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Why does the U.S. have so many more tornadoes than other countries?

Oklahoma's devastating tornado, which reportedly killed at least 24 people and injured more than 200 others, is drawing comparisons to past U.S. twisters today, including the massive tornado that hit the same region in 1999. And the United States...

Published Tue, May 21 2013 12:00 PM by FP Passport

Clearing up misperceptions about Chechnya -- one Reddit post at a time

In the mad rush to identify the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing, Reddit, the popular link-sharing site, was at the center of vigilante campaigns online to pick out suspicious individuals in photos from the finish line. The effort ran into...

Published Tue, Apr 23 2013 5:00 PM by FP Passport

Eric Schmidt: Money is the only reason Julian Assange redacted WikiLeaks files

Back in 2011, Google executive Eric Schmidt conducted a secret interview with Julian Assange while the WikiLeaks founder was under house arrest in Britain. The nature of the interview has not been revealed until now, a week before the release of Schmidt's...

Published Fri, Apr 19 2013 11:30 AM by FP Passport

Al Qaeda will take your questions now

It's not every day that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the terror group's North Africa affiliate, explains itself to the press. But that's just what happened last week, when media spokesman Ahmed Abu Abdulelah answered questions posed...

Published Mon, Apr 22 2013 6:04 AM by FP Passport

What prisoners at Gitmo are reading

New York Times reporter Charlie Savage recently traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to cover the violent raid at the prison earlier this week. But Savage did more on his visit than just interview prison officials: On April 17, he posted his first photo of...

Published Thu, Apr 18 2013 5:00 PM by FP Passport

Inside the deadly Russian region the Tsarnaev family used to call home

As new details emerge about the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings, we're learning that the Tsarnaev family briefly lived in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's Dagestan region near Chechnya, before moving to...

Published Fri, Apr 19 2013 7:30 AM by FP Passport

Watch Pervez Musharraf flee a Pakistani courtroom

Pervez Musharraf's bizarre return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile, which has already been marked by the former president being disqualified from upcoming elections and live-tweeting his bail hearing (and exercise routine), just got even more bizarre...

Published Thu, Apr 18 2013 7:00 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Italy and Greece move to push through reforms

Italy and Greece move to push through reforms Top news: As Silvio Berlusconi's tenure as prime minister winds to a close, the Italian Senate has approved a series of austerity measures designed to avoid a bailout of the eurozone's third largest...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 5:32 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Do Palestinian and Israeli textbooks teach kids to be enemies?

During last year's GOP primary, candidate Newt Gingrich boldly asserted that Palestinian schoolchildren "have textbooks that say, ‘If there are 13 Jews and nine Jews are killed, how many Jews are left?'" Could the situation really be...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2013 9:53 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Education

Friday Photo: Prostitutes protest in Seoul

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - SEPTEMBER 22: South Korean prostitutes hide their identities as they participate in a rally on September 22, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea. Nearly seven years after tough laws began driving thousands of South Korean prostitutes out of...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 3:13 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Military opens combat roles to women

Military opens combat roles to women Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Top news: Outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is expected to announce Thursday that female service members will soon be allowed to serve in combat roles previously...

Published Thu, Jan 24 2013 5:46 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

White skies, smiling at me

For the past week or so, Beijing has suffered from some of the worst pollution it has seen in years. The pollution levels seemed to peak on Saturday when the U.S. Embassy in Beijing's popular @BeijingAir twitter feed, which uses standards from the...

Published Mon, Jan 14 2013 11:44 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia

Morning Brief: Stocks rally following Fed announcement

Stocks rally following Fed announcement Top news: Global stocks have rebounded somewhat from their disastrous tumble early this week after the U.S. Federal Reserve's announcement on Tuesday that it would keep interest rates frozen near zero until...

Published Wed, Aug 10 2011 5:22 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

England's history of street violence

Masked youth wander the streets armed with Molotov cocktails , families flee as their homes erupt in flames, medics tend to the bloodied and bruised as armored vehicles patrol the streets -- a scene fit for a war zone. The world has been capitaved by...

Published Wed, Aug 10 2011 1:08 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Britain

Colombia: Maybe Chavez just saw Santa

Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva can hold his own in a trash-talking battle with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez -- no mean feat: Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane and...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 8:32 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America

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Why does the U.S. have so many more tornadoes than other countries?

Clearing up misperceptions about Chechnya -- one Reddit post at a time

Eric Schmidt: Money is the only reason Julian Assange redacted WikiLeaks files

Al Qaeda will take your questions now

What prisoners at Gitmo are reading

Inside the deadly Russian region the Tsarnaev family used to call home

Watch Pervez Musharraf flee a Pakistani courtroom

Morning Brief: Italy and Greece move to push through reforms

Do Palestinian and Israeli textbooks teach kids to be enemies?

Friday Photo: Prostitutes protest in Seoul

Morning Brief: Military opens combat roles to women

White skies, smiling at me

Morning Brief: Stocks rally following Fed announcement

England's history of street violence

Colombia: Maybe Chavez just saw Santa