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Ambassador: EU decision "might be moving Serbia in the wrong direction"
Amid all the other chaos engulfing the EU today, the body also made a surprising decision regarding it's possible future members in the Balkans. Croatia was granted an accession treaty, putting it on the path to EU membership in 2013, but a decision...
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Fri, Dec 09 2011 3:15 PM
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FP's Global Thinkers in the news
It's been almost two weeks since Foreign Policy released its Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2011 , and while the year is nearly up, many members of the list are continuing to make headlines. Russian anti-corruption blogger Alexey Navalny was arrested...
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Fri, Dec 09 2011 3:14 PM
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Egypt
About that al-Shabab rebranding ...
On Thursday, we noted that Somalia's al-Shabab had joined Twitter amidst reports that it was considering changing its name to reflect the fact that its members aren't as young as they used to be (al-Shabab means "the youth"). Echoing...
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Fri, Dec 09 2011 11:24 AM
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The Election 2012 Weekly Report: Next Year in Jerusalem?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Israel Primary: The main foreign-policy event of the campaign week was a forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition, during which six of the GOP candidates attacked the administration's policies...
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Fri, Dec 09 2011 9:37 AM
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2012 Election Poster 1
Morning Brief: European countries agree to deficit deal, but Britain sits out
European countries agree to deficit deal, but Britain sits out Top news: European leaders agreed to a deal to impose stricter fiscal and financial discipline in an effort to rescue the eurozone, but Britain will not sign it, making it unclear how the...
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Fri, Dec 09 2011 5:27 AM
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Somalia's al-Shabab militants rebrand
Want a play-by-play of the battles al-Shabab militants are waging today with Kenyan forces in southern Somalia and Somali troops in Mogadishu ? Look no further than al-Shabab's Twitter feed, which launched yesterday with a quote from the Koran ("in...
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Thu, Dec 08 2011 2:47 PM
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Move an embassy, drill baby drill, or repeal Obamacare? How the GOP candidates plan to spend their first day in office.
My attention was struck by this tweet today from Newt Gingrich: "My first day in office, I will move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel's chosen place, Jerusalem." Putting aside the wisdom of that decision, is this symbolic gesture really...
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Thu, Dec 08 2011 2:42 PM
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Morning Brief: Putin accuses U.S. of meddling in election protests
Putin accuses U.S. of meddling in election protests Top story: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the United States had helped orchestrate the protests in Russia over the results of the recent parliamentary election. Secretary of State Hillary...
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Thu, Dec 08 2011 5:03 AM
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Gorbachev's long journey to anti-Putinism
As has been widely reported today , former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has called for a re-vote in Russia's parliamentary elections, saying, "The country's leaders must admit there were numerous falsifications and rigging and the results...
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Wed, Dec 07 2011 1:31 PM
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The mystery of Medvedev's raunchy retweet
We've had a number of posts here on Dmitry Medvedev's forays into social media. But the techy-savvy Russian president made an uncharacteristic Twitter error last night ... or was it? Guardian correspondent and past FP contributor Miriam Elder...
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Wed, Dec 07 2011 9:16 AM
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Bachmann: 50 percent of Mexico's population has moved north of the border
Michele Bachmann is taking some flack for this Bill O'Reilly interview in which she raises no objections to the notion of "dragging [illegal immigrants] out, putting them on a bus with their children’s crying," but she also makes one whopper...
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Wed, Dec 07 2011 8:38 AM
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The India subtext in the Veena Malik nude cover controversy
Last week we brought you the news that the men's lifestyle magazine FHM India had stoked controversy with a cover featuring Pakistani actress Veena Malik, fully nude and seemingly taunting Pakistan's forbidding spy agency with an ISI tattoo on...
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Wed, Dec 07 2011 7:51 AM
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Who made the worst predictions for 2011?
The clock is winding down on 2011, which means it's time to take a look back at who got it very, very wrong this year. Consider this a call for nominations for the 10 Worst Predictions for 2011 list. You can check out last year's list here, which...
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Wed, Dec 07 2011 7:43 AM
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Morning Brief: Syria's Assad denies deadly crackdown on protesters
Syria's Assad denies deadly crackdown on protesters Top news: In excerpts of an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters aired on Wednesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad dismissed the charge that he has orchestrated a bloody crackdown on anti...
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Wed, Dec 07 2011 5:27 AM
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Huntsman backtracks on trust in climate science
Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman turned heads today when he declared at a Heritage Foundation event that there are "questions about the validity of" climate science and "not enough information right now to be able to formulate...
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Tue, Dec 06 2011 1:11 PM
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Election 2012
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2012 Election Poster 1
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