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Yanukovych shows signs of spine

Ukraine's new president, Viktor Yanukovych, appears to be sending signs this week that he won't just be toeing the Kremlin line. On Monday, he made Brussels, not Moscow, the destination for his first foreign trip and he's now indicating that...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 10:28 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia, Eastern Europe

Morning Brief: Afghan troops killed in NATO airstrike

Afghan troops killed in NATO airstrike Top news: Rockets fired from a NATO helicopter mistakenly killed five Afghan soldiers in Eastern Afghanistan. The friendly-fire incident is another setback in the international coalition's effort to build cooperation...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 5:54 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Talks with China and a deal with Ukraine at nuke summit

Talks with China and a deal with Ukraine at nuke summit Top news: The massive U.S. -rganized international summit on nuclear nonproliferation continues in Washington today and President Barack Obama is continuing to seek agreements on securing nuclear...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 5:48 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

U.S.-Russia adoptions in jeapoardy after boy "returned"

U.S. officials are on their way to Moscow this week to push the Russian government to continue to allow adoptions after a seven-year-old boy was sent back to Russia on a plane by a woman in Tennessee last week with a note explaining that she no longer...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 8:51 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Thousands flee violence in southern Kyrgyzstan

Thousands flee violence in southern Kyrgyzstan Top story: Three days of ethnic violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan have left at least 117 dead and set around 100,000 Uzbek refugees to seek safety across the border in neighboring Uzbekistan. Gangs of Kyrgyz...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 5:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

A WikiLeaks Family Feud Erupts on Twitter

As revelations about the National Security Agency's intelligence gathering activities continue to trickle out , the ghost of Julian Assange has begun to haunt the activists and journalists fighting back against the all-mighty NSA. On Thursday, a Twitter...

Published Thu, Oct 03 2013 11:30 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: GOP Pivots Toward Broader Budget Deal As Obama Cancels Asia Trip Over Shutdown

GOP Pivots Toward Broader Budget Deal As Obama Cancels Asia Trip Over Shutdown Top news: With the federal government shutdown in its fourth day, senior congressional Republicans appeared to back off their plan to undercut Barack Obama's landmark health...

Published Fri, Oct 04 2013 6:19 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Kim Jong Il's Austrian fetish

The thing about wacky Kim Jong Il stories is that they're generally impossible to prove or disprove so it's gnereally best to treat them as little more than curiosities. That's certainly true of Kim's apparent taste for all things Austrian...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 7:47 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North Korea, East Asia

British Conservatives endorsed by... Robert Mugabe!

Ever eager to criticize the sitting British government, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe piped in today with an endorsement of the Conservative party's David Cameron in the British election. This is, to be sure, more of an indictment (if that's...

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 1:42 PM by FP Passport

Report: Women's rights make uneven advance in Middle East

The status of Middle Eastern women has improved over the last five years, contradicting common perceptions of cloaked, powerless individuals, according to Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance , a study released...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 4:12 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Middle East

Your daily Yar'Adua death-watch update

For the last five months, it has been pretty much anyone's guess whether the Nigerian president, Umaru Yar'Adua, was alive , dead , or somewhere ambiguously in between . No one has seen him in public since November. But in the latest odd twist...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 10:56 AM by FP Passport

Syria’s lung-eating rebel explains himself

The shocking video of a Syrian rebel eating the lung of a pro-Assad fighter spread like wildfire across the Internet earlier this week. The rebel, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, has filmed a Youtube video explaining his actions. "I am...

Published Fri, May 17 2013 1:46 AM by FP Passport

Russian TV claims FSB intercepted American spy's phone calls

Ryan Fogle is having a very bad week. First the American diplomat in Moscow was arrested on charges of espionage while carrying a ludicrous collection of what might generously be called spy gear. Then Russian authorities expelled Fogle from the country...

Published Wed, May 15 2013 2:30 PM by FP Passport

The story of how Nawaz Sharif pulled back from nuclear war

On Saturday, Nawaz Sharif swept to victory in Pakistan's parliamentary elections, capping a frantic election season and handing the former prime minister a sufficient number of seats to assemble what is likely to be a far more stable government than...

Published Mon, May 13 2013 6:10 PM by FP Passport

How do you investigate North Korean human rights abuses from afar?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On Tuesday, the U.N. Human Rights Council announced the three individuals who will lead the body's first-ever human rights investigation into North Korea. In an interview with...

Published Wed, May 08 2013 1:50 PM by FP Passport

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Yanukovych shows signs of spine

Morning Brief: Afghan troops killed in NATO airstrike

Morning Brief: Talks with China and a deal with Ukraine at nuke summit

U.S.-Russia adoptions in jeapoardy after boy "returned"

Morning Brief: Thousands flee violence in southern Kyrgyzstan

A WikiLeaks Family Feud Erupts on Twitter

Morning Brief: GOP Pivots Toward Broader Budget Deal As Obama Cancels Asia Trip Over Shutdown

Kim Jong Il's Austrian fetish

British Conservatives endorsed by... Robert Mugabe!

Report: Women's rights make uneven advance in Middle East

Your daily Yar'Adua death-watch update

Syria’s lung-eating rebel explains himself

Russian TV claims FSB intercepted American spy's phone calls

The story of how Nawaz Sharif pulled back from nuclear war

How do you investigate North Korean human rights abuses from afar?