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*** Riot Comes to Brooklyn Only to Go Mainstream

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- It's 12:30 am, and the crowd at the now half-empty Barclays Center looks drained after a four-and-a-half hour show dedicated to human rights and organized by Amnesty International. That all changes when Yoko Ono comes on stage, grunting...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 7:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Russia, Human Rights

A NATO War Dog Is The Taliban's Newest Hostage

Early Thursday morning, Taliban forces in Afghanistan released a video proving, it claimed, that the militants had captured a U.S. military dog. The footage shows a group of bearded men holding up machine guns and standing around a brown dog tied to a...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 3:45 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Afghanistan, Taliban, Military, Southeast Asia

Did An Accused War Criminal Just Show How To Get Off The Treasury Department’s Blacklist?

The Treasury Department quietly removed a former Croatian general from its sanctions blacklist after the accused war criminal filed a lawsuit to clear his name. Ante Gotovina's success could provide a roadmap of sorts for the accused terrorists, war...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 2:59 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Diplomacy, United Nations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Finance, Business

Meet the Handsome Japanese Reporter Stealing the Show in Bangkok

Just call him the Japanese Anderson Cooper. With his tight black t-shirt, dashing safety gear, and steely gaze, Fuji Television reporter Daijimo Enamia is a younger, East Asian version of CNN's famed Silver Fox. Who wouldn't be distracted from...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 12:42 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, Elections, Media, Fun Stuff

Get Ready for an Olympics Filled With Potemkin Village Metaphors

If you're a media outlet with any kind of a website, chances are you've run in a story in the last 36 hours about the stream of complaints from journalists assembled in Sochi about the shoddy media accommodations. It's all very meta. Doorknobs...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 6:48 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Russia, Sports, Olympics

Morning Brief: Syria Misses Chemical Weapons Handover Deadline

Syria Misses Chemical Weapons Handover Deadline Top news: Syria on Wednesday missed the Feb. 5 deadline to surrender its entire chemical arsenal, putting at risk the international agreement brokered last September to avert a U.S. strike. So far, Bashar...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 6:23 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Iran's Hardliners Just Tried to Muzzle Hassan Rouhani

BEIRUT -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's battle with hardliners in his own government broke out into the open Wednesday, with the head of the country's state-run television company temporarily preventing him from giving a live interview in...

Published Wed, Feb 05 2014 1:08 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Report: U.S. Curtails Drone Strikes in Pakistan

Report: U.S. Curtails Drone Strikes in Pakistan Top news: With the Pakistani government pursuing peace talks with the Taliban, the United States has drastically reduced drone strikes in the country at the government's request, according to a report...

Published Wed, Feb 05 2014 6:21 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

North Korea Proves It’s the Internet Troll of Diplomacy

It's an Internet truism -- known as Godwin's Law -- that "given enough time, in any online discussion -- regardless of topic or scope -- someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the ***." Sometimes this natural law of online...

Published Tue, Feb 04 2014 3:07 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Japan, North Korea, East Asia, Internet

Morning Brief: Karzai Engaged in Secret Contacts With Taliban

Karzai Engaged in Secret Contacts With Taliban Top news: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has engaged in secret contacts with Taliban representatives aimed at securing a peace deal with the militant group, according to a report in the New York Times . The...

Published Tue, Feb 04 2014 6:23 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Does Amy Chua Understand China?

The Triple Package , the book released Feb. 4 by "Tiger Mom" author and provocateur Amy Chua and her husband, constitutional law expert and novelist Jed Rubenfeld, is unsurprisingly controversial. The authors, both professors at Yale Law School...

Published Tue, Feb 04 2014 5:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China, Politics, Race/Ethnicity

Will al Qaeda's Disowned Syria Affiliate Rival Its Old Boss?

For more than a decade, al Qaeda has been aggressively extending its reach by through a sort of franchising strategy , signing up an ally here and a subsidiary there to fight its global jihad. But on radical Islam's most prominent battlefield, al...

Published Mon, Feb 03 2014 3:01 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, al Qaeda, Middle East, South Asia, Syria

Morning Brief: Last of Libya's Chemical Arms Destroyed

Last of Libya's Chemical Arms Destroyed Libya: The remaining stores of former Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi's chemical weapons have been destroyed. Over the past three months, Libyan contractors working in secret used portable ovens in the...

Published Mon, Feb 03 2014 6:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Did the Latest State Dept. Report Just Make Keystone Inevitable?

Environmentalists can chain themselves to the White House fence all they want: the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline appears to be slowly but surely headed for approval. On Friday afternoon, that time of day for rolling out news the White House would like...

Published Fri, Jan 31 2014 5:41 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Politics, Energy, Barack Obama

North Korea's New Weight Loss Drink Prevents Cancer, Fatness

It's a sad irony for a country wracked by malnutrition: A North Korean research institute is reported to have made a breakthrough in the science of weight-loss. On Tuesday, Korea Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea's premier English language...

Published Fri, Jan 31 2014 4:26 PM by FP Passport

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*** Riot Comes to Brooklyn Only to Go Mainstream

A NATO War Dog Is The Taliban's Newest Hostage

Did An Accused War Criminal Just Show How To Get Off The Treasury Department’s Blacklist?

Meet the Handsome Japanese Reporter Stealing the Show in Bangkok

Get Ready for an Olympics Filled With Potemkin Village Metaphors

Morning Brief: Syria Misses Chemical Weapons Handover Deadline

Iran's Hardliners Just Tried to Muzzle Hassan Rouhani

Morning Brief: Report: U.S. Curtails Drone Strikes in Pakistan

North Korea Proves It’s the Internet Troll of Diplomacy

Morning Brief: Karzai Engaged in Secret Contacts With Taliban

Does Amy Chua Understand China?

Will al Qaeda's Disowned Syria Affiliate Rival Its Old Boss?

Morning Brief: Last of Libya's Chemical Arms Destroyed

Did the Latest State Dept. Report Just Make Keystone Inevitable?

North Korea's New Weight Loss Drink Prevents Cancer, Fatness