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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

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

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

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

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

Morning Brief: Senate Passes Immigration Overhaul, House Support for Measure Unlikely

Senate Passes Immigration Overhaul, House Support for Measure Unlikely Top news: The U.S. Senate passed Thursday in a 68-32 vote a massive overhaul of the country's immigration laws that provides a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and...

Published Fri, Jun 28 2013 5:53 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

What we're reading: Holiday edition

Want to know what Santa brought Foreign Policy editors this year? Judge for yourself whether we were naughty or nice. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Blake Hounshell: Want to understand our latest financial disaster...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 8:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: What We're Reading

If Mexico is the new China, what does Mexico think of China?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Last Sunday's New York Times featured an op-ed by former Wired editor turned drone entrepreneur Chis Anderson under the headline, " Mexico: The New China ". The piece...

Published Wed, Jan 30 2013 3:12 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: France retakes Timbuktu, indicates Mali mission may be drawing to close

France retakes Timbuktu, indicates Mali mission may be drawing to close Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Top news: After French and African troops secured the historic city of Timbuktu, which...

Published Tue, Jan 29 2013 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morsy takes on the world

As a number of FP commentators have pointed out , history isn't likely to be made at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit currently underway in Tehran. But even if the conference is short on Earth-shaking pronouncements, it has produced one of the...

Published Thu, Aug 30 2012 11:15 AM by FP Passport

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: UNGA-bunga party

Autumn in New York Both candidates were in New York earlier this week as world leaders gathered for the U.N. General Assembly. In his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, Barack Obama defended the principle of free speech following this month's...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 1:41 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report

Iran warns citizens of the dangers of travel to Canada

A through-the-looking-glass moment form Iran's foreign ministry, as reported by the CBC : Iran's foreign ministry says "Islamphobia" and "Iranophobia" are growing in Canada and Iranians who come to Canada could face possible...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2012 8:43 AM by FP Passport

Ed Snowden Needs a Better Biographer Than Glenn Greenwald

Why did Edward Snowden betray the National Security Agency and leak a huge trove of secret documents to the media? It's a question that has been endlessly debated since stories based on those documents began to appear in the media during the summer...

Published Wed, May 21 2014 7:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media, Intelligence, National Security, NSA, Snowden

In Myanmar, Press Freedom is a Double-Edged Sword

It's one step forward, two steps back for Myanmar's beleaguered journalists. President Thein Sein ostensibly closed the book on five decades of media repression this week by enacting two new measures designed to replace the country's longstanding...

Published Wed, Mar 19 2014 4:07 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media, Southeast Asia, Burma

Germany's stiff upper lip

Germany experienced its first Islamist attack on Wednesday when a man by the name of Arid U. (Germany withholds the last names of suspects in ongoing investigations) opened fire at the Frankfurt airport, killing two U.S. military personnel and injuring...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2011 10:05 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Germany