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Clueless in Gaza - By Abdalla Khader
It’s time for the Palestinians to change the discourse from reconciliation to elections. Read More...
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Mon, Aug 12 2013 4:07 PM
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Did John Kerry Just Make the Case for Military Action in Syria?
If the bombs start falling on Damascus, Monday afternoon will be cited as the moment when the Obama administration laid out the moral case for military action in Syria. In a stern statement , Secretary of State John Kerry presented the White House's...
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Mon, Aug 26 2013 2:00 PM
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U.S. Suspends Aid Over Human Rights Abuses by Police ... in St. Lucia
The United States has cut off foreign aid because of a string of alleged killings by police. Just not in Egypt. The State Department confirmed Thursday that it has suspended assistance to the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia because of 12 killings...
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Fri, Aug 23 2013 5:00 PM
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'We've Never Seen in Egypt's History This Many Attacks Against Journalists'
Two journalists have now been confirmed killed in clashes that erupted last night as the Egyptian military began clearing sit-ins by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy. Mick Deane , a 15-year veteran cameraman for Sky News, and Habiba Abd El...
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Wed, Aug 14 2013 12:30 PM
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Iran's Not-So-Shocking Exposé of American Frat Boys
American college life is often depicted as a four- (or five-, or six-) year suspension of reality, in which the normal rules of society cease to apply and the nation's youth indulge their baser instincts. Social media-inflected binge drinking , no...
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Thu, Aug 08 2013 5:30 PM
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How I Smuggled 'Porn' Out of North Korea
On Wednesday, the occasionally reliable South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that a dozen performers, including Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend, were executed for making sex tapes, some of which "have apparently gone on sale in China,"...
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Thu, Aug 29 2013 10:40 AM
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How the Media Got the Bo Xilai Trial Wrong
On July 25, after months of silence about Bo Xilai, the disgraced Chinese politician who hadn't been seen in public since his sacking in March 2012, China's official Xinhua news agency ran a two-sentence story stating that Bo had been indicted...
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Mon, Aug 26 2013 11:30 AM
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Assad's 11-Year-Old Son Could Be the Newest Soldier in Syria's Propaganda War
"I just want them to attack sooo much, because I want them to make this huge mistake of beginning something that they don't know the end of it." Those just may be the words of Bashar al-Assad's 11-year-old son, Hafez. A Facebook account...
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Thu, Aug 29 2013 8:03 AM
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Is Syria Anything Like Kosovo?
As President Obama considers military strikes against Syria -- and how to square them with international law -- his advisors are reportedly looking at the 1999 NATO air war in Kosovo as a precedent. There's only one minor problem: The Kosovo war was...
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Wed, Aug 28 2013 5:00 AM
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You Can Now Buy Saddam Hussein's Rifle Online
The rifle above belonged to a brutal dictator who gassed to death thousands of his own citizens and had the gall to erect a giant arch modeled after his own fists. Now it can be yours for an estimated $7,500 to $15,000. The Rock Island Auction Company...
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Fri, Aug 30 2013 8:00 AM
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Morning Brief: U.S. Considers Military Action After Syrian Chemical Weapons Strike
U.S. Considers Military Action After Syrian Chemical Weapons Strike Top news: With casualties mounting in Syria's civil war and consistent reports of a major chemical weapons attack in Syria, President Obama huddled with his military advisers over...
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Mon, Aug 26 2013 5:52 AM
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The Despair Over Mubarak's Pending Release -- in Twitter Memes
On Wednesday, an Egyptian court ordered Hosni Mubarak, the ousted Egyptian dictator, to be freed from prison, where he has been awaiting trial on a slew of charges related to abuses during his time in office. Mubarak's release, which could occur as...
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Wed, Aug 21 2013 9:50 AM
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Protest Tourism Comes to Cairo
In the long litany of complaints against the Muslim Brotherhood's ill-fated time in power, the group's inability to revive Egypt's once-prospering tourism industry ranks high. Now, a group of Egyptian youths are trying to succeed where the...
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Mon, Aug 05 2013 2:25 PM
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Egypt
5 Takeaways from the Government's Super-Secret 'Black Budget'
Few documents have been more closely held by the U.S. intelligence community, but now the "black budget" -- the detailed breakdown of how American spies spend their money -- has largely been made public. Courtesy of NSA leaker Edward Snowden...
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Thu, Aug 29 2013 1:06 PM
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Burned Bodies, Broken Barricades: Cairo's Crackdown Leaves Dozens Dead
CAIRO -- Right now, the "Anti-Coup Alliance," an umbrella group of organizations that oppose Egypt's new government, is claiming that 2,200 people have been killed in this morning's crackdown on pro-Morsy protesters in Cairo. Meanwhile...
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Wed, Aug 14 2013 5:11 AM
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