Foreign Affairs

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David Rohde: Held By The Taliban, Part I

nytimes.com | DAVID ROHDE | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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THE car's engine roared as the gunman punched the accelerator and we crossed into the open Afghan desert. I was seated in the back between two Afghan ...

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Jundallah, Sunni Rebel Group, Claims Responsibility For Revolutionary Guard Attack In Iran

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran vowed retaliation Monday after accusing Pakistan, the U.S. and Britain of aiding Sunni militants who stunned the Islamic reg...

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Pakistan Steps Up Offensive In South Waziristan As Petraeus, Kerry Meet Leaders

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's army, in the midst of a major new offensive against Taliban militants, has struck deals to keep two powe...

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Charles Wesley Mumbere, Nurse's Aide In U.S., To Be Crowned African King

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

HARRISBURG, Pa. — An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his ho...

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Goldstone Attacks UN Resolution On His Gaza War Report

Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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Richard Goldstone, the South African who headed a United Nations investigation into the Gaza war, slammed the UN Human Rights Council's endorsement of...

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China, Iran Forge Ties Over Oil (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, has made it clear he does not agree with Western demands for sanctions over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, in...

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Peshawar Police Station Hit By Double Blasts, 11 Killed

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

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At least 11 people have died in two explosions near a police office in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. The bombs were detonated at an in...

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UN Row Over Goldstone Report Threatens To Sink Middle East Peace Plan

Times Online | Catherine Philp, Philip Webster and James Hider | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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The Middle East peace process was on the brink of collapse last night as Britain and other European countries failed to back Israel in a key vote at t...

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Champs-Elysees: French Farmers Torch Hay In Protest (PHOTOS)

AP | RACHEL KUROWSKI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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PARIS "AP"; French farmers struggling with slumping grain prices blanketed the Champs-Elysees with bales of hay and set them ablaze Friday, and blocke...

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Afghanistan: 4 US Troops Killed As UN Completes Election Probe

AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its i...

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UN Endorses Goldstone Gaza Report Accusing Israel Of War Crimes

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

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The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a report that accused both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of committing wa...

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The Nobel Prize With an Asterisk

Michael Winship | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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Better to call this prize, as many have, including the Nobel committee, an aspirational award -- the committee expressing its own audacity of hope.

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Libya Releases 88 Militants After Rehab Program

AP | KHALED AL-DEEB | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan government released 88 repentant Islamic militants, some of them belonging to a group with suspected links to al-Qai...

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Kim Jong Il, The Man With The Golden Nukes

Foreign Policy Roundtable | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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This is no evil genius from a James Bond movie. Kim just may be an evil genius, period. The Kim family's rule has lasted so long because son, like father, is calculating and pragmatic.

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Roy Bennett, Zimbabwe Opposition Figure, Sent To Prison And Indicted On Terrorism Charges

Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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U.S. Pakistan Aid Bill Threatens To Undermine President Zardari

Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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In India, More Women Demand Toilets Before Marriage

washingtonpost.com | Emily Wax | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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NILOKHERI, India -- An ideal groom in this dusty farming village is a vegetarian, does not drink, has good prospects for a stable job and promises his...

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Russia Resists Hillary Clinton's Pressure, Says Threats Of Iran Sanctions Won't Work

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Russia publicly pushed back Tuesday against U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is ...

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Palestinian Memo: Hopes In Obama "Evaporated" After "Zionist Lobby" Pressure

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House o...

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Bill Clinton: India Can Outgrow China (VIDEO)

Tomek Gross | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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Former President Bill Clinton spoke in Chicago this past Saturday at the India Institute of Technology's Global Conference 2009. The focus of his spe...

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North Korea Fires 5 Short-Range Missiles: Report

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea reportedly test-launched five short-range missiles – and may fire more – in what analysts said is a...

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Sudan To Hang 4 Islamists Over Killing Of U.S. Envoy, John Granville

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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A Sudanese court has upheld a death sentence against four Islamists who shot dead a US envoy on 1 January 2008....

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Why Obama Deserves His Nobel

Rob Asghar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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What truly deserving champion of peace did the Nobel committee slight this year in the process? None to my knowledge.

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Fighting a War by Objective

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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Does the United States want to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban, or does it want to eliminate Al-Qaeda as a terrorist organization and find some modus operendi with the Taliban?

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Obama Delays McChrystal's Washington Trip To Discuss Troop Levels

washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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The White House has told the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan to delay a planned trip here Friday to brief President Obama and his senior ad...

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