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List of Passport articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Taliban Take Credit for Fatal Pakistani Helicopter Crash
A helicopter crash killed seven in Pakistan on Friday, and now the Taliban is taking credit for it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Interactive Map: Follow the Roads, Railways, and Pipelines on China’s New Silk Road
Beijing's multi-billion dollar integration project aims to connect China to Europe with a network of roads, railways, pipelines.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia’s Patriotic Preparations Run Into Tank Troubles
Ahead of what’s meant to be their triumphant debut, one of the handful of Armata T-14s in the rehearsal ground to a halt directly in front of Lenin’s tomb in Moscow’s Red Square, stalling in place with the engine still running.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Live Coverage: Cameron Pulls Off a Stunner, Tories Win Outright Majority
Real-time coverage as the United Kingdom votes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Having a Punt, Having a Go at Explaining the British Elections!
Polls are showing a tight race as voters prepare to cast their ballots Thursday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu’s New Government Could Be Messy, Short-Lived, and Likely to Anger the U.S.
Just two hours before a looming deadline, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu negotiated for votes from a far-right party. And the United States probably won't be happy with his new political appointees.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Hope for Children in Ongoing Central African Republic Conflict
Eight rebel groups in the Central African Republic have agreed to release children they held captive during the country's bloody sectarian conflict.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lindsey Graham al-Most Knows Arabic
"Everything that starts with 'al' in the Middle East is bad news," hawkish Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a probable presidential hopeful, told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at a Boston dinner this week.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cambodian PM Says He Won’t Pay Up on $5,000 Mayweather v. Pacquiao Bet
The comment is somewhat startling given that the Cambodian government forbids its citizens from gambling.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamic State and Hamas Compete for Gaza
Last summer, Gaza survived a conflict that left much of its infrastructure destroyed. Now the strip of territory of is facing competition between Hamas and the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Italian Army is Growing Pot… to Drive Costs Down
Patients who’ve been prescribed medical marijuana in Italy have been running into a prohibitive problem: high prices. The Italian military has an unexpected solution.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Adventures in Aging and Facial Recognition Software with the Leaders of the World
Microsoft has unveiled a new tool that allows users to upload photos to be examined for age and gender.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon, Every Country Has Its Own ‘Vietnam’
The USSR’s long, costly, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign through the 1980s to prop up the communist government in Kabul against a mujahideen coalition has spurred probably the best-known uses of the metaphor. But for better or worse, scores of other conflicts also have been cast as “Vietnams.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nine Times Peacekeepers Have Sexually Abused Those They’re Supposed to Protect
A recently leaked report that accuses French peacekeepers of sexually abusing children in Central African Republic has opened up dialogue about how to stop the epidemic of peacekeeper abuse. Sadly, there's a long history to it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iranian FM Javad Zarif Trolls Sen. Tom Cotton On the Occasion of His Child’s Birth
It's the latest spat in a public feud between the Arkansas senator and the leadership of Iran.
