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Quiz: Which country has the highest percentage of its population in a DNA database?
For those of you who don't subscribe to the bimonthly print edition of Foreign Policy , you're missing a great feature: the FP Quiz. It has eight intriguing questions about how the world works. The question I'd like to highlight this week...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 3:35 PM
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FP Passport
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Drugs & Crime
Puttin' those pirates on trial!
Ah pirates. They're back in the news. Yes, they're still rounding up ships. And yes, the multilateral naval effort to stop them in the Gulf of Aden is still on the prowl. But today, U.S. assistant secretary for political-military affairs, Andrew...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 2:44 PM
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FP Passport
Colombian hostage released after 12 years
Pablo Emilio Moncayo, a soldier, was only 19 when he was kidnapped by the leftists Colombian rebel group FARC. Last night, at age 32, he was released. He looks to be in good health, with only a minor parasitic condition . It's pretty unimaginable...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 1:50 PM
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FP Passport
Or maybe it's all Georgia's fault...
Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia's security council and former director of the FSB, isn't saying that Georgia's behind this week's terrorist attacks, but you never know: “All theories have to be checked. For example, there is Georgia...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 1:24 PM
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FP Passport
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Russia
Live at 3 p.m. EST: A Conversation with Hugh Pope, author of "Dining With al Qaeda"
Hugh Pope’s recently released book Dining with al-Qaeda is a memoir of three decades spent in the Middle East, starting as a naive and romantic student of Persian and Arabic, learning the hard way about the region's concrete cities, wars and dislocation...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 11:46 AM
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FP Passport
Another hate speech controversy for ANC youth leader
Two weeks ago, Julius Malema, leader of the South African ANC's youth wing, was convicted of hate speech for speculating that the woman who had accused President Jacob Zuma of rape had actually had a "nice time" because she stayed for breakfast...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 10:53 AM
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FP Passport
Safer subways: easier said than done
The BBC's Richard Galpin editorializes on this week's subway bombing in Moscow: Given the size of the Moscow Metro, the number of people who use it and the history of previous militants' attacks on this iconic transport system, the authorities...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 9:46 AM
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FP Passport
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Terrorism
Morning Brief: Week of violence continues in Russia with Dagestan bombing
Week of violence continues in Russia with Dagestan bombing Top news: A double suicide bombing targeting police in Russia's southern province of Dagestan killed at least 12 people, just two days after suicide bombings killed 39 in the Moscow Metro...
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Wed, Mar 31 2010 5:34 AM
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Morning Brief
Beware pundits ignoring chronology
Roger Cohen engages in some egregious rhetorical sleight of hand here : Already, there are shifts in Israeli attitudes as a result of the new American clarity. Last year, Netanyahu described Iran’s leaders as “a messianic apocalyptic cult,” which was...
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Tue, Mar 30 2010 8:09 PM
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FP Passport
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Middle East
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Obama Administration
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Nukes
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Iran
The mystery of Iran's nuclear defector
ABC News today published an "exclusive" scoop saying that an Iranian nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, has defected to the United States with the assistance of the CIA. Except, er, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported the defection back in...
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Tue, Mar 30 2010 7:37 PM
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FP Passport
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Obama Administration
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Intelligence
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Nukes
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Iran
Blair's gaffe
In a speech today at a Labour Party rally held in his old constituency of Sedgefield, former Prime Minister Tony Blair publicly threw his weight behind incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown. While some may have been surprised or even amused by Blair's...
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Tue, Mar 30 2010 11:57 AM
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Britain
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What's the definition of war criminal?
At a Monday lecture in Los Angeles, Bush presidential advisor Karl Rove was given a very, very warm welcome . Audience members called him a war criminal and yelled that he would "rot in hell." One member of activist group Code Pink even approached...
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Tue, Mar 30 2010 9:54 AM
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Law
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Politics
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Bush Administration
Sarkozy blunt on U.S. healthcare reform
French President Nicolas Sarkozy seemed to break diplomatic protocol during a talk at Columbia University yesterday evening. Claiming he was going to "speak from the heart," Sarkozy toed a very fine line between personal commentary and interference...
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Tue, Mar 30 2010 9:17 AM
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FP Passport
The difference between Putin and Medvedev
Ever wonder why Vladimir Putin is so much more popular in Russia than his presidential successor, Dmitry Medvedev? Their reactions to yesterday's subway bombings in Moscow shows why. Putin said he'd like to "drag out of the sewer" the...
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Tue, Mar 30 2010 8:11 AM
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FP Passport
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Terrorism
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Russia
Morning Brief: Russia mourns 38 left dead in terrorist bombing
Russia mourns 38 left dead in terrorist bombing Top Story: In the wake of a double suicide bombing in the Russian subway system at rush hour, an attack that killed at least three dozen and injured more than a hundred, Russian security forces weighed a...
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Tue, Mar 30 2010 6:07 AM
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FP Passport
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Morning Brief
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