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WikiLeaked: 5 Things to Know About the Islamist Empire Trying to Take Down Erdogan
If the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan falls, a large portion of the blame -- or credit, depending on your perspective -- will lie with a little-known Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen and his shadowy, globe-spanning empire...
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Mon, Jan 01 2014 3:15 PM
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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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Sochi Watch: Why Tsar Putin Released His Arch-Nemesis
Like any good royal, Vladimir Putin couldn't be bothered to make an act of clemency the main event of his Thursday press conference. Instead, he casually revealed at the end of the four-hour affair that he planned to pardon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the...
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Fri, Dec 12 2013 2:27 PM
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Will the U.S. Strong-Arm Brazil to Keep Snowden Out?
On Tuesday, the world woke up to a new missive from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and no one quite seemed to know what to make of it. In an open letter to the people of Brazil in that country's Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Snowden appeared to...
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Tue, Dec 12 2013 9:54 AM
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And Then There Were Two ... Kim Jong Il's Dwindling Inner Circle
At Kim Jong-Il's funeral in December 2011, the dear leader's casket was flanked by eight people -- his son and successor, Kim Jong-Un, and the " gang of seven ," a collection of the late Kim's closest advisors. These officials were...
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Fri, Dec 12 2013 1:34 PM
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Hayden Panettiere Is on the #Frontlines of Ukraine's Protests
Hayden Panettiere, the star of ABC’s Nashville , has often complained about being portrayed too often as “the popular cheerleader type or just the blonde.” But Panettiere has a new role, and this time around she can't be accused of being a lightweight...
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Mon, Dec 12 2013 10:22 AM
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Are Ukraine's Protests About to Turn Very Ugly?
The massive pro-European protests in Ukraine's capital have all the makings of a picture-perfect revolution: a square filled to the brim with demonstrators around the clock, a toppled statue of a former dictator, and riot police shields adorned with...
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Sun, Dec 12 2013 5:54 PM
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Why Aung San Suu Kyi is not 'Myanmar's Mandela'
Because of her iconic role in pushing for democracy in a once authoritarian country, Aung San Suu Kyi has often been called Myanmar's Mandela. Now, in the wake of Nelson Mandela's death, Aung San Suu Kyi's ability to navigate one of the more...
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Fri, Dec 12 2013 1:17 PM
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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 12 2013 3:03 PM
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The Top Five Career Paths for Berlusconi After Being Booted from Politics
Poor Silvio Berlusconi. On Wednesday, his colleagues in the Italian Senate effectively declared him unfit for office and voted to expel him from the body. The vote effectively caps the former prime minister's tumultuous fall from grace, one that has...
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Wed, Nov 11 2013 7:29 PM
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Why China Refuses to Arrest its 'Most Wanted' Dissidents
Wu'er Kaixi is homesick. Wu'er, an exiled Chinese dissident and the "second most wanted" man among the student activists of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, has tried to turn himself in to the Chinese government four times. Each time...
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Mon, Nov 11 2013 10:21 AM
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One Man's Lonely Quest to Close the Door on Northern Ireland's Troubles
If John Larkin, Northern Ireland's Attorney General, has his way, crimes perpetrated before the end of the country's three-decade conflict between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists and Protestant loyalists will no longer be prosecuted. That conflict...
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Thu, Nov 11 2013 4:27 PM
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Don't Believe the Hype: Joseph Kony Isn't About to Surrender
If Michel Djotodia, the Central African Republic's rebel leader turned interim president, is to be believed, Joseph Kony, the head of the infamous Lord's Resistance Army, is about to emerge from the jungle and surrender. "It's true, Joseph...
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Thu, Nov 11 2013 1:55 PM
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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 11 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 11 2013 2:10 PM
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