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Indigenous community drives out Colombian military with sticks

On Tuesday, indigenous residents of El Berlin, a small rural town in southwestern Colombia, forced the Colombian military off its mountaintop base. Members of the Nasa indigenous community surrounded several soldiers, picked them up, and dragged them...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 11:12 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Drugs & Crime, Latin America

Protest breaks out in my old Beijing apartment building

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Every year tens of thousands of mass protests break out in China. Some, like environmental protests that broke out in early July in the southwestern city of Shifang, feature tens...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 10:15 AM by FP Passport

Human Rights Watch blasts Yale for Singapore rules

In a press release issued this morning, Human Rights Watch slammed Yale University, criticizing the administration for "betraying the spirit of the university as a center of open debate and protest by giving away the rights of its students."...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 8:39 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Human Rights, East Asia, Education

Morning Brief: Fighting in Syria continues after Damascus bombing

Fighting in Syria continues after Damascus bombing Top news: Deadly clashes between Syrian forces and opposition fighters are continuing in Damascus and elsewhere in Syria after a suicide attack in the capital on Wednesday killed the country's defense...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 5:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The life and times of Omar Suleiman

0 0 1 722 4119 Foreign Policy magazine 34 9 4832 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE When it rains, it pours. One day after a Damascus bombing killed at least three top Syrian security officials, Egypt's former intelligence chief and vice...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 4:07 AM by FP Passport

Cash-strapped WikiLeaks unveils new credit card system

In a press statement released this morning, WikiLeaks announced the creation of a new fundraising scheme to circumvent the international embargo imposed last fall by international credit-card processors. Empowered by a recent legal victory against VISA...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 3:38 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Economics, WikiLeaks

"Goodwill gesture" by Bahraini firm sets Indian laborers free

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE After six years of being stranded in Bahrain, roughly 100 laborers will be allowed to return home to India, the BBC reports . The workers, who were employed at the Nass Corporation until they quit in 2006...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 2:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Arab World

Accused Nazi war criminal arrested

Early this morning , Hungarian law enforcement detained accused Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary. The judge in the case ordered him placed under house arrest. Csatary was a commander for the Royal Hungarian police force in Kassa, in modern-day Slovakia...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 12:21 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Law

Hamas runs summer camps for kids in Gaza

Now that the United Nations has run out of funding for children's summer camps in Gaza, Palestinian kids in the Strip have one alternative for entertainment during the summer months -- Hamas camp. The U.N.'s Relief and Works agency had provided...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 10:28 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Israel/Palestine

China catches up with Europe on C02-per-capita, Australia still on top

China is already the world's largest emitter of CO2 nationally, but the Guardian reports that it's catching up on a per person basis as well: But today's report , which only covers emissions from energy, by the PBL Netherlands Environmental...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 10:22 AM by FP Passport

The Deutsche mark lives

Apparently, as the Wall Street Journal reports , Germans still haven't quite given up on the Deutsche mark: As defunct currencies go, "die gute alte D-mark," or "the good old D-mark," as it is still affectionately called, is far...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 9:24 AM by FP Passport

Greek island wants to join Austria

German MPs provoked outrage in Greece in 2010 with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the coutnry shoudl consider selling off some of its islands to settle its accounts. But it appears that some residents of the island of Ikaria is looking to...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 9:11 AM by FP Passport

Assad's death spiral

0 0 1 807 4603 Foreign Policy magazine 38 10 5400 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE This may be how it ends for President Bashar al-Assad. A bomb attack struck a high-level meeting in the capital of Damascus today, killing four of the president's...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 7:36 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Suicide bombing kills Syrian defense minister

Suicide bombing kills Syrian defense minister Top news: Syrian state television is reporting that a suicide bomber attacked a meeting of top security officials in Damascus on Wednesday, killing Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajha and his deputy Asef Shawkat...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 5:37 AM by FP Passport