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Vote for FP for Best Magazine Cover!

Exciting news, FP readers. The March/April 2010 issue of the print magazine was nominated for the American Society of Magazine Editors' (ASME) Best Cover of the Year Contest in the "Best News and...

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Israel purchases @Israel Twitter handle from porn site owner

Countries as diverse as the United States and North Korea have all struggled at the nexus of statehood and social media. Until now, none have had to purchase the Twitter handle of their country's name...

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Last chance to vote for FP for Best Magazine Cover!

Hey, FP readers! Today's your last day to vote for FP for Cover of the Year. The March/April 2010 issue of the print magazine was nominated for the American Society of Magazine Editors' (ASME) Best...

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Egypt gets open-source mapping to beat sexual harassment

Egypt is infamous both for the sexual harassment women endure and the government's lackluster response to the problem. Now, a private venture called HarassMap will allow women to instantly report...

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Contractor deaths outnumber military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan

With Iraq and Afghanistan increasingly revealing the new realities of war, ProPublica yesterday reported a hitherto unprecedented fact: between January and June, more private contractors than soldiers...

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Spanish fathers now get breastfeeding leave

This just in from Spain, where apparently equal rights trump biology: The European Union Court of Justice has ruled that Spanish working fathers have the same rights to breastfeeding leave as do...

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Poked by the Politburo?

Authoritarian regimes seem to have a love-hate relationship with the internet. Vietnam is leaning toward love. State-owned Vietnam Multimedia Report recently launched a trial version of go.vn, an...

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Putin hearts Leo

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is known for loving both cute things and adrenaline, so it's no surprise that he has taken to movie star Leonardo DiCaprio like a puppy to a new chew-toy. DiCaprio...

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Disaster diplomacy in the Middle East?

Over the weekend, Israeli authorities finally contained the wildfire that devastated parts of northern Israel, near Haifa. The fire, which killed 42 people, including Israel's highest-ranking...

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U.S. Congress closes shark finning loophole

On Monday, the U.S. Senate, followed by the House on Tuesday, passed a groundbreaking shark conservation bill banning the practice of shark finning in the Pacific. The bill closes a loophole in...

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China bans use of English -- and Chinglish -- in media

Taking a page from L'Académie française, China's state press and publishing body has banned the use of foreign words and acronyms - especially English - in newspapers, periodicals, books, and on the...

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Where are Egypt's women? Right here.

The photos coming from Cairo and other parts of Egypt have many around the world glued to their computers, compulsively clicking through slideshows of the protests and brushing up on recent Egyptian...

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Turkmenistan leader's latest obsession: horses

Judging from past experiences, Turkmenistan's autocratic president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, doesn't seem to be a lover of the animal kingdom. There was the time he reportedly fired one of his...

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Blood Chocolate: The dark side of Valentine's Day

While there will always be those who would rather chuck those chalky candy hearts than eat them with their sweetheart on Valentine's Day, anti-V-Day sentiments usually focus on how big, evil...

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In Tahrir Square and the Pentagon: Sexual assault exposed

When one woman made a mistake at work, her boss called her a "stupid fucking female" and spit in her face. She was later stalked, sexually harassed, and raped. Another woman got drunk with her...

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An eco-friendly North Korea?

North Korea won't tell its citizens this, but the Hermit Kingdom is broke. Luckily, ever-ingenuous Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il and his government have a new plan -- sell carbon offsets for cold hard cash....

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Bunkered down with Uncle Curly

Today, Foreign Policy is lucky to play host to Ryan Calder's Benghazi diary. Calder, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has been blogging from Libya since he...

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Update: Bieber doesn't meet Bibi

The Holy Land is contracting Bieber fever this week as the Canadian pubescent pop star makes a much-anticipated visit to Israel. He arrived in Israel on Monday, and is set to meet with Israel Prime...

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Images of bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout

The White House is currently holding a press conference on the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan. (FP's David Kenner is liveblogging.) The images below are from a background...

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China's panda census

Chinese state media reported today that the country has started its once-a-decade panda census, the fourth tallying of the endangered species since it first began in the 1970s. 70 panda trackers are...

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