in the capital. Aisha’s husband and two children were killed while escaping toward Algeria; Aisha gave birth to a baby one day after they made it safely across Libya’s western border. Another Gaddafi&#8217;s son, Saadi — whom Libyan officials claim played a crucial role in organizing the brutal crackdown on protesters — fled across Libya’s southern border to Niger. Only Saif al-Islam, once Gaddafi’s most powerful son and presumed successor, remained inside Libya. Bearded and dressed in Bedouin clothing, he was finally cornered on the run in the southern<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=77751&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Mission to the Moon: Can a Small Country Win a Big Prize?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/08/israels-mission-to-the-moon-can-a-small-country-win-a-big-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron J. Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confronted with the notion of Israel sending a spacecraft to the moon, as Yanki Margalit was one day two years ago, the high-tech millionaire recalled his options as one or the other: He could laugh, which he acknowledged was a reasonable temptation. Or he could do what he went ahead and did, putting up the $50,000 required to enter Google’s Lunar X Prize international space race. The entry fee was pocket change beside the $30 million it will take to put together the first soft lunar landing since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 returned with some soil samples in 1976. “We were naive,” says Margalit of the initial estimates developed by Team SpaceIL. “In the beginning we thought it would cost $8 million and the spaceship would be the size of a Coke bottle.” The reality turned out to be larger in every way: the unmanned craft Margalit’s team aims to land on the lunar surface before the end of 2015 looks more like a credenza. (MORE: Space Exploration) It’s still a relatively miniature spacecraft, but then Israel is a relatively small country. It’s also one used to punching above its weight, especially in the applied sciences and high tech, where miniaturization is a given. As the so-called Start-Up Nation, Israel ranks behind only the U.S. and China in companies listed on Nasdaq; it also ranks high in time its citizens spend online, which is where the lunar effort started. In November 2010, an engineer named Yariv Bash went on Facebook to ask if anyone was interested in being part of the Google contest. Another engineer, Kfir Damari, saw the post and said he would. A third, Yonatan Winetraub, got wind of the idea, and the three got together in a pub in Holon, a suburb of Tel Aviv. “We sat down and on a napkin wrote the problems were are facing till today — launching the spaceship, the journey and then landing safely on the moon,” says Winetraub, 26. Someone thought to keep the napkin. Much has changed since the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=73545&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Locavores Are Nationalists: Hungary Is Pig-Proud</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/18/when-locavores-are-nationalists-hungary-is-pig-proud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend / Budapest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The light snow that was falling in Budapest’s Szabadsag square on Feb. 9 didn’t stop Dora Gyulai and her friends from wedging themselves into a crowded picnic table and digging their icy fingers into a plate piled high with cured bacon and sausage. Along with thousands of others, the three university students had gone to the park for the city’s annual Mangalica festival, a celebration of an indigenous pig only recently rescued from near extinction. “Mostly we came for something good to eat,” Gyulai said about the animals, a few examples of which were napping nearby. “But I also like the fact that they’re Hungarian.” There’s no doubt that Mangalica tastes good. Thickly marbled with fat, the pigs’ rich, dense meat heightens the flavor of the sausages and stews that are an integral part of Hungarian cuisine. (The Hungarians do not cure the Mangalica so there is no ham to compare with the prized products of Spain and Italy; but in general, while the meat lacks the nutty flavor of Spain’s Iberico — because the Mangalica are not fed on acorns — the Hungarian pork is smokier.) The breed’s revival, like that of heirloom tomatoes and Berkshire pigs in the U.S., is part of a larger food revolution that emphasizes the local over the global, and the artisanal over the industrial. But in a country still grappling with the transition from communism, the pigs have taken on a symbolic importance that exceeds their gustatory pleasures. In Hungary, Mangalica makes an interesting case with which to inquire: When does locavorism become political? (MORE: The Locavore’s Illusions) Short-legged and stout, with thick curly hair that makes them look like pig-shaped teddy bears, Mangalica (they are called Mangalitsa in the U.S., where they have been imported) were once the dominant breed in Hungary and surrounding areas, where they were especially popular for the copious, clean-tasting lard they produced. But the pigs are slow-growing and require ample land on which to roam — factors that made them ill suited to the efficiency-obsessed collective farms of the latter half of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69466&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whoa, Nelly! European Leaders Scramble to (Sur)Mount Horsemeat Scandal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/15/whoa-nelly-european-leaders-scamble-to-surmount-horsemeat-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diners across Europe continue to cast wary glances at their meals despite new steps by authorities to respond to the region’s horsemeat scandal. On Feb. 15, E.U. experts met to prepare testing and control measures for member nations seeking to uncover any other beef-based food products containing horse. That move came just 12 hours after officials in France said they’d identified the French meat-processing company that allegedly sold equine meat as beef to companies producing frozen and fast food. Yet despite all the activity aiming to restore consumer confidence, other actions taken by food-safety authorities may have only increased public concern. On Feb. 14, British police arrested three people suspected of introducing horsemeat into the U.K.’s industrial-food system by selling it to unsuspecting clients as beef. That raised fears the horse-for-beef swindle might be a wider problem than feared — and one that has infiltrated the fresh-meat market as well as the processed-food chain. (MORE: Pony Burgers? Horsemeat Scam Makes Europe Gag) The scandal began in mid-January when authorities in Ireland discovered traces of horsemeat and pork in frozen hamburgers sold as pure beef. The resulting uproar expanded in February when industrially prepared food products containing beef in Britain were also found with varying levels of horseflesh. The turmoil spread to the continent, where supermarket chains quickly pulled beef products of suspect food brands from shelves. Testing has uncovered levels of horsemeat in nominally beef-based products running from 60% to 100%. About 17 Europe nations already implicated in the nag-in-the-nosh flap have launched investigations into slaughterhouses, meat suppliers and food processors. There were hopes Thursday that the horsemeat crisis might soon be resolved. French officials announced on Feb. 14 they’d established that the Spanghero processing company in southwest France had intentionally sold a reported 42 tons of horsemeat as beef to 28 client companies operating in 13 countries. French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoît Hamon said customs labels on meat Spanghero bought from suppliers in Romania and Cyprus clearly stated the meat was horse. Yet records Hamon cited indicate those horse deliveries were later<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69303&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France&#8217;s Lower House Pushes Through Gay-Marriage Legalization — Now What?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/12/frances-lower-house-pushes-through-gay-marriage-legalization-now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France took a big step toward balancing the rights of homosexuals and heterosexuals on Feb. 12, when the leftist-controlled Assemblée Nationale passed draft law legalizing marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. The legislation, adopted by a vote of 329 to 229, now heads to the left-dominated upper house of Parliament for expected final passage in April. From there, the so-called Marriage for All bill will undergo routine legal and constitutional vetting before going into force as French law — probably later in spring. Though first-phase passage of the text was virtually certain, the vote was nevertheless significant for numerous reasons. Politically, it was the first major social reform presented by Socialist President François Hollande — whose promise to legalize same-sex marriage was one of his central campaign planks. Meantime, it saw socially liberal France finally embrace marriage and family rights for same-sex couples that many countries adopted long ago, including some considered more conservative. And after several embarrassing policy setbacks — like the constitutional incompatibility of Hollande’s planned 75% tax rate on incomes exceeding €1 million ($1.3 million) — the resounding lower-house approval of Marriage for All sent the French public the not altogether common image of Parliament’s leftist majority marching in lock step with Hollande’s often more cautious Cabinet to put policy into place. (MORE: Where Does France’s Unmarried President Really Stand on Same-Sex Marriage?) &#8220;This law is in line with a long series of republican reforms for equality and against discrimination,&#8221; said Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault as legislators prepared to vote. &#8220;Contrary to what those who rail against it say — and fortunately they&#8217;re in the minority — this law is going to strengthen the institution of marriage.&#8221; Despite the large margin of victory, bringing the text to vote was a laborious affair — and the fight over Marriage for All won’t be over even once the law is enacted. The legislation remains an issue of contention — even among people who back it — and widened the split within French society over same-sex marriage and adoption<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68676&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Bad to Worse: Economic Woes May Compound Egypt&#8217;s Pain</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/29/from-bad-to-worse-economic-woes-may-compound-egypts-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bad news for Egypt is that the deadly turmoil that has gripped the streets of some of the country&#8217;s main cities since last Friday threatens to grow worse in the months ahead. That&#8217;s because President Mohamed Morsi’s plans to save Egypt&#8217;s sinking economy hinge on a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund requiring the imposition of tough austerity measures that will further erode the living standards of many of those already calling for his ouster. The latest wave of clashes is fueled by multiple, overlapping political crises: a deep-seated mistrust in post-Mubarak institutions, particularly the judiciary and security services left over from the old regime; the repeated efforts by Morsi&#8217;s Islamists to use (sometimes narrow) victories at the polls as a basis to monopolize power; the inability of the secular opposition to reconcile themselves to the democratic verdict of the electorate and their apparent belief that they can topple Morsi like they did Hosni Mubarak &#8212; by protesting in Tahrir Square; and the violent nihilism of the tribal &#8220;ultras,&#8221; who follow the country&#8217;s various professional soccer teams, as well as that of the masked self-styled anarchists of the Black Bloc that announced itself last Friday in a hail of stones and Molotov cocktails on the fringes of Cairo demonstrations. Each element blames the others, of course, but history&#8217;s verdict may not be kind to a political class engaged in a zero-sum battle for the wheelhouse while the economy is listing badly. (MORE: Revolt of Egypt&#8217;s Canal Cities: An Ill Omen for Morsi) The key lifeline on offer &#8212; a $5 billion loan from the IMF &#8212; can be accessed only on the condition of implementing austerity measures that will bring a sharp spike in the economic pain suffered by millions of impoverished households. It&#8217;s the sort of package most governments would shy away from at the best of political times; Morsi&#8217;s would have to implement it amid a running battle for the streets in some of the cities where such measures will bite hardest and whose working-class residents pride<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65386&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chaos Outside Brazil Nightclub Fire That Killed More Than 200</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early morning hours of Jan. 27, a fire erupted at a nightclub in southern Brazil. Nearly 250 people were killed by the smoke and flames that followed &#8211; as another 200 were left injured. It was the deadliest fire of its kind in more than a decade.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65911&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Algeria&#8217;s Hostage Crisis: What Was Behind a Shadowy Militant Leader&#8217;s Plot?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/18/is-algerias-hostage-crisis-a-militant-leaders-effort-to-eclipse-rival-jihadis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day after Algerian forces launched a military raid to end a deadly hostage crisis at a natural gas plant, confusion reigned on Jan. 18 over the fate of the captives and their Islamist captors. Western leaders, some of whose citizens were among the hostages, expressed frustration at having heard little from Algerian officials about the continuing standoff, and some governments signaled alarm over the Jan. 17 operation that Algerian authorities admit resulted in the death of an undisclosed number of hostages. Security officials in Europe indicate that their services too have not obtained or been offered much intelligence on the unfolding crisis. &#8220;The lack of information and secrecy doesn&#8217;t surprise me at all when you&#8217;re dealing with Algerian authorities used to doing as they please, according to their own interests and without consulting anyone,&#8221; says a senior French antiterrorism official who spoke on condition of anonymity. &#8220;When it comes to Islamist situations, they’re particularly rigid in shooting first and asking questions later. We&#8217;ve always considered hostage scenarios a nightmare, because they trap you between maniac extremist kidnappers and trigger-happy Algerian security officials. The margin for people coming out alive in such situations is reduced considerably.&#8221; (MORE: Westerners Kidnapped in North Africa — but Is France the Real Target?) The situation in and around the In Amenas hostage scene was almost as chaotic on the afternoon of Jan. 18 as it was 24 hours earlier after the raid by Algerian forces seeking to end the siege. Algeria&#8217;s state-run APS news agency cited unidentified officials as saying that four hostages — two Britons and two Filipinos — died during that operation, while two other plant workers were killed during the initial Islamist raid on Jan. 16. Scores of foreign hostages and perhaps hundreds of Algerian captives reportedly escaped during the government assault on the BP facility, although the number of abductees freed has yet to be revealed by Algerian officials. &#8220;The operation resulted in the neutralizing of a large number of terrorists and liberation of a considerable number of hostages,&#8221; Algerian Communications Minister<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64556&#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>Where Does France&#8217;s Unmarried President Really Stand on Same-Sex Marriage?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/14/where-does-frances-unmarried-president-really-stand-on-same-sex-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of France’s proposed Marriage for All law granting same-sex couples marriage and adoption rights staged an impressive show of force Jan. 13 by mobilizing up to 800,000 marchers against the measure. But while ruling Socialists responded to the self-described Protest for All with vows to pass the legislation when it goes before Parliament Jan. 29, the size of the demonstration served to illustrate significant divisions within France toward the initiative. Those clashing positions also exist within otherwise united political camps — including what some observers claim is the ambivalent attitude of French Socialist President François Hollande. Sunday’s Paris marches attracted what organizers said were 800,000 very boisterous protesters. Police estimates put those numbers closer to 340,000, though even that more than tripled the 70,000 to 100,000 who participated in an earlier demonstration in November. General momentum around Marriage for All appears to be similarly shifting. A recent opinion poll found 56% of French people backing the legalization of gay marriage — about 10 points lower than levels in November 2012. The same survey found support of adoption rights for gay couples dropping four points to 45%. Despite those evolving views, the ruling Socialists responded to Sunday’s protest by vowing to pass their Marriage for All law for the country&#8217;s own good. (MORE: Is Gay Marriage Too Progressive for the French?) “The government is totally determined to realize this reform — this historic advance that isn’t a victory of one camp over another, but progress for all of society,” said government spokeswoman and Women’s Rights Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem on Europe 1 radio Monday. “We’re taking note of this [demonstration] &#8230; [But] it’s before Parliament that this issue will be debated, not in the streets.” Yet to a considerable degree, that debate is already raging in protest corteges and public meetings across France, where political conservatives, religious leaders and their followers — and even some leftists who all feel the stability of the family is being undermined by the draft law — are voicing their opposition to it. In an effort to undercut<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63712&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Young protesters hold placards on top of a statue at the start of a march against same-sex marriage at Denfert-Rochereau square in Paris, Jan. 13, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>When Palestinians Use Settler Tactics: A Beleaguered Netanyahu Responds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Sunday, several hundred Israeli police officers in riot gear moved on a cluster of tents on a West Bank hilltop. Their target resembled the mainly Jewish campsites that pop up like mushrooms in the higher elevations of Palestinian territory, stippling the ridges that run from north to south across the striking biblical landscape. In the lexicon of a conflict that is fundamentally over land, the camps are called “outposts,” a term Israelis use to differentiate these more spontaneous efforts from the state-sanctioned &#8220;settlements&#8221; that look more like suburban subdivisions. At last count there were more than 100 of each, though some of the outposts have made the transition to settlement, the tents replaced over time by trailers, and the trailers by houses. Technically illegal under the law of Israel, in practice the outposts are typically provided with power and water by the country&#8217;s government and protected by the Israeli soldiers who have controlled the West Bank since 1967, the year Israel took the land with an ease that some Jews see as evidence of God&#8217;s intention that they should have it. All of which accounts for the unusual briskness with which the new campsite was dispatched in the darkness of early Sunday morning — the settlers were not Jews, but Palestinians. Not two days before, some 100 Palestinian activists had set up tents on Palestinian land just east of Jerusalem. They dubbed the campsite Bab al-Shams, or Gateway to the Sun, though the area appears on Israeli planning maps as E-1. It&#8217;s the parcel that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Nov. 30 ordered be readied for transformation into an expansive Jewish settlement that diplomats and experts warned would, once built, effectively prevent the practical establishment of a Palestinian state, no matter that the U.N. had just recognized one in the airy realm of diplomacy. (MORE: The West Bank’s 2012: The Year of the Israeli Settlement) In fact, it was the General Assembly’s Nov. 29 vote making Palestine a nonmember state that stirred<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63533&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland Yard Report Reveals Details Of Jimmy Savile&#8217;s Crimes</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/11/scotland-yard-report-reveals-details-of-jimmy-saviles-crimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the three months since the late British TV presenter Jimmy Savile was accused in a commercial television exposé of sexually abusing underage girls at the height of his fame, the scandal has spread to include other people and institutions. As outrage grew across the U.K., the public’s attention gradually shifted from Savile to his long-time employer, the BBC, and several of his former friends and associates, some of whom have been arrested or questioned by police. But on Jan. 11, the focus returned to Savile when the Metropolitan Police and the leading children’s charity NSPCC released a report detailing the extraordinary number and extent of the former celebrity’s crimes. The report, called “Giving Victims a Voice,” laid out the discoveries that Scotland Yard made in its investigation into Savile, painting a &#8220;compelling picture of widespread sexual abuse by a predatory sex offender.&#8221; The report found that the former star had committed 214 crimes, including 34 rapes, over the course of decades, with the first recorded offense occurring in 1955 and the last in 2009, when the presenter was in his 80s. It also found that the majority of Savile’s victims were female and under the age of 18, with many falling between the ages of 13 and 16. The youngest recorded victim was an eight-year-old boy. (MORE: Jimmy Savile&#8217;s Estate Frozen Following Pedophilia Allegations) According to the report, Savile used the protection afforded by his fame and his reputation for charity work to commit these offenses, which took place at 13 different mental-health facilities and hospitals including London&#8217;s renowned hospital for sick children, Great Ormond Street Hospital. Savile also abused victims on BBC premises, where he hosted radio and television shows, including Top of the Pops. In total, Savile’s crimes took place across the 28 police jurisdictions. Coinciding with the release of Scotland Yard’s report, the Crown Prosecution Service also revealed a review on Friday, that examined the circumstances surrounding the 2009 decision not to prosecute Savile. Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, revealed in a statement that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63327&#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>
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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>Wildfires Scorch Australia As Temperatures Reach Record Highs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia Bureau of Meteorology The heat wave across Australia has spiked to unfathomable levels as the ominously-labeled &#8220;dome of heat&#8221; blankets the continent, sparking wildfires that have caused more than $60 million in damage and claimed more than 120 homes. The average temperature stretched above 39° Celsius (102° F) for six consecutive days, and local temperatures were so high that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was inclined to add a new hue to their heat map &#8212; a deep purple shade &#8212; which indicates a temperature above 50° C (122° F).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=62855&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smiling in the Face of Indictment, Lieberman Steps Down as Israel&#8217;s Foreign Minister</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/18/smiling-in-the-face-of-indictment-lieberman-steps-down-as-israels-foreign-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avigdor Lieberman steps down as Israel’s foreign minister today, five days after being indicted on charges of fraud and breach of trust.  The fiery populist spoke as if he was going down the hall, calling the retreat from office “temporary” and adding, “I assume the break will be very short.”  It may well be.  He is still standing for election to the Knesset on Jan. 22, his name below only that of Benjamin Netanyahu on the joint ballot shared by the Likud party and Yisrael Beiteinu, the ultranationalist party Lieberman founded and rules by fiat. (He retained his Knesset seat but cannot serve in the cabinet while under indictment.) The defendant’s sangfroid, which analysts and pollsters call justified, says a great deal both about the state of Israeli governance and about Lieberman’s place in it. Two of the more prominent politicians on the January ballot carry criminal records from previous terms in office : Tzachi Hanegbi, a onetime justice minister convicted of perjury in 2010, is running with Likud, while Aryeh Deri, the charismatic leader of the Shas party who did two years for bribery, campaigns under the slogan, “He’s back.”  Both are essentially guaranteed seats in the next Knesset.  But then, surveys indicate Israelis expect very little from their politicians. The 2012 Israel Democracy Index found that, of all public institutions, political parties rank dead last for trust.  Only one in three Israelis report even “some extent” of faith in them. “This is something that has been indicated since early 2000, or even back to the 90s, where the whole idea that ‘We’re fed up with you corrupt politicians’ was one of the main motivations for the 1990 campaign for a constitution,” Tamar Hermann, the pollster who compiled the index, tells TIME.  Israel still lacks a constitution, but a watershed public corruption trial loomed in the mid-2000s, when it appeared a prime minister might face indictment while in office: Ariel Sharon was under intense scrutiny for money allegedly flowing into his family from a magnate trying to build on Greek<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60043&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Nobel Laureate Mo Yan Defends Censorship</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/07/chinas-nobel-laureate-mo-yan-defends-censorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Ramzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pen name of Mo Yan, the Chinese writer who will be awarded this year&#8217;s Nobel Prize in Literature on Monday, means &#8220;don&#8217;t speak.&#8221; He says he chose  it as a reminder not to say things that would get him into trouble. At a press conference in Stockholm he followed his own advice carefully, describing  China&#8217;s censorship as sometimes necessary, and declining to repeat earlier comments in support of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never given any compliments or praised the system of censorship but I also believe that in every country of the world, censorship exists,&#8221; Mo Yan said, according to the Wall Street Journal. &#8220;The only difference is in the degree and way of censorship. Without censorship, then any person could on television or online vilify others. This should not be allowed in any country. As long as it is not contrary to the true facts, it should not be censored. Any disinformation, vilification, rumors or insults should be censored.&#8221; (MORE: Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct?) The author of bawdy tales of life in rural China, often centered around his hometown of Gaomi in eastern Shandong province, Mo Yan has addressed sensitive topics of official corruption and China&#8217;s one-child policy while working within China&#8217;s system of censorship. In a 2010 interview with TIME he said he thought such restrictions could be an advantage, as they force writers to &#8220;conform to the aesthetics of literature.&#8221; While Mo Yan&#8217;s Nobel has been officially celebrated in China, his firmly entrenched position inside China&#8217;s Communist Party-controlled system has triggered criticism. Herta Mueller, the Romanian-born 2009 Nobel Literature prize laureate, called his win &#8220;a catastrophe.&#8221; Others have defended Mo Yan, saying it is unreasonable to expect every important Chinese writer to be a dissident, a requirement that isn&#8217;t applied to Western authors. After the prize was announced in October, Tang Xiaobing, a professor of comparative literature at the University of Michigan, described Mo Yan as &#8220;a writer who is widely read<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=58448&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria&#8217;s Opposition Wins Western Backing, But What About Western Weapons?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syria&#8216;s new opposition leadership structure announced in Qatar on Sunday could mark a turning point in the stalemated 20-month old rebellion against the Assad regime. But it could just as easily prove to be another chimerical Western attempt to stand up a friendly regime for an Arab country in transition. That&#8217;s because the impetus for the new National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and the Syrian Opposition has come from foreign powers rather than from the grassroots of the rebellion, and its authority on the ground, particularly with the hundreds of autonomous militia groups, is more of an aspiration than an established fact at this stage. &#8220;It&#8217;s obviously a great step forward for the West and the Syrian opposition,&#8221; says Joshua Landis, a Syria specialist at the University of Oklahoma. &#8220;This group has great purchase among upper-class urban Sunnis, particularly those who have spent a lot of time in the West. But the key question will be whether or not it is able to unify rebel military groups on the ground, which haven&#8217;t been particularly involved in this process.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Syria’s Year of Chaos and Photos of a Slow-Motion War) The National Coalition is a product of Western and Arab backers &#8212; exasperated by the failure of their previous favorite, the Syrian National Council, to overcome crippling factional disputes, much less establish any traction on the ground &#8212; twisting the arms of exile-based opposition groups to accept a new, more representative leadership structure as the condition for continued foreign backing. The Gulf Cooperation Council, representing Saudi Arabia, Qatar and four of their neighbors, on Monday recognized the new group as &#8220;the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.&#8221; The new opposition group, which includes leadership spots reserved for minorities and for representatives of provincial revolutionary committees on the ground, expects immediate recognition as the legitimate government of Syria, and also military assistance to rebel fighters. But before the U.S. and other Western powers follow the lead of the Saudis and Qataris, they may expect the new group to provide credible evidence of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=53675&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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