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Suspect in Bibi Aisha's mutilation goes free

The case of Bibi Aisha, the young girl who graced the cover of TIME Magazine after her nose and ears were cut off, has been dropped. The only arrested suspect, Aisha's father-in-law, was released in Afghanistan, according to government officials....

Published Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:56 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan, Women, Taliban

The best photos from France’s Bastille Day celebration

French troops marched down the Champs-Elysees today to mark Bastille Day, in front of thousands. For you history buffs: the holiday celebrates July 14, 1789, the day angry crowds stormed the Bastille prison in Paris, helping to set off the French Revolution...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 1:51 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, France

Russia is no longer worried about U.S. missile defense systems

If Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is to be believed, Russia has stopped worrying about U.S. missile defense systems in Eastern Europe. In a speech delivered Tuesday at the Russian embassy in London, Rogozin claimed that the American missile...

Published Tue, Apr 16 2013 4:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, North America, Russia, North Korea, Obama Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Nukes, International Relations, Iran, National Security

Will a member of David Cameron's cabinet agree to live on $11.42 per day?

After his appearance on a BBC radio program Monday, British Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith probably wishes he could eat his words -- because now he may not be eating much of anything for a year. Smith said in the interview that he could...

Published Wed, Apr 03 2013 8:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Economics, Labor

Mohammad Ajmal Kasab's Bollywood dreams

After first denying that he was the lone surviving Mumbai gunman, and then shocking the court by pleading guilty, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab has changed his story yet again: Kasab insisted today that this was not the case, smiling as he set out his new version...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 9:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, South Asia, India

Indian court recommends legalizing prostitution

If you can’t beat ‘em, regulate ‘em -- that’s the Indian Supreme Court’s take on the country’s illegal sex trade. The court’s advice came in response to an NGO’s public litigation regarding child trafficking in the country. As of 2007, UNICEF estimates...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 1:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Drugs & Crime, Law, Southeast Asia, India, AIDS, Labor

Australian minister too drunk to debate

Drinking at work: it's an ancient and venerable tradition, and one that enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the United States not too long ago. While the practice is still popular in continental Europe, American office culture has in recent decades...

Published Tue, Jun 04 2013 3:36 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Diplomacy, Fun Stuff, Pacific

The Bullyvarian Revolution: Hugo Chávez's most memorable insults

It was a key component of Hugo Chávez's special brand of charisma: the exotic, grandiloquent insult. Chávez was not the only world leader who relished a good -- if perhaps, at times, one-sided -- fight with los imperialistas , but what made him stand...

Published Wed, Mar 06 2013 8:27 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America, Venezuela

Quiz: What percentage of the world's cell-phone accounts are in developing countries?

For those of you who don't subscribe to the bimonthly print edition of Foreign Policy , you're missing a great feature: the FP Quiz. It has eight intriguing questions about how the world works. The question I'd like to highlight this week...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 3:12 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Internet, Development

The latest Dominique Strauss-Kahn twist

Last we left the French politician, he had been freed from house arrest after the veracity of his accuser's story came into question; French society contemplated his political future ; and a French writer, Tristane Banon, said even if he didn't...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 8:43 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, France

What’s More Dangerous: A 3-D Printed Gun or Vagina?

Nigerian Girls Brought Back -- Maybe

Morsi’s majoritarian mindset

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi turned Egyptian politics on its head on Thanksgiving eve with his now familiar style of governance: a unilateral, surprise decree, the fourth of its kind since Morsi assumed his position in June. Each of these decisions...

Published Tue, Nov 27 2012 8:14 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: North America, Law, Politics, Middle East, North Africa, Egypt, Middle East Poster 4

Monsieur Hollande's opus

French President Francois Hollande landed in Mali Saturday, and received a hero's welcome in Timbuktu, which until recently was a jihadist stronghold. Can you imagine a U.S. president doing this? Hollande was greeted by Malians sporting shirts with...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2013 6:45 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, France, Mali

Morning Brief: Iran holds drill to protect nuclear sites

Iran holds drill to protect nuclear sites Top story: Iran is holding what it describes as its largest ever air-defense drill to prepare for an attack on the country's nuclear sites. Both Iran's conventional forces and the revolutionary guards...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 5:39 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief