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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

Filed under: Morning Brief

Little orange dresses ruffle feathers at the World Cup

It's hard to imagine being criticized -- much less punished -- for taking World Cup spirit too far. Indeed, excess seems to be precisely the name of these games. For anyone who thinks their face-paint masterpieces are prize-worthy, the award for over...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 1:44 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Women, Fun Stuff, Sports

Finally, a way to put pirates on trial

As we've reported several times here at FP , stopping the Somali pirates who are tormenting the Gulf of Aden (check out their impressive list of recent catches) is a legal disaster. No one really knows who has jurisdiction to try them; everyone is...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 7:57 AM by FP Passport

Echoes of Bhopal

As Congress reconvenes the most recent of the BP executives' unenviable appointments in Washington this afternoon, a word about Tony Hayward's current inquisitor: California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 11:53 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Environment, South Asia, Energy, U.S. Congress, India, Oil, Oil / Energy Disaster / Problem / Shennanigans

Estonia joins the club

Without much international fanfare, the perpetually troubled eurozone expanded this week, taking on economically dynamic Estonia, which will be the first former Soviet country to join the monetary union. Estonia's eagerness to join could be seen as...

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 9:52 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Santos elected president of Colombia

Santos elected president of Colombia Top story: Former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos has declared victory in Colombia's presidential runoff. Santos, who has pledged to continue to intensify the fight against the country's FARC guerillas...

Published Mon, Jun 21 2010 6:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief, Oil / Energy Disaster / Problem / Shennanigans

Qaddafi "adopts" Italian mountain town

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Muammar Qaddafi has eradicated and restructured the Libyan calendar, publicly supported international terrorism and then called the Security Council the "terror council,"...

Published Mon, Jun 21 2010 12:37 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Africa, Foreign Aid, Libya

Can the Turkish opposition kick out Erdogan?

A few months back, I had a pleasant lunch at a Turkish restaurant in Dupont Circle with representatives of a nascent Turkish political party, TDH. The party billed itself as a Western-oriented alternative to the ruling AKP party -- and also as more dynamic...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 10:57 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Politics, Elections, Democracy

Stan vs. the volcano

Could Gen. Stanley McChrystal's career -- and possibly the Obama administration's strategy in Afghniastn -- be the latest victim of the Eyjafjallajökull effect ? Michael Hastings, the freelance journalist who wrote the provocative piece about...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 8:18 AM by FP Passport

The other MacArthur precedent: Strategic demotions

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 President Obama has just announced that General David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, will replace now-booted General McChrstyal as top commander in Afghanistan, technically...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 11:19 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan, History, Obama Administration, Military

French fare-dodgers get organized

The Parisians who flooded the streets of France's capital city this morning -- part of country-wide push-back against President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposed austerity plan (which includes, among other simply intolerable measures, a new retirement...

Published Thu, Jun 24 2010 10:15 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, France, Law, Culture, Politics

Quiz: Which country had the lowest rate of economic growth in 2009?

Quiz question for the week: Which country had the lowest rate of economic growth in 2009? a) Latvia b) Lithuania c) Iceland (For those of you who don't subscribe to the bimonthly print edition of Foreign Policy , you're missing a great feature...

Published Thu, Jun 24 2010 4:28 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Economics, Foreign Policy magazine

Did Elena Kagan really pal around with "the worst judge on the planet"?

I think some of the concerns about Elena Kagan's "blank slate" judicial record are understandable, but if this is the best line of attack Senate republicans have against her, I don't think she has a whole lot to worry about: [Aharon...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 9:44 AM by FP Passport

Northern exposure

I've just read an alarming paper (pdf) by Antonio Giustozzi and Christoph Reuter, a well-regarded Afghanistan expert and a veteran German journalist. Surveying the last few months of reporting on the Taliban's efforts to infiltrate northern Afghanistan...

Published Sun, Jun 27 2010 3:05 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan