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Air Force erases drone strike data amid criticisms

Quietly and without much notice, the Air Force has reversed its policy of publishing statistics on drone strikes in Afghanistan as the debate about drone warfare hits a fever pitch in Washington. In addition, it has erased previously published drone strike...

Published Fri, Mar 08 2013 2:50 PM by FP Passport

Egyptian labor between Morsi and Mubarak

While few noticed in the midst of an intense political crisis, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi issued another controversial decree recently: Decree no. 97 of 2012, introducing a few important amendments to Egypt's long-standing 1976 labor law...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2012 12:24 PM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Law, Middle East, Economics, Labor, North Africa, Egypt, Middle East Poster 4

Guest blog: Why globalization isn't working

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 So it turns out that Columbus was right all along. The world isn't flat. That's essentially what the G-20 was trying to tell President Obama in Seoul last week. As I predicted...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 10:25 AM by FP Passport

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: Getting to Arizona

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Debating Syria A Wednesday-night debate in Arizona was the first time the candidates discussed the deteriorating situation in Syria at any length, though mostly in the context of what it would mean for Iran's...

Published Fri, Feb 24 2012 2:51 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report

What Cyprus tells us about Turkey

Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias gave Foreign Policy an interview earlier this week, where he offered an eloquent explanation of the factors that have conspired to leave his country his country divided, even after 36 years of diplomacy. But his...

Published Fri, Oct 01 2010 9:45 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Turkey

Decline Watch: City Living

Global Human Resources firm Mercer has released its 2011 Quality of Living worldwide city rankings . The index ranks cities based on political stability, economic environment, cultural environment, sanitation, education, public services, recreation and...

Published Tue, Nov 29 2011 1:40 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Decline Watch

The other oil spill

The Gulf of Mexico isn't the only region suffering from an oil catastrophe this morning. A seaborne collision involving a Malaysian-registered oil tanker has caused at least 2,000 metric tons of light crude (about 18,000 barrels of oil) to spill into...

Published Tue, May 25 2010 9:00 AM by FP Passport

Cairo's Harvard takes to the airwaves

Think of Cairo's al-Azhar University as the Harvard of Sunni Islam: Founded in the 10th century, it has played a foundational role in the religious and cultural development of modern Egypt and the entire Muslim world. In the first half of the 20th...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 7:59 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Media, Islam, Egypt

Porn fans of Egypt unite against crackdown

Egypt's increasingly influential Salafis won a victory this week by pressuring the government to finally implement a 2009 court ruling , enacted under former President Hosni Mubarak, to ban pornography. On Wednesday, Egyptian Prosector Abdel Maguid...

Published Thu, Nov 08 2012 2:58 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Law, Freedom, Culture, Politics, Middle East, Internet, Religion, North Africa, Egypt, Democracy

Morning Brief: Crimean Protests Bloom and Russian Troops Ready as Tensions Worsen Over Ukraine

Crimean Protests Bloom and Russian Troops Ready as Tensions Worsen Over Ukraine Top news: Regional tensions over the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych deepened on Tuesday and into Wednesday, with protests in Crimea against the revolution...

Published Wed, Feb 26 2014 6:49 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The Belly Dancer and the Brotherhood: Meet the Exotic Performer Trying to Take Down Egypt’s Islamists

Has Egypt’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood entered that stage where it begins to resemble a farce? Judging by the bellydancer threatening to expose the Brotherhood’s deepest secrets, the answer would appear to be a resounding “yes.” The Egyptian...

Published Thu, Jan 30 2014 12:01 PM by FP Passport

Tatars: We came up with "Yes we can"

I'm not sure if it counts as hopejacking if you claim that Obama ripped you off: There was a funny scene during Hillary Clinton's visit to the Russian republic of Tatarstan. Tatar President Mintimer Shaimiev told Clinton that Tatarstan adopted...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 8:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia

P.J. Crowley: I stand by what I said about Bradley Manning

Judging by his appearance on CNN last night, parsing the president's speech, recently fired State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley is making a transition to media pundit in record time. In an op-ed for the Guardian today, he addresses the reason...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 9:08 AM by FP Passport

What Russia Could Look Like in 2035, if Putin Gets His Wish

Sorry, Europe: It ain't a pretty picture. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 04 2014 3:28 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Argument

Cinnabon comes to Libya

On July 2, Cinnabon made history, becoming the first American franchise to open a location in Libya. The 7,500 square-foot bakery-cafe in downtown Tripoli also sells Carvel ice cream, and is the first of at least 10 locations franchisees Arief and Ahmed...

Published Wed, Aug 01 2012 9:13 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Fun Stuff, North Africa, Libya, Trade