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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

Invisible Children responds to critics

First, a brief housekeeping note: Yesterday's guest post on the Kony 2012 campaign was written by Michael Wilkerson, not me. If you link to it from your blog, Facebook page, or Twitter, (thanks!) please give Michael full credit. Second, Invisible...

Published Thu, Mar 08 2012 7:19 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

Rumors: Kyrgyz president taking refuge on U.S. airbase?

Eurasianet reports on the latest from the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek where at least 21 people have been killed. Stores are being looted, the office of the state broadcaster has been raided and automatic weapons fire has been exchanged between rioters and...

Published Wed, Apr 07 2010 11:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Central Asia

So Guinea's ex-junta leader was weird. And?

I just finished reading Jon Lee Anderson's piece in the latest New Yorker , " Downfall ," which profiles Guinea's ex-junta leader, Moussa Dadis Camara. Maybe I'm just picky, but I was a bit disappointed. The point of the piece seems...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2010 8:06 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: North Korea accused of sinking South Korean ship; Scientists attack Obama's handling of Gulf oil spill

North Korea accused of sinking South Korean ship; Scientists attack Obama's handling of Gulf oil spill Top story: An international investigation into the sinking of a South Korean navy ship, the Cheonan, which was destroyed on March 26 resulting in...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 4:59 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Cheer up: The world has plenty of long words beyond rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Monday brought unexpected news (news, as you'll notice above, that's difficult to squeeze into a standard headline): In scrapping a requirement to test healthy cattle for mad cow disease, the European Union also set in motion the demise of Germany's...

Published Mon, Jun 03 2013 3:30 PM by FP Passport

Ehud Barak learns to stop worrying about the Iranian bomb

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressed his views in Tel Aviv today on Israeli security, and he certainly made them interesting : It must be understood that if between the Jordan [River] and the [Mediterranean Sea] there is only one political entity...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 12:28 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Israel/Palestine

What's Ahmadinejad up to?

Scott Lucas , a professor of American Studies at the University of Birmingham whose blog has somehow emerged as a go-to place for Iran news, writes on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent offer to send the Islamic Republic's uranium abroad : That is a...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 10:52 PM by FP Passport

Welcome to the Most Boring News Event Ever

I have a theory: every segment of news delves into a level of detail that at least a few loyal readers find fascinating. Several -- if not dozens -- of people appreciated Creative Knitting 's recent advice on cardigans, and someone, somewhere, forwarded...

Published Tue, Jul 09 2013 11:15 AM by FP Passport

Kyrgyz protester: "The Jews are Kaput"

Freelance reporter Ben Judah has just filed an absolutley gripping and powerful first-hand account of this week's events in Kyrgyzstan for FP. Here's one brief excerpt: Hundreds of men are on the move. Their eyes have turned to glares. Men enter...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 8:29 AM by FP Passport

Friday Photo: FP in the DMZ

Syndications Coordinator Randolph Manderstam immediately before attempting to personally deliver a copy of FP to Kim Jong Il. Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 3:41 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Friday Photo

Roy Bennett freed in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai won't get what he wanted from his trip to Washington this week -- there's no sign that the United States plans to lift sanctions against his country anytime soon. But I imagine he's still celebrating...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 11:55 AM by FP Passport

Qaddafi to compensate IRA victims

Even from over 2000 miles away, Libyan leader Muammar al Qaddafi was able to fan the flames in 1970's Ireland. A staunch support of anti-imperialist, anti-West rebel movements, Qaddafi sympathized with the campaign of the Irish Revolutionary Army...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 8:25 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, International Relations

Morning Brief: BP execs head to the White House

BP execs head to the White House Top story: President Barack Obama will meet with executives from oil giant BP today after promising to make them "pay for the damage their company has caused" in a televised address from the Oval Office last...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 5:49 AM by FP Passport