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Elle Got North Korean Fashion All Wrong -- Here's Why
Elle magazine's creative director, Joe Zee, has been getting a lot of flack for characterizing a military-inspired runway trend as "North Korea Chic" in their August issue. The spread, which featured an assortment of olive drab menswear...
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Wed, Nov 20 2013 2:11 PM
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North Korea
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East Asia
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Culture
Indonesian President Furious to Learn That His Own Spying Tactics Were Used Against Him
On Wednesday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono suspended a range of bilateral initiatives with Australia amid allegations of spying. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, Australian intelligence officials tapped the phones of the...
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Wed, Nov 20 2013 12:27 PM
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FP Passport
Hey, U.N.: It's Time Keep Up With the Kardashians (on Twitter)
Try as they might, international organizations just can't compete with Kim Kardashian. While Twitter is becoming an increasingly important tool for groups like the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund...
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Wed, Nov 20 2013 11:53 AM
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FP Passport
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United Nations
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International Organizations
Amsterdam's Plan to Pay Alcoholics in Beer is Just 'Dutch Pragmatism'
An unusual Dutch initiative aims to put an end to one of Amsterdam's worst nuisances -- those bawdy, loitering alcoholics -- by employing them in a kind of street cleaning corps. The problem, though, is that the state-financed Rainbow Foundation behind...
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Wed, Nov 20 2013 7:25 AM
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FP Passport
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Europe
Meet Bibi's (and Bar Rafaeli's) Favorite French Politician
When French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius traveled to Geneva earlier this month to demand stricter restraints on Iran's nuclear program, he had just got off the phone with a previously obscure French parliamentarian. MP Meyer Habib had delivered...
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Wed, Nov 20 2013 6:33 AM
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Morning Brief: Iranian Nuclear Talks Resume as Khamenei Pledges He Won't Back Down
Iranian Nuclear Talks Resume as Khamenei Pledges He Won't Back Down Top news: Ahead of the resumption of negotiations in Geneva between Iran and Western powers, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that his country will not back...
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Wed, Nov 20 2013 6:21 AM
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For Cash-Strapped Chinese Parents, Two Babies Are Too Many
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Call it reproduction with Chinese capitalist characteristics. On Nov. 15, authorities announced that the country's one-child policy would be loosened, adding couples in which one spouse is an only child to...
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Tue, Nov 19 2013 4:22 PM
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East Asia
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Frenchmen to Government: 'Don't Touch My Whores'
It's a political divide that could only materialize in France. On one side, 343 "bastards" telling their countrymen and government not to "touch my whore." On the other side, a feminist minister crusading to end prostitution. These...
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Tue, Nov 19 2013 2:10 PM
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Frenchmen to Government: 'Don't Touch Our Whores'
It's a political divide that could only materialize in France. On one side, 343 "bastards" telling their countrymen and government not to "touch my whore." On the other side, a feminist minister crusading to end prostitution. These...
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Tue, Nov 19 2013 2:10 PM
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Europe
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Human Rights
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Politics
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Health
Al Qaeda Take Credit for Embassy Bombing -- While Iran Blames 'Zionists'
BEIRUT - The Iranian embassy lies on the road connecting the airport to the downtown center of the Lebanese capital, near both the Beirut Golf Club and the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of the city. This morning, as most Beirutis were commuting...
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Tue, Nov 19 2013 10:53 AM
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Why It Took a Superstorm to Expose the Seedy Underbelly of Philippine Politics
More than a week after Super Typhoon Haiyan killed nearly 4,000 people and displaced another 4 million, relief efforts remain hampered by poor roadways, congested airports, and a host of other logistical nightmares. While the Red Cross says they have...
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Tue, Nov 19 2013 9:25 AM
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'Selfie' Beats Out 'Twerk' as Oxford's Word of the Year
Forget the Snowden leaks, the birth of Prince George, and the Syria chemical weapons deal -- 2013 shall be remembered as the year of the first Papal selfie. Following in the pioneering footsteps of Anthony Weiner , Bill Clinton, and even Michelle Obama...
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Tue, Nov 19 2013 8:43 AM
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Europe
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Science & Technology
Morning Brief: Blasts at Iranian Embassy in Beirut Kill 23
Blasts at Iranian Embassy in Beirut Kill 23 Top news: A pair of explosions rocked the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 100. Iran's cultural attaché, Sheikh Ibrahim Ansari, reportedly...
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Tue, Nov 19 2013 6:29 AM
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Morning Brief
Dubai, of All Places, Is Becoming a Space Tourism Hub
The United Arab Emirates is a country known for its outrageous tourist attractions, each more ambitious than the last, from massive indoor ski slopes to archipelagoes of entirely man-made islands. Given this history, it might not seem so remarkable that...
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Mon, Nov 18 2013 12:58 PM
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FP Passport
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Middle East
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Arab World
What the Russian Cossacks Have Against Little Girls in Hijabs
In Russia, big scary men with mustaches and sabers are feeling threatened by little girls wearing religious headwear. Local Cossack leaders in the city of Rostov in southern Russia were not happy with a local "fashion week," where one of the...
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Mon, Nov 18 2013 9:16 AM
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Eastern Europe
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Race/Ethnicity
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Caucasus
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