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Syria's guerrilla pollsters

Syria may be the most difficult country in the world to conduct a public opinion poll. But a "guerrilla polling" team did just that, publishing a survey today that attempted to gauge national opinion in the country - and it's bad news for...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2011 1:16 PM by FP Passport

Where Could Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Have Gone?

View Airfields in MH 370's potential range in a larger map As evidence mounts that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was deliberately directed off course by an experienced pilot, government and intelligence officials from Malaysia to the United States...

Published Sat, Mar 15 2014 6:56 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Disasters, Southeast Asia

Ivory Coast: A ragtag army falls apart

When Alassane Ouattara finally took over the presidency in the Ivory Coast earlier this month, he did so with the help of a rag tag group of militiamen. There were the formal rebels from the country's brief civil war, known as the Forces Nouvelles...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 7:42 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa

Why does James Inhofe support Ivory Coast's Gbagbo?

As the situation in the Ivory Coast rapidly deteriorates, Sen. James Inhofe (Okla. - R) has written to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling for new elections in the Ivory Coast, a signal of support for outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo who...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 2:12 PM by FP Passport

Islamic State Beheadings Beget Beheadings

Human Rights Group Locates ISIS Massacre Site in Just Two Weeks

Everyone's mighty confident about this Honduras deal

U.S. policymakers are celebrating this this morning's breakthrough in Tegucigalpa. Speaking in Islamabad, Hillary Clinton said: I cannot think of another example of a country in Latin America that having suffered a rupture of its democratic and constitutional...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 8:06 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America

Morning Brief: Karzai Tries to Renegotiate Security Agreement During Rice's Visit to Kabul

Karzai Tries to Renegotiate Security Agreement During Rice's Visit to Kabul Top News: With U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to try to renegotiate the bilateral security agreement he and his...

Published Tue, Nov 26 2013 5:13 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Why Syria Is the Most Dangerous Place To Be a Journalist

For the second year running, more journalists have been killed in Syria than anywhere else in the world, according to a report released Monday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In 2013, 29 were killed there in the course of reporting; in...

Published Mon, Dec 30 2013 8:53 AM by FP Passport

Guess Romney won't be getting the Pravda endorsement

The once proud Communist Party propaganda arm-turned-supermarket tabloid/LOL-aggregator unloads on the GOP frontrunner : Electing Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States of America would be like appointing a serial paedophile as a kindergarten...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 2:40 PM by FP Passport

Will the EU Sacrifice Gay Rights in Ukraine for Geopolitics?

In an effort to bring Ukraine closer to the West and avoid offending powerful conservative sensibilites in the new government in Kiev, the European Union has told human rights activists that it may backtrack on demands that the country improve legal protections...

Published Fri, Mar 28 2014 4:45 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Eastern Europe, Ukraine

Russia's not-so-surprising February surprise

It's early to say how credible the reported assassination plot against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is, but it is pretty clear that the Kremlin is taking full advantage of the timing of the announcement, just a week before the presidential...

Published Mon, Feb 27 2012 10:06 AM by FP Passport

Putin Catches and Kisses Giant Fish

Last winter, when Vladimir Putin appeared to be staying out of the public spotlight following a mysterious injury and a memo was leaked from Kremlin spin-doctors suggesting that he embrace a milder less macho image, I wondered if we might see fewer of...

Published Fri, Jul 26 2013 1:10 PM by FP Passport

Best Chinese Cities?

Foreign Policy 's Global Cities Index is atypical among cities rankings (of which there are an increasing array, from Forbes to Yahoo! ) because it measures not livability, but international influence. Adam Minter reports on another distinctive cities...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 9:07 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

Why the Gaza boat deaths are a huge deal

While we don't yet know all the facts, the apparent killing of at least 10 people aboard a ship bound for Gaza with humanitarian aid already has all the hallmarks of a massive public-relations disaster. It does sound like there might have been some...

Published Mon, May 31 2010 5:16 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Israel/Palestine