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Morning Brief: North Korea accused of sinking South Korean ship; Scientists attack Obama's handling of Gulf oil spill
North Korea accused of sinking South Korean ship; Scientists attack Obama's handling of Gulf oil spill Top story: An international investigation into the sinking of a South Korean navy ship, the Cheonan, which was destroyed on March 26 resulting in...
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Thu, May 20 2010 4:59 AM
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Did Kim Jong Il order the torpedo strike?
Which interpretation of the (not-so-shocking) news that North Korea sank a South Korean warship is more troubling: that Kim Jong Il ordered the torpedo strike, or that he didn't? Ruediger Frank , a North Korea expert at the University of Vienna, says...
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Wed, May 19 2010 7:57 PM
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North Korea
Attendees at tonight's State Dinner
Ok all you D.C. gossips, below the jump is the list of attendees at tonight's State Dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderon -- just released by the White House press office. Mostly a pretty standard list of Obamans, Mexico-hands, celebs (Eva...
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Wed, May 19 2010 2:57 PM
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South Korea: North Korean lettering found on torpedo that sank warship
South Korea plans, on Thursday, to disclose the official results of its investigation into the sinking of the Navy frigate Cheonan , but the government seems to be gradually rolling out its findings. Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told assembled diplomats...
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Wed, May 19 2010 2:35 PM
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North Korea
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Pakistan bans Facebook over "Everybody Draw Mohammed" page
Pakistan's government has ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook after protests against a page that encourages users to draw the Prophet Mohammed. The "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page was set up in response to Comedy Central's...
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Wed, May 19 2010 8:38 AM
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Turkey: Obama wanted us to make a deal with Iran
The Turkish- and Brazilian-brokered nuclear enrichment deal with Iran earlier this week was widely seen as a setback for the Obama administration's nonproliferation agenda, and indeed the White House didn't exactly shower the agreement with praise...
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Wed, May 19 2010 8:20 AM
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Diplomacy
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Middle East
Morning Brief: Bangkok burns after military launches all-out assault on Red Shirts
Bangkok burns after military launches all-out assault on Red Shirts Top story: The Thai military launched an all-out assault on the Red Shirt compound in central Bangkok today, arresting the movement's leaders but prompting rioters to turn the city's...
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Wed, May 19 2010 5:47 AM
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Detained militant describes World Cup plot
The timing of Iraq's announcement that an al Qaeda prisoner in its custory was plotting to attack the World Cup struck me as suspicious yesterday, but it looks like Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani did at least intend to attack the event. The AP reports...
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Tue, May 18 2010 4:26 PM
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Terrorism
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Pakistan's India obsession
Steve Coll's new magnum opus for the New Yorker on whether it's possible to negotiate with the Taliban has a wealth of interesting nuggets, but this was the most interesting bit to me (the entire article is not online, alas). Coll discusses a...
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Tue, May 18 2010 9:34 AM
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Nuking the Gulf spill
Navy submarine vet and Columbia University nuclear policy scholar Christopher Brownfield has an odd post over at the Daily Beast on a potential solution for the Gulf oil spill. He begins: On Day 1 of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, my gut instinct...
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Tue, May 18 2010 9:01 AM
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Saudi religious police get beat up by a girl... again
This very amusing story has been making the rounds : When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting...
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Tue, May 18 2010 8:30 AM
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Morning Brief: Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops
Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops In the worst attack in Kabul in recent weeks, a suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S. military convoy and detonated his payload on Tuesday morning. The attack killed at least 18 people -...
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Tue, May 18 2010 5:42 AM
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Can we have a grownup discussion about human rights?
Michael Posner, the Obama administration's top human rights official, has become the latest target of right-wing ire. At issue is Posner's recent remark about Arizona's controversial new immigration law, which he made during a press briefing...
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Tue, May 18 2010 5:21 AM
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Obama's aunt granted asylum
After a decade-long legal battle, President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango -- remembered as "Auntie Zeituni" in Obama's Dreams From My Father , has won the right to remain in the United States. The basis for Onyango's...
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Mon, May 17 2010 2:43 PM
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Nigerian politician arrested with bellyfull of cocaine
The anti-narcotics department at the Lagos, Nigeria international airport is not fancy. There is a waiting room where perpetrators sit in angst; there is a small backroom with dusty equipment. And then there is the stash room, where all the confiscated...
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Mon, May 17 2010 1:15 PM
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