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[spacer.gif] Iran, world powers reach nuclear deal [spacer.gif] Netanyahu: Iran deal is a historic mistake [spacer.gif] Guide to holiday shopping, cooking Click here for more information Explore real-time news, visually Marseille, France, hit by rising drug-related violence JEAN-PAUL PELISSIER/Reuters - French policemen check the identity papers with a resident during a control operation in apartment housing buildings at Air-Bel in Marseille, on March 15, 2013. By Edward Cody, E-mail the writer MARSEILLE, France — This was supposed to be the year for Marseille. The gritty Mediterranean port, France’s second-largest city, was appointed the “cultural capital of Europe,” a rotating European Union honor. City fathers launched beautification projects, created new tourism attractions and invited people from around the world to visit. A splendid stone esplanade was laid around the Old Port, peppered with novel sculpture, and a high-tech historical museum went up next to City Hall. A photographer takes pictures of Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spewing lava as it erupts on the southern island of Sicily November 17, 2013. There were no reports of damage or evacuations in the area and the nearby airport of Catania was operating as normal, local media reported. It is the 16th time that Etna has erupted in 2013. The south-eastern crater, formed in 1971, has been the most active in recent years. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello (ITALY - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) Best news photos of the week A quick way to catch up on the week’s news through our favorite photos. Latest stories from Foreign Afghan council endorses U.S. troop agreement Afghan council endorses U.S. troop agreement Tim Craig Delegates at the loya jirga rebelled against Karzai’s plan to delay the signing of the agreement. Karzai plans to intensify showdown with U.S., aide says Karzai plans to intensify showdown with U.S., aide says Tim Craig and Karen DeYoung The Afghan leader signals he thinks the U.S. is bluffing on a security pact timetable; the U.S. has not budged. China declares new air defense zone in East China Sea China declares new air defense zone in East China Sea Chico Harlan The new zone adds another dimension to the feud with Japan over the control of maritime territory. Securing Syria’s chemical weapons may be easy part Securing Syria’s chemical weapons may be easy part Michael Birnbaum Moving the stockpile out of the country and destroying them is proving to be more difficult. Pakistan, India fear more clashes at border Pakistan, India fear more clashes at border Tim Craig Each side blames the other for mortar and artillery attacks that are occurring as tensions rise over Afghanistan. But despite the cultural renaissance — not to mention Marseille’s famed fish soup — all people here are talking about is murder and drug trafficking. In the past two weeks, five killings have been recorded that police say are linked to gang wars for control of hashish sales in the city’s infamous high-rise slums. The eruption has refocused attention on Marseille’s long-standing reputation as a European drug-smuggling hub, a place where entire neighborhoods have slipped away from police control and fallen under the command of gangsters who earn millions importing and selling North African hashish and settle turf disputes with AK-47 assault rifles. “Marseille is sick with its violence,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said. Vowing to squash the drug trade and end the violence, Valls last week dispatched 250 paramilitary and other national police officers to reinforce the usual deployment of around 3,000. The night after they were deployed, with television cameras in tow, another body was found, burned to a crisp with a bullet in its charred skull, the execution method local traffickers call the “barbecue.” The next day, two Turkish immigrants were shot and wounded, and a pair of youths driving by on a motor scooter opened fire with a pistol on a third man, wounding him in the legs. Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin, from the conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), said the city is doing its best to improve the poor suburbs, inhabited mainly by North African immigrants, where youth unemployment is double the national average of 10 percent. But he said ending drug violence in Marseille is mainly up to the Socialist-run government in Paris headed by President Francois Hollande. “We are making great efforts, but the safety of people and property depends essentially on the government,” Gaudin said in a Q&A with the newspaper Le Figaro. “I would like the government to fully realize that Marseille needs to be helped.” Gaudin’s statement underlined the political quotient in Marseille’s violence. The city, along with others across France, has scheduled municipal elections next year. A particularly important prize with 850,000 residents, Marseille has become the target of several potential Socialist and UMP candidates. Moreover, security was a major focus of the conservative former president Nicolas Sarkozy and Hollande is eager to show he, too, can be tough on crime. 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