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Friday Reading List - Fatima Bhutto's Pakistan

This week's list collects the best recent nonfiction about one of the most complex and misunderstood countries in the world, from Fatima Bhutto, niece of Benazir Bhutto and author of the forthcoming Songs of Blood and Sword . Mubashir Hasan, Mirage...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 9:29 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Pakistan, Culture, South Asia

Video: Terrorism suspect sings Avril Lavigne in Canadian Idol audition

This is so ridiculous I'm almost waiting to hear that it's a huge hoax, but here, for your viewing pleasure, is the Canadian Idol audition of Dr. Khurram Syed Sher, who was arrested , along with two others, on terrorism charges in Ontario yesterday...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 7:09 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Carter returns from Pyongyang, Kim to meet Hu

Carter returns from Pyongyang, Kim to meet Hu Today: Former President Jimmy Cater is leaving North Korea today along with freed American Aijalon Gomes. Gomes had been sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor for entering North Korea illegally....

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 5:38 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Tell us how you really feel, Colonel

As a general rule, when serving military officers decide to place their opinions on the public record, they write in hyper-cautious military-speak that appears designed to conceal any sort of original insight. So thank you, Col. Lawrence Sellin, for being...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 1:09 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan, Military

Japanese PM Candidate Ozawa: "I don't think Americans are very smart," "I don't like British people"

Ichiro Ozawa, the backroom dealer and longtime fixture of Japanese politics who announced today that he will challenge Prime Minister Naoto Kan as leader of the ruling Democratic Party, and therefore also as prime minister, will have some explaining to...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 11:33 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Japan

Kenya's Obama invite

On August 27, tomorrow, there's going to be a big, big party in Kenya. The date marks the signing of a new Constitution, and everyone from Desmond Tutu to Obama has been invited. "People are calling [this occasion] the rebirth -- people are calling...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 11:30 AM by FP Passport

What it costs to run Somalia

Want evidence that the government in Somalia -- a country that tops the 2010 Failed States Index -- needs desperate help? Allow me to show you the money. Literally. According to the Annual Financial Report released by the office of the Prime Minister...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 11:11 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Karzai aide arrested on corruption charges has ties to CIA

Karzai aide arrested on corruption charges has ties to CIA Top story: Mohammed Zia Salehi, an aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai who was arrested last month on corruption charges, has been on the CIA's payroll for years, according to Afghan and...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 5:28 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Did Austrian far-right leader Jorg Haider take money from Saddam and Qaddafi?

Gideon Rachman blogs a story we missed a few weeks ago about new posthumous against Austrian far-right leader Jorg Haider, who was killed in a car crash in 2008: The weekly, Falter, said it had obtained the diary of Walter Meischberger, a former member...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 12:12 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe

Canada intercepts Russian bombers in the Arctic

It seems there was some excitement in the far north yesterday: Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian bombers in the Arctic as they approached Canadian airspace on the eve of a visit from Canada's prime minister to observe an Arctic...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 11:04 AM by FP Passport

Putin warns bears, shoots whale

Not content with tranquilizing tigers and snuggling with polar bears , the Steve Irwin of world leaders continued his adventures in the wild this week. First, Putin had some words of warning for Russia's national symbol: Bears should be afraid of...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 7:58 AM by FP Passport

Kenyan ambassador: We will all pay for ignoring Somalia

Kenya's new ambassador to the United States, Elkanah Odembo, has a message to the United States: Ignore Somalia to your own peril. For the last half-decade, Somalia's near-anarchy has taken a particularly pernicious turn toward a brand of Islamist...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 7:29 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea

Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea Top news: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has arrived in Pyongyang on a mission to free an imprisoned American citizen. Carter's trip, first reported on Foreign Policy 's Cable blog, comes a year after former...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 5:15 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Japan warns India against nuclear tests

Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuyo Okada is in India this week holding talk s on civilian nuclear cooperation, but he is also pushing for a clause to attempt to limit India's future nuclear weapons tests: Before leaving for his two-day visit to India...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 11:22 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Japan, Nukes, India

From the rare books dept: Chinese author Yu Jie takes on Wen Jiabao

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Mr. Wen needs to learn ... how to face and accept criticism for ideas, even very sharp." That's what Yu Jie, the author of a controversial new book on the Chinese...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 10:20 AM by FP Passport

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Friday Reading List - Fatima Bhutto's Pakistan

Video: Terrorism suspect sings Avril Lavigne in Canadian Idol audition

Morning Brief: Carter returns from Pyongyang, Kim to meet Hu

Tell us how you really feel, Colonel

Japanese PM Candidate Ozawa: "I don't think Americans are very smart," "I don't like British people"

Kenya's Obama invite

What it costs to run Somalia

Morning Brief: Karzai aide arrested on corruption charges has ties to CIA

Did Austrian far-right leader Jorg Haider take money from Saddam and Qaddafi?

Canada intercepts Russian bombers in the Arctic

Putin warns bears, shoots whale

Kenyan ambassador: We will all pay for ignoring Somalia

Morning Brief: Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea

Japan warns India against nuclear tests

From the rare books dept: Chinese author Yu Jie takes on Wen Jiabao