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The World’s Worst Political Standoff That You’ve Never Heard of
While the world remains fixated on anti-government demonstrations in Kiev and Bangkok, perhaps the most intractable political standoff of the past weeks is also the one getting the least attention. Twenty people were injured in Bangladesh's Kurigram...
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Fri, Dec 06 2013 7:30 AM
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Elections
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Islam
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South Asia
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Democracy
Mandela's Death Coincides With Royal Date Night, Twitter Implodes
In a world where news comes as fast as your Internet connection, and breaking stories are first announced on Twitter, confusion is bound to happen. On Thursday, news of Nelson Mandela's death unfortunately coincided with the London premiere of a new...
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Thu, Dec 05 2013 4:15 PM
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FP Passport
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Africa
The Amazing, Inspiring, Tactless Ways Twitter Reacted to #Mandela's Death
South African President Jacob Zuma announced on Thursday night the death of Nelson Mandela. He was 95. "Our nation has lost its greatest son," Zuma said in announcing Mandela's death on South African television. The iconic leader of the...
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Thu, Dec 05 2013 3:03 PM
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FP Passport
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Africa
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Bitcoin Gets Smacked Down in China, The Crypto-Currency's Hotbed
Chinese investors have helped drive up the price of Bitcoin to dizzying heights. Now, the Beijing government is doing its best to drive enthusiasm for the cryto-currency back down. The Chinese central bank warned consumers about the risks of Bitcoin and...
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Thu, Dec 05 2013 11:14 AM
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FP Passport
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East Asia
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China
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Are North Korea's Gulags Bolstering the National Economy?
As many as 200,000 men, women, and children reportedly languish in North Korea's vast prison camp system, jailed for defying the state's strict edicts on anything from possession of foreign media to petty theft. Even being associated with someone...
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Thu, Dec 05 2013 10:00 AM
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FP Passport
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North Korea
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Human Rights
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East Asia
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Economics
People of Ukraine: Beware the Swedish Gang of Pee-Pee, Turd, and Nixon the Nose
One Russian TV host has had a vision of the awful fate that awaits Ukraine if it moves toward the European Union. It's a picture of Western decadence, and it can be glimpsed in a Swedish public television show that tries to teach children about their...
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Thu, Dec 05 2013 7:56 AM
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FP Passport
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Russia
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Fun Stuff
Morning Brief: NSA Collects 5 billion Mobile Phone Records Daily, Tracks Locations Worldwide
NSA Collects 5 billion Mobile Phone Records Daily, Tracks Locations Worldwide Top news: The National Security Agency (NSA) is sweeping up nearly 5 billion mobile phone records per day in a massive surveillance program designed to track the movements of...
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Thu, Dec 05 2013 5:45 AM
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Here’s How the British Government Is Planning to Come After the Guardian
Every day, the National Security Agency's massive surveillance apparatus hoovers up nearly 5 billion records drawn from the location data of cell phones around the world. That's according to the Washington Post 's latest installment in their...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 6:00 PM
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Wall Street's Bad Old Days Could Be Back If the Banks Win this Lawsuit
It's Wall Street's latest counterstrike against Washington and its attempts to rein in the financial industry after the crisis that plunged the U.S. economy into recession in 2008. And if the legal attack is successful, it could leave an opening...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 4:03 PM
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Britain
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Gitmo Troops Get a Car Show While Inmates Sweat in 12-Foot Boxes
Guantánamo Bay's reputation as the dark heart of America's war on terror tends to overshadow its more banal role as a naval base -- filled with troops, their families and, to a lesser extent, their pretty, pretty cars. Late last month, the base...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 1:52 PM
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FP Passport
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North America
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Military
State Media Praises China's Failing Corruption Grade; Hilarity Ensues
Say what you will about China's state-run media -- they are enthusiastic cheerleaders. On Dec. 2 Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-graft organization, published its 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored China at 40 out of 100...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 1:36 PM
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FP Passport
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Corruption
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East Asia
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China
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TLN
How Poland Became an Eastern European Education Powerhouse
The OECD's test score rankings of 15-year-olds around the globe came out Tuesday, and, as usual a familiar set of faces tops the charts. Shanghai (which, as many have pointed out, is not a country ), Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Korea, and Japan...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 1:29 PM
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FP Passport
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Eastern Europe
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Education
Afghan Militants Join Syria's Civil War, As If It Wasn't Awful Enough
BEIRUT - As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gained the upper hand over an internal uprising in the past year, he received a major boost from his allies across the Middle East. The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias, and Iranian...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 12:17 PM
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FP Passport
This Is America's Most Top Secret Volleyball Court
No facility is more important at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nuclear weapons research facility, than the so-called "Superblock." Situated at the heart of the 820-acre complex , the Superblock handles the facility's plutonium...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 10:15 AM
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North America
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Security
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Nukes
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Sports
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National Security
Chinese Chortle at U.S. Request to Scrap Controversial Air Defense Zone
The United States wants China to pull back from its gambit to try to rewrite the East China Sea's status quo, but the Chinese are having none of it. On Dec. 2, the U.S. State Department said China's newly-declared air defense identification zone...
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Wed, Dec 04 2013 8:40 AM
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Security
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East Asia
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China
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Internet
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TLN
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