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Morning Brief: U.S. ambassador killed in Libya

U.S. ambassador killed in Libya Top news: President Obama has confirmed that Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was killed along with three members of his staff in an attack by an armed mob on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 5:20 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Libya attack overshadows Vanity Fair's big Obama profile

President Obama hasn't mentioned the unpopular Libyan intervention much on the campaign trail, making only a passing reference to the successful operation in his convention speech last week (Senator John Kerry was the only speaker who addressed the...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 11:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 1, Barack Obama

A tale of two statements

My colleague Marc Lynch argued earlier today: "Today will be a pivotal moment in the urgent debates about how such movements will respond to political power and a stake in the political system." "Libya's leaders thus far look to be...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 3:34 PM by FP Passport

The week Europe turned a corner?

With the events in North Africa and the Middle East this week, it's been easy to miss major developments North of the Mediterranean. First, there was some news out of Germany: Germany's supreme court has rejected petitions to block ratification...

Published Thu, Sep 13 2012 2:39 PM by FP Passport

Romney camp scolds Obama campaign for citing Chinese news agency

Yesterday I noted that the Chinese press had yet to respond to Mitt Romney's accusation on the campaign trail and in a new ad that Beijing is cheating by manipulating its currency. Today Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, picked up the gauntlet...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2012 8:08 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama

Is Vladimir Putin Covering Up the Deaths of Russian Soldiers in Ukraine?

Romney's litmus test for federal programs: Is it worth a Chinese loan?

In his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night, Mitt Romney offered an interesting response to Scott Pelley's question about what sacrifices he would ask the American people to make in his effort to balance the budget. He argued that those sacrifices...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 8:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 1, Mitt Romney

As global pork shortage looms, will China open its strategic pork reserve?

Get your Baconators while you still can. There's some disturbing news out of Europe, reports the FT : Data showing the EU pig herd is declining “at a significant rate” in a trend mirrored around the world means a world shortage of pork and bacon Read...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 1:45 PM by FP Passport

Obama breaks with past Iran rhetoric at UNGA

There's a lot of coverage today of Barack Obama's tough words for Iran at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), but the president has expressed the main points in the speech -- America's commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon...

Published Tue, Sep 25 2012 10:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 1, Barack Obama

Kirchner to referee Lagarde: My country is not a soccer team

The Argentinian government is not responding well to a slightly condescending warning from IMF Chief Christine Lagarde: International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde has warned Argentina it could face sanctions unless it produces reliable growth...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2012 7:26 AM by FP Passport

Sorry, Bill Clinton. You can't be president of France or Ireland

In an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, the 42nd president discusses some other countries where he might be able to run for president -- technically speaking, of course -- and also reveals that he's clearly spent a lot of time thinking about...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2012 4:30 PM by FP Passport

New poll: Romney overtakes Obama on terrorism

The foreign-policy results of the new Bloomberg National Poll haven't gotten much attention yet, but the survey contains some bad news for the Obama campaign. According to the poll, Mitt Romney has a 48-42 advantage over Barack Obama on the question...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2012 9:49 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama

Ever wonder what North Korea's Potemkin hotel looks like from the inside?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 North Korea tour specialists Koryo Tours provide what seems to be the first photos in years of the inside of the Ryugyong, a 330 meter hotel that boasts the 5th most floors of any...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2012 1:12 PM by FP Passport

Turkey turns its mass arrest strategy on hackers

With so much news coming out of Turkey and so many high-profile targets getting hacked , it was probably inevitable that something like this would happen this week: After hacker group Anonymous' apparently successful Operation Turkey to protest Internet...

Published Mon, Jun 13 2011 10:57 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood forms alliance with liberal party

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood forms alliance with liberal party Top story: The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful Islamist party, announced on Monday that it had formed a coalition with the liberal Wafd Party for the country's upcoming parliamentary...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2011 4:51 AM by FP Passport