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Morning Brief: Haitian hospitals running low on medical supplies

Haitian hospitals running low on medical supplies Top story: With around 200,000 people in need of post-surgical care and countless more still with untreated injuries, doctors say that basic medical supplies are running out in Haiti's hospitals. While...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 5:43 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Bombings target foreigners in Central Kabul

Bombings target foreigners in Central Kabul Top story: A series of terrorist attacks targeting guesthouses used by foreigners in Central Kabul killed at least 17 people this morning. With Taliban force s routed from their stronghold in Marjah and dozens...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 5:33 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Mexico issues travel warning for Arizona

Mexico's government no longer believes its citizens are safe in the state of Arizona: The Mexican government Tuesday took the unusual step of issuing a travel alert urging extreme caution by Mexicans working, studying or otherwise spending time in...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 7:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Mexico, Migration/Immigration

North Korea and Zimbabwe in World Cup controversy

Despite Zimbabwe not making it out of the second round of African World Cup qualifying, Robert Mugabe has still managed to turn the upcoming World Cup, hosted by neighboring South Africa, into a domestic political scandal. What a surprise. Apparently...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 11:07 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Sports, World Cup

Video: Smoke on the Gulf

The Coast Guard just released the above video, shot by Petty Officer 1st Class Justin Sawyer, of yesterday's contolled burn of oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon spill site. It's a pretty incredible sight. Read...

Published Thu, Apr 29 2010 11:06 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Oil

Preparing for Olympics, Rio plans to raze favelas

Rio de Janeiro is undertaking a significant rebuilding and reconstruction effort before the 2016 Summer Olympics. The city will raze over 100 of the most "at risk" favelas and rebuild hundreds of others. According to the mayor of Rio, Eduardo...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 1:28 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Corruption, Drugs & Crime, Latin America, Development, Olympics

Don't Worry, BlackBerry. Indonesia Still Loves You.

The tentative $4.7 billion deal to take BlackBerry private may have only been announced on Monday, but for many Americans it was a long time coming. In the United States and Western Europe, Apple's iPhone and Google's Android have come to dominate...

Published Tue, Sep 24 2013 5:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Africa, East Asia, Canada

Australian PM flees Aboriginal protest

Things got very ugly between Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's entourage and a group of Aboriginal protesters at an Australia Day even in Canberra today. The Sydney Morning Herald reports : Violent scenes were seen outside the Lobby restaurant...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 2:01 PM by FP Passport

Big Afghan leaders don't cry

I'm no expert on Afgahanistan -- but I know enough about the country to understand that crying in public probably won't win you too many supporters: Afghan President Hamid Karzai wept on Tuesday as he called on Afghans to “come to their senses...

Published Tue, Sep 28 2010 6:25 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan

Are things in Korea more normal than they seem?

An ordinary North Korean diplomatic trip to the Middle East might seem like small potatoes in light of all the hostile rhetoric rising from Pyongyang this week. But even as the international crisis continues, North Korea's relatively mundane overtures...

Published Fri, May 28 2010 8:57 AM by FP Passport

Beijing's Pyongyang fatigue - By Charles Homans

Is China through with North Korea? That's the Guardian 's takeaway from the exchanges between American diplomats and their Chinese and South Korean counterparts in the first batches of State Department cables released by Wikileaks on Sunday and...

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 10:55 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Security, North Korea, Diplomacy, East Asia, China, Obama Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Nukes, International Relations, State Department

Foreign Policy honors the global thinkers of 2010

Tonight, the staff of Foreign Policy is getting all gussied up to celebrate our 40th anniversary by honoring the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010 at a special event at Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art. The evening will include a special conversation...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 1:40 PM by FP Passport

European integrationists enrage British grocery shoppers

Riddle of the day: where might a single bread roll not be considered a roll of bread? In Europe, where a new rule outlaws the labeling of foodstuffs by their number and instead replaces them with labels by weight. No longer will eggs be sold by the dozen...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 7:22 AM by FP Passport

Decision 2008: The Ukraine 2010 edition

The Financial Times takes a look at the high-profile Washington players brought in to advise Ukraine's presidential candidates, who are headed for a run-off on Feb. 7. There's an interesting partisan breakdown between the candidates: Paul Manafort...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 11:49 AM by FP Passport