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Morning Brief: Yanukovych Wins Ukraine Election

Yanukovych Wins Ukraine Election Top Story: Viktor Yanukovych has appeared to beat his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in Ukraine's run-off presidential election held this weekend. His lead is now just 2.4 points, with 96 percent of votes...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 6:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Toyota Chief Apologizes

Toyota Chief Apologizes Top Story: The president of the giant carmaker Toyota apologized for the design and manufacturing errors that led to the global recall of more than 9 million cars. Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the Japanese company's founder...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 6:02 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The Syrian charnel house

The above image is actually one of the less graphic photos coming out of the Syria today, where President Bashar al-Assad's forces stand accused of massacring Sunni families en masse. The more gruesome images and videos speak to a brutal campaign...

Published Sat, May 04 2013 1:41 PM by FP Passport

The world according to Google: 5 crazy predictions from Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen's new book

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, the 31-year-old director of Google Ideas, make some pretty bold predictions in their new book, The New Digital Age , to be published by Knopf on April 23. The future they envision is full of technological...

Published Thu, Apr 18 2013 11:50 AM by FP Passport

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

Are fake funerals the next big thing?

This past weekend, Zeng Jia prepared and participated in her own funeral -- except she was alive the whole time. The Chinese college student, whose grandfather's recent death inspired her to organize her own -- rather premature -- funeral, said that...

Published Mon, Apr 01 2013 4:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

Morning Brief: U.S. accuses Iran of plot to kill Saudi ambassador

U.S. accuses Iran of plot to kill Saudi ambassador Top news: The United States plans to seek additional international sanctions against Iran following allegations of a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. on American soil. "This really,...

Published Wed, Oct 12 2011 5:38 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Tunisia's ruling party rejects plan to from caretaker government

Tunisia's ruling party rejects plan to from caretaker government Top news: Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda party on Thursday rejected a proposal by its own party chief, Prime Minister Hamdi Jebali, to form a nonpartisan unity cabinet following...

Published Thu, Feb 07 2013 5:36 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Chilean navy offends neighbors with violent, xenophobic chant

The marching chant by Chilean sailors in the video above is the kind of thing that probably worked better in the pre-YouTube era. CNN translates : "Argentineans I will kill; Bolivians I will shoot; Peruvians I'll behead." The government...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2013 7:05 AM by FP Passport

The underpants bomber didn't hurt Obama

For all the criticism Barack Obama has received for his administration's handling of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Flight 253, it doesn't seem like the American public is too concerned. A new Gallup poll finds that the U.S. president's...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 3:53 PM by FP Passport

Sigh. Another 'China dumping dollars' story

Stories about Chinese officials threatening to dump the dollar, no matter how implausible, are always great Internet fodder. Today's entry: This Reuters report about a couple senior PLA officers who are pushing the idea that China should retaliate...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 7:28 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: China

Sri Lanka opposition leader arrested

Things seem to be going from bad to worse in Sri Lanka, as president Mahinda Rajapaksa continues to crack down following his disputed election victory last month: General Fonseka, a retired four-star general who lost to President Mahinda Rajapakse in...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 10:05 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: South Asia

By the numbers: The NSA's super-secret spy program, PRISM

In a bombshell scoop, the Washington Post is reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) has gained direct access to the servers of nine prominent Internet companies, enabling the spy agency to track e-mails, photographs, and video, among other...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2013 5:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: National Security

Syrian Electronic Army steps up attacks on opposition Facebook pages

The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacking group affiliated with Bashar al-Assad's regime, has over the past three days launched an intense attack on Facebook pages affiliated with the Syrian opposition, according to a new report from the SecDev Foundation's...

Published Tue, Jun 04 2013 12:00 PM by FP Passport

Glasser and Aron on the fall of the Soviet Union: Part II

Here's the third and fourth parts of FP Editor in Chief Susan Glasser and author Leon Aron's interview with Tim Farley on POTUS radio, channel 124, on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union. Click...

Published Thu, Aug 18 2011 7:44 AM by FP Passport

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Morning Brief: Yanukovych Wins Ukraine Election

Morning Brief: Toyota Chief Apologizes

The Syrian charnel house

The world according to Google: 5 crazy predictions from Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen's new book

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

Are fake funerals the next big thing?

Morning Brief: U.S. accuses Iran of plot to kill Saudi ambassador

Morning Brief: Tunisia's ruling party rejects plan to from caretaker government

Chilean navy offends neighbors with violent, xenophobic chant

The underpants bomber didn't hurt Obama

Sigh. Another 'China dumping dollars' story

Sri Lanka opposition leader arrested

By the numbers: The NSA's super-secret spy program, PRISM

Syrian Electronic Army steps up attacks on opposition Facebook pages

Glasser and Aron on the fall of the Soviet Union: Part II