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Netanyahu draws a line for Iran as Abbas launches scaled-back statehood bid Top news: In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically illustrated his commitment to keeping Iran from building...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

New poll: Iran considered far and away America's #1 geopolitical foe

This year's presidential election has featured a long-running feud about which countries represent America's most dangerous foes ( Iran? Russia? China? ) and most treasured allies ( Great Britain? Israel? ) -- and how to characterize nations that...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 12:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 1

Yemen's president warns of a civil war 'worse than Afghanistan'

Yemen's President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi warned in an interview Saturday that his country, still reeling from the popular uprising that ousted his predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh, risks a descent into a civil war "worse than Afghanistan"...

Published Sat, Sep 29 2012 11:37 AM by FP Passport

The world leader endorsement tally

I think we can add Hugo Chavez to the list of Obama endorsements that Ohioans won't be seeing in the president's campaign ads: "If I were American, I'd vote for Obama," Chavez said in a televised interview that aired Sunday. The...

Published Mon, Oct 01 2012 12:06 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Suicide bombings rock Aleppo

Suicide bombings rock Aleppo Top news: Three suicide bombers killed more than 30 people by detonating car bombs near a military officers' club in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press , with another explosion...

Published Wed, Oct 03 2012 5:25 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

9 and 10-year-old arrested for blasphemy in Egypt

The Egypt Independent reported on Wednesday that two children, aged nine and ten, were arrested and charged with blasphemy in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Suef after being accused of urinating on copies of the Quran. Ibrahim Mohammad, a local sheikh...

Published Wed, Oct 03 2012 9:02 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Freedom, North Africa, Egypt

If you think Big Bird is breaking the bank, be glad you're not paying for Schnappi

One of Mitt Romney's biggest laugh lines in last night's debate was a promise to cut funding for PBS, essentially vowing to fire debate moderator Jim Lehrer of the PBS Newshour as well as America's favorite freakishly tall, ambiguously speciesed...

Published Thu, Oct 04 2012 8:23 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 2, Mitt Romney

Morning Brief: 14 killed in Hama crackdown

14 killed in Hama crackdown Top news: Syrian security forces killed at least 14 people in a crackdown on opposition in the city of Hama on Tuesday, the latest in a campaign that has resulted in more than 500 arrests in recent days. Residents of Hama say...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2011 5:32 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Reagan love-fest in Europe

There's been a lot of love for the 40th president of the United States in Europe these past few days. In a tour organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation to commemorate the centennial of his birth, the man who said, "Tear down this...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:27 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Britain, Eastern Europe

Kazakh supremo's life recast as fairy tale

The squares out there who don't frequent the theaters of Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, probably haven't seen this year's movie and play about the life of Kazakhstan's authoritarian leader Nursultan Nazarbayev . Luckily for them, his...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2011 1:35 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Central Asia

Bush in Bronze

Not to be outdone by all the Ronald Reagan-love in Europe these days, President George W. Bush is getting his own statue in a European square ... in Fushe Kruje, Albania. (I'll give you a moment to check your atlas... What's that, you can't...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2011 9:03 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Former Cameron aide arrested in News of the World scandal

Former Cameron aide arrested in News of the World scandal Top news: A day after News Corp. made the surprise decision to shut down the scandal-plagued tabloid News of the World , British Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications director...

Published Fri, Jul 08 2011 5:32 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

What is the sound of a one-armed Belarusian clapping?

In recent weeks, Belarusian activists have adopted a strategy of meeting in Minsk's October square to clap in wordless protest against Aleksandr Lukashenko's government. Not surprisingly, authorities have clamped down on the practice, with occasionally...

Published Fri, Jul 08 2011 9:26 AM by FP Passport

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Morning Brief: Netanyahu draws a line for Iran as Abbas launches scaled-back statehood bid

New poll: Iran considered far and away America's #1 geopolitical foe

Yemen's president warns of a civil war 'worse than Afghanistan'

The world leader endorsement tally

Morning Brief: Suicide bombings rock Aleppo

9 and 10-year-old arrested for blasphemy in Egypt

If you think Big Bird is breaking the bank, be glad you're not paying for Schnappi

Morning Brief: 14 killed in Hama crackdown

Reagan love-fest in Europe

Kazakh supremo's life recast as fairy tale

Bush in Bronze

Morning Brief: Former Cameron aide arrested in News of the World scandal

What is the sound of a one-armed Belarusian clapping?