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Bye Bye Bluefin: Navy Drone Sub Yanked from Hunt for MH370

A 17-foot-long drone submarine the United States dispatched to help trawl the Indian Ocean for signs of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been pulled out of the hunt, at least temporarily, which means that the Pentagon no longer has any major military...

Published Thu, May 15 2014 3:51 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: South Asia, Military, Southeast Asia

Taliban Releases POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Trade for Five Detainees

Swedes Find Definitive Evidence of Submarine, Russians Call Them Unmanly

Adieu, Stéphane

Stéphane Hessel, the French author and activist who was among FP 's Global Thinkers in 2011 -- our oldest thinker yet, but no less spirited for it -- died Tuesday in Paris at the age of 95. Hessel's is a remarkable life story: He was raised in...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2013 9:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe

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

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

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

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

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

The frightening food discoveries you may have missed while focusing on horse meat

Think horse meat in your lasagna is unappealing? Try some water buffalo sausage. Horse meat is what's making headlines at the moment, thanks to widespread discoveries of the unusual product lurking in so-called beef across Europe. But the past few...

Published Wed, Feb 27 2013 8:23 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

Do other countries have debt clocks?

Republican convention organizers may not have been able to accomplish much business on Monday, but they did make one dramatic statement: activating two prominently displayed clocks that will measure the national debt and how much that debt has accumulated...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2012 12:40 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012

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

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

With Manning Trial Over, Assange Sees Himself as the Target

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 More than three years after Julian Assange and WikiLeaks began publishing classified documents provided to the organization by Pfc. Bradley Manning, the court marshal of the young...

Published Fri, Jul 26 2013 3:45 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: WikiLeaks