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Cuba embargo turns 50
50 years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order embargoing all trade with Fidel Castro's Cuba: Whereas the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Serving as Organ of Consultation in Application...
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Wed, Feb 08 2012 8:13 AM
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Morning Brief: Homs assault persists as Russia pursues diplomacy
Homs assault persists as Russia pursues diplomacy Top story: Syrian forces are bombarding the city of Homs for a fifth straight day, not long after President Bashar al-Assad met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss the conflict. Lavrov...
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Wed, Feb 08 2012 5:20 AM
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Russian space debris fears shut down Shanghai airport
Via China Digital Times , Shanghai Daily reports that fears about debris from a destroyed Russian Mars probe forced the temporary shutdown of two Shanghai airports last month: SOME 17 flights were told to defer landing at Shanghai's two airports late...
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Tue, Feb 07 2012 2:25 PM
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Greece starts work on border fence
It's a somewhat less ambitious project than fending the 1,951 mile U.S.-Mexico border, but not necessarily less controversial. EU Observer reports : Greece has started construction of a 12.6-km-long razor-wire-topped fence designed to keep out migrants...
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Tue, Feb 07 2012 1:54 PM
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Morning Brief: Russian officials visit Syria as violence continues
Russian officials visit Syria as violence continues Top story: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Mikhail Fradkov, the head of Russia's foreign intelligence services, arrived in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad about the growing...
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Tue, Feb 07 2012 4:59 AM
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George Galloway flatters Assad's media advisor
As my boss Blake Hounshell noted this morning, Syrian activists are having a field day trawling through the hacked e-mails of officials in President Bashar al-Assad's regime. One particularly interesting note was sent by former British parliamentarian...
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Mon, Feb 06 2012 3:28 PM
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Qaddafi's spymaster takes a walk
A correspondent in Doha, Qatar, sends in these pictures of Libyan ex-foreign minister and spy chief Musa Kusa taking a stroll near his "villa" in the outskirts of town. During the war, following his dramatic defection from Muammar al-Qaddafi's...
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Mon, Feb 06 2012 11:53 AM
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Small potatoes rule the day in Lebanon
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati answered questions on Twitter on Sunday afternoon, one day after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria - a step that seems virtually guaranteed to plunge Lebanon's eastern neighbor...
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Mon, Feb 06 2012 11:30 AM
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Was the Racist Chinese Super Bowl Ad Racist in China?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A GOP senatorial candidate in Michigan, Pete Hoekstra, ran a Super Bowl advertisement featuring an Asian woman speaking broken English and thanking Hoekstra's opponent, Debbie...
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Mon, Feb 06 2012 10:12 AM
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Why does Ruth Bader Ginsburg like the South African constitution so much?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is taking some heat from conservative blogs for this recent interview with Egypt's Al-Hayat TV, (skip to 9:30) in which she suggests that the U.S. constitution might not be the best model for post-revolutionary...
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Mon, Feb 06 2012 10:07 AM
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Syrians troll through hacked emails of Bashar's presidential aides
Move over, WikiLeaks: There's a new sheriff in town. The shadowy hacker collective Anonymous struck again late Sunday evening, exposing the email accounts of top aides to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and posting the passwords online for all to...
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Mon, Feb 06 2012 7:40 AM
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Morning Brief: Syrian violence escalates as U.N. action collapses
Syrian violence escalates as U.N. action collapses Top story: There are fresh reports today of a heavy Syrian assault on the flashpoint city of Homs (pictured above during a protest on Friday), two days after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council...
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Mon, Feb 06 2012 5:31 AM
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Your North Korean accordion '80s pop cover for the day
Here's the description from YouTube: a-ha's eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, Pyongyang, North Korea. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at...
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Fri, Feb 03 2012 11:57 AM
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The Election 2012 Weekly Report: On to the Caucuses
Romney pulls away Mitt Romney decisively won Florida's primacy on Tuesday with 46 percent of the vote. Newt Gingrich came in second with a disappointing 32 percent. Trailing far behind were Rick Santorum with 13 percent and Ron Paul with 7 percent...
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Fri, Feb 03 2012 10:45 AM
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Iran isn't amused by Israeli Samsung ad
Israel isn't having much luck with commercials these days. First there was the government-sponsored ad campaign late last year to persuade Israelis living in the United States to return home, which was yanked when it caused an uproar in the American...
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Fri, Feb 03 2012 10:08 AM
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