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		<title>Islamists Set the Pace, But Egypt’s Presidential Race Looks Set to Go to a Runoff</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/islamists-set-the-pace-but-egypts-presidential-race-looks-set-to-go-to-a-runoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Hauslohner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmers and laborers have waited for hours in a long line outside the polling station in the impoverished village of Kirdasah, on Cairo&#8217;s western outskirts, but their spirits are high. Most are here to vote for the same candidate. &#8220;It&#8217;s a rural town so everyone here is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood,&#8221; says Soaad Abdullah Wahab, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27647&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brother of Chen Guangcheng Escapes Village Ringed by Security</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/brother-of-chen-guangcheng-escapes-house-arrest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Ramzy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The brother of blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng has escaped strict security in their home village and traveled to Beijing to meet with a lawyer on Thursday. Chen Guangfu follows in the footsteps of his youngest brother, whose escape from Dongshigu village to the protection of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing set off a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27624&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>David Gray / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Chen Guangfu, the eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, recounts the details of his torture and the authorities' reprisals against his family after Chen Guangcheng's flight last week to the United States. The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his village in northeastern China, evading a security clampdown. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 24, 2012</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/must-reads-from-around-the-world-may-24-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eyes on Iran - As talks between Tehran and six world powers got underway in Baghdad on Wednesday, the Jerusalem Post provides coverage of the reaction in Israel. &#8220;Israel watched the meeting in Baghdad that began on Wednesday between Iran and six world powers carefully, but refrained from commenting on the content because it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27566&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua Press/Corbis</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) meets with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino in Tehran, Iran, May 23, 2012.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Detention of Chinese Fishermen Fuels Anger With North Korea, But Rift Unlikely</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/detention-of-chinese-fishermen-fuels-anger-with-north-korea-but-rift-unlikely/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/detention-of-chinese-fishermen-fuels-anger-with-north-korea-but-rift-unlikely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Ramzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As maritime tensions with neighbors including Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines continue to simmer, China has a fresh grievance with a somewhat unexpected antagonist: North Korea. On May 8 the isolated authoritarian regime detained 28 Chinese fishermen in the Yellow Sea and demanded payments of as much as $63,000 for each of the three vessels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27573&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>© Liudebin(Dalian / Xinhua / ZUMAPRESS.com</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Three Chinese fishing boats, which had been freed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), anchor at a port of Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 21, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>In Nuclear Talks, Iran and the West Agree to Disagree – and Keep Talking</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/breakdown-or-breakthrough-iran-nuclear-talks-hit-a-snag/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/breakdown-or-breakthrough-iran-nuclear-talks-hit-a-snag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A breakthrough proved  predictably elusive in the two days of nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers that ended late Thursday in Baghdad, but it took strenuous diplomacy &#8212; and an unscheduled second day of talks &#8212; to avert a breakdown. Despite sharp differences over what each side is willing to offer in order to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27446&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amid Charges of ‘Policy Paralysis,’ India’s Government Defends Its Record</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/amid-charges-of-policy-paralysis-indias-government-defends-its-record/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/24/amid-charges-of-policy-paralysis-indias-government-defends-its-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 05:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants their anniversary to be a victorious kind of affair. So yesterday — which marked the third year of India’s current government —Prime Minister Manmohan Singh probably did not relish having to spend time playing defense. Though his coalition’s leadership did not miss the opportunity to highlight its accomplishments, it also had to use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27504&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>B Mathur / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Congress party chief Gandhi (R), Indian Prime Minister Singh (C) and India's Finance Minister Mukherjee hold up copies of released report on the completion of government's three years in office, in New Delhi, May 22, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>After Chicago, How Long Can NATO Stay Relevant?</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/after-chicago-how-long-can-nato-stay-relevant/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/after-chicago-how-long-can-nato-stay-relevant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An essay I wrote in the international magazine last week sets out NATO’s existential quandary. The organization wrapped up its biggest summit ever in Chicago on Monday, but it was drowned out in part by the din both of protesters massed on the Windy City’s streets and the incessant hubbub of the U.S. presidential election [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27519&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Action Press / ZUMAPRESS</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[A NATO E3A Sentry AWACS plane rests on the tarmac in Mazar i-Sharif, Afghanistan, May 14, 2012. ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Egypt’s Presidential Elections: Free and a Free-for-All</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/egypts-presidential-elections-free-and-a-free-for-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country takes on its next big democratic test with a presidential vote starring 13 candidates spanning the political spectrum.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27522&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>JOHN MOORE / GETTY IMAGES</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Cairo residents look for their names on a voter registration list at a polling center on the second day of Egypt's presidential election in Cairo on May 24, 2012.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>South Africa: Over-Exposing the President</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/south-africa-over-exposing-the-president/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/south-africa-over-exposing-the-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get one thing clear. Is &#8216;The Spear,&#8217; a picture by the South African artist Brett Murray representing South African President Jacob Zuma in heroic revolutionary pose — with his penis hanging out — good art? No. The pose is striking. But the black, red and yellow coloring is derivative, borrowed not only from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27437&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCaption><![CDATA[The painting, "The Spear," hangs in its Johannesburg gallery after it was defaced by suspected Zuma supporters.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 23, 2012</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/must-reads-from-around-the-world-may-23-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Going Rogue - Despite reports in China&#8217;s Global Times that North Korea had dismissed the possibility of an imminent nuclear test, Yonhap news agency in South Korea reported officials there as saying its neighbor was &#8220;technically ready&#8221; for a third atomic test. &#8220;North Korea will make a decision on conducting a nuclear test based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27454&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing in Action: On the Trail of Confiscated Copies of TIME in China</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/missing-in-action-on-the-trail-of-confiscated-copies-of-time-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Beech</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The note arrived in a nearly empty box sent to TIME’s Beijing Bureau. All copies of TIME Magazine’s May 14, 2012 issue with a cover entitled The People’s Republic of Scandal had been “safeguarded by customs.” Apparently, some customs officer had been entrusted with counting each confiscated copy ; there were, the receipt noted, 62 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27478&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long-Term Uncertainty Remains in Nuclear Talks with Iran</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/long-term-uncertainty-remains-in-nuclear-talks-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/long-term-uncertainty-remains-in-nuclear-talks-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone banking on a big-win breakthrough in Wednesday&#8217;s nuclear talks with Iran will likely find themselves in the same boat as investors who bet on an instant surge in the Facebook stock price last week. If there&#8217;s value to be found in nuclear negotiations with Iran, then — like an investment in Facebook — it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27084&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Hamed Jafarnejad / UPI / Fars News / LANDOV</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, right,  greets IAEA chief Yukiya Amano during their official meeting in Tehran on May 21, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>What Lies? Beneath the Mysterious History of an Iranian Nuclear Site</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/22/what-lies-beneath-the-mysterious-history-of-an-iranian-nuclear-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 18:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the northwestern edge of Tehran, a wooded hill rises abruptly out of the gray low-rise cityscape. The roads meandering to the top are lined with grills and picnic tables, and from the north slope it was once possible to peer through the trees and make out where the of the Physics Research Center used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27416&#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 22, 2012</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/22/must-reads-from-around-the-world-may-22-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summit Struggle - Ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s crunch E.U. summit, Der Spiegel reports that new French President François Hollande will pressure German Chancellor Angela Merkel to agree to euro bonds, which she has so far strictly opposed. &#8220;Italy and Britain are expected to back Hollande in a further sign that Merkel is increasingly isolated in Europe with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27381&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem Day in the Old City: The Conflict Marches On</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/jerusalem-day-in-the-old-city-the-conflict-marches-on/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/jerusalem-day-in-the-old-city-the-conflict-marches-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday was Jerusalem Day in Israel, a holiday once again observed by thousands of young Jews who chanted as they marched through Arab neighborhoods conquered in the 1967 Six Day War. The tension is always highest in the narrow passages of the largely Palestinian Old City. So much so that the city&#8217;s police this year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27067&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Yin Dongxun/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Israeli youth covered by national flags march marking Jerusalem Day in front of Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City on May 20, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Obama’s Afghanistan Problem: Neither Karzai Nor the Taliban Like the ‘Reconciliation’ Script</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/obamas-afghanistan-problem-neither-karzai-nor-the-taliban-like-the-reconciliation-script/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama huddled with President Hamid Karzai in Chicago on Sunday, urging Afghanistan&#8217;s leader to accelerate negotiations with the Taliban over a political solution to the longest war in America&#8217;s history. But the prospect for Karzai negotiating successfully with the insurgents is clouded by a question raised by Josef Stalin, on the eve of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26361&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, right, during his meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, at the NATO Summit in Chicago, Sunday, May 20, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, May 21, 2012</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/must-reads-from-around-the-world-may-21-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/?p=27086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spillover - Lebanon&#8217;s Daily Star reports on escalating violence inside the country after soldiers shot dead a prominent anti-Bashar al-Assad Muslim preacher Sunday. &#8220;The gravity of the incident&#8230; prompted leaders on both sides of the political divide to call for calm and restraint to prevent the country from sliding into sectarian strife as a result [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27086&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>JOSEPH EID/AFP/GettyImages</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Mourners carry the body of Lebanese Sunni Muslim cleric Ahmad Abdel Wahed wrapped in the Lebanese flag (top), the Lebanese Future Movement flag (L)and the old Syrian flag (R) adopted by the anti-Syrian regime movement, as the funeral convoy arrives to Amar al-Bakawat at the entrance of his hometown of al-Bireh, north of the capital Beirut on May 21, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>A Royal Party: The Commonwealth Celebrates 60 Years of Queen Elizabeth II</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/a-royal-party-britain-celebrates-60-years-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 21:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From parades to concerts, and even tea with commoners, 86 year-old Queen Elizabeth II and The Royals are traversing the United Kingdom and across the Commonwealth to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26580&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Lego figures of Britain's Royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II, are pictured on the balcony of a lego model of Buckingham Palace at the Legoland theme park in Windsor, England, on May 24, 2012.  ]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>From China’s State Press, a Not-So-Fond Farewell to Activist Chen Guangcheng</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/from-chinas-state-press-a-not-so-fond-farewell-to-activist-chen-guangcheng/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Ramzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a month now the case of the blind legal activist who sought protection in the U.S. embassy in Beijing has roiled Sino-U.S. relations, and official newspapers have denounced him as a tool of American interests. After Chen Guangcheng and his family flew to the U.S. on Saturday, one Chinese state-media outlet has softened its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27088&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Dennis Van Tine / ABACAUSA.COM</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University in New York City on May 19, 2012]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Earthquake in Northeast Italy Kills 4, Cracks Bell Towers</title>
		<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/20/earthquake-in-northeast-italy-kills-4-cracks-bell-towers/</link>
		<comments>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/20/earthquake-in-northeast-italy-kills-4-cracks-bell-towers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 14:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hinderaker</dc:creator>
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	<mediaCredit>Giorgio Benvenuti / Reuters</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Carabinieri paramilitary police officers stand beside the body of a woman after an earthquake in Sant' Agostino near Ferrara on May 20, 2012.]]></mediaCaption>
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