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Sorry, Turkey: You're Not Getting Crimea Back
How to Skirt an Arms Embargo -- DPRK-Style!
Leaked: EU Officials Speculate Kiev Snipers Acted on Protesters' Orders
U.N. Envoy Run Out of Crimea by Pro-Russian Thugs
Think That Kiev Agreement Will Hold? Think Again.
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Sorry, Turkey: You're Not Getting Crimea Back
Russia's annexation of Crimea isn't the first time the country has occupied and annexed the Black Sea peninsula -- the first came in 1783. And according to a creative -- and ill-informed -- Turkish columnist , the legal framework for that centuries...
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Thu, Mar 03 2014 3:59 PM
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How to Skirt an Arms Embargo -- DPRK-Style!
Let's say you're the supreme leader of a pariah state. You're looking to move a few hundred tons of Soviet-era arms across international boundaries, but you've been slapped by a harsh arms embargo. You'd like to quietly transport a...
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Tue, Mar 03 2014 5:39 PM
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Leaked: EU Officials Speculate Kiev Snipers Acted on Protesters' Orders
With Kiev in mourning over the anti-government protesters who died while protesting against the ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, two top EU officials discussed a disturbing possibility: That the lethally effective snipers who played a large...
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Wed, Mar 03 2014 12:14 PM
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U.N. Envoy Run Out of Crimea by Pro-Russian Thugs
First he was abducted by unidentified gunmen. Then, he wasn't. Now, Robert Serry, the United Nations' special envoy for the Ukraine crisis, is leaving the Crimean peninsula as fast as his plane can return him to Kiev. On Wednesday, officials at...
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Wed, Mar 03 2014 11:38 AM
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Think That Kiev Agreement Will Hold? Think Again.
After days of bloody street battles in central Kiev that may have left as many as 100 people dead, protest leaders signed an agreement Friday with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to end the stand-off. The deal curtails the powers of the president...
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Fri, Feb 02 2014 8:57 AM
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Did An Accused War Criminal Just Show How To Get Off The Treasury Department’s Blacklist?
The Treasury Department quietly removed a former Croatian general from its sanctions blacklist after the accused war criminal filed a lawsuit to clear his name. Ante Gotovina's success could provide a roadmap of sorts for the accused terrorists, war...
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Thu, Feb 02 2014 2:59 PM
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How Syria did -- and Did Not -- Hang over the Davos Conference
DAVOS, Switzerland--A group of aid workers and former refugees took over the basement of a Davos school, spooled out fake barbed wire, put up tents and corrugated metal walls and laid down straw on the floor. Then they donned military uniforms, picked...
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Mon, Jan 01 2014 12:00 PM
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Japan and China Pick an Un-Davos-like Fight at Davos
DAVOS, Switzerland — Sparks are flying between Chinese and Japanese officials in this snowy Swiss town -- and not the kind that this business matchmaking soiree is meant to kindle. The two Asian powers have set aside the conference's normal air of...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 4:34 PM
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Texas to Washington: Executing Mexicans Is Our Business, Not Yours
When Texas executed Edgar Arias Tomayo on Thursday, he became the third Mexican national to receive the death penalty in that state since 2008. And if it takes three events to establish a trend, then the trend is set: Every few years, Texas begins the...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 3:29 PM
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Idaho Potatoes and a Furry Pink Hat: This Is What Now Passes for Diplomacy
Few diplomats have seen quite as much success in stifling American ambitions on the world stage as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It's even won him a nickname: Minister Nyet . But fresh off victories to eliminate Syria's stockpile of...
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Mon, Jan 01 2014 10:16 AM
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The Sad Backstory of North Korea's First Basketball Diplomat
Dennis Rodman's epic CNN meltdown on Jan. 7 -- in which he implicitly defended North Korea's continued imprisonment of American citizen Kenneth Bae -- may be the lowest point in his confused "basketball diplomacy" crusade. The former...
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Tue, Jan 01 2014 4:46 PM
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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 12 2013 1:36 PM
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Can the World Still Make a Difference in the Central African Republic?
Things have gone from bad to worse in the Central African Republic. Nine months after a rebel alliance known as Seleka seized control of Bangui, the country's riverside capital, and forced President François Bozizé into exile, CAR is quickly descending...
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Tue, Dec 12 2013 5:45 AM
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Did the United States Just Grant Iran the Right to Enrich Uranium?
For weeks, Western negotiators have huddled in a luxury hotel in Geneva with their Iranian counterparts to defuse tensions over Tehran's nuclear program. In the early hours Sunday, the diplomats finally secured their long-sought prize: a deal that...
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Sun, Nov 11 2013 11:47 AM
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There Could Be an Iran Deal This Weekend, But Don't Expect Oil Prices to Plummet
If the West makes a deal this weekend with Iran -- one of the world's largest oil producers -- the price of crude will almost certainly fall on Monday. But after that? Don't count on it. "The assumption that a deal was coming had put some...
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Fri, Nov 11 2013 4:21 PM
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