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Is Google+ censored in China? Not so fast
Whoa, Nellie. Some international press outlets appear to have mistakenly reported that Google+, Google's new social networking site released yesterday, has already been blocked in China. But a handful of major blog websites in China have since debunked...
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Thu, Jun 30 2011 2:49 PM
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Will the AP's new Pyongyang bureau be allowed to do real reporting?
The Associated Press announced this week that it had reached an agreement with the Korean Central News Agency to set up a bureau in Pyongyang. This would make it the "first permanent text and photo bureau operated by a Western news organization in...
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Thu, Jun 30 2011 12:14 PM
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The Race for 2012: Pawlenty v. Isolationists; Perry on Gaza; Tea Party excited
Pawlenty won't name the ‘isolationists' In a decidedly hawkish foreign policy speech this week at the Council on Foreign Relations, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty called out members of his party who "now seem to be trying to out-bid...
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Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:59 AM
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Does women-only transportation work?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Guatemala is now the 15th country to provide all-women transportation, reigniting the separate but equal debate. The new pink buses will offer a safer ride in a country where violence...
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Thu, Jun 30 2011 10:17 AM
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Countries where you could go to jail for calling the president a ***
Just in case you've been wasting your morning reading about actual important things, journalist Mark Halperin has been indefinitely suspended from his gig as a commentator on MSNBC for referring of President Obama as a "***" on television...
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Thu, Jun 30 2011 9:33 AM
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Introducing FP's new eBook: Tsunami
We're thrilled to announce the launch of Tsunami: Japan's Post-Fukushima World , FP 's latest ebook project. It's just $4.99 and proceeds will benefit Japan's disaster relief efforts. On March 11, 2011, Japan's northern coast was...
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Thu, Jun 30 2011 8:47 AM
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Morning Brief: Greece braces for second austerity vote
Greece braces for second austerity vote Top story: A day after narrowly passing a series of austerity measures, Greek parliamentarians will vote again on legislation to implement the plan meant to pull Greece back from the brink of fiscal disaster. Athens...
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Thu, Jun 30 2011 4:47 AM
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 2:46 PM
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Was Obama low-balling the cost of war?
The price tag for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq since the 9/11 attacks is somewhere between $3.7 and $4.4 trillion, according to a new report released today. The staggering figure is nearly four times higher than the U.S. government estimate...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 1:41 PM
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The Arab Spring ... from above
Scenes of protest and war from Bahrain to Libya have become more than familiar over the past six months. Still, these satellite images published today by Stratfor , a risk analysis and geopolitics website and publisher, are striking. The image above shows...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 1:04 PM
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Medvedev's runaway SUV
During a visit to Kazan over the weekend, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's SUV nearly barreled into a large crowd of people after someone forgot to put on the parking break. The president does his best to get the vehicle under control, but the...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 12:08 PM
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Dutch slaughter ban sparks Jewish and Muslim outrage
Just one week after the acquittal of fiery far-right politican Geert Wilders , the Dutch parliament struck another blow against multiculturalism in the Netherlands yesterday with the passage of a bill banning ritual animal slaughter . The bill requires...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 11:46 AM
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A guide to the banking scandal that nearly destroyed the Afghan economy
For the past several days, Afghan officials and the country's former central bank governor have been trading allegations over who is responsible for the worst financial crisis in Afghan history. Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, who ran the Afghan Central Bank...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 10:07 AM
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Thaksin lawyer suspects fraud in Thai election
I spoke this week with Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian lawyer whose made a name for himself in recent years representing prominent business and political leaders who've fallen afoul of authoritarian regimes, including Russia's Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 8:50 AM
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Egypt looks to Gulf monarchies to finance budget deficit
Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan announced Saturday that Egypt will no longer seek loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Radwan's statement came in spite of an agreement reached earlier this month for a $3 billion...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 8:03 AM
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