Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hollow Victory
In the wake of Venezuela's contested election, will Nicolás Maduro bring the fractured country together or tear it apart?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Outsider
Meet Sayed Kashua, Israel's most popular writer, comedian, critic -- and Arab.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Love Fest
Under China’s new leader, the People’s Liberation Army is showing rare signs of friendliness toward the United States. Can the new tone prevent a war?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Strange Case of the White Jihadist of Timbuktu
Was Abdul Jalil al-Fransi an al Qaeda fighter -- or a French spy?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With Friends Like These…
Even the Chinese are finally starting to think their allies in Pyongyang are a little bit crazy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Election for the Birds
As Venezuelans head to the polls to replace Hugo Chávez, a crazy campaign takes a turn toward the truly bizarre.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Shadow of the Iron Lady
Why Margaret Thatcher still makes life difficult for Britain's Conservatives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia’s Digital Underground
How the Kremlin is waging war on information freedom.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Jew in a Box
What does it say about Germany today that in order to see some Jews you’ve got to go to a museum?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Haiti’s Inconvenient Truth
Was a U.N. diplomat pushed out of his position for airing Port-au-Prince's dirty laundry in public?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Jailed in Damascus
Two years after President Bashar al-Assad's regime had me arrested, there seems to be no end in sight to the bloodshed in Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vive La France, Allahu Akbar
Islamic militants messed with the wrong city on Saturday night.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rubles in the Sun
Is Vladimir Putin the big winner of the Cypriot banking crisis?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome to Cocainebougou
Amid the drug palaces of northern Mali, it's easy to see why this war will be hard to win.