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Why Do Americans Fear Torture More than Chinese?
Saudi Arabia: Now Slightly Less Terrible for Women
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Why Do Americans Fear Torture More than Chinese?
A decade has a passed since the American public first learned of the horrific abuses committed by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Shortly after that, major newspapers caught wind of the George W. Bush administration's now...
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Tue, May 05 2014 11:12 AM
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Saudi Arabia: Now Slightly Less Terrible for Women
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Here's what passes for progress for the Saudi Arabian women's rights movement: The country's passport office suspended a program that automatically notified via text...
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Tue, Jan 01 2014 2:58 PM
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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 12 2013 6:00 PM
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FP Passport
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Can The Castro Regime Ban 3D Movies... And Survive?
The Cuban regime is not quite sure whether to call 3D film technology the newest enemy of the revolution. A week after issuing an all-encompassing ban on movies using the technology, the Castros might be changing their mind. On Nov. 2, the Cuban government...
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Wed, Nov 11 2013 11:11 AM
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FP Passport
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What Are the Odds Snowden Ends Up in Ecuador? Funny You Asked...
Be it the next pope or the next Nobel Prize winner , an international news event is not an international news event without a rush of betting on its outcome. Enter the British online gambling website William Hill , which is currently allowing users to...
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Tue, Jun 06 2013 4:30 PM
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FP Passport
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Europe
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Latin America
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A Thematic Guide to Obama's Big Berlin Speech
President Barack Obama stood before the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday and tried to make some history. In a speech that referenced a band of doomed protesters in East Germany, Immanuel Kant, and John F. Kennedy, Obama announced that he intends to cut America's...
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Wed, Jun 06 2013 10:00 AM
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FP Passport
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U.S. Foreign Policy
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Germany
Cooperating with government surveillance programs: good for business?
Do investors think it's a smart move for companies to cooperate when the U.S. government asks for help collecting information on customers? With the exception of Apple shares , which continued on the downward trajectory they've been on for the...
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Fri, Jun 06 2013 9:30 AM
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FP Passport
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Freedom
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Obama Administration
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Intelligence
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Video: Georgian gay rights activists attacked by mob on International Day Against Homophobia
On Friday, chaotic clashes broke out in Georgia as an angry mob -- comprised mainly of young men but also including robed priests and some women -- descended on a gay rights rally commemorating International Day Against Homophobia. A day earlier, the...
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Fri, May 05 2013 10:50 AM
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Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
"I like Camus, man." That's how Cody Wilson, the man behind the first fully functional 3-D printed gun, replied when asked by the right-wing radio host Alex Jones to describe his political heroes. This past week, Wilson's company, Defense...
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Mon, May 05 2013 5:00 PM
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FP Passport
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Rick Sanchez wages flame war against Muslim Brotherhood Twitter feed
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo's Twitter feed disappeared for about an hour today following an online sparring match with a feed operated by the office of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy over Jon Stewart's impassioned defense of Egyptian satirist...
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Wed, Apr 04 2013 5:30 PM
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FP Passport
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Violent clashes erupt after Egyptian student sit-in
Who knew calling for pedestrian safety could be so dangerous? Earlier today, skirmishes between students and the guards at Egypt's Misr International University resulted in bloodshed following a 15 day sit-in to protest the suspension of 16 students...
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Tue, Mar 03 2013 11:30 AM
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FP Passport
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Egypt
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The 'Harlem Shake' is becoming a new form of protest in the Middle East
Earlier this week, we reported on the controversy in Tunisia and Egypt over some "Harlem Shake" videos, which have provoked arrests and an investigation by the Tunisian Ministry of Education, and the follow-up Harlem Shake protests Egyptians...
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Fri, Mar 03 2013 9:55 AM
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FP Passport
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Middle East
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Fun Stuff
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North Africa
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Why did Facebook censor this photograph?
The Uprising of Women in the Arab World is not pleased with Facebook. The group, which advocates for women's rights in the Middle East, issued a press statement on Nov. 7 claiming that Facebook, once hailed as the catalyst of the Arab Spring, was...
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Wed, Nov 11 2012 12:58 PM
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FP Passport
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Science & Technology
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Freedom
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Women
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Arab World
Porn fans of Egypt unite against crackdown
Egypt's increasingly influential Salafis won a victory this week by pressuring the government to finally implement a 2009 court ruling , enacted under former President Hosni Mubarak, to ban pornography. On Wednesday, Egyptian Prosector Abdel Maguid...
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Thu, Nov 11 2012 2:58 PM
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FP Passport
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Internet
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9 and 10-year-old arrested for blasphemy in Egypt
The Egypt Independent reported on Wednesday that two children, aged nine and ten, were arrested and charged with blasphemy in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Suef after being accused of urinating on copies of the Quran. Ibrahim Mohammad, a local sheikh...
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Wed, Oct 10 2012 9:02 AM
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FP Passport
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