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The Israeli ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after police found him in the embassy, drunk and naked except for bondage gear, with a rubber ball stuffed in his mouth. The Swedish authorities were seeking the power to spy on any email or phone call into or out of the country Israel and Iran have a "mainly negative" influence in the world. Canada and Japan were the most positively viewed countries in France a new law made it a crime--punishable by up to five years in prison--for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and put the images on the Internet The United Nations announced that Afghanistan's yield of heroin poppies rose 25 percent last year. http://www.harpers.org/WeeklyReview2007-03-13.html

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