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Morning Brief: U.S. admits mistakes in Pakistan raid

U.S. admits mistakes in Pakistan raid Top story: A U.S. military report found that poor coordination between U.S. and Pakistani officers and incorrect map information provided by NATO to the Pakistani military were responsible for a deadly Nov. 25 raid...

Published Thu, Dec 22 2011 4:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

China blasts Canada for Kyoto move

It's not a great day for Canada when it's being lectured by China for its environmental policies: "It is regrettable and flies in the face of the efforts of the international community for Canada to leave the Kyoto Protocol at a time when...

Published Wed, Dec 14 2011 1:48 PM by FP Passport

Guest blog: Obama meets the CEOs

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 President Obama will consult with 20 CEOs of major U.S. companies today to get their advice on how to stimulate U.S. economic growth and create more American jobs. The premise of...

Published Wed, Dec 15 2010 8:38 AM by FP Passport

Peering over Lady Ashton's shoulder before the Iran negotiations

Negotiations between Iran and the world's leading powers in Geneva wrapped up yesterday, with a pledge by the parties to resume talks in Istanbul at the end of January. Here's what FP contributor Simon Henderson, who released a paper on the talks...

Published Tue, Dec 07 2010 7:48 AM by FP Passport

Chaos in Maldives

Rioting has erupted in the tiny Indian nomination after a confusing sequence of events that saw President Mohamed Nasheed resign, then claim a day later that he had been forced from office. Police have now issued a warrant for Nasheed's arrest: Nasheed...

Published Thu, Feb 09 2012 8:44 AM by FP Passport

Uprising at a Chinese Internet addiction camp

Some of China's young Internet "addicts" have evidently been pushed too far : A group of young Chinese web addicts staged a mutiny at an Internet "boot camp", tying up their instructor and fleeing the facility over its tough military...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 9:21 AM by FP Passport

The Moroccan girl, the president, the dental hygienist, and the 'bunga-bunga parties'

Here's Italian President Silvio Berlusconi's underaged girl scandal #4,080 : At the heart of it all is a Moroccan girl nicknamed Ruby, who turned 18 on Monday, but was still a minor last May when she was held in a police station in Milan, accused...

Published Mon, Nov 01 2010 4:26 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Corruption

Morning Brief: U.S. officials tracked possible test run of bomb plot

U.S. officials tracked possible test run of bomb plot Top story : U.S. intelligence officials inspected packages bound from Yemen to Chicago in September after receiving information that they were linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. While the...

Published Tue, Nov 02 2010 5:58 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief, Aviation Disaster / Problem / Issue

Fidel comes out against fracking

Defying rumors of his death , Blogger Fidel is back with a new column , weighing in on, of all things, the debate over hydrofracking , calling it a "march into the abyss" : "It is sufficient to point out that among the numerous chemical...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2012 8:58 AM by FP Passport

The Egyptian revolution dominated Twitter this year

Here's the latest data point in the ongoing debate about just how pivotal a role Twitter played in the Arab Spring: This year, according to Twitter , the top hashtag on the microblogging site was not #justinbieber or even Charlie Sheen's bizarre...

Published Mon, Dec 05 2011 1:51 PM by FP Passport

Nude Veena Malik cover stuns Pakistani Twitterverse

A Delhi-based men's lifestyle magazine dropped a bombshell today that recalls the controversy back in April over Turkish Cosmo running a photo of the Armenian-American television star Kim Kardashian without her permission. The story begins this morning...

Published Fri, Dec 02 2011 8:12 AM by FP Passport

Video: Zombie Dad meets Tiger Mom

We're very excited to present the first of the video interviews taped at last night's Global Thinker's gala, featuring Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother author Amy Chua in conversation with our own Daniel Drezner . Chua's father joined in...

Published Fri, Dec 02 2011 2:11 PM by FP Passport

The U.S. 'supercop' tapped to train Bahraini police

Only days after the release of an independent report in Bahrain indicating that security forces there used excessive force during the government's recent crackdown on protesters, Bahraini officials have announced that they will be hiring John Timoney...

Published Fri, Dec 02 2011 1:29 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East

The show will go on?

It ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. Israel's 10-month settlement freeze expires at midnight Jerusalem time today, and rather than the explosion many feared -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's withdrawal from the talks, fresh violence...

Published Sun, Sep 26 2010 8:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Israel/Palestine

From the rare books dept: Chinese author Yu Jie takes on Wen Jiabao

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Mr. Wen needs to learn ... how to face and accept criticism for ideas, even very sharp." That's what Yu Jie, the author of a controversial new book on the Chinese...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 10:20 AM by FP Passport