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Is Libya trying to sell off its shipping fleet?

How desperate is Muammar Qaddafi to raise cash? According to a new report , the Libyan leader is trying to unload the country's fleet of 22 shipping vessels as economic sanctions and continued fighting take a toll on the regime. According to the report...

Published Thu, Jul 21 2011 9:57 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Middle East, Libya, Arab World
Calling the Taliban to account

A year has passed since the Taliban issued the latest version of their Code of Conduct, or Layha . The Code regulates how Taliban fighters should wage war and how they should deal with each other, with the enemy, and with the rest of the population. The...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:05 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Security, Afghanistan, Taliban, U.S. Foreign Policy, AfPak, AfPak Channel
Gulnara Karimova’s Fall From Grace

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Published Tue, Sep 09 2014 3:29 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
France's Dixville Notch

The hamlet of Dixville Notch ( population: 9 ) is famous for being the first town to vote in New Hampshire's primary and predicting the eventual Republican nominee in every presidential election since 1968 (its record in the Democratic primary and...

Published Mon, Apr 16 2012 11:36 AM by FP Passport
It’s Not Benghazi, It’s Everything

While Republicans played politics, Libya was imploding. Now the Pentagon is readying an embassy evacuation, and the country may be beyond salvation. Read More...

Published Wed, May 21 2014 6:07 AM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Report
Mad Scientists

Canadian scientists and supporters staged a mock funeral in front of parliament in Ottawa yesterday to protest Prime Minister Stephen Harper's proposed cuts to scientific research. The July 10 event, called the "death of evidence" rally...

Published Wed, Jul 11 2012 1:39 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Environment, Canada
You Can Watch Freighter Ships From the Parking Lot of Panama's New Biodiversity Museum

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Published Wed, Oct 01 2014 12:51 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
Everest's Sherpas by the Numbers

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Published Mon, Apr 21 2014 3:51 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Disasters, South Asia, Labor
After Lubanga, who's next on the ICC's docket?

The International Criminal Court handed down its first sentence on Tuesday to Congolese war criminal Thomas Lubanga for the use of child soldiers. After over three years at trial , and following his conviction in March of this year, the court issued a...

Published Wed, Jul 11 2012 7:07 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Africa, Human Rights, Law, International Relations, International Organizations, Sudan
As South Sudan turns 1, scandal looms

On the eve of his country's first anniversary of independence , prominent South Sudanese human rights activist Deng Athuai was found brutally beaten and tied in a bag by the side of the road in Juba, the capital. According to local sources : A military...

Published Mon, Jul 09 2012 1:36 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Corruption, Human Rights, Economics, Democracy
147 Years Since Its Birth, It’s Still Fleur-de-Lis and Maple Leaves for Canada

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Published Tue, Jul 01 2014 12:55 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
Ehud Barak: Kibbutznik-turned-tycoon

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Israeli Defense Minister and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak can now add another title to his resume: real estate mogul. On Sunday, it was reported that Barak had sold his notoriously...

Published Mon, Mar 19 2012 9:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Finance, North Africa
Chinese netizens respond to the fall of Bo Xilai

Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is a guest post from Charlie Custer, the founder of Chinageeks.org, a blog that provides analysis and translation of modern China: In the wake of Premier Wen Jiabao's...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2012 8:07 AM by FP Passport
Myanmar's bridge to somewhere

While the United States has only recently made tentative efforts to engage with Myanmar, India has, controversially, had decent relations with the country's government for quite some time. Human rights activists criticized Indian Prime Minister Manmohan...

Published Wed, Mar 14 2012 10:15 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Drugs & Crime, Diplomacy, Southeast Asia, India
Iran Watch: The bratwurst effect

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is making headlines for declaring over the weekend that Tehran does not fear Western military action. "You say to Iran all options are on the table," he noted. "Leave them there until they rot."...

Published Mon, Mar 12 2012 2:22 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Iran, Iran Watch

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Is Libya trying to sell off its shipping fleet?

Calling the Taliban to account

Gulnara Karimova’s Fall From Grace

France's Dixville Notch

It’s Not Benghazi, It’s Everything

Mad Scientists

You Can Watch Freighter Ships From the Parking Lot of Panama's New Biodiversity Museum

Everest's Sherpas by the Numbers

After Lubanga, who's next on the ICC's docket?

As South Sudan turns 1, scandal looms

147 Years Since Its Birth, It’s Still Fleur-de-Lis and Maple Leaves for Canada

Ehud Barak: Kibbutznik-turned-tycoon

Chinese netizens respond to the fall of Bo Xilai

Myanmar's bridge to somewhere

Iran Watch: The bratwurst effect