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Morning Brief: Bombing hits U.S. embassy in Ankara
Bombing hits U.S. embassy in Ankara Top news: On Friday morning, a suicide bombing at the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killed at least one person and wounded several others. The bomber detonated at a checkpoint outside the embassy compound. Turkey...
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Fri, Feb 01 2013 5:47 AM
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Ahmadinejad ready to be the first Iranian in space
A bold claim from the Iranian president: "I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists," Ahmadinejad said on Monday, on the sidelines of an exhibition of space achievements in Tehran, according to the Mehr news...
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Mon, Feb 04 2013 7:57 AM
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FP Passport
North Korea releases nuclear destruction video set to 'We Are the World'
With a North Korean nuclear test looming imminently on the horizon, the nation's propaganda machine appears to be in full 1980's-pop-swing. Last weekend, the government uploaded a video to its official website depicting a young Korean man falling...
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Tue, Feb 05 2013 8:01 AM
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FP Passport
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Ahmadinejad gets shoe'd in Cairo
Though it's hard to tell what's going on in the video above, apparently it's footage of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad getting a shoe thrown at him outside Cairo's al-Hussein mosque. RT, citing Turkey's Anatolia news agency...
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Tue, Feb 05 2013 11:49 AM
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Canada to consider revoking terrorists' citizenship
As I wrote yesterday, it is next to impossible for a U.S. citizen to involuntarily lose their citizenship, even if they join an army or terrorist organization waging war against the United States. Legislative efforts to change this have met with little...
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Wed, Feb 06 2013 3:33 PM
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Does Congress know who it's calling an 'American hero'?
The mythology surrounding Dr. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who may have helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, reached new heights Wednesday with a bipartisan resolution declaring Afridi an "American hero." "All Americans owe Dr...
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Thu, Feb 28 2013 3:00 PM
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Putin and Medvedev squabble over what time it is
The most dramatic legacy of Dmitry Medvedev's presidency may have been his impact on Russia's clocks. In addition to dropping 2 of the country's 11 time zones, Medvedev also eliminated daylight savings time. The move was never popular and...
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Thu, Feb 07 2013 12:03 PM
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Chilean navy offends neighbors with violent, xenophobic chant
The marching chant by Chilean sailors in the video above is the kind of thing that probably worked better in the pre-YouTube era. CNN translates : "Argentineans I will kill; Bolivians I will shoot; Peruvians I'll behead." The government...
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Fri, Feb 08 2013 7:05 AM
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Iranian presidential candidate does Reddit AMA
Reddit was once a site by, for, and about the concerns of "internet people." But in the past year, it has seen its popular AMA (ask me anything) sub-forum has become a popular way for celebrities , scientists , politicians and others to gain...
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Fri, Feb 08 2013 10:27 AM
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Where do the world's Catholics live?
Here's some context for the chatter today about the region of the world that could produce Pope Benedict XVI's successor. According to a 2011 study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, 40 percent of the world's...
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Mon, Feb 11 2013 11:10 AM
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7 things you need to know about Marco Rubio's foreign policy
This evening, President Barack Obama will appear before Congress to deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term, outlining an agenda and the likely Washington battle lines for the coming four years. But thus far that agenda has been...
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Tue, Feb 12 2013 8:25 AM
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How does America's nuclear arsenal stack up against North Korea's?
President Barack Obama has taken some heat over the news that his administration may cut America's nuclear arsenal by " at least a third ," according to FP contributor R. Jeffrey Smith of the Center for Public Integrity. As Republican operative...
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Wed, Feb 13 2013 7:54 AM
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How does the U.S. minimum wage compare to those around the world?
In his State of the Union address last night, President Barack Obama announced that he would seek to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour, a measure that would form the centerpiece of an agenda aimed at reducing incoming inequality in the United...
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Wed, Feb 13 2013 11:39 AM
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Morning Brief: GOP delays vote on Hagel nomination
GOP delays vote on Hagel nomination Top news: Senate Republicans blocked an effort Thursday to move to a final vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the defense department, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), delaying the confirmation process...
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Fri, Feb 15 2013 5:43 AM
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Crazy conspiracy theories are already taking root after Russia's meteor
If a meteor falls in the forest, and there's no one there to see it ... you can count on there being conspiracy theories for decades to follow. That was the case the last time something like this happened in Siberia. On June 30, 1908, something streaked...
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Fri, Feb 15 2013 11:34 AM
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