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The last time a papal intervention worked in South America

The big headline out of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's visit with Pope Francis today was Kirchner's request that Francis intervene in Argentina's dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. "I asked...

Published Mon, Mar 18 2013 3:00 PM by FP Passport

The scent of rockets in the morning

Conventional wisdom for women and men choosing a perfume or cologne generally holds that one should avoid making a strong statement with a scent. Let someone else's perfume sensually assault everyone else in the boardroom. Not so, apparently, in Gaza...

Published Mon, Dec 10 2012 12:57 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Arab World

Morning Brief: Fighting continues in Tripoli

Fighting continues in Tripoli Top story: Confusion reigned in the Libyan capital of Tripoli after Muammar al-Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam made a surprise visit to a hotel housing foreign journalists, and pro-Qaddafi military units remained in control...

Published Tue, Aug 23 2011 5:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Bahraini Milkshakes

Kim Kardashian's December 1 trip to Bahrain to promote milkshakes brought all the Middle East tweeps to the yard. Her visit attracted both delerious young fans and a raucous protest (reportedly cleared away by the time she arrived ), with conflicting...

Published Mon, Dec 03 2012 9:01 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East

London mayor Boris Johnson's Twitter Q&A is about as weird as you'd expect

London's garrulous mayor Boris Johnson (yes, the guy who got stuck on a zipline over Victoria Park last year), took to Twitter Friday to answer questions from his followers, sparking a discussion that ranged from the sex appeal of camels, to the Iliad...

Published Fri, Apr 26 2013 9:46 AM by FP Passport

America tries fighter jet diplomacy in Egypt

On July 11, the United States delivered its clearest message that it had made its peace with the military takeover in Egypt. Barely a week after President Mohammed Morsy was forced from office and three days after the army fired on pro-Morsy protesters...

Published Wed, Jul 24 2013 1:24 PM by FP Passport

New immunity for Berlusconi

Looks like Silvio Berlusconi's off the hook again . The upper chamber of the Italian Parliament passed a new law today allowing the prime minister to excuse himself from attending court hearings on the grounds that his day-to-day obligations as premier...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 12:25 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Corruption

How to turn six tweets and a blog post into an opera

When, in 2012, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman chose to title a blog post about Estonia's less-than-stellar economic recovery " Estonian Rhapsody ," we should have known that this was no run-of-the-mill fiscal commentary -- but rather...

Published Fri, Apr 05 2013 4:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Eastern Europe, Media, Fun Stuff, Economics

Why do authoritarian leaders give such long speeches?

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin sat for his nearly annual televised live-call-in show -- which, this year, went on for nearly five hours. In addition to tackling some weightier questions about the Russian economy and the country's hot...

Published Thu, Apr 25 2013 2:10 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Eastern Europe, Media, Fun Stuff

Germany hit by ‘Y2K10’

Y2K has finally hit... about ten years late. Millions of Germans are currently coping with the effects of a systemic breakdown in the country's credit and debit card services. The episode is -- amusingly, except to those affected -- reminding many...

Published Tue, Jan 05 2010 2:42 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Science & Technology, Germany

Book claim: Palin believed Saddam was behind 9/11

From Jeff Zeleny's gloss of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's dishy new book on the 2008 campaign: In the days leading up to an interview with ABC News’ Charlie Gibson, aides were worried with Ms. Palin’s grasp of facts. She couldn’t explain...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2010 8:29 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Politics, Middle East

New details emerge about the CIA bomber

Isn't it interesting that the underpants bomber -- whose failed attempt to detonate plastic explosives on a Detroit-bound plane killed zero people -- has gotten a lot more attention than the CIA bomber -- who successfully perpetrated a devastating...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2010 10:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Intelligence

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