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Thailand Must Face, Not Dismiss, the Threat of Terrorism
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
Officials' bungled attempts at damage control are doing more damage to Thailand's reputation than the bombers ever could
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Grasping at Straws: The Syrian Opposition Appeals to Russia
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
In the face of continuing bloodshed in their homeland, one anti-Assad group courts the regime's allies in the Syrian business community and Moscow
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Vatican Confidential: Why Are So Many Rumors Coming out of the Holy See?
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
Even as Pope Benedict XVI prepares to elevate more than a score of prelates into the College of Cardinals, the church's bureaucracy seems to be in disarray
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A Year On, Christchurch Is Still Stuck in Postquake 'Fog'
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
It has been a full year since disaster hit, but the city is just starting to creep back to life
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India: Millions Study at the World's Largest University
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
In less than 10 years, the number of college goers in India is expected to increase to 40 million
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Take Two: Can a Second Bailout Save Greece?
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
After months of delays, arguments and doubts, euro zone finance ministers agreed on a second, $170 billion bailout of beleaguered Greece in the early hours of Tuesday morning
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Nothing can convince Iran to halt n-plans: Russian analysts
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
Moscow, Feb 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian analysts say there are no diplomatic means that would convince Iran to quit its nuclear plans after experts from the UN nuclear watchdog made an unsuccessful attempt to inspect Iranian military sites.
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Foreign meddling cannot bring democracy: Putin
3 hours, 44 minutes ago
Moscow, Feb 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The development of democracy in Russia must proceed along its own sovereign course without any outside interference if the country is to avoid popular uprisings, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said.
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Egypt to announce Mubarak verdict June 2
6 hours, 44 minutes ago
Cairo, Feb 23 (IANS) The verdict in the hearing for former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and former interior minister Habib Adly -- both accused of corruption and killing protesters -- will be announced June 2, a judge said.
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Manmohan a man of peace: Gilani
14 hours, 44 minutes ago
Islamabad, Feb 22 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday praised his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh as a "sincere" person who desired peace between the two countries.
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Ijaz sticks to his coup claim in testimony from London
15 hours, 44 minutes ago
Islamabad, Feb 22 (IANS) A Supreme Court appointed commission probing the memo scandal here Wednesday began recording the testimony of Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the key figure in the controversy, through video-conference from London
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Maldives sets up probe commission on power transfer
16 hours, 43 minutes ago
Colombo, Feb 22 (IANS) The Maldives government has appointed a commission to inquire into the controversial transfer of power which former president Mohamed Nasheed has termed a coup orchestrated by military and politicians who were then in the opposition, a Maldivian diplomat said Wednesday.
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Argentina declares two-day mourning period after train crash kills 50
Found on 23 February 2012
Argentina's president declared a two-day mourning period after a commuter train plowed into a barrier at a Buenos Aires station, killing 50 people and injuring hundreds more.
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Gillard calls for Australian Labor Party leadership vote
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard attempted Thursday to thwart a perceived challenge to her leadership of the Labor Party from former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by announcing that she will put the matter to a vote of Labor members of Parliament on Monday morning.
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Nuclear watchdog team disappointed after Iran visit
12 hours, 7 minutes ago
Two days of talks in Iran went nowhere and the frustration of the global nuclear watchdog agency was palpable in the terse statement it issued afterward.
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Chavez says he will undergo surgery after doctors detect lesion
Found on 22 February 2012
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that he will undergo surgery to remove a lesion from the same area where doctors removed a cancerous tumor from his body last year.
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Does 'secure the border' mean 'keep America white'?
Found on 21 February 2012
In case you plan to see Wednesday's GOP debate, allow me to offer up some crib notes so you don't get lost.
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Iran threatens preemptive action
Found on 21 February 2012
Iran warned Tuesday it would strike against an "enemy" threatening it if needed to protect its national interests -- even if the enemy didn't attack first.
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Politics
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The Republican nomination: Live-blogging the Republican debate
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Recommended economics writing: Link exchange
9 hours, 56 minutes ago
TODAY'S recommended economics writing:• Not giving up yet (Modeled Behavior)• For whom the bailout tolls (Fistful of Euros)• Mysteries of the independent central bank (Matt Yglesias)• Restraining unit labour costs is a right-wing conspiracy (Steve Waldman)
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Constitutional claims: The roots of social conservatism
11 hours, 15 minutes ago
AS RICK SANTORUM is now the national front-runner for the Republican nomination, his candidacy has renewed some evergreen questions about social conservatism in America, and specifically the question of why America is so much more socially conservative than comparable liberal democracies
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Chile's electoral system: Bye-bye binomial?
13 hours, 4 minutes ago
AUGUSTO PINOCHET was never fond of democracy. In 1990, at the end of his 17-year dictatorship, he engineered a stifling electoral system
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The Republican debate: Programming note
14 hours, 11 minutes ago
TONIGHT the Republican candidates meet in Arizona for what could be the last debate of the primary season
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Inequality and fairness: Sharing the spoils
Found on 21 February 2012
JONATHAN HAIDT, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and one of our most original and stimulating thinkers about the psychology of politics, discusses some recent research on deep-seated human intuitions about distributional fairness
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Politicians: Sing when you're winning
7 hours, 44 minutes ago
Who knew Barack Obama could be a one-man stimulus package for a beleaguered music industry? When the US President belted out a couple of lines of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at a fundraiser last month, sales of the track soared by almost 500 per cent
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Conference should focus on positives, argue Somali business leaders
15 hours, 4 minutes ago
The build up to the London conference on Somalia has focused on what doesn't work in the Horn of Africa nation - the coastguard, the central government, the security services - but the answer to the country's crisis lies in examining what does work, argue Somali business leaders.
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Somalia to get millions in rebuilding aid
Found on 22 February 2012
Millions of pounds of aid for Somalia is expected to be announced at a major conference in London tomorrow, as politicians seek to break the cycle of violence and start to rebuild the country.
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World leaders plan crackdown on Somali pirates
Found on 19 February 2012
Special courtrooms in the Seychelles and Mauritius and purpose-built "pirate prisons" are among measures to be outlined this week as world leaders gather to plan a crackdown on Somali pirates.
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Israel joins Hague in raising temperature over Iran
Found on 19 February 2012
Israel joined the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, in ratcheting up the pressure on Iran last night, calling for "crippling" sanctions on Tehran to force it to give up its nuclear programme
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WikiLeaks takes aim at an unlikely new victim: Unesco
Found on 17 February 2012
His organisation's legion of data warriors have embarrassed the US government by leaking diplomatic cables and shining a light on its soldiers' behaviour in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Top News
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DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Warrantless Eavesdropping Challenge
10 hours, 40 minutes ago
The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.
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Obama Introduces Plan to Cut Corporate Tax Rates and Loopholes
12 hours, 53 minutes ago
With the proposal, President Obama seeks to lower taxes for businesses, making the US more attractive, while closing loopholes to generate more revenue.
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The truth about violence at Occupy
14 hours, 17 minutes ago
In Oakland, the camp coincided with a significant drop in crime. But that wasn't the story we were told
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VIDEO: Obama sings the blues with BB King, Mick Jagger & Buddy Guy
16 hours, 13 minutes ago
President Obama joined a band of blues all-stars including Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Booker T
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European Court of Justice To Examine ACTA For Rights Breaches
16 hours, 46 minutes ago
The European Commission says it is referring the ACTA anti-piracy treaty to the European Union's top court
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Rick Santorum Faces a Grilling at CNN Debate
16 hours, 50 minutes ago
"The GOP’s new frontrunner will be under a harsh spotlight in Wednesday’s CNN debate after widely covered remarks on explosive social issues like Obama’s theology, prenatal care, and home schooling
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Foreign Policy
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Asking the Right Question - By Scott Clement
6 hours, 37 minutes ago
Why are polls so all over the map when it comes to bombing Iran?
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Mosquebusters - By Spike Johnson
7 hours, 23 minutes ago
When there's something Muslim in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Meet the British lawyer fighting Islam, one parking ticket at a time.
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Among the Mosquebusters - An FP Slide Show
7 hours, 29 minutes ago
A look the reactionary forces waging a legal turf war against Islam in England -- and inside the mosque they hope to kick out.
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Portraits of a Massacre Foretold
9 hours, 15 minutes ago
A ground-level view of the Syrian regime's assault on Homs.
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Remembering Rémi Ochlik - An FP Slide Show
9 hours, 18 minutes ago
The award-winning photography of the photojournalist killed in Syria.
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Friendship Under Fire - By David Makovsky
9 hours, 51 minutes ago
The Iranian nuclear threat will challenge Obama and Netanyahu's sometimes-rocky relationship like never before.
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RealClearWorld
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Iran War Is Not Inevitable
12 hours, 5 minutes ago
Robert Farley, World Politics ReviewSometime in the next few months, Israel may very well go to war against Iran, and it could draw the United States into the conflict
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The Reality of America's Global Power
12 hours, 6 minutes ago
Leon Hadar, Business Times As a life-long hypochondriac, I was laughing out loud when reading the tragic-comic inscription on the tombstone located in the cemetery in Key West, Florida: 'I Told You I Was Sick!' I could imagine the poor guy confronting family and friends and insisting to no avail that what he had was more than just the common cold or the seasonal flu
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Is English or Mandarin the Future?
12 hours, 6 minutes ago
Jennifer Pak, BBC NewsWhich language will prevail as the global standard - English or Mandarin?
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Exporting Democracy, Importing Trouble
13 hours, 58 minutes ago
George Jonas, National PostI think it was Alfred Kerr, the German critic nicknamed the “culture pope” in his day, who once said that he had been writing the same dozen pieces all his life
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Palestinians Must Use Peaceful Protest
14 hours, 5 minutes ago
Mustafa Barghouthi, NY TimesOVER the past 64 years, Palestinians have tried armed struggle; we have tried negotiations; and we have tried peace conferences
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Britain Could Make Somalia Much Worse
14 hours, 13 minutes ago
Simon Tisdall, The GuardianThursday's London conference on Somalia is portrayed as a bold attempt, in the words of the foreign secretary, William Hague, "to change the dynamic from one of inexorable decline to an upwards trajectory of gradually increasing stability"
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Wired: Politics
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Apple, Google and Other Mobile Giants Commit to App Privacy Standards
8 hours, 20 minutes ago
The California Department of Justice issued a press release Wednesday detailing an agreement among leaders in the mobile space to strengthen user privacy and transparency policies for mobile apps
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iBattle: Apple May Finally Storm the Pentagon
12 hours, 1 minute ago
In civilian life, the iPad is the clear tablet leader. But in the military, the Pentagon likes its Android devices, and has shunned Apple products
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Video: Installation Lets You Swing Your Way Through the Stars
Found on 21 February 2012
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RIP, Raygun: Pentagon's Laser Plane Laid to Rest
Found on 21 February 2012
After 16 years and billions of dollars, the U.S. military's experimental, laser-firing 747 has flown its final mission -- ending an era of sci-fi schemes at the Pentagon
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No Contest: The Coolest Astronaut Photograph Ever
Found on 21 February 2012
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U.S. Super-Sizing Afghan Jail It Promised to Abandon
Found on 20 February 2012
As recently as last year, the U.S. wanted to give the Afghan government control over the largest wartime jail in Afghanistan
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