Foreign Affairs

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Geneva: Bush Shoe Thrower Gets Hero's Welcome

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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GENEVA — The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush leaned back in his chair and soaked in the round of applause. Th...

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Direct Iran Talks Supported By 82% Of Americans: Poll

ABC News | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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With talks underway in Vienna today, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that Americans overwhelmingly suspect Iran of trying to produce nuclear...

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The Eagle and the Bear

Gary Hart | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Following the adage that we don't have permanent friends, we have permanent interests, we have many more common interests with the Russians than we have matters in opposition.

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Rising Number Of Westerners Travel To Afghanistan, Pakistan To Become Terrorists

washingtonpost.com | Craig Whitlock | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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BERLIN -- Midway through a propaganda video released last month by a group calling itself the German Taliban, a surprise guest made an appearance: a c...

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Cuba Sends Spies To U.S. To Mislead, Misinform

miamiherald.com | By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- In the six months after the 9/11 attacks, up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrori...

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Karzai Vote Falls Below 50 Percent After Hundreds Of Thousands Of Ballots Thrown Out

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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KABUL — U.N.-backed fraud investigators on Monday threw out nearly a third of President Hamid Karzai's votes from the August election, undercutt...

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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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