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Why It Took a Superstorm to Expose the Seedy Underbelly of Philippine Politics
More than a week after Super Typhoon Haiyan killed nearly 4,000 people and displaced another 4 million, relief efforts remain hampered by poor roadways, congested airports, and a host of other logistical nightmares. While the Red Cross says they have...
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Tue, Nov 11 2013 9:25 AM
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What Convicted Smugglers Tell Us About Iran's Proxy Wars
Yemen has sentenced eight sailors for smuggling arms to local rebels. The crew of the Jihan sailors received sentences ranging from one to six years in prison; the alleged mastermind of the operation, tried in absentia, received ten. No one in the Jihan...
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Philippines Police Chief Fired for Exaggerating Haiyan's Death Toll
The police chief who initially reported that Super Typhoon Haiyan had killed 10,000 people has been fired, according to the Philippines News Agency . Soon after Chief Supt. Elmer Soria told reporters on Saturday that "initially there are 10,000 casualties...
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Thu, Nov 11 2013 1:24 PM
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Why Poland's Right-Wing Thugs Keep Burning Rainbows
On Nov. 11 1918, the end of World War I, Poland regained its place on the map of Europe, after having been wiped off for 123 years. Now, on Poland's Independence Day, the capital's sky gives off a red glow and its streets are enveloped in smoke...
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Tue, Nov 11 2013 12:38 PM
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Why Is Macklemore Shouting Out the Philippines' Hard-Left Nationalists?
The rapper Macklemore's body may have been at the MTV European Music Awards on Sunday. But in the wake of supertyphoon Haiyan, his heart was evidently in the Philippines... or, at least, in "the Philippians." In an unfortunately misspelled...
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Mon, Nov 11 2013 11:16 AM
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Does Burning the Thumb of Your Husband’s Lover Make You a WMD Monster?
The Supreme Court has doubts as to whether a domestic, if gruesome, argument is exactly like a full-blown civil war, and whether a scorned wife who burned the thumb of her husband's mistress is in the same category as Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad...
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Tue, Nov 11 2013 2:10 PM
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When Saudi Women Get Behind the Wheel, Male Supporters are Jailed
Saudi authorities have found a novel way of punishing women who defy the country's driving ban: jailing the men who support them. Around 50 women got behind the wheel on Oct. 26, in an act of civil disobedience. While some of the women were stopped...
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Wed, Oct 10 2013 1:00 PM
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Election Day in the Philippines Means 500 Guns, 191 Knives and 68 Grenades
The Philippines boasts one of Asia's oldest democracies. But as it struggles to rein in political violence and corruption, that distinction is exactly a point of pride. On Monday, more than 40,000 villages in the Philippines voted in municipal elections...
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Mon, Oct 10 2013 1:37 PM
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This Man Decides Whether Russians Consume Moldovan Wine, Lithuanian Cheese, and Ukrainian Chocolate
You may not have heard of Gennady Onishchenko, but if his own accounts are to be believed, he's the Russian government official who singlehandedly averts major public health crises posed by foreign countries' dangerously lax and unsophisticated...
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Thu, Oct 10 2013 11:00 AM
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Peru's Ex-President Is Tweeting from Prison
The Letter from Birmingham Jail it is not . Since September, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving out a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses in the 1990s, has been engaged in a particularly rare form of opposition politics, tweeting...
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Tue, Oct 10 2013 11:00 AM
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So, You Captured an al Qaeda Terrorist and Are Holding Him at Sea. Now What?
On Saturday, U.S. Navy SEALs captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas al-Libi, in a brazen raid on his home in Tripoli, Libya. Libi was indicted in New York in 2000 for his role in al Qaeda's bombing of U.S...
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Mon, Oct 10 2013 3:50 PM
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Good News: The United States Still Isn't a Failed State
Yes, the U.S. government shutdown is equal parts embarrassing and infuriating. Yes, it is putting the kibosh on services as basic as food programs and flu shots . But no, the United States is still not a failed state, much as many people seem to be enjoying...
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Wed, Oct 10 2013 3:20 PM
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We're 'Next' and Putin Deserves the Nobel Prize: What the Russian Press Makes of Syria
President Vladimir Putin's direct appeal to the American people in the pages of the New York Times is just one part of his government's messaging strategy on Syria. Russia's English-language media outlets are busy blasting out the Kremlin...
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Fri, Sep 09 2013 11:20 AM
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That Awkward Time Putin Called for Military Intervention in the New York Times
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a direct appeal to the American public in an editorial in Thursday morning's New York Times . "The potential strike by the United States against Syria," he writes, "despite strong opposition from...
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Thu, Sep 09 2013 8:11 AM
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Who to Watch in Congress This Week on Syria
As of Monday morning, the majority of U.S. legislators still have yet to announce their position on whether they'll vote to authorize the use of military force against Syria. They're running out of time to come to a decision, though; the resolution...
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Mon, Sep 09 2013 9:20 AM
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