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Video: Protesters topple statue of Qaddafi's Green Book
Here's a dramatic video out of Libya (via the Guardian and Bill Easterly ) showing a crowd in Tobruk bringing down a statue of Muammar Qaddafi's famous Green Book. The Green Book lays out the Colonel's governing philosophy, including his thoughts...
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Fri, Feb 18 2011 9:34 AM
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Morning Brief: Demonstrations met with violence throughout Middle East
Demonstrations met with violence throughout Middle East Top news: Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, regimes are increasingly using force to respond to the wave of anti-government protests that have erupted in the wake of recent events in Tunisia...
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Fri, Feb 18 2011 5:13 AM
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Ousted Madagascar president to return?
As revolutions across the Arab World are sending autocrats fleeing for exile, at least one ousted president -- far away from Cairo and Tunis -- claims he will soon return home: to Madagascar. Marc Ravalomanana, who was booted from office in a 2009 coup...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011 10:07 AM
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Morning Brief: Bahrain attempts to crush protest movement
Bahrain attempts to crush protest movement Top story: A late night police crackdown in Bahrain shattered a peaceful protest that had been gathering in the center of the capital, leaving at least five people and left hundreds more wounded. Bahraini security...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011 5:10 AM
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In Tahrir Square and the Pentagon: Sexual assault exposed
When one woman made a mistake at work, her boss called her a "stupid fucking female" and spit in her face. She was later stalked, sexually harassed, and raped. Another woman got drunk with her coworker, who was her superior, when she was raped...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 3:05 PM
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Waiting out a strongman in the Ivory Coast
It's been over two months now that the Ivory Coast has had two presidents -- one elected, according to internationally certified results, and one who just refuses to step down. In that time, neither shuttle diplomacy, nor international scorn, nor...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 12:58 PM
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North Korea celebrates Kim Jong Il's 69th/70th birthday
After another banner year of repression, isolation and international provocation, Dear Leader celebrates his birthday today. According to the official account, he was born in 1942 at his father's guerilla base on North Korea's highest mountain...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 9:07 AM
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Uganda's Museveni says he's not sweating 'Egyptian-like revolution'
Uganda is holding elections on Friday and increasingly autocratic President Yoweri Museveni has made it clear he won't tolerate any street protests like those that have swept the Middle East recently: Most analysts expect Museveni to win, though his...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 8:12 AM
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McKinsey: Productivity the key to economic growth
This morning, Foreign Policy exclusively launches McKinsey Global Institute's new report on how to retool the U.S. economy for competitiveness in the coming years. After months of slow growth, and even slower improvements in the unemployement situation...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 6:03 AM
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Morning Brief: Violence erupts at public funderals in Iran, Bahrain
Violence erupts at public funderals in Iran, Bahrain Top story: A second protester was killed in Bahrain on Tuesday as a funeral for a demonstrator killed on Monday resulted in clashes with the police. King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa promised in a televised...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 5:55 AM
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Is the Arab revolt spreading to Libya?
On June 29, 1996, the Libyan regime of Moammar al-Qaddafi put down a prison revolt with deadly force, killing as many as 1,200 detainees in cold blood with grenades and machine guns. Their bodies have never been found, and the Libyan government has never...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011 3:30 AM
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'We'll give you Greenspan.'
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Should an American lead the European Central Bank? That's what Sylvain Broyer proposes in the German newspaper Die Zeit . The original's in German, but I've translated...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011 1:30 PM
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Finance
Warnings for Egypt from both sides of Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Yesterday, FP Editor in Chief Susan Glasser and I had the change to sit down with visiting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko. Like everyone else, he's been closely watching the events in Egypt and cautions pro-democracy advocates there...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011 9:30 AM
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The perils of ‘stability’, Europe edition
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As Egypt spent the last few weeks proving, strongmen are a great means to maintain an unpopular policy status quo -- until they're not. Policymakers in Washington were famously...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011 8:08 AM
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Morning Brief: Iranian protesters gather in Tehran
Iranian protesters gather in Tehran Top story: Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Iran on Monday, forming the largest anti-regime protests since Iranian officials crushed the reformist Green Movement in December 2009. The demonstrations...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011 5:11 AM
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