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Taiwanese Official Calls for Moment of Silence After Earthquake Kills Giant Rubber Duck

Florentijn Hofman's Giant Rubber Ducky has stirred both emotions and controversy during its tour of Asia this year. While the massive inflatable bath toy has enchanted tens of thousands of viewers, it's also made children cry in Hong Kong, faced...

Published Fri, Nov 01 2013 9:58 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: State of emergency extended in Thailand

State of emergency extended in Thailand Top story: The Thai government on Tuesday announced that it would extend the state of emergency for another three months, in a bid to prevent a repeat of the anti-government protests that brought the country to...

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 5:19 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief, Oil / Energy Disaster / Problem / Shennanigans

Will this ugly shirt be Hatoyama's downfall?

Japan's fashionistas are not happy with the shirt Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is wearing in the above photo: The sartorial decision provoked a fierce attack from the fashion critic Don Konishi. He said: "This shirt comes from the '80s or...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 2:39 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops

Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops In the worst attack in Kabul in recent weeks, a suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S. military convoy and detonated his payload on Tuesday morning. The attack killed at least 18 people -...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 5:42 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: Next Year in Jerusalem?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Israel Primary: The main foreign-policy event of the campaign week was a forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition, during which six of the GOP candidates attacked the administration's policies...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 9:37 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report, 2012 Election Poster 1

About that al-Shabab rebranding ...

On Thursday, we noted that Somalia's al-Shabab had joined Twitter amidst reports that it was considering changing its name to reflect the fact that its members aren't as young as they used to be (al-Shabab means "the youth"). Echoing...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 11:24 AM by FP Passport

FP Book Club: The End of Arrogance

Bruce Jentleson and Steven Weber's November/December 2008 cover story for FP , "America's Hard Sell," described the collapse of 50 years of U.S. foreign policy assumptions -- that democracy, capitalism, and Western values were key to...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 1:55 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Book club

Yar'Adua: back, but not in action

If there's one thing I'm sure of this morning it's this: the reason I was never a better reporter in Nigeria is because I slept "normal" hours. In Nigeria, big news always happens after midnight. That's what happened last night...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 10:44 AM by FP Passport

Is Edward Snowden Any Good at Spycraft?

Sure, Edward Snowden's non-flight to Cuba , whereabouts in Russia , and request for asylum in Ecuador are getting most of the attention today. But amid all the hubbub, Monday's news also brought us this small but intriguing detail from a New York...

Published Mon, Jun 24 2013 3:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Security, Intelligence

Meet the Seven Men Obama Considers Enemies of the State

Late Friday, the Washington Post revealed that federal prosecutors have charged Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor behind a series of revelations about the agency's intelligence-gathering operations, with espionage.[[BREAK...

Published Sat, Jun 22 2013 1:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Obama Administration, Intelligence, National Security

Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: we won't need aid in 10 years

When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumed office in Liberia, the government's budget was a mere $80 million -- as she put it, about the budget of a high school. Today, the budget is $350 million -- better, but still not great. So her pronouncement today...

Published Tue, May 25 2010 7:27 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa

Morning Brief: China blocks exports of rare earth metals to Japan in escalating diplomatic row

China blocks exports of rare earth metals to Japan in escalating diplomatic row Top story: China halted the sale of rare earth metals to Japan over an escalating dispute sparked by Japan's arrest of a Chinese ship captain. Chinese authorities refused...

Published Thu, Sep 23 2010 5:44 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Putin wins presidential election amid charges of fraud

Putin wins presidential election amid charges of fraud Top story: Preliminary results from Russia's presidential election on Sunday indicate that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin overwhelmingly won a six-year term with more than 60 percent of the vote...

Published Mon, Mar 05 2012 5:09 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The return of World Leader March Madness

It's back! Last year's March Madness: Democrats vs. Dictators tournament of champions ended with a dramatic knife fight on the edge of an active Icelandic volcano between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. The tournament will return next week, setting...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2012 11:26 AM by FP Passport

Romney's new foreign policy spokesman: Quite the tweeter

When Mitt Romney's campaign announced on Thursday that the Republican presidential candidate had hired Richard Grenell, a former Bush administration spokesman at the United Nations, as his foreign policy and national security spokesman, early reports...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 2:40 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Mitt Romney

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Taiwanese Official Calls for Moment of Silence After Earthquake Kills Giant Rubber Duck

Morning Brief: State of emergency extended in Thailand

Will this ugly shirt be Hatoyama's downfall?

Morning Brief: Kabul car bombing kills at least 18, including 5 U.S. troops

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: Next Year in Jerusalem?

About that al-Shabab rebranding ...

FP Book Club: The End of Arrogance

Yar'Adua: back, but not in action

Is Edward Snowden Any Good at Spycraft?

Meet the Seven Men Obama Considers Enemies of the State

Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: we won't need aid in 10 years

Morning Brief: China blocks exports of rare earth metals to Japan in escalating diplomatic row

Morning Brief: Putin wins presidential election amid charges of fraud

The return of World Leader March Madness

Romney's new foreign policy spokesman: Quite the tweeter