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...with nary a gringo dignitary in sight, Mexican officials carried out a less dazzling - but nonetheless remarkable - operation last weekend that should have grabbed Washington's attention. All 700 of Mexico's federal customs agents, a club notorious for corruption and a less than robust devotion to duty, were booted and replaced with a new force that's two times larger and apparently many times more professional. The 1,400 new agents, said a government statement, passed "a strict selection process that included psychological and toxicological tests, as well as the necessary investigations to ensure they have no criminal record...
...shot of Merkel in a glamorous - and revealing - evening dress was taken during a visit to the Oslo opera in April 2008. Back then, the sight of the Chancellor's décolletage raised some eyebrows and triggered a heated debate in the German media over her "demonstratively feminine" physique. Now that photo, side by side with one of Lengsfeld looking equally feminine, is generating both glee and outrage across Germany. (Read about Merkel in the 2009 TIME...
...Darfur, where at least 200,000 people have died since 2003 in a campaign that the Bush Administration described as government-sponsored genocide. The ICC indictments, the first to be handed down against a sitting head of state, obligate the world's nations to arrest al-Bashir on sight. And yet, he points out, he has attended summits and meetings in seven African and Arab countries over the past few months. "I have not felt [any] restrictions of movement," al-Bashir told TIME in an interview that took place in the colonial-era presidential palace in Khartoum in early August...
...With no bailout help from New Delhi in sight, Air India is bidding to bring its profitable international budget brand - Air India Express - to Indian turf. Air India Express, which has been flying routes to the Middle East and Southeast Asia for the past five years, will configure 10 of its 57 planes for budget flights by September, says Air India managing director Arvind Jadhav. The company plans to increase the number of budget flights a day from 25 initially to 43 by October. Ticket fares will be down 25% making it attractive for fliers. The logic, says aviation minister...
...United States for the next four years. And though Yasin and Royal do not approve of many American romantic customs, they are interested in the possibility of relationships with American women. Sometimes, while trying to accommodate what you imagine to be a people's culture, you can lose sight of the people themselves...