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French presidential candidate quotes the wrong Shakespeare

You'd think the French chattering classes would have learned their lesson about cherry-picking quotes from the internets after Bernard-Henri Levy's embarrassing citation of philosophe faux Jean-Baptiste Botul. But Socialist Presidential frontrunner...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 12:53 PM by FP Passport

North Korea: Please turn off your cell phone... or else

Put your phones and personal electronics away in North Korea, or risk a messy ending. The Telegraph reported this morning that cell phone users in North Korea will be deemed "war criminals," as part of the new rules being implemented for the...

Published Fri, Jan 27 2012 8:12 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North Korea, East Asia

Morning Brief: CIA escalates drone war in Pakistan

CIA escalates drone war in Pakistan Top story: The CIA conducted 20 drone strikes in Pakistan so far in September, the most ever in a single month and more than twice its monthly average. The increased focus on militants in the tribal areas come as U...

Published Tue, Sep 28 2010 6:18 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

This Is a ‘5-Alarm Fire Right Now’

FP learns why a war that isn’t on yet might matter more than one that’s been raging for years, in a chat with Elbridge Colby. Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 12 2024 11:06 AM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: China, Elections, War, FP Insider, Foreign & Public Diplomacy, Q&A, U.S.-China Competition, Geopolitics, Taiwan

The Panama Canal Is Running Dry

Climate extremes are wreaking havoc on global shipping. Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 15 2024 5:00 AM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Economics, Analysis, homepage_regional_americas, Post to Buffer, Central America, Panama, Trade Policy & Agreements

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

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

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

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

The Iraqi Army Isn't up to the Job, and the Entire Country Is Suffering

30 Years After Martial Law, Poland's Blundering Hero Comes to the Big Screen

Thirty years ago this week, an unassuming mother of seven (later eight), wearing a modest black blazer and white blouse stood in front of an audience of international dignitaries gathered in Oslo, Norway. She had come to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on...

Published Fri, Dec 13 2013 11:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Eastern Europe, Democracy, 1989

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

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

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