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...worst of the worst": "Among the eight worst-rated countries, one, North Korea, is a one-party Marxist-Leninist regime. Two, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, are Central Asian countries ruled by dictators with roots in the Soviet period. Libya is an Arab country under the sway of a secular dictatorship, while Sudan is under a leadership that has elements both of radical Islamism and of a typical military junta. The remaining worst-rated states are Burma, a tightly-controlled military dicatorship; Equatorial Guinea, a highly repressive regime with one of the worst human rights records in Africa; and Somalia, a failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Nations Are Freer Than Others? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Portuguese offer applies to captives deemed harmless but who can't be sent back to their home countries, which include Algeria, Tunisia, China, Libya and Uzbekistan, because they may face torture and other abuses there. Some 100 Yemenis will soon be sent home and put into a program aimed at rehabilitating jihadist militants, and the U.S. will have to find its own way to resolve the fate of those detainees it wants to keep under lock and key, possibly bringing them to the U.S. mainland to face trial. But what to do with the 60 detainees deemed harmless yet vulnerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal's Offer to Help the US Close Guantánamo | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...meeting, which concludes Thursday when the more than 50 participants meet the Pope, is structured as a mostly closed-door nuts-and-bolts workshop amongst scholars. There are Muslim participants from Saudi Arabia, the United States, Libya, Turkey and elsewhere, representing Sunni and Shi'ite and other major strands of the religion. Catholic experts on Islam are also in attendance. The sessions have been built around the dual commandments in both religions: love of God and love of neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Launches Catholic-Islamic Dialogue | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...stood out from the crowd of post-war Austrian politicians with his good looks, athletic lifestyle and devilish talent for provocation. But he was also a populist and demagogue who played on and amplified his homeland's native anti-immigrant and anti-European Union sentiment, courted Western pariahs like Libya's Muammar Ghadafi and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and even at one point praised Adolf Hitler's "orderly" employment policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joerg Haider's Troubled Legacy | 10/11/2008 | See Source »

...with Israel, can also be ranked as successes. Only hard-nosed diplomacy constitutes an alternative to war, and only an impartial go-between can be accepted by the two parties to conflict in the Middle East. Sarkozy can also chalk up a success in freeing the Bulgarian nurses in Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicolas Sarkozy: At Home Abroad | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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