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Iran isn't amused by Israeli Samsung ad

Israel isn't having much luck with commercials these days. First there was the government-sponsored ad campaign late last year to persuade Israelis living in the United States to return home, which was yanked when it caused an uproar in the American...

Published Fri, Feb 03 2012 10:08 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Iran

Both parties agree: It's all about (Steve) Jobs

Washington may be gridlocked and divided, but there's one thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on: Steve Jobs was awesome. President Obama had a somewhat complicated relationship with the late Apple CEO, who reportedly told him he was on...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2012 7:59 AM by FP Passport

Syrians troll through hacked emails of Bashar's presidential aides

Move over, WikiLeaks: There's a new sheriff in town. The shadowy hacker collective Anonymous struck again late Sunday evening, exposing the email accounts of top aides to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and posting the passwords online for all to...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2012 7:40 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Syria, Arab World

Why was the crazed axe-murderer allowed into Denmark?

A number of strange a contradictory reports have emerged about the Somali national who a ttempted to kill controverisal Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe in his home on New Year's Day, but it's becoming clear that someone dropped...

Published Mon, Jan 04 2010 12:26 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Europe, Africa

NYC’s transit authority changes advertising standards in wake of anti-Islam ads

The New York Times reported today that New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority voted 8-0 to change its rules on what advertising it will accept after the furor created by Pamela Geller's anti-Islam ads. Geller, executive director of the...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 9:28 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Islam

‘Poland Was Bribed to Turn A Blind Eye to Torture’

How much would U.S spies pay for a secret prison abroad? Apparently, not that much. According to a blockbuster Washington Post report , in 2003 two CIA agents handed $15 million in cash stashed in two cardboard boxes to the number two man at Poland's...

Published Fri, Jan 24 2014 5:26 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, al Qaeda, Human Rights, Eastern Europe, Bush's Legacy

Friday photo: Jan29

Army tanks line up in Tahrir Square on January 29, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital. Hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell demonstrations. Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 3:58 PM by FP Passport

Why Isn't China Censoring Chatter About its Latest Bomb Attack?

Over the past 10 days, two horrific attacks have shaken China -- but Chinese Internet censors seem interested in only one. On Oct. 28, five people died and dozens were injured when an SUV plowed into a crowd right near Tiananmen, the massive public square...

Published Thu, Nov 07 2013 2:27 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Security, East Asia, China, Internet

Injured Al Jazeera Journalist Barred from Receiving Medical Care in Egypt

On Dec. 29, Egyptian authorities arrested Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Al Jazeera's Cairo bureau chief, and four other journalists, charging them with "harming national security" and "spreading false news." Nine days later, Fahmy, who...

Published Mon, Jan 06 2014 4:25 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, Arab World

One more fugitive to go for ICTY

After today's arrest of former Bosnian Serb General and suspected war criminal Ratko Mladic, there's only one more name on the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia's list of fugitives: Former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic. While...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 11:54 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Mladic will face war crimes tribunal

Mladic will face war crimes tribunal Top story: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general who was arrested yesterday by Serbian authorities for his role in the massacres committed during the Bosnian war, will be turned over to The Hague to face trial...

Published Fri, May 27 2011 5:05 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Satellite Imagery Shows Extent of Destruction in Gaza

‘Cuban Twitter’ and Other Times USAID Pretended To Be an Intelligence Agency

Foreign governments have long accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of being a front for the CIA or other groups dedicated to their collapse. In the case of Cuba, they appear to have been right. In an eye-opening display of incompetence...

Published Thu, Apr 03 2014 3:16 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Security, Latin America, Intelligence, U.S. Foreign Policy

Blogging from Qaddafi-world

Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim, or Musa Mansour as he was known in his previous life as a cycling-for-charity filmmaker in Britain, has emerged as this war's Baghdad Bob , doing his best to make his boss's statements about U.S./al Qaeda...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 8:25 AM by FP Passport

House Republicans Might Have Found a Real Scandal -- And It's Not Benghazi

Think of it as the tale of two scandals. In the last week, Congress slapped a pair of Obama administration cabinet officials with subpoenas. The first was handed to Secretary of State John Kerry, ordering him to appear before the House Oversight Committee...

Published Thu, May 08 2014 4:27 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Politics, Obama Administration, Military, U.S. Congress