Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Umbrella Movement Playlist
Stirring, profane, always authentic: Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests have developed a rich musical culture.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Thug Politics, Kiev
Oleh Lyashko gets into fist fights, kidnaps rebels, and supplies militias (or so he claims). Meet the radical populist who could play kingmaker in post-Maidan Ukraine.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tackling Ebola, One Broadcast at a Time
Health workers aren’t the only ones fighting Ebola -- so are radio journalists, hip-hop singers, and imams.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Curious Case of Moazzam Begg
As Britain grapples with what to do about citizens returning from Syria, a prominent terrorism case raises more questions than answers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Everybody Will Be Responsible if a Massacre Happens’
Kurdish officials say they have been betrayed by the Turkish government, which is preventing them from fighting the Islamic State in besieged Kobani.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Cannot Go Back to Myanmar’
Hundreds of thousands of refugees have been living on the Thai border for decades. Now they may be forced to return to the country they once fled.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Better the Dilma You Know…
Brazil's incumbent is on track for re-election. But that's mostly because there's no one better.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Where Hong Kong Hits Home
Singapore watches its twin city from afar, and considers its own future.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Toxic Politics of Ebola
In Guinea, the epidemic isn’t just killing people. It’s threatening to tear the country apart.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Last Safe Place
A small clinic in an eastern Turkish city provides Syrians injured in the war with much-needed help. But the facility is quickly running out of cash -- and the doctors who operate it blame the war on the Islamic State for their troubles.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Country of God
In long-Catholic Brazil, the burgeoning evangelical population has become a dynamic political force -- and could even choose the country’s next president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Peril on the Shore
Thousands of people have died this year trying to reach Europe from North Africa’s coasts. But for these would-be migrants, the danger begins long before they take to the sea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘I Am Only Looking Up to Paradise’
The French government doesn't have to worry about Abu Mariam coming home from the jihad in Syria. He wants to go to heaven.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Too Many, Too Late
Syria’s beleaguered moderate rebels have been begging for U.S. airstrikes for years. Now that the bombs are falling, they wish Washington would send its planes back home.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cluster Bombs in Potato Fields and Tripwires on the Cow Path
Cleaning up after five months of war in eastern Ukraine.