Someone in the Russian opposition has some impressive video editing skills. The video above, which uses some digital trickery to show Prime Minister Vladimir Putin being indicted on corruption and te...
The Communist Party claims that its media is "the mouthpiece of the party," and, with few exceptions, it has succeeded. After reporting in China, its strange to attend an event in DC and be...
Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to officially announce his re-election bid in a TV appearance tonight, but the French president, who is trailing in the polls, is branching out into social media as well b...
Foreign Policy contributing editor Christina Larson writes: "I will go out to do some errands." That is the last thing that Geng He remembers her husband, Gao Zhisheng, saying to her. She r...
During this years Republican primary, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum have all suggested that they would use military force if necessary to dismantle Irans nuclear program. And tensions...
As pundits debate whether or not Xi Jinping will follow in the footsteps of current President Hu Jintao, we at FP would like to point out something he does share with his predecessor: a dangerously e...
U.S. officials greet Chinas heir apparent with tough trade talk Top story: As Xi Jinping, Chinas vice president and leader-in-waiting, made his rounds in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, U.S. leaders foc...
A new "Alert Mechanism Report" from the European Commission looks at macroeconomic data from across the continent and labeled 12 countries as warranting further scrutinty, including four of...
AFP and Iranian news outlets are reporting this morning that Oscar-winning director Oliver Stones son, Sean, converted to Shiism today during a ceremony in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, reciti...
China’s vice president begins U.S. visit Top story: Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who is likely to become his countrys next leader, began a much-anticipated visit to the United States on Monday....
Every year, Foreign Policy is proud to partner with the Lionel Gelber Foundation and the Munk School for Global Affairs at the University of Toronto to present the Lionel Gelber Prize, which is award...
Theres something puzzling about the austerity bill embraced by the Greek parliament overnight. The package includes measures such as government layoffs that seem logical for a country flirting with d...
In the category of least-surprising news of the weekend, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was reelected with 97 percent of the vote. The remaining three percent was spread among seven...
Thats the charge the National Journals Marc Ambinder makes in his very interesting new book on Joint Special Operations Command, coauthored with D.B. Grady. They write: The U.S. intelligence communit...
Greece passes austerity plan amid furious protests Top story: Facing violent protests across the country, the Greek parliament has approved an austerity bill in an effort to avoid default and secure ...
The State Department wants you to see the crackdown in Syria. Today, it uploaded eight satellite images showing how President Bashar al-Assads forces have positioned artillery toward major protest ce...
Your news, should you choose to believe it, came in from unnamed "dependable sources:" "On the morning of February 10th at 2:45 pm, unknown persons broke into the residence of the high...
President Bashar al-Assads assault on Homs continues, and the world has watched it unfold in real time. For the past week, activists have uploaded gruesome videos of indiscriminate shelling and civil...
Santorums big night It aint over yet. Rick Santorum pulled off an unlikely hat-trick on Tuesday night, winning caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado as well as a non-binding primary in Missouri -- a tro...
Eurozone demands more cuts from Greece Top news: Eurozone finance ministers dismissed a package of $4.3 billion in Greek budget cuts as incomplete, demanding an additional $400 million in cuts to th...
Guess its a slow day in Jackson: Mississippi State Rep. Steve Holland, a Democrat, has introduced a bill calling for the part of the Gulf of Mexico that is bordered by Mississippi to be renamed the ...
On Monday, we disussed Ruth Bader Ginsburgs now-controversial interview with an Egyptian television station in which she suggested that the U.S. Constitution may not be the best guide for a country w...
Rioting has erupted in the tiny Indian Ocean island nation after a confusing sequence of events that saw President Mohamed Nasheed resign, then claim a day later that he had been forced from office. ...
Adam Johnson, a professor of creative writing at Stanford University, tried to create an account of the mental life of the citizens of Pyongyang with his new novel, The Orphan Masters Son. It is the ...
Greece fails to agree to new budget cuts Top story: Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos announced that his coalition had failed to agree to a series of new austerity measures. The three parties met ...
In a move straight out of Kafka, Russian police are taking the unusual step of filing new tax evasion charges against lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in their custody two years ago: The trial of th...
50 years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order embargoing all trade with Fidel Castros Cuba: Whereas the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, ...
Homs assault persists as Russia pursues diplomacy Top story: Syrian forces are bombarding the city of Homs for a fifth straight day, not long after President Bashar al-Assad met with Russian Foreign ...
Via China Digital Times, Shanghai Daily reports that fears about debris from a destroyed Russian Mars probe forced the temporary shutdown of two Shanghai airports last month: SOME 17 flights were to...
Its a somewhat less ambitious project than fending the 1,951 mile U.S.-Mexico border, but not necessarily less controversial. EU Observer reports: Greece has started construction of a 12.6-km-long ra...
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