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Morning Brief: Fighting engulfs Damascus suburbs

Fighting engulfs Damascus suburbs Top story: Syrian troops and tanks are striking back at the Free Syrian Army outside Damascus in clashes that killed at least 26 people over the weekend and represent the most intense fighting around the capital in the...

Published Mon, Jan 30 2012 5:10 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

"Bad attitudes" land Afghan women in jail

Enter the cells of the Badam Bagh prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, and what culprits will you find locked up inside? A 16-year old recipient of an unplanned marriage proposal, a pregnant wife irrationally accused of adultery, and a veiled old woman who just...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 11:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Justice, Drugs & Crime, Middle East, Women

It's Official: Iceland Is The Best Place In the World To Be a Woman

Women of the world: pack your warmest sweaters, and head immediately to Iceland. According to a newly-released report from the World Economic Forum[ pdf ], Iceland is the #1 country in the world for gender equality, for the fifth year in a row. And that...

Published Thu, Oct 24 2013 2:36 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Human Rights, Women, Education, Economics, Health

Morning Brief, Tuesday, June 26

Middle East Peter McDiarmid/Getty Images Tony Blair is getting serious consideration for the job of Middle East envoy, and he appears ready to take the position. The Iraqi minister of culture is getting serious consideration for a prison stint for his...

Published Tue, Jun 26 2007 5:38 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

China's political geology

Japan and China have generally based their claims to the Senkakus/Diaoyus on past treaties and historical records. But it seems that Beijing is calling in the geologists : After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese-controlled airspace near...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2012 2:26 PM by FP Passport

Is James Comey really the civil liberties advocate he's being made out to be?

With the White House's decision to nominate James Comey as its next FBI director, the media has been stumbling over itself to recount a now-famous story in Washington about how Comey, while serving as the number-two official at the Justice Department...

Published Thu, May 30 2013 4:20 PM by FP Passport

The Leveretts go to Tehran

Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett just got back from a trip to Tehran. They write : Shortly before we arrived in Tehran, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the Islamic Republic is turning into a “military dictatorship”. As we drove around Tehran...

Published Sun, Feb 28 2010 8:09 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Iran

Medvedev's runaway SUV

During a visit to Kazan over the weekend, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's SUV nearly barreled into a large crowd of people after someone forgot to put on the parking break. The president does his best to get the vehicle under control, but the...

Published Wed, Jun 29 2011 12:08 PM by FP Passport

Swedes Find Definitive Evidence of Submarine, Russians Call Them Unmanly

Saif to the Hague? Get ready for a long wait

The International Criminal Court reports today that it has made indirect contact with Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi, and is attempting to negotiate his transfer to the Hague: An NTC source said on Thursday that Saif al-Islam wanted an aircraft, possibly arranged...

Published Fri, Oct 28 2011 10:46 AM by FP Passport

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: UNGA-bunga party

Autumn in New York Both candidates were in New York earlier this week as world leaders gathered for the U.N. General Assembly. In his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, Barack Obama defended the principle of free speech following this month's...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 1:41 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report

Ivory Coast PM: Gbagbo has until 7pm (an hour ago) to resign

After months of moving in slow motion, the crisis in the Ivory Coast is today moving at a breakneck pace. In the last several hours, forces loyal to that country's election winner, Alassane Ouattara, have advanced into Abidjan from the interior of...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 12:09 PM by FP Passport

Why Obama's Hints at Intel Reform Are Mostly Window Dressing

Eventually, President Barack Obama is going to have to go on the offensive in the debate over how to reform American intelligence gathering practices, and on Friday, he offered a few hints as to how he might do so. In an end-of-year press conference before...

Published Fri, Dec 20 2013 5:49 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Intelligence, Barack Obama, National Security, NSA

Franklin Graham calls for U.S. airstrikes on Sudan

In a Washington Times op-ed , the evangelical leader and son of Billy Graham says U.S. airpower is the only way to stop the escalating violence in the Nuba mountains: Now I am asking him and his administration to do something that may sound unusual for...

Published Thu, Apr 26 2012 6:56 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Myanmar prepares for historic vote

Myanmar prepares for historic vote Top news: Voters in Myanmar are preparing to head to the polls this weekend for just the third election in last 50 years. Seventeen parties are competing for 45 seat s in the country's 665-seat legislature. Most...

Published Fri, Mar 30 2012 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

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Morning Brief: Fighting engulfs Damascus suburbs

"Bad attitudes" land Afghan women in jail

It's Official: Iceland Is The Best Place In the World To Be a Woman

Morning Brief, Tuesday, June 26

China's political geology

Is James Comey really the civil liberties advocate he's being made out to be?

The Leveretts go to Tehran

Medvedev's runaway SUV

Swedes Find Definitive Evidence of Submarine, Russians Call Them Unmanly

Saif to the Hague? Get ready for a long wait

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: UNGA-bunga party

Ivory Coast PM: Gbagbo has until 7pm (an hour ago) to resign

Why Obama's Hints at Intel Reform Are Mostly Window Dressing

Franklin Graham calls for U.S. airstrikes on Sudan

Morning Brief: Myanmar prepares for historic vote