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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 16, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arming Rebels - The Washington Post reveals Syrian rebels battling President Assad&#8217;s regime have begun receiving &#8220;significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks.&#8221; Opposition activists and foreign officials say the arms are paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the U.S., according to the newspaper. But, &#8220;Obama administration officials emphasized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26495&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu&#8217;s New Government: Warming to Peace Talks with the Palestinians?</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/netanyahus-new-government-warming-to-peace-talks-with-the-palestinians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A flurry of gestures toward the Palestinian leadership suggests that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his new role as leader of a center-right government, is warming toward the resumption of peace talks — or at least giving the appearance of warming; call it a rosy glow rising from a pair of announcements on Monday. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26400&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Oded Balilty / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and newly appointed minister Shaul Mofaz attend the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 13, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Palestinians Mark Their Day of &#8220;Catastrophe&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/palestinians-mark-their-day-of-catastrophe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Hegel McClelland</dc:creator>
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	<mediaCredit>Bernat Armangue / AP</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Masked Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli troops, during clashes outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 15, 2012 during the 64th anniversary of the "Nakba", Arabic for catastrophe, the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their villages during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, an event they commemorate every year as their "Nakba".]]></mediaCaption>
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			<media:title type="html">Nakba Day Clashes</media:title>
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		<title>Rebekah Brooks, Husband Charged in Phone-Hacking Scandal</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/rebekah-brooks-husband-charged-in-phone-hacking-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia van Gilder Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The convoluted saga of the British phone-hacking scandal seems to have been dragging on longer than a back-to-back performance of Wagner&#8217;s Ring Cycle. Yet despite the demise of Rupert Murdoch&#8216;s News of the World, the launching of a public inquiry into British press standards, three police investigations and more than 40 arrests, the scandal has yet to draw real blood. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26416&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Francois Hollande Sworn in as President of France</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/francois-hollande-sworn-in-as-president-of-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Hegel McClelland</dc:creator>
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	<mediaCredit>Panoramic / Zuma</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes newly elected President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace for Hollande's inauguration, in Paris, France on May 15, 2012.]]></mediaCaption>
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			<media:title type="html">The new French leader takes office</media:title>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 15, 2012</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/must-reads-from-around-the-world-may-15-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deal in Nepal - The Kathmandu Post reports that Nepal&#8217;s major political parties have agreed to a future form of governance, with executive powers split between a directly elected president and a prime minister elected by parliament. &#8220;Negotiators from across party lines said that though the mixed model had some weak points, including a risk of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26364&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For China, Economic Growth Doesn&#8217;t Always Equal Happiness</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/for-china-economic-growth-doesnt-always-equal-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Ramzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Bo Xilai, the rising Chinese Communist Party official who was purged in March, gave his last public comments before disappearing into detention, he was wrong about a lot of things. That bit about not being under investigation, for instance. But one line he uttered has the clear ring of truth, and it poses a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26384&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>China Photos / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[A woman washes clothes next to a railway near a shanty town in Shenyang, China]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Can Mexico&#8217;s Presidential Hopefuls Stop the Bodies Piling Up?</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/can-mexicos-presidential-hopefuls-stop-the-bodies-piling-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug thugs dumped 49 bloodied and dismembered corpses on a northern Mexican highway on Sunday, May 13. We journalists are finding little new to say, few fresh insights to offer, about these all too frequent narco-massacres in Mexico and the 50,000 people murdered so far in the country&#8217;s endless drug war. That&#8217;s troubling, because one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26353&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Pressure Mounts Ahead of Iran Nuclear Talks</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/political-pressure-mounts-ahead-of-iran-nuclear-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/political-pressure-mounts-ahead-of-iran-nuclear-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian diplomat Ali Bagheri is reportedly now huddled with his EU counterpart Helga Schmid at an undisclosed location, shaping the agenda for the next round nuclear negotiations that are now barely a week away. Sequestering the envoys may be a prudent move amid the gathering political turbulence ahead of the talks scheduled for May 23 in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26292&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Capture of a Kony Lieutenant Isn&#8217;t a Big Deal</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/14/why-the-capture-of-a-kony-lieutenant-isnt-a-big-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a journalist, Special Operations are problematic. They work in secret and tend to consider the press, at best, an annoyance and, at worst, a hindrance and a danger. In January, TIME photographer Dominic Nahr and I visited Obo, the town in southeastern Central African Republic (CAR) where 30 U.S. special forces soldiers hunting Lord&#8217;s Resistance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26331&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Lord&#039;s Resistance Army commander Caesar Achellam gestures as he speaks to the media in Djema</media:title>
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		<title>More Trouble for Merkel as Pirate Party Raids Its Fourth State Parliament</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/14/more-trouble-for-merkel-as-pirate-party-raids-its-fourth-state-parliament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lee Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany’s Pirate Party, which campaigns on a platform of Internet freedom and political transparency, has entered the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) — Germany&#8217;s most populous state. The party earned 7.8% of the vote, exceeding the 5% required to enter parliament. That showing puts it on par with the Free Democrats, Angela Merkel’s coalition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26322&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Supporters of the Pirate Party react after the first exit polls for the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections in Düsseldorf on May 13, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Where the Wildlings Are: In Game of Thrones, the Anarchists Have More Fun  </title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/14/where-the-wildlings-are-in-game-of-thrones-the-anarchists-have-more-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/14/where-the-wildlings-are-in-game-of-thrones-the-anarchists-have-more-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anarchist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jon snow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wildlings are savages without morals, scruples or loyalties, Theon Greyjoy told us on last week&#8217;s episode of Game of Thrones. The irony, of course, was having the conventional wisdom of the elites of Westeros parroted by a man who appears utterly lacking in those virtues. Moreover, when the captive wildling Osha gets naked and offers to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26177&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 14, 2012</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/14/must-reads-from-around-the-world-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hunger Pains - The Guardian writes that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned Israel of &#8220;disaster that no one could control&#8221; as Palestinian hunger strikers near death. Tony Blair, the Middle East quartet representative, urged Israel to &#8220;take all necessary measures to prevent a tragic outcome that could have serious implications for stability&#8230;on the ground,&#8221; the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26295&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An American in Sudan&#8217;s Nuba Mountains Tells of Sudanese Bombing</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/11/an-american-in-sudans-nuba-mountains-tells-of-sudanese-bombing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I traveled with Ryan Boyette for a week last month in Sudan&#8216;s Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. Boyette is an American and former aid worker who has lived in the Nuba for nine years. He built his own house there and, last year, married  a Nuba woman, Jazira. He has testified before Congress and the National Security Council. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26260&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Goran Tomasevic / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[A woman walks towards a cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan April 28, 2012. Fleeing aerial bombardment by the Sudanese air force thousands of people have abandoned their homes and made make-shift shelters between the rocks and boulders.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Leveson Inquiry: Rebekah Brooks, David Cameron and the Meaning of LOL</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/11/leveson-inquiry-rebekah-brooks-david-cameron-and-the-meaning-of-lol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another series of embarrassing disclosures about David Cameron at the inquiry into British media ethics. As former News International executive Rebekah Brooks appeared at the inquiry helmed by Justice Brian Leveson on Friday, she kicked off the day poised and confident. It’s almost a certainty that, elsewhere, the British Prime Minister wasn’t feeling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26254&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Former Chief Executive Of News International Rebekah Brooks Gives Evidence To The Leveson Inquiry</media:title>
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		<title>Why Did Michele Bachmann Flip-Flop on Being a Swiss Citizen?</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/11/why-did-michele-bachmann-flip-flop-on-being-a-swiss-citizen/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/11/why-did-michele-bachmann-flip-flop-on-being-a-swiss-citizen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bachmann</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dual citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michelle bachmann]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a difference two days make, especially in the tumultuous life of Republican Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. On Wednesday, May 9, Bachmann [no relation to the article's author] announced that she had become a citizen of Switzerland several weeks earlier, using her husband Marcus’ U.S.-Swiss dual nationality to secure fast-track naturalization. She added [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26257&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 11, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fruit Flare-Up  &#8211; China&#8217;s turned to a new weapon in its dispute with the Philippines over contested South China Sea islands. State-run People&#8217;s Daily gleefully reports that &#8220;fruit from the Philippines will receive stricter inspections for harmful organisms at Chinese borders, a potential setback for exporters from the country.&#8221; Meanwhile, the Philippine Star says the Philippine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26218&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Prime Minister and the Spin Doctor: Andy Coulson Appears Before Leveson Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/10/the-prime-minister-and-the-spin-doctor-andy-coulson-appears-before-leveson-inquiry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has already admitted that he, along with many politicians across parties, has gotten far too close to the press. It’s an honest statement but, unfortunately for his credibility, it doesn’t seem that it’s been well received. The latest YouGov/Sun approval polls have Cameron’s Conservative Party at 30%, while the opposing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26179&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Greece and France: Europe&#8217;s Revolt Against Austerity</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/10/after-greece-and-france-europes-revolt-against-austerity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a piece in the dead-tree TIME this week that looks at the election of François Hollande in France and connects it to the democratic revolt happening in Greece. What do they have in common? Both are reactions to the increasingly discredited — or at the very least disliked — austerity policies that have been put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26105&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Hugo Chávez Preparing Venezuela for His Departure?</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/10/is-hugo-chavez-preparing-venezuela-for-his-departure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Get your personal affairs in order.&#8221; It’s the hardest thing doctors have to tell cancer patients who are as ill as media reports suggest Hugo Chávez is. With an election looming in less than five months, the 57-year-old Venezuelan President would also need to get his political affairs in order — and many believe the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26147&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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