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Bad year for the coconuts
For Foreign Policy 's July/August 2010 issue, featuring our annual Failed States index, Ghanaian economist and writer George Ayittey put together a survey of the world's dictators and tyrants -- or "coconut heads" as he calls them. Suffice...
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Mon, Dec 19 2011 12:21 PM
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What do we know about Kim Jong Un?
With Kim Jong Il having departed this world for the land of pizza pies and Hennessy -- or something -- attention now turns to his son and presumed successor Kim Jong Un. Like his dad, Jong Un's background is largely shrouded in mystery. But here are...
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Mon, Dec 19 2011 9:53 AM
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Covering Kim Jong Il
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It's notoriously difficult to get a sense of what's going on in North Korea -- after all, the world didn't even learn of Kim Jong Il's death until two days after...
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Mon, Dec 19 2011 8:52 AM
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Two funerals, and Weibo
In the interval between when BBC aired reports of Kim Jong Il's death on Monday and when CCTV and other Chinese state media got around to making their own reports in the late morning, the Chinese Internet was already abuzz with news and commentary...
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Mon, Dec 19 2011 5:47 AM
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Morning Brief: North Korea's Kim Jong Il dies of heart attack
North Korea's Kim Jong Il dies of heart attack Top news: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died on Saturday after suffering an "advanced acute myocardial infarction, complicated with a serious heart shock" while on a train as part of one of...
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Mon, Dec 19 2011 5:44 AM
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The Election 2012 Weekly Report: The Newt Era
Iowa Debate The GOP candidates faced off in Sioux City on Thursday in what will likely be the last primary debate before the Iowa Caucuses. Foreign policy was very much on the agenda. Responding to a question about the downed U.S. drone in Iran and president's...
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Fri, Dec 16 2011 12:20 PM
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Christopher Hitchens: 1949-2011
We were saddened here to learn today that the pugnacious columnist and literary icon Christopher Hitchens has passed away . For the rememberances of the colleagues who knew him best, head over to our sister site Slate where Hitchens wrote the weekly "Fighting...
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Fri, Dec 16 2011 7:40 AM
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Morning Brief: Protests continue in Chinese town
Protests continue in Chinese town Top news: Around 7,000 people in the Southern Chinese fishing village of Wukan attended a funera l for a man whose death in police custody has set off a rare revolt against Chinese government authority. Xue Jimbo, a local...
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Fri, Dec 16 2011 5:28 AM
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Morning Brief: U.S. marks official end to Iraq war
U.S. marks official end to Iraq war Top story: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared the official end to the U.S. war in Iraq on Thursday in a ceremony at Baghdad's international airport. "[T]he mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure...
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Thu, Dec 15 2011 4:56 AM
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Does Mitt Romney 'look French'?
The new superPAC AmericanLP is launching the following ad in Iowa and New Hampshire this week: The ad is brilliant in an evil genius sort of way. Romney, speaking in French in 2002, mouths some platitudes about the upcoming Salt Lake City Winter Olympics...
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Wed, Dec 14 2011 2:51 PM
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China blasts Canada for Kyoto move
It's not a great day for Canada when it's being lectured by China for its environmental policies: "It is regrettable and flies in the face of the efforts of the international community for Canada to leave the Kyoto Protocol at a time when...
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Wed, Dec 14 2011 1:48 PM
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Playmates, Tweeters, and Yetis: Meet the Duma's class of 2012
A boxer, a nude model, a tennis star, and a reindeer expert walk into parliament. It's not the set-up for a bad joke, it's Russian politics. Despite receiving a lower-than-expected share of the vote in this year's elections, the ruling United...
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Wed, Dec 14 2011 12:46 PM
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Morning Brief: Belgian killer's motivations remain mystery
Belgian killer's motivations remain mystery Top news: Belgian police have discovered a woman's body in a shed belonging to the man who attacked a marketplace in Liege on Tuesday with guns and hand grenades, killing four people and wounding more...
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Wed, Dec 14 2011 6:31 AM
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Morning Brief: U.N. human rights chief: Syria should be referred to ICC
U.N. human rights chief: Syria should be referred to ICC Top story: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the U.N. Security Council that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown against domestic protesters "constituted...
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Tue, Dec 13 2011 5:00 AM
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Morning Brief: Syria holds local elections as violence escalates
Syria holds local elections as violence escalates Top news: The Syrian government is holding local elections today as a sign of its commitment to democratic reform, as the opposition calls for a boycott of the polls and launches a general strike. The...
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Mon, Dec 12 2011 5:14 AM
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