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Morning Brief: Putin accuses U.S. of meddling in election protests

Putin accuses U.S. of meddling in election protests Top story: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the United States had helped orchestrate the protests in Russia over the results of the recent parliamentary election. Secretary of State Hillary...

Published Thu, Dec 08 2011 5:03 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

Morning Brief: Syria holds local elections as violence escalates

Syria holds local elections as violence escalates Top news: The Syrian government is holding local elections today as a sign of its commitment to democratic reform, as the opposition calls for a boycott of the polls and launches a general strike. The...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2011 5:14 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Do Americans really hate Europe that much?

Back in June, shortly after Mitt Romney's entry into the race, I wrote a short piece noting the anti-European rhetoric in Mitt Romney's announcement of his candidacy, and predicting that Republicans would try to pain the president as a Brussels...

Published Wed, Jan 11 2012 8:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012

Mariah Carey's bare shoulders are not welcome in Saudi Arabia

Sometimes, my job involves poring over figures of foreign direct investment in Syria over the past decade -- and sometimes it consists of looking at pictures of Mariah Carey and calling it research. Today, happily, turned out to be one of the latter days...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 11:36 AM by FP Passport

Bolivian president kicks soccer opponent in the groin

There's not much to add by way of commentary here. Bolivian President Evo Morales, who plays for a minor-league soccer team in La Paz, was caught on tape giving a blatant kick to the groin of an opposing player who had committed a hard foul on him...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 9:42 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Fun Stuff, Sports

Morning Brief: Hungarian toxic sludge spill threatens Eastern Europe

Hungarian toxic sludge spill threatens Eastern Europe Top news: Rescue workers are struggling to contain the damage from a toxic sludge spill that killed at least four people and injured hundreds more. An estimated 185 million gallons of toxic waste spilled...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 6:04 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Duke Energy CEO explains what he can learn from China - By Christina Larson

We all know that China's energy needs are expanding rapidly, as the country builds the equivalent of two Chicagos from scratch every year and many utilities companies are seeing their business expand 30 percent or more annuallly. But it's not...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 2:31 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: China, Energy

Chinese pro-democracy activists against Nobel for Liu Xiaobo - By Jared Mondschein

Fourteen Chinese dissidents and the Chinese Communist Party have finally agreed on something: Liu Xiaobo should not get the Nobel Peace Prize. While Chinese authorities have found his pro-democracy work worthy of 11 years of prison time and have made...

Published Thu, Oct 07 2010 1:23 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China, Democracy, Winners & Losers

Morning Brief: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize Top story: In an unmistakable rebuke to China's government, the Norwegian Nobel committee has awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace prize to imprisoned dissident writer and activist Liu Xiaobo. News of...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 5:37 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Friday Photos: End of the Antilles

This Sunday, the political unit known as the Dutch Antilles will cease to exist . Here is guest post from the island of Saba -- soon to become a Dutch municipality -- with photos and text by Jeff Swensen and Stephanie Strasburg: Ask most any local on...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 4:21 PM by FP Passport

Schwarzenegger for mayor of Moscow?

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, currently visiting Russia for a high-tech conference, received an interesting offer from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev: "You arrived at the moment when Moscow has no mayor," the Russian president...

Published Mon, Oct 11 2010 1:53 PM by FP Passport

Wait...doesn't Newt speak French too?

This new ad from the Gingrich campaign is making the rounds: If you don't feel like watching, it compares Romney to previous Massachusetts wusses Michael Dukakis and John Kerry and ends with the narrator snarking, "Just like John Kerry, he speaks...

Published Fri, Jan 13 2012 7:47 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Newt Gingrich

A battle over the cute fuzzy heritage of the Soviet Union

Mention the Soviet Union in the West, and the images that come to mind are of Sputnik, Khrushchev banging his shoe on the podium at the U.N., or maybe boxer Ivan Drago killing Apollo Creed in the ring in Rocky IV . But the Soviet Union had children too...

Published Mon, Apr 16 2007 8:45 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Culture

Has China changed its "see no evil stance" on Darfur?

ELIZABETH GLASSANOS/FP Original Did Hollywood's campaign to link Darfur and the Beijing Olympics work? The New York Times treats China's envoy to Sudan with kid gloves : A senior Chinese official, Zhai Jun, traveled to Sudan to push the Sudanese...

Published Fri, Apr 13 2007 4:15 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Human Rights, East Asia, China, Sudan, FP Originals

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Morning Brief: Putin accuses U.S. of meddling in election protests

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: Next Year in Jerusalem?

Morning Brief: Syria holds local elections as violence escalates

Do Americans really hate Europe that much?

Mariah Carey's bare shoulders are not welcome in Saudi Arabia

Bolivian president kicks soccer opponent in the groin

Morning Brief: Hungarian toxic sludge spill threatens Eastern Europe

Duke Energy CEO explains what he can learn from China - By Christina Larson

Chinese pro-democracy activists against Nobel for Liu Xiaobo - By Jared Mondschein

Morning Brief: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Friday Photos: End of the Antilles

Schwarzenegger for mayor of Moscow?

Wait...doesn't Newt speak French too?

A battle over the cute fuzzy heritage of the Soviet Union

Has China changed its "see no evil stance" on Darfur?