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Nets new owner accused of Mugabe ties

As a dislocated Brooklynite, I've been following the New Jersey Nets' faltering attempts to build a new stadium in my borough for years now -- my distaste for poor urban planning and eminent domain abuse only slightly outweighing my fantasy of...

Published Mon, Apr 12 2010 3:05 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Russia, Sports
Ahmadinejad coming to NYC?

Over at Turtle Bay, Colum Lynch has a big scoop : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested a visa to attend a high-level conference next week at U.N. headquarters to review progress on the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, according to...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 3:16 PM by FP Passport
Two different versions of the North Korea deal

The agreement announced yesterday between the United States and North Korea has been greeted with both cheers and jeers . Optimists see this latest development as a small, necessary first step on the path toward a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons...

Published Thu, Mar 01 2012 10:41 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North Korea, East Asia
What's inside these boxes? - by Brian Fung

Neither side will ever admit it, but North Korea has another friend in Asia other than China: Last year India exported roughly $1 billion to North Korea, up from an average of barely $100 million in the middle of the past decade, reports the Confederation...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 12:28 PM by FP Passport
Everything on the line for Murdoch today

For Rupert Murdoch, the three hours he'll spend in a small, "bland" committee room across from the House of Commons today, answering tough questions from MPs about phone-hacking and police-bribing within his company, is just about the most...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 6:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Media, Flash Points
Why did the Burmese army blow up this bridge?

It's not easy getting information out of Burma. The man who snapped this photo hid the camera's SD card in his sock in order to sneak it across the border. The image shows a 105 meter bridge in eastern Burma reportedly destroyed by the army on...

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

Filed under: East Asia
What’s behind al Shabab’s new love for the U.N.?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE As the almost entirely unreported humanitarian disaster in the Horn of Africa grows -- with the number of people in need of food aid expected to rise to an estimated 10 million in the coming weeks -- one...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2011 2:29 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Somalia
Middle East Comedians Respond to Islamic State Violence With Black Humor

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Published Mon, Sep 08 2014 8:08 AM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
Meet Your New Favorite Holiday: World Vasectomy Day

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Published Thu, Nov 06 2014 12:23 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
Bolivia to Monkeys: Move Over for Camels and Llamas

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Published Thu, Nov 13 2014 11:15 AM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
With doppelganger, Ramzan Kadyrov’s Instagram account gets even weirder

FP may have published its list of Ramzan Kadyrov's weirdest Instagrams a bit too soon. Instead of shutting down his account , as he threatened last week, the Chechen strongman appears to be doubling down on the photo-sharing site this week. Take,...

Published Thu, May 23 2013 7:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Caucasus
This will not end well

Dubai's police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, probably had most of the world on his side when he first announced that he possessed evidence that a Mossad hit squad had killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Mabhouh was a Hamas military commander, Israel...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 4:05 PM by FP Passport
6 Better Reasons Than Snowden to Boycott the Sochi Olympics

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham surprised many on Capitol Hill this week by suggesting that the U.S. should boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi if Russia grants asylum to fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. "It might help, because...

Published Fri, Jul 19 2013 9:15 AM by FP Passport
Can Obama really double exports in five years?

At his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama swore to double U.S. exports in five years. At the time, some pundits (including one here ) scoffed at the idea. Doubling exports, of course, means convincing the world to buy twice as much of...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 11:04 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Economics, Trade
If Detroit Were a Country, Would It Be a Failed State?

The city of Detroit has sorrows to spare. Its government -- officially, as of Thursday -- can't pay its bills. Its police don't arrive in time to stop criminals , and its ambulances don't arrive in time to save lives . Its citizens are fleeing...

Published Fri, Jul 19 2013 3:12 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Development, Economics

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Nets new owner accused of Mugabe ties

Ahmadinejad coming to NYC?

Two different versions of the North Korea deal

What's inside these boxes? - by Brian Fung

Everything on the line for Murdoch today

Why did the Burmese army blow up this bridge?

What’s behind al Shabab’s new love for the U.N.?

Middle East Comedians Respond to Islamic State Violence With Black Humor

Meet Your New Favorite Holiday: World Vasectomy Day

Bolivia to Monkeys: Move Over for Camels and Llamas

With doppelganger, Ramzan Kadyrov’s Instagram account gets even weirder

This will not end well

6 Better Reasons Than Snowden to Boycott the Sochi Olympics

Can Obama really double exports in five years?

If Detroit Were a Country, Would It Be a Failed State?