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Morning Brief: *** Riot Members Released From Russian Jail

*** Riot Members Released From Russian Jail Top News: The two jailed members of the all-woman punk band *** Riot were released Monday morning under Russia's new amnesty law. Maria Alyokhina, 25, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, had been sentenced to...

Published Mon, Dec 23 2013 6:06 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Blast Kills Ex-Minister Chatah in Lebanon

Blast Kills Ex-Minister Chatah in Lebanon Top News : Former Lebanese minister and opposition figure Mohamad Chatah has been killed by a car bomb in central Beirut. The explosion killed at least six people and injured 70. Mr. Chattah, a Sunni Muslim, was...

Published Fri, Dec 27 2013 5:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Why Syria Is the Most Dangerous Place To Be a Journalist

For the second year running, more journalists have been killed in Syria than anywhere else in the world, according to a report released Monday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In 2013, 29 were killed there in the course of reporting; in...

Published Mon, Dec 30 2013 8:53 AM by FP Passport

The World Takes on a Common Enemy: The Hangover

"First you take a drink," wrote American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." That final 'taking' is less obliquely described as a 'hangover,' and it's a bugbear...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2014 12:08 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Fun Stuff

How to Tell If You’re Eating Fox When You Meant to Eat Donkey

Whether in Britain or in China, no one wants to think they're eating a familiar meat product only to discover they're really eating an exotic, as one unfortunate Wal-Mart customer in northern China experienced recently, when his " strange...

Published Thu, Jan 02 2014 5:39 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Fun Stuff, Food/Agriculture

Morning Brief: Angela Merkel Injured in Skiiing Accident

Angela Merkel Injured in Skiiing Accident Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel fractured her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident, forcing her to cancel meetings for the next three weeks. The fall occurred over the Christmas holidays when Merkel was...

Published Mon, Jan 06 2014 5:47 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The Sad Backstory of North Korea's First Basketball Diplomat

Dennis Rodman's epic CNN meltdown on Jan. 7 -- in which he implicitly defended North Korea's continued imprisonment of American citizen Kenneth Bae -- may be the lowest point in his confused "basketball diplomacy" crusade. The former...

Published Tue, Jan 07 2014 4:46 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North Korea, Diplomacy, East Asia, Politics, Sports

Coming Soon: The Holocaust Documentary Hitchcock Was Almost Too Scared to Make

Before Hollywood dubbed him the "Master of Suspense," Alfred Hitchcock made anti-Nazi propaganda films for the British Ministry of Information. Some of his work from that period, including "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) and "Saboteur"...

Published Wed, Jan 08 2014 1:42 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Culture, Germany

It'll Cost You $7,000 to Report on Australia's Refugee Crisis

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE To the cynic, it might look like the island nation of Nauru doesn't want journalists snooping around anymore. The tiny Pacific island nation, which has become a focal point in Australia's increasingly...

Published Thu, Jan 09 2014 12:14 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Pacific, Migration/Immigration, Australia

‘Gender’ Is The New Enemy of the Polish Church

The Polish Catholic church is on a mission -- a mission to destroy its new enemy: "gender ideology." While Pope Francis has staked out a conciliatory stance toward divisive social issues that have plagued the church in recent years, Polish bishops...

Published Fri, Jan 10 2014 8:20 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Women, Religion

Who's dubious of China as superpower? The Chinese.

Gideon Rachman's article, " American Decline: This Time It's For Real ," in the current issue of Foreign Policy adds to the growing stack of literature on the United States' relative decline in global power: "[Past worries about...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 11:16 AM by FP Passport

Pakistani gunman becomes Facebook folk hero

Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, was gunned down by one of his bodyguards today in a crowded marketplace -- the highest-profile killing in Pakistan since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the latest blow to the country's...

Published Tue, Jan 04 2011 8:31 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Pakistan, South Asia

Romanian witches cast dark spells on government in tax protest

The Tea Party can have their Revolutionary War garb and misspelled signs, Romanian witches really know how to strike fear into the forces of big government: Angry witches are using cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government...

Published Wed, Jan 05 2011 11:08 AM by FP Passport

The tooth spy

This seems to be a good week for strange spy arrests in the Middle East. Here's the latest: Iranian authorities have arrested a 55-year-old American woman on suspicion of spying, state-controlled media said on Thursday. The reports said she had espionage...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 7:46 AM by FP Passport

The spy who bit me

Still intrigued by this morning's strange story of a woman who was arrested in Iran and reportedly claimed she had spy equipment installed in her teeth, I called up Peter Earnest , a CIA veteran and executive director of the International Spy Museum...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 1:31 PM by FP Passport

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Morning Brief: *** Riot Members Released From Russian Jail

Morning Brief: Blast Kills Ex-Minister Chatah in Lebanon

Why Syria Is the Most Dangerous Place To Be a Journalist

The World Takes on a Common Enemy: The Hangover

How to Tell If You’re Eating Fox When You Meant to Eat Donkey

Morning Brief: Angela Merkel Injured in Skiiing Accident

The Sad Backstory of North Korea's First Basketball Diplomat

Coming Soon: The Holocaust Documentary Hitchcock Was Almost Too Scared to Make

It'll Cost You $7,000 to Report on Australia's Refugee Crisis

‘Gender’ Is The New Enemy of the Polish Church

Who's dubious of China as superpower? The Chinese.

Pakistani gunman becomes Facebook folk hero

Romanian witches cast dark spells on government in tax protest

The tooth spy

The spy who bit me