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Asia overtakes Europe in military spending

This seems like a pretty significant shift : Asian defence spending is this year set to exceed that of Europe for the first time in modern history as European Union nations slash their military budgets and Chinese expenditure accelerates, a leading think...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 9:34 AM by FP Passport

China raises movie quota; Hollywood on best behavior

One deliverable from Xi Jinping's trip to America seems to be a new deal to allow more U.S. films -- at least 3-D ones -- to be distributed in China. The Guardian reports : China currently permits only 20 big foreign films a year to be released there...

Published Wed, Feb 22 2012 3:46 PM by FP Passport

Your North Korean accordion '80s pop cover for the day

Here's the description from YouTube: a-ha's eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, Pyongyang, North Korea. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at...

Published Fri, Feb 03 2012 11:57 AM by FP Passport

Photo: Saudis prepare for great Middle Eastern jungle war of 2020

Saudi special forces take part in a military parade in preparation for the hajj in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on November 10, 2010. Clearly the Saudis have no intention of letting regional rivals Iran gain an edge in the freaky cammo department . But...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 3:40 PM by FP Passport

Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Thanks to an incredibly effective social media effort, #StopKony is trending on Twitter today. The campaign coincides with a new awareness-raising documentary by the group, Invisible Children. Former FP intern...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 2:18 PM by FP Passport

Pakistan advertises for web censor

Any of our tech-savvy readers looking for work ? How about censoring free expression in Pakistan? Few nations have so publicly revealed their plans to censor the Web as Pakistan is doing, however. Last month, the government took out newspaper and Web...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2012 11:50 AM by FP Passport

Japan Dreams of Syria

0 0 1 835 4765 The Foreign Policy Group 39 11 5589 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE TOKYO -- On Sept. 5, President Barack Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg. Obama wants...

Published Fri, Sep 06 2013 7:32 AM by FP Passport

French Spies Provide New Details on Assad's Chemical Weapons Program

As Congress debates whether to authorize a military strike on Syria, the French government has released its declassified intelligence report on the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in the eastern Damascus suburbs. France, the United States' only remaining...

Published Tue, Sep 03 2013 2:49 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Hungarian toxic sludge spill threatens Eastern Europe

Hungarian toxic sludge spill threatens Eastern Europe Top news: Rescue workers are struggling to contain the damage from a toxic sludge spill that killed at least four people and injured hundreds more. An estimated 185 million gallons of toxic waste spilled...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 6:04 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

China turns on the star of its own prestige movie

Chinese cultural authorities may have thought they pulled off a coup by getting Christian Bale, the Dark Knight himself, to star in Zhang Yimou's epic retelling of the rape of Nanking, the Flowers of War , China's Oscar entry for best foreign...

Published Wed, Dec 21 2011 10:21 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Afghan war assessment sticks to July troop draw down

Afghan war assessment sticks to July troop draw down Top story: An assessment of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan determined that the United States can stick to President Barack Obama's pledge to begin withdrawing troops from the country in July 2011...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2010 5:23 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Attention WikiLeaks junkies

As you've probably noticed, Passport has turned into an essentially WikiLeaks-only zone over the last couple of days. In the interest of consolidating the massive amounts of WikiLeaks related content coming in -- and to allow Passport to cover some...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 7:33 AM by FP Passport

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