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Bearing up well

It seems the very adorable Asiatic black bears of Kashmir are one group that is pleased by all the conflict there. Authorities estimate that their population has gone from 800 in 1990 to 3,000 now. They (and other endangered species in the area, presumably...

Published Tue, Nov 17 2009 1:45 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: South Asia, Cute, India

Morning Brief: Obama's last day in China

Obama's last day in China Top Story: U.S. President Barack Obama is on his third and final day of touring China . His meetings with President Hu Jintao and other leaders have focused on economic issues, and Obama plans to continue to press Chinese...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 5:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Syria Peace Talks Begin Amid Intense Divisions

Syria Peace Talks Begin Amid Intense Divisions Top news: The highly anticipated talks in Montreux, Switzerland, aimed at bringing the Syrian civil war to close began amid heated denunciations by the Syrian foreign minister at the conference's opening...

Published Wed, Jan 22 2014 6:13 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Europe May Ease Climate Rules Amid Economic Stagnation

Europe May Ease Climate Rules Amid Economic Stagnation Top news: The European Commission on Wednesday proposed scrapping binding national targets for renewable energy production after the year 2020 and replacing them with a Europe-wide renewable energy...

Published Thu, Jan 23 2014 6:40 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Iran's Hardliners Just Tried to Muzzle Hassan Rouhani

BEIRUT -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's battle with hardliners in his own government broke out into the open Wednesday, with the head of the country's state-run television company temporarily preventing him from giving a live interview in...

Published Wed, Feb 05 2014 1:08 PM by FP Passport

Did An Accused War Criminal Just Show How To Get Off The Treasury Department’s Blacklist?

The Treasury Department quietly removed a former Croatian general from its sanctions blacklist after the accused war criminal filed a lawsuit to clear his name. Ante Gotovina's success could provide a roadmap of sorts for the accused terrorists, war...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 2:59 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Diplomacy, United Nations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Finance, Business

Meet the U.S. Army’s Team of Crack Olympic Bobsledders

As a teenager, Mike Kohn dreamt being both a soldier and professional athlete. He's found an unusual way of combining the two. Kohn, now an Army officer, is in Sochi as a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsledding team. On Friday, Kohn -- a lieutenant...

Published Fri, Feb 07 2014 11:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Military, Olympics

Introducing the 2014 Gelber Finalists

Every year, Foreign Policy partners with the Lionel Gelber Foundation and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto to award the Lionel Gelber Prize , a literary award handed out to the year's best book on international affairs...

Published Mon, Feb 10 2014 11:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Foreign Policy magazine

Live Q&A With the Producers of 'Syria's Second Front'

"Today, ISIS; tomorrow, Assad." Those are the words of Jamal Maarouf, the commander of a Syrian rebel alliance that has spearheaded the fight against the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in recent weeks. Since the beginning...

Published Wed, Feb 12 2014 8:30 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: CAR President Vows War on Militias

CAR President Vows War on Militias Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Top news: A top U.N. diplomat on Wednesday called the crisis in the Central African Republic "a humanitarian catastrophe of unspeakable proportions." Despite the...

Published Thu, Feb 13 2014 5:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

'We'll give you Greenspan.'

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Should an American lead the European Central Bank? That's what Sylvain Broyer proposes in the German newspaper Die Zeit . The original's in German, but I've translated...

Published Tue, Feb 15 2011 1:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Finance

Uganda's Museveni says he's not sweating 'Egyptian-like revolution'

Uganda is holding elections on Friday and increasingly autocratic President Yoweri Museveni has made it clear he won't tolerate any street protests like those that have swept the Middle East recently: Most analysts expect Museveni to win, though his...

Published Wed, Feb 16 2011 8:12 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Bahrain attempts to crush protest movement

Bahrain attempts to crush protest movement Top story: A late night police crackdown in Bahrain shattered a peaceful protest that had been gathering in the center of the capital, leaving at least five people and left hundreds more wounded. Bahraini security...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 5:10 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Next up: Djibouti?

Another North African government faces mass protests : Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Djibouti to call for President Ismael Omar Guelleh to step down. The demonstrators were reportedly monitored closely by security forces in riot gear...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 10:28 AM by FP Passport

Libya on the brink

It took a little under a month for Tunisians -- with a vital assist from their military -- to oust Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak went from pillar of stability to disgraced ex-president in just 18 days. Now, as protests and armed street...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 11:06 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, North Africa, Libya

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Bearing up well

Morning Brief: Obama's last day in China

Morning Brief: Syria Peace Talks Begin Amid Intense Divisions

Morning Brief: Europe May Ease Climate Rules Amid Economic Stagnation

Iran's Hardliners Just Tried to Muzzle Hassan Rouhani

Did An Accused War Criminal Just Show How To Get Off The Treasury Department’s Blacklist?

Meet the U.S. Army’s Team of Crack Olympic Bobsledders

Introducing the 2014 Gelber Finalists

Live Q&A With the Producers of 'Syria's Second Front'

Morning Brief: CAR President Vows War on Militias

'We'll give you Greenspan.'

Uganda's Museveni says he's not sweating 'Egyptian-like revolution'

Morning Brief: Bahrain attempts to crush protest movement

Next up: Djibouti?

Libya on the brink