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Morning Brief: Tymoshenko challenges Ukraine election result

Tymoshenko challenges Ukraine election result Top story: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is planning to contest the results of Sunday's Presidential election, which awarded a slim victory to her rival, Viktor Yanukovych. The Tymoshenko Bloc...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2010 5:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The risky legal strategy behind Edward Snowden's flight to Hong Kong

With his decision to flee to Hong Kong , Edward Snowden, the whistleblower behind the bombshell leak that exposed a highly classified U.S. intelligence program, has taken a serious legal risk, one that may very well result in his extradition to the United...

Published Sun, Jun 09 2013 9:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: China, National Security

More evidence that no one knows who's in charge in Europe

I continue to find the "Obama is ignoring Europe" meme pretty tiresome. A case in point is this Der Spiegel article which argues that "By declining to come to Spain for a trans-Atlantic summit, President Barack Obama made it clear that...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 6:59 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe

Cuba's American prisoner

The arrest of a U.S. government subcontractor who was reportedly handing out laptops and cellphones to Cuban opposition groups may be a sign of U.S.-Cuban relations returning to their normal state of distrust and tension: Still, Mr. Vivanco and others...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 8:30 AM by FP Passport

Clinton's unappreciated warnings to Latin America

It's not clear what Hillary Clinton was aiming for exactly last Friday, when she warned Latin American countries "that if people want to flirt with Iran, they should take a look at what the consequences might well be for them." If she expected...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 8:31 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Latin America, Diplomacy

Morning Brief: EU agrees to pay $10.6 billion in climate aid

EU agrees to pay $10.6 billion in climate aid Top story: EU leaders have agreed to contribute $10.6 billion dollars over the next three years to help poor countries adapt to the threat of climate change. The announcement came at the conclusion of a two...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 5:49 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Body of Cyprus president stolen from grave

Here's your freaky story for the day: Grave robbers stole the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos after digging up his coffin on the eve of the first anniversary of the statesmen's death, police said Friday. Papadopoulos was...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 7:40 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe

Never-before-seen photos from the Qaddafi files

Today, FP is featuring a never-before-seen collection of photos of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his family, taken from the late libyan leader's private homes and state ministries. The photos feature young images of the man himself, and his sons, along...

Published Thu, Oct 20 2011 10:00 AM by FP Passport

Introducing the 2013 Gelber Prize finalists: today's nominee, S.C.M. Paine

Over the next few days, we're going to be featuring one interview per day with the authors of the books nominated for this year's Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the year's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs. The...

Published Tue, Feb 19 2013 10:10 AM by FP Passport

White House: All quiet on the 38th parallel -- still

Pushing back against reporting in an article by the Washington Free Beacon , the White House reiterated on Monday that North Korea has not altered its military posture since its steep uptick in belligerent rhetoric last week. In a Monday press briefing...

Published Mon, Apr 01 2013 3:50 PM by FP Passport

Guinea's descent into chaos

Let me be honest: I'm pretty worried about Guinea. That's a huge understatement. I'm terrified for Guinea. After years and years of muddling along, it looks unlikely to do so now. Here's why: By now, you likely know that the leader of...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 1:31 PM by FP Passport

Copenhagen fizzle

According the WSJ , there will be no "comprehensive accord" from Copenhagen. But there will be a band-aid deal between US, China, India, S Africa. The Washington Post 's initial headline sounds rather too optimistic to me. Look forward to...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 1:50 PM by FP Passport

China: We just gave Cambodia $1.2 billion because we're nice

China is denying that the $1.2 billion in aid that Vice President Xi Jinping pledged during a visit to Cambodia yesterday had anything to do with the fact that just hours earlier, the country deported 20 Uighur asylum speakers -- a move that Xi praised...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 7:41 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, China, Foreign Aid, Southeast Asia

The 2013 Gelber Prize winner: Chrystia Freeland's 'Plutocrats'

Last month, we posted interviews with the authors of the books nominated for the 2013 Gelber Prize, a literary award for the year's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 8:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Economics

Is this China's first lady singing to troops after the Tiananmen Square crackdown?

China Digital Times posts the photo above, from Hong Kong's Open Magazine , which purportedly shows a young Peng Liyuan -- military pop star and wife of current President Xi Jinping -- entertaining the troops in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. The...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 2:41 PM by FP Passport