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Morning Brief, Thursday, April 12

Source: PBS NewsHour Middle East Breaking: An explosion struck the cafeteria of Iraq's parliament building , which is inside the Green Zone in Baghdad (the white spot on the map at right). No solid figures on casualties yet. Is it any surprise the...

Published Thu, Apr 12 2007 6:40 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Live: The False Religion of Middle East Peace

Webcam chat at Ustream Video --> Please join the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force, Foreign Policy Magazine , and the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) in hosting a discussion for the official launch of the Middle...

Published Fri, May 14 2010 1:43 PM by FP Passport

Obama's aunt granted asylum

After a decade-long legal battle, President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango -- remembered as "Auntie Zeituni" in Obama's Dreams From My Father , has won the right to remain in the United States. The basis for Onyango's...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 2:43 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Migration/Immigration

Evo Morales: Chicken hormones will make you gay

I don't think even PETA would make this argument : Bolivia's opposition and homosexual groups criticized comments made by Morales at the first "people's conference" on climate change the previous day, in which he said that chicken...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 7:28 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America, Food/Agriculture

25,000 subscribers can't be wrong

The FP Morning Brief hit a major milestone today, passing 25,000 e-mail subscribers. When you factor in those of you who read the brief on Passport or the Global News page, that's a pretty impressive group of well-informed people! In fact, if the...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 2:47 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Foreign Policy magazine

Can the Turkish opposition kick out Erdogan?

A few months back, I had a pleasant lunch at a Turkish restaurant in Dupont Circle with representatives of a nascent Turkish political party, TDH. The party billed itself as a Western-oriented alternative to the ruling AKP party -- and also as more dynamic...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 10:57 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Politics, Elections, Democracy

Friday Photo: Fake Lake

Madeline Boyce (L) and Kalyna Kardash relax in the tourism pavilion at the G8/G20 summit media centre in Toronto June 24, 2010 in Toronto. The pavilion includes several canoes, lawn chairs and an artificial indoor pool. Speaking to the House of Commons...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 4:25 PM by FP Passport

Nigerian corruption: "Everyone's in on the Game"

This report couldn't be more aptly named: " Everyone's in on the Game ," released by Human Rights Watch today, is a story about how corruption has eaten Nigeria's police force from the inside out. Everyone is, as they say, in on...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 10:25 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Corruption

No, seriously: Election jokes banned in Brazil

Do you have a whole list of killer Dilma Rousseff jokes you just can't wait to try out on Brazilian television audiences? You're out of luck : With the first wave of on-air political ads starting Tuesday, Brazil's comedians and satirists are...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 7:54 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America, Culture, Elections

Pakistan's ISI: Militants, not India, are the greatest threat to national security - by Brian Fung

Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, has concluded that India is no longer the primary threat to the country's security. Displacing New Delhi for the title are Islamist militias operating in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province: A recent...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 2:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Security, Pakistan, Intelligence, India

The pricetag of that Afghan army

How much does it cost to build your own army? The U.S. military is in the process of finding out in Afghanistan, where a key pillar of the counterinsurgency strategy -- and indeed, the lynchpin that will allow U.S. troops to eventually pull out -- is...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 11:24 AM by FP Passport

Nuking the Gulf spill

Navy submarine vet and Columbia University nuclear policy scholar Christopher Brownfield has an odd post over at the Daily Beast on a potential solution for the Gulf oil spill. He begins: On Day 1 of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, my gut instinct...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 9:01 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Nukes

What Medals Did the Navy Yard Shooter Receive, Exactly?

Aaron Alexis, the Navy veteran and IT contractor who died after killing 12 people and wounding three others in a shooting rampage on Monday at Washington's Navy Yard facility, has been described by some media outlets as a decorated sailor. And that's...

Published Tue, Sep 17 2013 1:45 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Military

Niger Delta rebels promise another bomb attack imminently

To prove that none of those arrested or questioned surrounding a bomb attack on the Nigerian capital of Abuja earlier this month were in fact involved, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has just released a note to journalists...

Published Fri, Oct 15 2010 8:25 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Africa

Woodward strikes again

Bob Woodward's new book about Barack Obama's presidency promises to create enormous headaches for a White House that's already reeling from a weak economic recovery and a surging Republican opposition, judging by accounts in the New York Times...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 10:43 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan, Obama Administration, Military