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Friday photo: The night shift

NOGALES, AZ - JUNE 22: U.S. Army National Guardsman Pfc. Philip Moore, 28, rests during a 'down time' shift overlooking the border fence with Mexico on June 22, 2011 in Nogales, Arizona. The Pentagon recently extended the deployment of some 1...

Published Fri, Jun 24 2011 3:26 PM by FP Passport

France fined for not taking care of its hamsters

Zut alors! The EU's highest court has an announcement : In 2008, France did not take adequate measures to protect the European Hamster in Alsace. That's the verdict released by the Court of Justice in Luxembourg today in a lawsuit brought by the...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2011 10:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: France

One month from independence, a state within a state within a state in South Sudan

It looks like the violence on the border may not be the only threa t to South Sudan as it approaches independence. There are apparently multiple constitutions floating around the government in Juba: South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit decried ‘mushrooming...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 10:02 AM by FP Passport

Syria is more violent than Iraq at its worst

Iraq's civil war traumatized the Middle East unlike any other event in the past decade. It destroyed Iraq's political and social fabric, contributed to the polarization of the Arab world along sectarian lines, and caused the United States to abandon...

Published Tue, Sep 11 2012 8:27 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

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

Report: Iraq and Afghanistan account for 35% of last decade's terrorist attacks

The Global Terrorism Index , a report released today by the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace, tracks terrorist attacks in 158 countries between 2002 and 2011 and paints and interesting and at times surprising picture of post-9/11 terrorism...

Published Tue, Dec 04 2012 8:24 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Egypt's constitutional crisis deepens

Egypt's constitutional crisis deepens Top news: Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court suspended its operations on Sunday, delaying a ruling on the legitimacy of two Islamist-dominated bodies: the constituent assembly that recently drafted a controversial...

Published Mon, Dec 03 2012 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The story of an assassination

Lebanese politics, for the past six years, has in large part revolved around competing stories. In the wake of the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the country's political factions have struggled to provide a more...

Published Wed, Aug 17 2011 9:22 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Flash Points

South Sudan offers peacekeepers

Though still dealing with unresolved border disputes and internal rebelions, the newly indpendent government of South Sudan has offered to help the peace in another country in its region: South Sudan has offered to send African Union troops to Somalia...

Published Tue, Aug 16 2011 11:41 AM by FP Passport

CIA told Kennedy in 1960 that Cuba invasion plan was "unachievable"

This week, in response to a FOIA request from the National Security Archives project at George Washington University, the CIA released most of its top-secret internal history of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. The 1200 page history was written between...

Published Tue, Aug 16 2011 1:53 PM by FP Passport

The DSK arrest could be bad news for French Muslims

Writing at Slate , Anne Applebaum counters the conventional wisdom that the Strauss-Kahn arrest is great news for France's struggling president, Nicolas Sarkozy: But here is a prediction: Sarkozy will not benefit from Strauss-Kahn's ugly demise...

Published Wed, May 18 2011 8:42 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

A tale of two cities

MANAMA — "I am not a prince of Sunni Bahrain; I am not a prince of Shia Bahrain. I am a prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain." So said Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to an assembled crowd at the Ritz-Carlton. Two large screens...

Published Mon, Dec 10 2012 8:56 AM by FP Passport

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Friday photo: The night shift

France fined for not taking care of its hamsters

One month from independence, a state within a state within a state in South Sudan

Syria is more violent than Iraq at its worst

World's longest flight cancelled

Morning Brief: Suicide bomber attacks Karzai memorial service

Morning Brief: Japanese officials warn of radiation-tainted beef

Report: Iraq and Afghanistan account for 35% of last decade's terrorist attacks

Morning Brief: Egypt's constitutional crisis deepens

The story of an assassination

South Sudan offers peacekeepers

CIA told Kennedy in 1960 that Cuba invasion plan was "unachievable"

The DSK arrest could be bad news for French Muslims

Morning Brief: Rebels take Tripoli

A tale of two cities