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Guns don't kill dictatorships, people do

As he's wont to do, Matt Drudge has kicked up a fuss today by plastering photos of Hitler and Stalin above the headline "White House Threatens 'Executive Orders' on Guns" . FP contributor Michael Moynihan has a good piece at Tablet...

Published Wed, Jan 09 2013 11:35 AM by FP Passport

World's longest flight cancelled

If you were hoping to catch up on your Tolstoy -- or maybe two seasons of your favorite HBO series-- with an 18-hour plane flight, you're out of luck, reports the Christian Science Monitor reports : Singapore Airlines announced Wednesday that it will...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 11:18 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Suicide bomber attacks Karzai memorial service

Suicide bomber attacks Karzai memorial service Top story: A suicide bomber exploded himself at a service for Ahmed Wali Karzai, killing four people, including Kandahar's chief cleric. All Afghan senior government officials that were present survived...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 5:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Egypt's balancing act in Gaza

On Nov. 16, Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi ascended the dais at Cairo's al-Azhar University. It was the first time the popular preacher had spoken at the voice of the Sunni establishment, after being exiled from Egypt during President Hosni Mubarak's...

Published Mon, Nov 19 2012 10:55 AM by FP Passport

Putin on *** Riot: 'I don't think modern Germany should support anti-Semitism'

When a Moscow court jailed three members of the Russian punk band *** Riot in August for staging a protest against Vladimir Putin, the charge was "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred." And according to Russia's president, that hatred...

Published Fri, Nov 16 2012 12:36 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Japanese officials warn of radiation-tainted beef

Japanese officials warn of radiation-tainted beef Top story: Japan halted all cattle shipments from Fukushima Prefecture due to fears that beef tainted with radiation is reaching the country's supermarkets. Japanese officials said that meat from approximately...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2011 5:02 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

A global Apple crime wave?

The BBC reports that armed robbers broke into a central Paris Apple store on New Year's Eve and made off with more than one million euros worth of merchandise. This kind of large-scale Apple heist appears to be fairly common these days. In November...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2013 8:12 AM by FP Passport

Reflections on 2012 from the Taliban

Over at Jihadology, FP contributor Aaron Y. Zelin posts a translation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's "Quick Glance at 2012 Jih?d? Achievements (Part 1)". They are in a boastful mood: To sum up 2012 in one sentence it would be ‘The...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2013 9:51 AM by FP Passport

Ian Bremmer, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian media looking glass

ForeignPolicy.com is getting a little more .ru traffic today, since the Russian media seems to have picked up on Ian Bremmer's list of the world's most powerful people. The Eurasia Group President 's tongue-in-cheek post on the organization's...

Published Fri, Jan 04 2013 1:28 PM by FP Passport

State Department: Google exec's North Korea visit not helpful

The State Department isn't too pleased with news that Google's Eric Schmidt plans to visit North Korea soon. According to Politico , at a briefing today spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that State will have no involvement in the scheduled...

Published Thu, Jan 03 2013 12:34 PM by FP Passport

Both sides claim victory in European Court's Yukos ruling

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of a claim by Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos, but deffered on the quesiton of payment: According to the ruling from the court in Strasbourg, Russian authorities were unfair...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2011 8:00 AM by FP Passport

Decline Watch: Is this still Don Draper's America?

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Proctor and Gamble has, "for the first time in 38 years... launched a new dish soap in the U.S. at a bargain price." The implication here is that the company is now marketing to an American middle...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2011 11:16 AM by FP Passport

Swedish teens riot over Instagram account

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Rioting broke out in the southern Swedish city of Gothenburg today over an Instagram account that posted photos of local underage boys and girls alongside sexualized captions. Hundreds...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2012 9:11 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe

Should we expect the ICC to always get convictions?

The International Criminal Court issued its second verdict in the case of Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, and to the disappointment of many, it's an acquittal : Delivering only its second verdict in 10 years of existence, the International...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2012 11:52 AM by FP Passport

China Daily's African edition, 'Black People Toothpaste' and China's race problem

Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On Friday, China's largest English language newspaper China Daily launched Africa Weekly , a supplement that "will look at the precise nature of Chinese involvement in Africa...

Published Fri, Dec 14 2012 8:15 AM by FP Passport