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Morning Brief: Wikileaks reveals hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables

Wikileaks reveals hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables Top story: The self-described whistleblower organization Wikileaks began the release of over 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables on Sunday, presenting an unprecedented inside look into the opinions...

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 6:15 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Davutoglu picks up and runs with “dangerous man” moniker - David Kenner

One of the WikiLeaked cables refers to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as an "exceptionally dangerous" Islamist influence on the Turkish government. That's a label that the foreign minister embraces -- with a slight modification...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 7:53 AM by FP Passport

WikiLeaked: France politely points out that Iran makes no sense

If you know anything about the first batch of WikiLeaks, it's that Arab officials have a lot to say about the Iranian nuclear program. (Shorter: They don't like it.) But they're not the only ones in a Persian state of mind: the U.S. Embassy...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 10:42 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Egypt demonstrations escalate; government blocks Internet

Egypt demonstrations escalate; government blocks Internet Top story: Demonstrators again clashed with riot police in Cairo in the largest and most violent day of demonstrations in Egypt since they began on Tuesday. Police fired water cannons at pro-democracy...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 5:52 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

2012's fatal error

Warning: spoilers to follow. This weekend, against my wife's better judgment, we went to see 2012, and it was everything its fans and critics said it would be: grandiose in ambition, ludicrous in conception, and technically wondrous in execution....

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 5:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Fun Stuff, G-20

Will Japan’s News Giant Bend the Knee Before Abe?

The new head of Japan's public broadcasting company, NHK, has some unusual ideas. Since assuming his position in January, Katsuto Momii has defended Japan's wartime practice of sexual slavery by arguing that all nations have done it during times...

Published Thu, Mar 06 2014 2:36 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Japan, East Asia, Politics, Media

FP nominated for three Digital National Magazine Awards

It's a big day here at FP . Not only is our new eBook available for download, but we just learned that we've been nominated for three Digital Ellie s from the American Society of Magazine Editors. And the nominees are… The AfPak Channel for Best...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 10:20 AM by FP Passport

China Calls Congress ‘Really Absurd’ for Renaming the Street Address of Its Embassy

Former Rwandan Official Worries That Kagame's Administration is Backsliding into Mass Murder

Erdogan insinuates that IOC is anti-Islam

From Beijing to Moscow from Rio to Sydney, the Olympics have spanned continents, traversed intense political terrain, and remained competitive for bidders of all colors and creeds. That said, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan recently questioned the IOC's...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2012 12:44 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Olympics, Turkey

Pressure vests were choking F-22 pilots

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE After years of investigation, the U.S. Air Force has figured out "with high confidence" the "mosaic" of factors that have been almost literally choking the pilots of its premiere fighter...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2012 3:44 PM by FP Passport

Why Libyans Hoped for More from Obama's Speech

Dr. Fadl's new book

Sayyid Imam "Dr. Fadl" al-Sharif, the al Qaeda co-founder and one-time mentor of Ayman al-Zawahri who has, in recent years, become the organization's most trenchant critic, lambasting its use of violence in his writings from an Egyptian...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 2:56 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism

Russian officials explore ways to cash in on meteor strike

When a 10-ton meteorite exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, it injured more than 1,500 people, caused $30 million in damage, and sparked nearly 3,000 financial aid applications from residents. Now, it seems, Russians -- including government...

Published Wed, Feb 27 2013 10:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Russia, Eastern Europe, Internet, Fun Stuff, Cool

Russia considers returning to Afghanistan

The Soviet Union's 10-year occupation of Afghanistan cost the country more than 15,000 lives, and an additional 50,000 were wounded. Before the USSR withdrew its forces in 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev described the Soviet efforts to fight the insurgency...

Published Fri, Mar 29 2013 2:15 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia, Afghanistan, South Asia, Military, Trade