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Drug epidemic grips India's Punjab state Jan 1st 2013, 12:10 MAQBOOLPURA, India — A boy just 12 years old was offering opium and hashish on a scrubby patch of land outside this village on a recent day. His cellphone rang incessantly as he proudly related that he earned hundreds of dollars a month dealing drugs and playing cards. Read full article >> In New Year's speech, N. Korea's Kim says he wants peace with South Jan 1st 2013, 08:15 SEOUL — In a domestically televised New Year's Day speech, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Eun said he wanted to "remove confrontation" on this divided peninsula and called on "anti-reunification forces" in South Korea to cease their hostility toward the North. Read full article >> Excess-profits tax on defense contractors during wartime is long overdue Jan 1st 2013, 04:07 No one can safely predict what will happen in 2013, but here are a few things I would like to see occur when it comes to national security. My most radical idea — and it should have been done 10 years ago — is for an excess-profits tax on defense contractors while we have troops fighting overseas. As I have often noted, Afghanistan and Iraq are the first U.S. wars in which taxes were not raised to pay for the fighting. Instead, the cost has been put on a credit card. Read full article >> Israel eases some restrictions on Gaza Jan 1st 2013, 02:02 JERUSALEM — After more than five weeks of calm on its border with Gaza, Israel is allowing more building materials into the territory and considering easing other restrictions as part of an Egypt-brokered cease-fire with Hamas that ended an eight-day conflict in November, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. Read full article >>

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