Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The War Between the Islamic State’s Enemies
Thousands of Yazidis have been saved from the jihadi group, but are now victims of infighting among Kurdish militias and the Iraqi government.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Malaysia’s Single-Party State Starting to Crack?
Meet the unlikely alliance trying to take down Malaysia’s embattled prime minister.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Many Angela Merkels Does It Take to Screw German Comedy?
The prosecution of Germany's leading satirist might be just what the country's comedy scene needed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Are These Lawmakers Ready to Replace Rousseff?
For the PMDB, ousting Dilma looks like the easy part. Selling voters on the party’s rightward turn, is another story.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Islamic State
An accidental tour into the heart of the caliphate’s oil smuggling economy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Un-Freedom Agenda
The rise of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram has turned Niger from a backwater into a key U.S. counterterrorism partner. So why is it becoming more authoritarian?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nelson Mandela’s Party Is Turning on Jacob Zuma
The African National Congress is realizing the only way to save itself is to ditch South Africa’s president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Colombia’s Pro-Lifers Are Objectively Pro-Zika
Colombia’s progressive abortion laws can stop the spread of Zika-linked microcephaly. But the conservative opposition has other plans.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Death by a Thousand Cars
In Jakarta, thousands of lives are lost each year to inadequate emergency response services, bureaucratic bungles, and horrendous traffic. How did it get this bad?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Sex Abuse Scandal in Central African Republic Hits Rock Bottom
After more than a year of seemingly endless allegations of sexual exploitation by peacekeepers,the U.N. is finally taking action. But critics say it's too little too late.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘There Will Be Bloodshed if He Comes Here’
Can the world’s hand-picked prime minister for Libya survive long enough to put the country back together?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Je Ne Suis Pas Garissa
One year after al-Shabab killed 147 people in cold blood, the Kenyan government has turned its back on the university where it happened.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘The Field of Battle Is the Courts of Justice’
Guatamala's left says the country's ongoing war crimes trials are an overdue reckoning. The country's military says they're a "legal lynching."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Putin’s Professional Hockey League Challenge the NHL?
Russia’s KHL is trying to expand from Scandinavia to Beijing. But sanctions and distrust of Moscow is taking the luster off Putin’s pet project.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Take a Country on the Brink. Now Add 10,000 Asylum Hearings a Week.
Cargo containers used as courthouses. Camps flooded with sewage. A government on the verge of collapse. Why the EU refugee deal is a disaster for Greece.