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How Africa's Most Successful Peace Treaty Fell Apart
Mozambique has been a country on the rise in recent years. In 1992, it concluded 17 years of civil war with the Rome General Peace Accords. And after a period of dependence on international aid, its economy has begun to come into its own, as the country...
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Wed, Oct 23 2013 8:00 AM
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Morning Brief: Opposition Group Mounts Attack After Rejecting 15-Year-Old Peace Treaty in Mozambique
Opposition Group Mounts Attack After Rejecting 15-Year-Old Peace Treaty in Mozambique Top News: A day after annulling its participation in a 15-year-old peace treaty, the Renamo opposition movement in Mozambique attacked a police station in Maringue in...
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Wed, Oct 23 2013 4:16 AM
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Australia's Arpaio-Inspired, Pink-Themed Bikie Gang Crackdown
Authorities in Queensland, Australia are cracking down on criminal motorcycle gangs with a vengeance that would give even the Charming Police Department pause. Following a couple of large, public brawls between two rival gangs, Queensland Premier Campbell...
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Tue, Oct 22 2013 4:00 PM
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Mapped: What Global Cyberwar Looks Like in Real Time
On Monday, Google rolled out three new initiatives to ensure the openness of the Internet and access to the service -- even in the face of government crackdowns on the web. One of those tools is a proxy plug-in -- creatively titled uProxy -- that uses...
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Tue, Oct 22 2013 2:00 PM
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Is Alexey Navalny Russia's Mandela -- or the Kremlin's Opposition Candidate?
It's been a topsy-turvy several months for Alexey Navalny, the fiery Russian opposition leader who has been compared to everyone from Nelson Mandela to Vaclav Havel . First, in July, Navalny was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling nearly...
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Tue, Oct 22 2013 12:00 PM
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Is China Saying Goodbye to 'Hello'?
Interest in learning Chinese may be growing in the United States, but English-language studies in China could very well be on the wane. On Oct. 21, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, the organization that decides what students in the city study...
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Tue, Oct 22 2013 10:00 AM
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Why One Obscure Malaysian University Gave Kim Jong Un an Honorary Doctorate
A broken clock, they say, is still right twice a day, and the Korean Central News Agency, North Korea's premier English-language news site, does even better. Much of its domestic coverage is depressingly optimistic propaganda; I'm guessing, for...
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Tue, Oct 22 2013 9:00 AM
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Morning Brief: Reports Find High Civilian Casualties, Contradict Obama Administration’s Claims About Drone Program
Reports Find High Civilian Casualties, Contradict Obama Administration’s Claims About Drone Program Top News: Two new reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International contradict the Obama administration's descriptions of its targeted killing...
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Tue, Oct 22 2013 4:47 AM
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Here's What 12 Civilians Cost in the U.S. Drone War
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Ninety-five Kalashnikovs and $70,000 in burial money. That's the price of 12 dead civilians in America's shadow war on terror...
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Mon, Oct 21 2013 9:00 PM
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How One Syrian Radio Station Took on Al Qaeda
CAIRO - In a supposedly "liberated" area of Syria, a group of opposition journalists is still being forced to operate in secret. They learned to sneak into their offices in the northern city of Raqqa after midnight, and conceal their activities...
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Mon, Oct 21 2013 12:02 PM
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Morning Brief: NSA Said to Intercept 70 Million French Calls in 30-Day Period
NSA Said to Intercept 70 Million French Calls in 30-Day Period Top News: The French government summoned the U.S. ambassador in Paris to protest allegations that the National Security Agency has spied on millions of French phone calls. According to a report...
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Mon, Oct 21 2013 6:05 AM
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'It's Our Imperative to Get on the Ground': An Exit Interview With AP's First North Korea Bureau Chief
When Jean Lee became the AP's first North Korean bureau chief in 2012, she anticipated many of the challenges she'd face while in country: the trouble accessing places typically considered off-limits to foreigners, the constant scrutiny, the roadblocks...
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Fri, Oct 18 2013 1:47 PM
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Robbed in China? Remain Calm -- and Call a Foreigner
In modern China, there is precious little that money can't buy. Shoppers on the massively popular e-commerce site Taobao.com can hire a boyfriend to meet their parents, or pay someone to endure their insults (the cheapest rate is one RMB -- about...
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Fri, Oct 18 2013 9:20 AM
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Morning Brief: Snowden Says China, Russia Could Not Have Accessed His Secret Files
Snowden Says China, Russia Could Not Have Accessed His Secret Files Top News: Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden claims he did not bring any classified information about the NSA with him when he traveled to Russia and that he was able to safeguard the...
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Fri, Oct 18 2013 4:43 AM
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Morning Brief: Republicans Back Down, Ending Government Shutdown
Republicans Back Down, Ending Government Shutdown Top News: Congress passed last minute legislation on Wednesday night funding the U.S. government and raising the country's borrowing limit, avoiding the potential of a U.S. default on its debt. The...
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Thu, Oct 17 2013 6:18 AM
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