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Morning Brief: Libyan government forces tighten grip around Sirte

Libyan government forces tighten grip around Sirte Top news: While forces loyal to ousted Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi remain in control of most of Sirte, transitional government fighters claim to have captured the city's port. A senior military...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2011 5:27 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

We need more thinkers!

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 With our November issue off to the printer, the FP staff is gearing up to publish our annual "Top 100 Global Thinkers" list. The list will include thought leaders from...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2011 2:38 PM by FP Passport

Decline Watch: Pakistani clerics issue fatwa against calling America a superpower

Remember when anti-American clerics used to call it the Great Satan? Those were the days: A clerical alliance in Pakistan has issued a religious decree ( fatwa ) saying that it is illegitimate (haram) to call the United States a "superpower"...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2011 9:21 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Decline Watch

Did the BBC get pranked by a fake sociopathic trader?

The video above is currently making the rounds and provoking more than its share of confusion. Independent trader Alessio Rastani went on the BBC and gave an eyebrow-raising interview including such nuggets as "I go to bed every night and I dream...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2011 7:42 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Greek PM pleas for German help in debt crisis

Greek PM pleas for German help in debt crisis Top news: Speaking at a gathering of business leaders in Germany, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou made an impassioned plea to help his country out of its current debt crisis. Papandreou said his country...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2011 5:25 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

FP on the TV: Josh does Washington Journal

I was very privileged this morning to appear as a guest on C-Span's Washington Journal talking about foreign policy in the 2012 election. We had some great questions on immigration, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, as well as one dude who is currently...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 4:07 PM by FP Passport

Beijing's newfound concern with the Dalai Lama's reincarnation

The Dalai Lama shook up 370 years of tradition last March when he announced that he would step down from his post as the political leader of the Tibetan government in exile. Over the weekend the Nobel laureate shook things up again , saying: "When...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 11:16 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia

A setback for China in Africa

Chinese ambitions in Africa have been no secret to Western policymakers. In the past 7 years, Beijing has devoted over $14 billion dollars to Africa, through a mixture of aid for resources packages and direct investment. However, the outcome of this weekend's...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 9:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, East Asia, China

Decline Watch: New York's cocaine come down

Thanks to a sluggish economy, and slightly less astronomical Wall Street bonuses , New Yorkers apparently no longer move snowflakes by the OZ. The New York Post reports : Cocaine-related emergency-room admissions, overdoses and requests for rehab have...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 7:33 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Decline Watch

Morning Brief: Saudi king grants women right to vote

Saudi king grants women right to vote Top story: In the most significant expansion of women's rights in Saudi Arabia in decades, Saudi King Abdullah on Sunday granted women the right to vote in municipal elections and serve on the Shura council, a...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 5:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

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

AidSpeak: A Twitter Dictionary

This past weekend, Bill Easterly, author and former World Bank Economist, put out a challenge over his Twitter to create "witty decoding for development buzzwords" based on the 40 Publishing Buzzwords. That challenge rendered the AidSpeak Dictionary...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 2:45 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Development

Decline Watch: America's roads are so bad you need a German car to drive on them

Here's another entry from the world of advertising. This time it's a new ad for the Audi A6, via Jalopnik : Voiceover: The road is not exactly a place of intelligence. Across the nation, over 100,000 miles of highways and bridges are in disrepair...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 1:47 PM by FP Passport

Indian F-16s, Cuban terrorists and Chilean retirement plans: Foreign-policy highlights of the Fox News-Google debate

In the last few presidential debates, the audiences seem to have provoked more controversy than the candidates. Two weeks ago we heard cheering for Rick Perry's prodigious record of executions, a week ago, cries of "Let him die!" were heard...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 8:09 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Abbas to make statehood bid at U.N.

Abbas to make statehood bid at U.N. Top news: Against the urging of U.S. President Barack Obama as well as a threatened veto, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will formally request that the United Nations recognize Palestine as a state today...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 5:07 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

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Morning Brief: Libyan government forces tighten grip around Sirte

We need more thinkers!

Decline Watch: Pakistani clerics issue fatwa against calling America a superpower

Did the BBC get pranked by a fake sociopathic trader?

Morning Brief: Greek PM pleas for German help in debt crisis

FP on the TV: Josh does Washington Journal

Beijing's newfound concern with the Dalai Lama's reincarnation

A setback for China in Africa

Decline Watch: New York's cocaine come down

Morning Brief: Saudi king grants women right to vote

Friday Photo: Prostitutes protest in Seoul

AidSpeak: A Twitter Dictionary

Decline Watch: America's roads are so bad you need a German car to drive on them

Indian F-16s, Cuban terrorists and Chilean retirement plans: Foreign-policy highlights of the Fox News-Google debate

Morning Brief: Abbas to make statehood bid at U.N.