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Lula: Gringos should keep out of the Amazon

Lula being Lula : President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says no "gringo should stick their nose in where it does not belong." Silva was visiting Para state Tuesday, where the Belo Monte dam is planned. It would be the world's third-largest...

Published Thu, Jun 24 2010 10:49 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America, Environment, Celebs

Justice Stevens and the "War on Terror"

When Justice John Paul Stevens retires this summer he will have served longer than any Supreme Court Justice in history save one -- William O. Douglas. In his decades on the court, Stevens has had a profound influence on several issues -- including one...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 2:33 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, North America, Justice, Law

Lebanon's soccer wars

Just when you think Lebanon couldn't get any stranger, the country manages to outdo itself. In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the beginning of the country's 15-year civil war, Lebanon's leaders divided up into two teams based on...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 3:20 PM by FP Passport

How much do we really want to know about the oil industry?

Via Kate Mackenzie at the Financial Times , a graph charting the not terribly surprising impact the Gulf oil spill has had on BP's image, once among the best in the industry: It's from a firm called Covalence that calculates companies' ethical...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 2:36 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Disasters, Science & Technology, North America, Africa, Environment, Energy, Oil, Oil / Energy Disaster / Problem / Shennanigans

Morning Brief: European leaders agree to recapitalize banks

European leaders agree to recapitalize banks Top news: After 13 hours of talks at a summit in Brussels, European leaders decided to use the eurozone's permanent bailout fund to directly recapitalize banks once a banking supervisory body has been established...

Published Fri, Jun 29 2012 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Vladimir Putin's Impotent Eurasian Union

Why the Russian president’s dream of 'near abroad' linked to Moscow might be less than the sum of its parts. Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 05 2014 8:07 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Argument

Hunger Strikes and Blame Games: 5 Takeaways From the Warsaw Climate Conference

Warsaw's red-and-white National Stadium will return to its usual role as host of soccer matches and Madonna concerts after the United Nation's marquee climate change conference draws to a close on Friday. The talks, which started on Nov. 11, intended...

Published Fri, Nov 22 2013 11:29 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Environment

Maliki's Deputy Blames Him for Fallujah's Fall

AMMAN - On Jan. 10, al Qaeda fighters raised their "black flag" over a government building in Fallujah, proclaiming their return to the western Iraqi city that U.S. forces had driven them from years earlier, at the cost of thousands of Iraqi...

Published Mon, Jan 13 2014 12:13 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: al Qaeda, Middle East, Iraq

South Africa and Lesotho top gender equality list

The World Economic Forum posted the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report today , its yearly survey of gender inequality based on economic, political, educational and health factors. For the first time, two African nations entered the top 10 rankings: South Africa...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 2:04 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Human Rights, Women, International Relations

Al-Shabab weighs in on Sandy

Somalia's al Qaeda-linked militants are somewhat less generous than Pakistan's Hafiz Saeed : Allah imposes disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes & volcanic eruptions so as to punish the Kuffar who have rejected the call of Islam. — HSM...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2012 9:59 AM by FP Passport

Egypt's political crisis

President Mohamed Morsi and his advisors cannot have expected that his November 22 constitutional declaration would throw Egypt into a renewed state of turmoil. That it has speaks volumes to the immense changes that have occurred in the country during...

Published Mon, Dec 10 2012 6:48 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Security, Law, Politics, Middle East, Islam, North Africa, Egypt, Democracy, Middle East Poster 1

Britain to bring anachronistic, medieval political institution into the 21st century

I suppose this is progress : Centuries of British royal discrimination came to an end Friday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic...

Published Fri, Oct 28 2011 9:51 AM by FP Passport

Five reasons Tony Blair would make a bad Middle East envoy

Peter McDiarmid/Getty Images White House officials put out the word this week that the United States would love to make outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair its point man on Middle East peace. Blair would represent the "Quartet" of key...

Published Fri, Jun 22 2007 2:25 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Britain, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, U.S. Foreign Policy, Bush Administration

How the world saw the inauguration

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false More than 800,000 Americans packed the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Monday to listen to President Obama deliver his second inaugural address, but many more were listening around the world. Here are a few...

Published Tue, Jan 22 2013 3:15 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Britain, East Asia, China, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Mexico, Canada, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Barack Obama

The 9 lives of AQAP’s no. 2

Said al-Shihri just won't stay dead. Each time the deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has reportedly been killed, he has popped up again several months later with a new piece of propaganda. He did so after supposedly being killed in...

Published Wed, Apr 10 2013 4:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, al Qaeda, Middle East, Intelligence, Yemen, National Security