“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, also known as the ‘Bishop of Corum’

  • “An independent audit of Spain’s banks has found that they will need up to 62bn euros (£50bn) in extra funding. European authorities had already agreed to provide up to 100bn euros ahead of assessments of the banks’ needs.”
  • “Italy’s prime minister, Mario Monti, has warned of the apocalyptic consequences of failure at next week’s summit of EU leaders, outlining a potential death spiral whose consequences would become more political than economic.”
  • “Sometimes the news cycle calls for an angry screed. Now is one of those times. Let’s examine our collective plight. Europe faces economic collapse as the euro crisis deepens, threatening to damage the rest of the increasingly fragile global economy.”
  • “As her country struggles to emerge from decades of military oppression, Aung San Suu Kyi received a vivid insight yesterday into what makes headlines in a stable democracy.”
  • “President Daniel Ortega’s wobbly balancing act between Venezuela and the United States has become precarious after a US decision this week to cut bilateral aid to Nicaragua.”
  • “A Syrian pilot has been granted political asylum after landing his MiG fighter jet in neighbouring Jordan, in the first such defection during a revolt that activists say has left more than 15,000 people dead.”
  • “The US policy of using aerial drones to carry out targeted killings presents a major challenge to the system of international law that has endured since the second world war, a United Nations investigator has said.”
  • “Uruguay – in a bid to curb a narcotics-fuelled violent crimewave across the country – has unveiled plans to nationalise its cannabis market and become the first government in the world to sell the soft drug to consumers.”
  • “On a recent Sunday, a nearly 100,000-strong mob marched toward this capital city’s iconic Angel de la Independencia statue, chanting in Spanish, “The people, quiet, will never be heard.”

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