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Morning Brief: Clinton's last-minute bid to save Copenhagen

Clinton's last-minute bid to save Copenhagen Top story: In an 11th hour proposal to save the ailing UN Climate talks in Copenhagen and have some agreement on the table by the time U.S. President Barack Obama comes to town tomorrow, Secretary of State...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 6:01 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

What does a genocidal regime's holiday card look like?

Julia Gronnevet, who reports on the U.N. for Japan's Asahi Shimbun , sends in this gem: Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 10:45 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa

Morning Brief: Obama in Copenhagen: You can't always get what you want

Obama in Copenhagen: You can't always get what you want Top story: A frustrated U.S. President Barack Obama addressed U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen on Friday and urged countries to accept an agreement, even if imperfect, though he stopped short...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 6:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

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

Mexico City legalizes gay marriage

Market for carbon permits not warming

I'm seeing a lot of spin out there from environmental advocates and supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama about last weekend's climate-change denouement in Copenhagen. The gist of their argument is that the summit may not have been a smash...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 7:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Global Warming

Obama is focusing too much on the bad stuff

Everyone's weighing in on Barack Obama's first year, and I suppose I can't resist -- with the caveat that it's far too early to judge his presidency, etc., etc. I'm worried, frankly, but perhaps not for the same reasons as some other...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 10:47 AM by FP Passport

So, Egypt, you want to be a BRICS country?

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has spent the past three days in India on his first state visit to the country. Before heading to New Delhi, though, he floated an odd -- and more than a little ambitious -- idea. "I am hoping BRICS would one day...

Published Thu, Mar 21 2013 12:15 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: International Relations, Development, Economics, India, International Organizations, Egypt

What is a chemical weapon, anyway?

When it comes to weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons have long taken a backseat to nuclear weapons in the competition for public interest and non-proliferation scrutiny. But the Syrian civil war has flipped the status quo on its head, as the...

Published Fri, Mar 22 2013 9:00 AM by FP Passport

If you're not getting a call from the pope, you're nobody

Either Pope Francis is an old man with nothing better to do than sit around his palace calling old friends, or he has crafted a clever-as-a-fox public relations campaign -- or he's just an extremely nice person. The newly installed and famously down...

Published Fri, Mar 22 2013 2:30 PM by FP Passport

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

Violent clashes erupt after Egyptian student sit-in

Who knew calling for pedestrian safety could be so dangerous? Earlier today, skirmishes between students and the guards at Egypt's Misr International University resulted in bloodshed following a 15 day sit-in to protest the suspension of 16 students...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 11:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Freedom, Education, Egypt, Democracy

Morning Brief: Rebels patrol streets of Central African Republic capital

Rebels patrol streets of Central African Republic capital Top news: Rebel troops are patrolling the streets of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, after a group of rebels overthrew the government earlier this week. Late Monday, the rebel...

Published Wed, Mar 27 2013 5:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The new Burma in one photo

The presence of Aung San Suu Kyi in the front row of a military parade (above, next to Major General Zaw Win) earlier today was stunning to many observers: both for how unthinkable her presence would have been just a few years ago (she was locked up in...

Published Wed, Mar 27 2013 3:42 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Politics, Military, Southeast Asia, Development, Democracy

The best photograph of Cyprus's nonexistent bank run

We here at Foreign Policy had been preparing for the day Cyprus's banks reopened by collecting pictures of bank runs from around the world -- on the chance that this morning we'd wake up to long lines of frantic depositors. But with headlines...

Published Thu, Mar 28 2013 12:20 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Economics, Finance, Business

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Morning Brief: Clinton's last-minute bid to save Copenhagen

What does a genocidal regime's holiday card look like?

Morning Brief: Obama in Copenhagen: You can't always get what you want

Copenhagen fizzle

Mexico City legalizes gay marriage

Market for carbon permits not warming

Obama is focusing too much on the bad stuff

So, Egypt, you want to be a BRICS country?

What is a chemical weapon, anyway?

If you're not getting a call from the pope, you're nobody

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

Violent clashes erupt after Egyptian student sit-in

Morning Brief: Rebels patrol streets of Central African Republic capital

The new Burma in one photo

The best photograph of Cyprus's nonexistent bank run