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Israeli tourism to Turkey down 90 percent since flotilla raid

Here's one dramatic sign of chilling relations between the onetime allies: The number of Israelis visiting Turkey fell 90 percent in June from a year earlier amid tensions over the death of nine Turks in Israel’s May 31 raid on an aid flotilla bound...

Published Fri, Aug 06 2010 8:21 AM by FP Passport

Meet Baidu CEO Robin Li - By Christina Larson

Not many Chinese brands -- aside from state-owned behemoths like PetroChina -- have much international profile, and certainly no recognizable human face at the top. Coming off a round of recent interviews in Beijing with Bloomberg , Forbes , and the Wall...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 10:00 AM by FP Passport

U.N. fight over Israel overshadows poverty negotiations

A very long decade ago, the world's leaders got together at the United Nations here in New York to agree on something pretty remarkable: that they were going to do their best to end poverty by 2015. In just over a week, they'll come back -- now...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 1:00 PM by FP Passport

Iraqi general to US military: Stay longer!

First Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former deputy, said that the planned U.S. troop withdrawal was "leaving the country to the wolves." Now, the chief of staff of the Iraqi military, Lt. Gen. Babaker Zebari, says that the U.S. pullout was...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 11:58 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Iraq

Google's most controversial feature

My colleague Ben Pauker has a great list up of the interesting political uses that people are finding for Google Earth. But judging by today's headlines, the company's most controversial product by far is Street View, the feature in Google Maps...

Published Tue, Aug 10 2010 7:44 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Internet

Vicente Fox: Legalize Mexico's drug scene - by Brian Fung

Well, this is unexpected: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has come out in favor of legalizing drugs in an attempt to disrupt the illegal markets that have turned parts of Mexico into battlegrounds. [...] While Fox advocates weakening the cartels...

Published Tue, Aug 10 2010 9:48 AM by FP Passport

Gates wields the knife

In a press conference today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates briefed reporters on a major overhaul within the department as it seeks to trim $100 billion from the military's budget over the next five years. Gates recommended that the Joint Forces Command...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 1:37 PM by FP Passport

Integration by inertia

The members of the European Union like to disagree about internal policy. A lot. Foremost among these disputes -- besides the Common Agricultural Policy , anyway -- is the existence and allocation of "structural funds." There are essentially...

Published Thu, Sep 02 2010 7:45 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: BP blames spill on a "sequence of failures"

BP blames spill on a "sequence of failures" Top news: BP released the results of its internal investigation into the causes of the April 20 oil rig explosion that led to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While the report accepts some...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 6:05 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Study: The end of poverty starts at the bottom

Imagine for a moment that you're a government minister in a poor or fairly poor country. You've got a limited budget and you've also got a lot of work to do -- children are undernourished, you need to increase the numbers of them that go to...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 1:00 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Two weeks later, Gillard wins Australian election

Two weeks later, Gillard wins Australian election Top story: After two weeks of political deadlock following inconclusive parliamentary elections, incumbent Julia Gillard gained enough to support to form a minority government and remain as Australia's...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 5:43 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Egyptians vote in final round of parliamentary elections

Egyptians vote in final round of parliamentary elections Top story: As Egyptians go to the polls in the third and final round of parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood appears poised to make significant gains. The governorates voting during this...

Published Tue, Jan 03 2012 4:59 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Meet the new, less anti-Semitic Malaysia

Mohammed Najib Abdul Razak, the prime minister of Malaysia, is in town this week for Barack Obama's nuclear summit, and this afternoon the two leaders met to discuss nonproliferation A State Department readout of the meeting was nothing but gumdrops...

Published Mon, Apr 12 2010 3:53 PM by FP Passport

Medvedev asked to investigate governor's alien encounter

I thought this story might be another hoax from those wiseguys at the Moscow Times, but it seems to have been reported elsewhere and is just way too good to check : The aliens came for him on September 18, 1997. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was at home in his Moscow...

Published Wed, May 05 2010 10:06 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia

Obama in Afghanistan

President Obama has just arrived at Afghanistan's Bagram airbase for an unannounced trip during which he will meet U.S. troops and hold a meeting by videoconference with President Hamid Karzai. Obama had originally planned to travel to Kabul by helicopter...

Published Fri, Dec 03 2010 9:46 AM by FP Passport

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Israeli tourism to Turkey down 90 percent since flotilla raid

Meet Baidu CEO Robin Li - By Christina Larson

U.N. fight over Israel overshadows poverty negotiations

Iraqi general to US military: Stay longer!

Google's most controversial feature

Vicente Fox: Legalize Mexico's drug scene - by Brian Fung

Gates wields the knife

Integration by inertia

Morning Brief: BP blames spill on a "sequence of failures"

Study: The end of poverty starts at the bottom

Morning Brief: Two weeks later, Gillard wins Australian election

Morning Brief: Egyptians vote in final round of parliamentary elections

Meet the new, less anti-Semitic Malaysia

Medvedev asked to investigate governor's alien encounter

Obama in Afghanistan