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Morning Brief: Kharkiv Mayor Shot as Mob Violence in Ukraine Continues

Kharkiv Mayor Shot as Mob Violence in Ukraine Continues Top News: Mayor Hennady Kerkes was shot in the back while cycling to work on Monday and a mob armed with clubs and stun grenades attacked a pro-Ukrainian rally in Kharkiv, the country's second...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2014 5:01 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Russia to host Olympic meeting because Britain's too broke

The AP reports that Russia has stepped in to host a gathering of Olympic committee leaders from 200 countries next year after cash-strapped Britain had to cancel the event. The meeting is typically hosted by the next Olympics host as a way of showing...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 8:50 AM by FP Passport

There are 657 more islands than we thought there were

Time 's Erica Ho reports : Thanks to high-resolution images, Duke University and Meredith College geoscientists were able to add 657 new barrier islands to the total count, adding 30 percent more to the known list. There are now 2,149 discovered islands...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 11:17 AM by FP Passport

*** Riot foes adopt its tactics

A group of Orthodox protesters attempted to give *** Riot supporters a taste of their own medicine , reports the Moscow Times : A group of Orthodox Christian activists accompanied by an NTV camera crew burst into a theater event about punk band *** Riot...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2012 1:59 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Zuma: Qaddafi will not step down

Zuma: Qaddafi will not step down Top news: After a meeting with Muammar al-Qaddafi, South African President Jacob Zuma said the Libyan leader is not willing to leave power , but is willing to negotiate a political solution to the conflict. A similar offer...

Published Tue, May 31 2011 5:37 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Europeans putting on a fighter plane demo in Libya?

If you thought it was cynical to suggest that Nicolas Sarkozy may have been aggresively pushing for military action with an eye on the 2012 election, that's nothing compared to the notion that the campaign is serving as an advertisement for the Dassault...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 10:25 AM by FP Passport

A Who's Who in the Executive Cell Block

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for accepting bribes to streamline the construction of a luxury apartment complex. When his incarceration begins in September, Olmert will be the latest in the...

Published Thu, May 15 2014 2:59 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Corruption, Justice, Politics

Israeli Jets Bomb Syria-Lebanon Border … Wait, What Border?

On Monday, Lebanese media reported that Israeli warplanes bombed a target near the town of Nabi Sheet, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley along the border with Syria. Then, subsequent reports offered conflicting information about which side of the Lebanon...

Published Tue, Feb 25 2014 3:18 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria

Everything Is Terrible: Kristen Stewart Will Star in a Romantic Take on '1984'

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that kids these days are obsessed with dark, dystopian novels, especially their film adaptations. There's the Hunger Games franchise, Divergent , The Bone Season , and Ender's...

Published Thu, Jan 16 2014 1:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Culture, Fun Stuff

Meet Russia's Newest Recruits: Ukraine's Combat Dolphins

The Ukrainian military is promising to one day reclaim its former bases in Crimea, but one unit has been lost forever: Ukraine's combat dolphins, who are now swimming for Russia. The dolphins, stationed in a Ukrainian navy oceanarium in Sevastopol...

Published Wed, Mar 26 2014 11:52 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia, Eastern Europe, Military, Ukraine

A Chen Guangcheng primer

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The blind, self-taught legal activist Chen Guangcheng has escaped from his village in Shandong province where he was kept a prisoner in his own home and fled to Beijing. The New...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2012 1:42 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

Reds 2.0

When you think about communist propaganda, you might think of Stalin glaring down at you from a wall, happy workers singing in strangely clean factories and well-thumbed copies of Mao's little red book. But it's the twenty-first century, and even...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 2:55 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Security, Latin America

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