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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Most Dangerous Drone Tactic Is Here to Stay
From Yemen to Somalia, the White House has gone back to bombing men it can’t confirm are militants — potentially leaving innocents trapped in the crossfire.
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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 Tiny Kosovo Faces a Big Energy Dilemma
The energy-starved Balkan nation needs a new power plant. But is dirty brown coal the best way to build the economy?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia Blocks U.N. Report Linking Alleged Sudanese War Criminal to Gold Profiteering
A leader of the militia that terrorized Darfur is pocketing $54 million a year from gold sales. Why won’t Moscow release a confidential report documenting his abuses?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Silvery Strips of Sea’ and Their Role in History
From the Turkish straits to Malacca to the English Channel, watery choke points have decisively shaped history — but which did so the most?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How I Accidentally Became a Lobbyist for Azerbaijan
The small oil-rich country spends millions sweet-talking Congress. Here’s how I got fooled into helping.
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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 Is NATO Still Relevant? Trump’s Not the Only One Asking.
From Bob Gates to Leon Panetta, the Republican front-runner isn’t the only one wondering if the Cold War alliance is obsolete.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S.-Russia Tensions Jeopardize Effort to Lock Down Loose Nukes
Obama’s sparring with Putin is hampering the push to prevent nuclear terrorism — and even raising the risk of an accidental nuclear confrontation.
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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.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan: Washington’s Closest Allies in Fight Against Islamic State Are Just as Bad as the Islamic State
The Turkish president maintains that the Kurdish militants receiving arms from the U.S. are terrorists — and that the West is wrong to see them any differently.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Go North, Young Man, Go North!
Even African 'success stories' like Senegal want their citizens to seek their fortune in Europe, because it's easier than giving them a chance at home.