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North Korea Joins Chorus of Trolls Slamming U.S. Over Ferguson

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Published Wed, Aug 27 2014 12:08 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
In Madagascar's Capital City, a Plague of Locusts

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Published Fri, Aug 29 2014 2:35 PM by Foreign Policy

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Guest post: Should we really be making jokes about North Korean prison camps?

The North Korean gulag, which popped up this week on Google Maps, has incited a smarty-pants insurgency. As Passport reported yesterday , the glib "user reviews" of locations in the isolated totalitarian state are rolling in. Consider what virtual...

Published Wed, Jan 30 2013 9:16 AM by FP Passport
All aboard: Kim Jong Il's little armored train that could

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il traveled to Russia this week, his first visit to his country's former Cold War ally in nine years . Kim rode an armored train to eastern Siberia to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, crossing the Russian border...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2011 9:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia, North Korea, East Asia, Energy
New poll: Israeli Jews prefer Romney by large margin

As a recent BBC World Service poll suggested, Barack Obama would cruise to victory if countries ranging from France to Kenya to Canada could vote in the U.S. presidential election. But a new Peace Index poll reveals that Mitt Romney has a sizable advantage...

Published Sun, Oct 28 2012 10:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012
Pentagon, State Blame Afghans for Resurgent Poppy Fields

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Published Tue, Oct 21 2014 11:32 AM by Foreign Policy

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Michael Phelps now has more medals than 148 countries

Shortly after Michael's Phelps supposedly "disastrous" defeat in the 200m butterfly to South Africa's Chad le Clos today, he collected his 15th gold in 800-meter freestyle, giving him a record 19 total career medals . Phelps has now...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2012 4:18 PM by FP Passport
Medvedev: I may run for president again

Hope springs eternal, I guess : “I am not an old politician yet,” Medvedev said in an interview with the Times newspaper in London where he attended the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 27. The Times published the interview on Monday. “I...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2012 11:05 AM by FP Passport
Could China use the Singapore strategy on the New York Times?

In February, 2010, the International Herald Tribune published an article by then columnist Philip Bowring about Asian political dynasties in Asia, in which he included Singapore. A month later The New York Times , which owns the IHT , published a very...

Published Tue, Oct 30 2012 12:43 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China
Swedes Find Definitive Evidence of Submarine, Russians Call Them Unmanly

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Published Sat, Nov 15 2014 12:59 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Passport
Does the U.S. consider Nepal's prime minister a global terrorist?

On Sunday, Baburam Bhattarai of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal -- generally referred to as the Maoists -- was elected prime minister . The Maoists gave up their decade-long armed rebellion after a 2006 peace deal that Bhattarai helped negotiate...

Published Tue, Aug 30 2011 8:29 AM by FP Passport
South Korean floods carry a new threat

A deep freight train rumble struck South Korea's capital as a series of landslides engulfed entire villages. Screams resounded from buildings as they were dragged down mud rivers. Drivers scrambled to their car roofs as entire portions of the highway...

Published Thu, Jul 28 2011 11:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Disasters, East Asia
Decline Watch: Are happy days here again?

It's not all doom and gloom here at decline watch. We keep our eyes out for signs of recovery as well. Via Marginal Revolution , here a new paper from Princeton University's Angus Deaton, showing that Americans' contentment levels have returned...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2011 2:06 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Decline Watch
Countries where you could go to jail for calling the president a ***

Just in case you've been wasting your morning reading about actual important things, journalist Mark Halperin has been indefinitely suspended from his gig as a commentator on MSNBC for referring of President Obama as a "***" on television...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 9:33 AM by FP Passport
Memo to Cain campaign: The names aren't the point

My colleague Josh Rogin profiles Herman Cain's emerging foreign-policy brain-trust and discusses how Team Cain is regrouping in the wake of the Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan incident: And after Cain famously announced this month he did not know the...

Published Wed, Oct 26 2011 11:30 AM by FP Passport

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North Korea Joins Chorus of Trolls Slamming U.S. Over Ferguson

In Madagascar's Capital City, a Plague of Locusts

Guest post: Should we really be making jokes about North Korean prison camps?

All aboard: Kim Jong Il's little armored train that could

New poll: Israeli Jews prefer Romney by large margin

Pentagon, State Blame Afghans for Resurgent Poppy Fields

Michael Phelps now has more medals than 148 countries

Medvedev: I may run for president again

Could China use the Singapore strategy on the New York Times?

Swedes Find Definitive Evidence of Submarine, Russians Call Them Unmanly

Does the U.S. consider Nepal's prime minister a global terrorist?

South Korean floods carry a new threat

Decline Watch: Are happy days here again?

Countries where you could go to jail for calling the president a ***

Memo to Cain campaign: The names aren't the point