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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inside Saudi Arabia’s Push to Silence Criticism of Its Brutal War in Yemen
Behind the scenes at the U.N., Riyadh and its friends are blocking resolutions and killing human rights investigations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saudi Arabia Plans to Break Its ‘Addiction’ to Oil
Riyadh has an ambitious plan to transform and diversify its oil-dependent economy. Saudi Arabia’s new leadership desperately needs it to work.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ISIS Is Using Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds. Why Won’t the U.S. Help?
With ISIS launching chemical attacks, Kurdish leaders in Iraq have issued an appeal to the West for gas masks. But they are still waiting for the gear.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Got Nuclear Power Plans for its Fake Islands
China’s planned fleet of floating nuclear reactors could give extra military punch to its buildup in the South China Sea -- and could create a whole new slate of environmental and safety worries.
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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 U.S. Wants To Design Safer Anti-Aircraft Missiles for Syria’s Rebels
It’s not going very well.
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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 Dutch Treat: Russia Dodges a Bullet in the $50 Billion Yukos Case — For Now
The decade-long battle to get compensation for the illegal seizure of Yukos will continue well into the future after an unexpected — and legally questionable — court ruling in the Netherlands.