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Knowing What We Don't Know, China Dept.
The habits of campaign coverage usually aren't a good match with the murky nature of international negotiations
Teaching Afghan soldiers to play in sync
Bad tidings reach Muammar Qaddafi’s son Saadi.
Sharing the rope on a rare expedition in the mountains of Iran
Our evolution has engineered men to respond to wealth discrepancies with inequality-reinforcing multiple-wife marriages like that of South African President Jacob Zuma.
AP
The habits of campaign coverage usually aren't a good match with the murky nature of international negotiations
Sina Weibo
A prominent Chinese TV host gets a little xenophobic.
A poll of experts reflects a significant cooling of tension between Tehran and Washington.
BloggingHeads.tv
Hussein Ibish and Matt Duss address a question I brought up in this space last week: Just how powerful is Hamas in Gaza?
Reuters
Western leaders are making promises about what they'll do for the country, but will they follow through?
Reuters
According to the Far News Agency, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces has called for Israel's annihilation.
Wikimedia
Counterterrorism officials were called in after worried locals found a bird wearing a metal band reading "Israel."
AP
A new stage starts for Chen Guangcheng and his family.
Reuters
Conservative forces and modernizers are struggling over the role of women in Saudi society.
China's Mr. Suave reacts in an amazingly crude way.
European Union leaders are saying they want the new election in Greece scheduled for June 17th to be a referendum on whether the country will (a)…
Reuters
The West puts others on trial for war crimes, the argument goes, while exempting its own forces from scrutiny.
Reuters
The social network's users are increasingly located in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Reuters
Democracy movements and Shia protests are challenging the Sunni kingdom, which wants to unify with some of its neighbors.
Human Rights First
As security forces continue to repress this Arab Spring protest movement, young children are losing family members and bearing scars that could last a lifetime.
Reuters
More diplomatic problems over control of the waters surrounding the People's Republic.
Reuters
The NATO defense collective wants to do less with more by having member states develop military specialties, like workers on an assembly line.
Reuters
Long-staid print and TV political coverage is suddenly taking a more American-style approach to leaders' personal lives.
Reuters
More information is penetrating the hermit kingdom, but it's not having the impact we might have expected.
Reuters
Sasu Laukkonen is trying to revolutionize a food culture that has long emphasized sour rye bread, root vegetables, and gruel.
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