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Yoani Sánchez on why it's time to end the embargo

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Dissident blogger and FP contributor Yoani Sánchez is currently touring the United States after recently receiving permission from the Cuban government to travel outside the country. Along with activist and...

Published Tue, Mar 19 2013 2:00 PM by FP Passport

What if Xi Jinping gave an interview and no one cared?

On Tuesday, Xi Jinping gave his first interview with foreign media since becoming chairman of the Chinese Communist Party in November. Xi spoke with journalists from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -- the five countries that make up the...

Published Tue, Mar 19 2013 4:30 PM by FP Passport

Feinstein is worried about the CIA losing the drone program

If Barack Obama is moving the CIA's drone program to the Pentagon, as Newsweek's Daniel Klaidman reports , he has yet to convince senior Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein that it's a good idea. On Capitol Hill yesterday, Feinstein cast doubt...

Published Wed, Mar 20 2013 11:00 AM by FP Passport

Hezbollah's got a brand new bag

Last week, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah announced his party's new political program -- the first manifesto Hezbollah has released since its infamous Open Letter of 1985. The new document gained attention for its toned down Islamist rhetoric and...

Published Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:10 AM by FP Passport

Holy awesome musical taste, Pope

The Holy See apparently has no barriers to the types of jams it rocks. The Vatican's MySpace playlist includes artists such as the rock band Muse , the folksy Fleet Foxes and the thuggish ruggish beats of the late, great Tupac Shakur . The Vatican...

Published Mon, Dec 07 2009 1:29 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Culture

A Copenhagen draft leaks

An early draft of the Copenhagen climate change agreement, which is being called the "Danish Text" and was prepared by a group of countries including the U.S., U.K. and Denmark, has been leaked to the Guardian and has perturbed delegates from...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 7:42 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Environment

Morning Brief: Iranian parliament holds senior official responsible for protester deaths

Iranian parliament holds senior official responsible for protester deaths Top Story: An a rare criticism of a senior government official, an Iranian parliamentary panel has accused former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, an ally of President Mahmoud...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 5:53 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

$50 billion, 30 years, and 4,000 corrupt Chinese officials

One of the biggest stories of the weekend -- that some $50 billion in state funds was smuggled out of China over the past 30 years by as many as 4,000 corrupt officials -- was broken by Chinese state media. (Western sources, such as the AFP, alternatingly...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 11:07 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

When Britain occupied Yemen

No, U.S. President Barack Obama has informed People . The United States has no interest in or plans to invade Yemen or Somalia -- and nor should it. Out of curiosity, I took a look at the experience of the last western power to occupy part of Yemen: Britain...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 4:34 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Middle East, History

Morning Brief: On Pacific trip, Clinton downplays tension with Japan and China

On Pacific trip, Clinton downplays tension with Japan and China Top story: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is kicking off a nine-day tour of the pacific region with a meeting in Hawaii with her Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Katsuyo Okada....

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 5:22 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

"El Qaeda" is nothing new

Last week, I complained that Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was using the drug bust of three African suspected al Qaeda members as proof of an alliance between al Qaeda and Colombia's FARC rebels when there weren't even actual FARC members...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 11:23 AM by FP Passport

Google threatens to pull out of China

Last month Google's operations in China noticed that a sophisticated hacking operation had illegally attempted to access the records of dozens of targetted Gmail users -- specifically those of prominent human rights activists, based in China, Europe...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 8:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

Fears about the United Nations mission in Haiti

Very troubling reports out of Haiti this morning. The earthquake struck near the country's main population center, Port-au-Prince, and its surrounding suburbs and slums. Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, the first lady, said much of Port-au-Prince is destroyed...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 7:40 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Disasters, Latin America, International Relations

Photographs of Haiti

The Big Picture at the Boston Globe has a jarring photo-essay of the Haiti disaster. Clarens Renois/AFP/Getty Images Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 11:33 AM by FP Passport

Haitians to Gitmo?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Fox News has the story that the Obama administration is considering housing Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay, the detention facility and Naval base the U.S. military keeps in...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 11:50 AM by FP Passport