Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ashraf Ghani’s Struggle
The iconoclastic anthropologist is taking over Afghanistan’s presidency with high hopes and big ideas.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stay of Expulsion
The government may not be kicking international aid workers out of South Sudan after all, but rising tensions between the two are getting worse -- and hurting the people who desperately need their help.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Modi Show
Watching the Indian prime minister's Madison Square Garden speech to a fawning diaspora.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Being an American Is All She Knew’
Minor infractions are sending Cambodian refugees back to a land they hardly recognize -- and once fled in terror.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcoming the Flood
Thousands of Kurdish refugees have fled the besieged Syrian city of Kobani across the border into Turkey. But the warm reception may not last long.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Germany’s Jewish Problem
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany. But is Angela Merkel doing anything about it?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Warsaw’s Backbench Steps Forward
The dynamic duo of Donald Tusk and Radoslaw Sikorski turned Poland into a European foreign-policy power player. What happens now that they're gone?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Keep ‘Em Coming, Kurds Say
Besieged Kurds in Syria and Iraq see the United States' bombing campaign against the Islamic State as a good start -- but not enough.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hanging by a Thread
The U.N.'s new mission to the war-torn Central African Republic needs more money, manpower, and training. How can it possibly succeed?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Ebola the Beginning of the End of the World?
As deaths rise in Monrovia and the sick cluster in gutters outside overcrowded treatment centers, many people are turning to God for answers -- and salvation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Were Being Killed for Something We Didn’t Even Know’
Two years after South Africa's Marikana miners' strike and massacre, neither Lungisile Madwantsi -- nor his country -- has healed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Scottish Hangover
A day after their referendum on independence, Scots take stock.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Admiral’s Revenge
Epic battles, evil Japanese, and the Sewol ferry sinking: Why this South Korean blockbuster is breaking every box office record.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trading With Terrorists, Ukraine-Style
He doesn’t work for the government. He doesn’t wear a uniform. Meet the mysterious deal broker who’s freeing Ukraine’s prisoners of war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘They Made Us Take the Seat of Death’
Meet a man executed by the Islamic State -- who survived.