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Beyonce's New Album Got FP Global Thinker Chimamanda Adichie All Wrong
Beyonce is just full of surprises. In the past 24 hours, she dropped an album, joined Weibo, and -- to our particular delight -- paid tribute to one of Foreign Policy's 2013 Global Thinkers , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose 2013 novel Americanah is...
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Fri, Dec 13 2013 1:30 PM
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30 Years After Martial Law, Poland's Blundering Hero Comes to the Big Screen
Thirty years ago this week, an unassuming mother of seven (later eight), wearing a modest black blazer and white blouse stood in front of an audience of international dignitaries gathered in Oslo, Norway. She had come to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on...
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Fri, Dec 13 2013 11:00 AM
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FP Passport
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Culture
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Eastern Europe
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Democracy
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1989
Morning Brief: North Korea Executes Powerful Military Official
North Korea Executes Powerful Military Official Top News : Just days after being removed from his senior military position, Chang Song-thaek, Kim Jong Un's uncle, was executed for "acts of treachery." State news agency reported that Chang...
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Fri, Dec 13 2013 5:50 AM
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Kim Jong Un Executes His Uncle Jang Song Taek For Plotting a Coup
Jang Song Taek, the brother-in-law of late Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il, the uncle of current leader Kim Jong Un, and an urbane politician who was thought to have been the second most powerful man in North Korea, has been reportedly executed for planning...
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Thu, Dec 12 2013 2:59 PM
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FP Passport
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North Korea
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East Asia
Smog at China's Airports Incite Riots, Require Blind Landings
Forget the days when pilots were expected to have perfect vision. China prefers pilots who can fly blind. Smog in China's major cities has gotten so bad that it's actually visible from space, and airline pilots can no longer rely on sight alone...
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Thu, Dec 12 2013 11:44 AM
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FP Passport
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Environment
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East Asia
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China
How Victorian Morality Still Screws Over Gays in India
Upholding a colonial law whose wording is nothing short of medieval, the Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday banned gay sex, or "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with man, woman, or animal." Violators of the law, Section 377 of the...
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Thu, Dec 12 2013 10:00 AM
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FP Passport
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Human Rights
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Southeast Asia
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India
Morning Brief: Ashton Claims Ukraine Will Sign EU Agreement
Ashton Claims Ukraine Will Sign EU Agreement Top news: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton claimed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych still intends to sign an association agreement with the European Union after he at first declined to do so and...
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Thu, Dec 12 2013 5:53 AM
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Edward Snowden's Statement to FP on His Selection as a Global Thinker
Edward Snowden, who has become the public face of an international debate over surveillance, tops the list of Foreign Policy's Global Thinkers for 2013. The former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence...
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Wed, Dec 11 2013 2:28 PM
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North America
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Israel-Palestine Isn't America's Top Mid-East Priority Anymore
The United States may be heavily engaged in shepherding peace talks between Israel and Palestine, but according to the Anne Patterson, who has been nominated as the State Department's next top Middle East official, the issue just isn't a top priority...
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Wed, Dec 11 2013 1:36 PM
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Obama Adviser: 'Extremism' Could Be Key to Ending Syrian Civil War
For the past two and a half years, as the civil war in Syria has descended into brutal bloodletting and spilled over its borders, Obama administration officials have consistently decried the growing presence of Islamist extremists in the conflict. But...
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Wed, Dec 11 2013 8:35 AM
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Afghan Watchdog Sinks Teeth in New Target: Its Own Shaky Future
Since former prosecutor John Sopko took over last year as the top watchdog probing U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, the organization has honed a pugnacious style that has irked military commanders, grabbed national news headlines and exposed...
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Wed, Dec 11 2013 6:33 AM
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Morning Brief: Police Turn Back in Attempt to Clear Kiev Square
Police Turn Back in Attempt to Clear Kiev Square Top news: Ukrainian police abandoned an attempt to clear a central square in Kiev of anti-government protesters after clashes between riot police and those gathered in Maidan Nezalezhnosti overnight. Saying...
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Wed, Dec 11 2013 5:21 AM
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Thailand's Popular Protests Have Nothing To Do With Democracy
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is done giving ground. On Monday, after weeks of mass demonstrations in Bangkok calling for her resignation, the prime minister dissolved Parliament and announced early elections to be held in February. Yet despite...
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Wed, Dec 11 2013 5:03 AM
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FP Passport
Assange, Mexican Twitterati Unite in Criticism of FP
Julian Assange and a huge number of Mexicans on Twitter look to have something in common: Neither are particularly happy about Foreign Policy's Global Thinkers issue . On Monday, FP launched the fifth annual iteration of that issue, which selected...
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Tue, Dec 10 2013 3:52 PM
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FP Passport
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Latin America
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Foreign Policy magazine
Can Science Fiction Survive in Saudi Arabia?
On Monday, Saudi authors Yasser Bahjatt and Ibraheem Abbas learned that their science fiction book, which shot to the top of the best-seller list in Saudi Arabia, had been banned from sale in Kuwait and Qatar. The episode was familiar: in late November...
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Tue, Dec 10 2013 11:30 AM
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