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Morning Brief: Red Cross classifies Syrian conflict as civil war
Red Cross classifies Syrian conflict as civil war Top news: Over the weekend, as U.N. observers investigated a reported massacre in the Syrian village of Tremseh, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced that the 16-month-old crisis in Syria...
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Mon, Jul 16 2012 5:23 AM
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A ceasefire in El Salvador
There's some rare promising news out of El Salvador, which with 7 killings per 10,000 inhabitants per year, has one of the world's highest death rates due to armed violence . Ever since Msgr. Fabio Colindres, a Catholic bishop in the capital city...
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Fri, Jul 13 2012 1:18 PM
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China caught red handed in the South China Sea
Chinese officials were caught Friday with their pants down when the Defense Ministry was forced to admit in a brief statement that a naval frigate has run aground on the south eastern edge of the Spratly Islands-- waters the Philippine government claims...
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Fri, Jul 13 2012 12:05 PM
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France issues arrest warrant for Equatorial Guinea heir
The party may be coming to an end for Teodorin Nguema Obiang, Equatorial Guinea's heir apparent and the world's richest minister of agriculture and forestry . The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint against Teodorin, son of President Teodoro...
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Fri, Jul 13 2012 9:48 AM
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5 reasons Condi Rice will not be Mitt Romney's VP pick
It pains me that I even need to explain this to some smart people who should know better -- I'm looking at you, Tyler Cowen -- but here are 5 reasons why Mitt Romney is not going to pick Condoleezza Rice as his running mate, no matter what Matt Drudge...
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Fri, Jul 13 2012 6:52 AM
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Morning Brief: Syrian opposition reports another massacre
Syrian opposition reports another massacre Top news: Opposition activists in Syria are claiming that Syrian forces, backed by tanks and helicopters, killed more than 200 people in the Sunni Muslim village of Tremseh near the city of Hama on Thursday,...
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Fri, Jul 13 2012 5:08 AM
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The return of French presidential family drama
The French may have thought that by trading in President Bling-Bling for Monsieur Normal , they were putting an end to the tabloid frenzy that often accompanied President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. They clearly didn't take into account Hollande's...
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Thu, Jul 12 2012 2:49 PM
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Katie Couric shows up on Baghdad billboards
Baghdad's electricity ministry pulled a strange PR stunt this week by displaying the American newscaster Katie Couric's face on giant billboards around the city in a campaign to "inspire the people to imagine a better future for electricity...
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Thu, Jul 12 2012 10:45 AM
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How the world views the 1 percent
Despite the heated rhetoric over inequality in the United States and elsewhere, today more people on average believe that the rich "deserve their wealth," according to a 23-country survey released by Globe Scan last week. The survey, which asked...
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Thu, Jul 12 2012 10:09 AM
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Golden Dawn pushes Greek-only blood bank
Given that far-right parties tend to somewhat moderate their positions when they're actually in government, the degree to which Greece's Golden Dawn party has thoroughly lived up to its reputation for buffoonish, neo-Nazi thuggery since its electoral...
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Thu, Jul 12 2012 8:35 AM
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Uzbekistan rips off Facebook with 'YouFace'
Global Voices Uzbekistan blogger Ekaterina has a new post discussing Uzbekistan's recently-launched Facebook competitor, ammusingly called "YouFace." As you can see from the image above, it's pretty clear where the site got its design...
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Thu, Jul 12 2012 6:35 AM
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Morning Brief: U.S. continues to build up forces in Persian Gulf
U.S. continues to build up forces in Persian Gulf Top news: The United States has continued its naval buildup in the Persian Gulf to counter an Iranian threat to international shipping routes. The New York Times reports that the Ponce, a '60s-era...
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Thu, Jul 12 2012 5:19 AM
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Obama and Romney trade jabs over Chavez
After a few weeks of relative silence on Foreign Policy from the campaign trail, there was a brief and largely unexpected skirmish between the Obama and Romney camps today over just how dangerous Hugo Chavez is. The president started things with remarks...
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Wed, Jul 11 2012 3:05 PM
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Mad Scientists
Canadian scientists and supporters staged a mock funeral in front of parliament in Ottawa yesterday to protest Prime Minister Stephen Harper's proposed cuts to scientific research. The July 10 event, called the "death of evidence" rally...
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Wed, Jul 11 2012 1:39 PM
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Why Spain should take the money and (as soon as it's economically prudent) run
As my colleague Uri Friedman discussed in today's Morning Brief , the Spanish government has unveiled tough new austerity measures to reduce its deficits after securing a nearly $37 billion bailout from the European Union. The measures, part of the...
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Wed, Jul 11 2012 12:39 PM
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