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Esquire stands by its Osama bin Laden story amid storm of criticism

Esquire's bombshell cover story about the "the man who killed Osama bin Laden" is being pulled apart at the seams, but in a statement to Foreign Policy , the magazine says "We stand by our story." On Tuesday, CNN's national...

Published Wed, Mar 27 2013 7:35 AM by FP Passport

Is Google+ censored in China? Not so fast

Whoa, Nellie. Some international press outlets appear to have mistakenly reported that Google+, Google's new social networking site released yesterday, has already been blocked in China. But a handful of major blog websites in China have since debunked...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 2:49 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: China, Internet

Ever wonder what North Korea's Potemkin hotel looks like from the inside?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 North Korea tour specialists Koryo Tours provide what seems to be the first photos in years of the inside of the Ryugyong, a 330 meter hotel that boasts the 5th most floors of any...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2012 1:12 PM by FP Passport

The Wenzhou debacle gets even weirder

The furor over the Saturday night train crash last weekend in eastern China that killed at least 39 people and injured at least 192 has left the Chinese government scrambling to control public reaction. But its efforts may be doing the ruling Communist...

Published Thu, Jul 28 2011 12:57 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Disasters, Science & Technology, China, Media

Billionaire sheikh scrubs name from private island

Back in 2011, I wrote about a story that seemed way, way too good to be true: Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan -- a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family famous for owning rainbow-colored cars, the world's largest truck, and a globe-shaped motor...

Published Tue, Apr 30 2013 9:35 AM by FP Passport

Things to remember about the Nigerian terror suspect

Poor Nigeria. As if it didn't already have a terrible reputation, the alleged terror attempt by a 23-year-old Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab yesterday on a flight from Amsterdam to Detriot seals the deal. But as you're reading the news, a few caveats...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 11:20 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, al Qaeda, Europe, North America, Africa, Corruption, Media, Intelligence, Borders

Is FP a neocon rag?

I was amused yesterday afternoon to read DailyKos contributor Meteor Blades describe FP thusly: For instance, the once-neoconservative, still mostly conservative Foreign Policy magazine picked The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers and put Ben Bernanke in the...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 11:43 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Foreign Policy magazine

Morning Brief: EU leaders reach debt deal

EU leaders reach debt deal Top story: In a significant step toward stemming the debt crisis in the euro zone, European leaders secured an agreement from banks to take a 50 percent loss on the value of their Greek debt. The plan is projected to bring Greece's...

Published Thu, Oct 27 2011 5:08 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The Texan who stole the show at Margaret Thatcher's funeral

After being carried through the streets of London in a flag-draped coffin aboard a gun carriage, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this morning in St. Paul's Cathedral. But the big story of the day wasn't Maggie...

Published Wed, Apr 17 2013 11:40 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Britain, Politics, Media, Religion

Not Even a Beauty Queen Is Safe From Honduras’s Epidemic of Violence

Morning Brief: Obama ramps up U.S. intelligence efforts in Libya

Obama ramps up U.S. intelligence efforts in Libya Top story: Small groups of CIA operatives are active in Libya, gathering intelligence for Western airstrikes and making contact with Libyan rebels. The CIA presence is complemented by dozens of British...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 5:36 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

How Food Became Syria's Next Battlefield

BEIRUT -- They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The one above -- showing residents of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, located outside Damascus -- may be worth even more than that. The photograph and corresponding video were taken by the...

Published Wed, Feb 26 2014 10:18 AM by FP Passport

British Spies Aren't James Bonds, And 7 Other Things We Learned From the UK's Landmark Intelligence Hearing

In an unprecedented parliamentary hearing resembling a scene from "Skyfall," three UK intelligence chiefs made the case for spying and secrecy in the modern world, while assuring the assembled that their agencies adhere to strict legal and ethical...

Published Thu, Nov 07 2013 12:32 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Britain, Intelligence, National Security

The Top Five Career Paths for Berlusconi After Being Booted from Politics

Poor Silvio Berlusconi. On Wednesday, his colleagues in the Italian Senate effectively declared him unfit for office and voted to expel him from the body. The vote effectively caps the former prime minister's tumultuous fall from grace, one that has...

Published Wed, Nov 27 2013 7:29 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Politics

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