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Jewish Liberation From The Ghetto: Excerpt From "Emancipation"

GlobalPost | Michael Goldfarb | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

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Michael Goldfarb GlobalPost An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's new book, "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolutio...

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CBS News, GlobalPost Partner For Foreign News Coverage

New York Times | DAVID CARR | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

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CBS News plans to announce Monday that it has formed a partnership with GlobalPost, a foreign news Web site, that will provide CBS with reporting from...

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India: Economic Crisis Forces Businesses To Focus On The Poor

GlobalPost | Jason Overdorf | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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Jason Overdorf I GlobalPost NEW DELHI -- In India, the economic crisis may actually be good news. During the salad days of the past decade, India'...

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Pakistani Public Turns Against Taliban (VIDEO)

GlobalPost | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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By Charles M. Sennott With Photos By Seamus Murphy | GlobalPost It was out of the refugee camps in Pakistan's northwest frontier province that the ...

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John Kerry Vows To Take "Hard Look" At Afghanistan

GlobalPost | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he will hold far-ranging oversight hearings on the U.S. inv...

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Chile: Remnants Of Dictatorship Get New Life

GlobalPost | Pascale Bonnefoy | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- During Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police st...

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Millions' Poet: Saudi Poetry Brought To Reality TV

GlobalPost | Caryle Murphy | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Ziyad Hijab bin Naheet felt like he was in a dream. Standing on the stage under bright lights and a storm of confetti, he ra...

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Thailand Contact Lens Fad Sparks Health Concerns (VIDEO)

GlobalPost | Patrick Winn | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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BANGKOK, Thailand -- For Thai teenagers, Japan and Korea emanate all that is hip: candy-colored sneakers, saccharine-sweet pop bands, hair spiked in...

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Holocaust Bishop Extradition Recalls Argentina's Anti-Semitic Past

GlobalPost | Anil Mundra | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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BUENOS AIRES -- When Argentines discovered that they had a Holocaust-denying bishop in their midst, the public outcry was forceful and the governmen...

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Japan Resorts To Isolationism As Global Economy Weakens

GlobalPost | Gavin Blair | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

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TOKYO - In the days of VHS cassettes, a visit to a video rental shop here for a Hollywood blockbuster would often end in disappointment -- all the c...

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Mexican Drug Cartels Load Up On US Bullets

GlobalPost | Todd Bensman | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

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LAREDO, Texas -- For evidence of the booming bullet business along the U.S.-Mexico border, look no further than the case of Carlos Alberto Osorio Ca...

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China Hopes Farmers Will Replace US Consumers And Provide Economic Boost

GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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YANGQU, China -- With a raft of subsidies and thousands of new stores to spur spending, China is eyeing its poorest people -- farmers -- to kick-sta...

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Domestic Violence In Turkey Out Of Control

GlobalPost.com | Nichole Sobecki | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

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ISTANBUL -- A woman in the studio audience stands up and, with the spotlight highlighting her covered head, announces to the crowd that her husband ...

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China Faces Worst Drought In 50 Years

GlobalPost | David Green | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

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GONGYI, China -- The flowers that welcome visitors to the town of Gongyi in China's Henan province have seen better days. The stems that spell out t...

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Venezuela Referendum: Plebiscite On Chavez

GlobalPost.com | Charlie Devereux | Posted 03.18.2009 | World

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CARACAS -- Venezuelans will vote for a second time on Sunday on whether to scrap term limits, in a referendum that will lay plain their feelings abo...

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Pakistan: Black Market For US Military Equipment, Information Thrives

GlobalPost.com | Shahan Mufti | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Throughout the ages, this ancient Silk Road town near the border of Afghanistan has been the place where the black market thr...

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Cairo Zoo Offers Time Inside Cage With Animals

Globalpost | Theodore May | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

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CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian family asked to play with the lions. Two dollars, said the zookeeper. The mother nodded and the zoo employee motioned to...

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Japanese Gang Members Feel Effects Of Recession

Globalpost | Justin McCurry | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

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TOKYO -- Kazuhiro Yamada may describe himself as an innocent victim of the recession, but he is unlikely to win much sympathy. Until he lost his j...

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Crisis Looms Over Afghan Election

GlobalPost.com | Jean MacKenzie | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

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KABUL -- Hamid Karzai's days as president of Afghanistan appear to be numbered. But his behavior would indicate that somebody forgot to tell the man...

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Afghanistan Will Be General Petraeus' Ultimate Coin Toss

GlobalPost.com | C.M. Sennott | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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Four-star General David H. Petraeus, the chief of U.S. Central Command, performed the coin toss before kickoff at the Super Bowl. And there couldn...

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Slumdog Tours Offer Foreigners A View Of India's Poorest (VIDEO)

GlobalPost.com | By Mark Scheffler | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

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NEW DELHI -- On a random walk through Delhi's bustling railway station, the gritty street kids are easy to miss: With forlorn looks, they mingle and...

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Why Israel Is "Losing" In Gaza: Lessons For America

GlobalPost.com | Thanassis Cambanis | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

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AYTA AL SHAAB, Lebanon -- The hue and furor over the humanitarian cost of the Gaza conflict have obscured the matter on which Israel's campaign agai...

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Afghan President Eyes Russia After Being Spurned By Obama

GlobalPost.com | Jean MacKenzie | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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KABUL -- One week after the world hailed his inauguration, Barack Obama has undertaken an unprecedented charm offensive towards the Muslim world. B...

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If We Fly Blind, Geese Are the Least of It

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media

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Look anywhere, nationwide, at blood on newsroom floors and shrinking stacks at newsstands. This is beyond dangerous.

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In Brazil, Tourists Often Find More Than Just Sex

GlobalPost.com | Seth Kugel | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

RIO DE JANEIRO -- This is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations for many reasons: the iconic urban beaches, the bafflingly dramatic l...

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