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The U.S. is running out of fancy planes to send to Korea

With each passing day, the United States has met North Korean bellicosity with the deployment of increasingly sophisticated aircraft to the East Asian peninsula. But with Sunday's mobilization of F-22 stealth fighter jets, the U.S. military has quickly...

Published Mon, Apr 01 2013 10:00 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Cyprus reaches new bailout deal with European regulators

Cyprus reaches new bailout deal with European regulators Top news: European financial regulators struck a last-minute deal with the Cypriot government in the early hours of Monday that will prevent Cyprus' exit from the eurozone and scraps a politically...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 5:43 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Human rights groups protest new $49 million Guantánamo prison

If ever there was a sign that the military prison in Guantánamo Bay isn't closing any time soon, it came Thursday when the United States Southern Command asked Congress for $49 million to construct a new prison building on top of other renovations...

Published Fri, Mar 22 2013 12:50 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Syrian opposition takes seat at Arab League summit

Syrian opposition takes seat at Arab League summit Top news: Representatives of the Syrian opposition took Syria's place at an Arab League summit in Doha on Tuesday, filling the seat for the first time since President Bashar al-Assad's government...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 5:47 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Papandreou's embattled, but Berlusconi's king of no confidence

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We're only hours away from knowing whether Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, caught between fuming European creditors and enraged Greek citizens, will survive a confidence...

Published Fri, Nov 04 2011 2:50 PM by FP Passport

Who is mysterious trader no. 588?

The camera just loves certain people -- especially when it comes to unnamed New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Trader No. 588, who has become both a fixture on Getty Images and a weathervane for those tracking the financial winds. Photo editors the world...

Published Wed, Mar 06 2013 12:00 PM by FP Passport

Anwar Awlaki recruits jihadists from beyond the grave

A new video published yesterday by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula features previously unseen footage of American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki recruiting jihadists to attack the United States, Great Britain, and other members of the Western "crusade...

Published Wed, Mar 06 2013 10:20 AM by FP Passport

Trapped in Haiti by airport security regulations

The Miami Herald's Douglas Hanks reports that U.S. commercial flights into Haiti are returning to the United States empty: Though Spirit, American and other major airlines have used passenger planes to fly cargo into Port-au-Prince since the quake...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 9:48 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Haiti's Disaster

Too much baggage?

U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, Erroll Southers, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the job. Reportedly, Southers considered himself too much of a lightning rod for controversy....

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Great moments in public relations

How clueless can you be? U.S. military spokesman John Redfield says he doesn't see a problem with American troops using gun sights that have the numbers of Bible verses inscribed on them: "The perfect parallel that I see," said Maj. John...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 1:24 PM by FP Passport

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

How many American think tanks are run by women?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE With the news this week that the very smart Anne-Marie Slaughter, of "Having It All," State Department, and Twitter Fight Club fame, has been tapped to succeed Steve Coll as head the New America...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2013 10:00 AM by FP Passport

Egypt's Christians are under fire

In a Jesuit-run magazine in 1957, Rev. J.J.W. Murphy recalled a meeting with a Christian priest in Egypt ten years prior. "I was surprised then at what he told me of Muslim hostility to Christianity and of the possibility that persecution would break...

Published Mon, Apr 08 2013 3:55 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Rebels take Tripoli

Rebels take Tripoli Top news: Six months of fighting in Libya as well as Muammar al-Qaddafi's four-decades of rule appear to be entering their final hours as rebel forces now control most of the capitol city, Tripoli. Qaddafi's exact location...

Published Mon, Aug 22 2011 5:17 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Gunmen attack opposition camp as Egypt braces for rival protests

Egyptian security officials have reported that masked gunmen attacked a camp of opposition protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Tuesday ahead of scheduled rival protests. Officials are unsure who was behind the assault in which nine people...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2012 5:49 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East, North Africa, Arab World, Mideast Brief

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The U.S. is running out of fancy planes to send to Korea

Morning Brief: Cyprus reaches new bailout deal with European regulators

Human rights groups protest new $49 million Guantánamo prison

Morning Brief: Syrian opposition takes seat at Arab League summit

Papandreou's embattled, but Berlusconi's king of no confidence

Who is mysterious trader no. 588?

Anwar Awlaki recruits jihadists from beyond the grave

Trapped in Haiti by airport security regulations

Too much baggage?

Great moments in public relations

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

How many American think tanks are run by women?

Egypt's Christians are under fire

Morning Brief: Rebels take Tripoli

Gunmen attack opposition camp as Egypt braces for rival protests