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[spacer.gif] Republicans in House warming to budget deal [spacer.gif] Interpreter at Mandela service called a fake [spacer.gif] PHOTOS | Notable deaths of 2013 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. People celebrate after the Senate approved a government-sponsored bill that provides for regulation of the cultivation, distribution and consumption of marijuana during a session in Montevideo December 10, 2013. Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday, a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalization. REUTERS/Andres Stapff (URUGUAY - Tags: POLITICS DRUGS SOCIETY) Photos of the day Uruguay legalizes marijuana, Kiev police pull back from protesters, aging U.S. prison population and more. * Tuesday's Photos of the day Latest stories from Foreign Rare snow storm blankets Jerusalem, closes access roads Rare snow storm blankets Jerusalem, closes access roads William Booth The Israeli weather service calls it the heaviest December snowfall to hit the country in 50 years. Mandela memorial’s ‘interpreter’ believed to be a fraud Mandela memorial’s ‘interpreter’ believed to be a fraud Steven Mufson Advocates for the deaf say the still-unidentified man was waving his arms, not using sign language. Winter storm brings new misery for Syrian refugees Winter storm brings new misery for Syrian refugees Loveday Morris In Lebanon, the United Nations and aid agencies are scrambling to help those who have fled the fighting. Ukraine struggles to find footing after police attack, retreat Ukraine struggles to find footing after police attack, retreat Will Englund President Yanukovych appalls the West while displaying weakness at home. Islamists seize Syrian rebels’ U.S.-supplied warehouses Islamists seize Syrian rebels’ U.S.-supplied warehouses Liz Sly U.S. government suspended aid after Saudi-backed faction took moderate rebels’ supply route into Syria. 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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