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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The anti-graft prosecutor in the Philippines on Friday ordered ...

By Josh Rogin, Washington Post

If President Trump goes through with an expected summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-lago ...

How ISIS Corporatized Terror

By Cam Simpson, Bloomberg Businessweek
November 20, 2014


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A Russian senator has asked the Nobel Committee to annul the award given to the US President last year claiming Barack Obama’s double standard policy has helped develop the political crisis in Ukraine.

“The double standard policy is incompatible with the title of Nobel Peace Prize laureate. I think the Nobel committee must take an objective look at the situation and consider the possibility of taking the title from Barack Obama,” Senator Lyudmila Bokova (Saratov Region) was quoted as saying by the Izvestia daily.
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The economist
October 26 - Nov 2

The 38th parallel, separating north and south, is Korea’s most important dividing line. But it ...

By Joel Wuthnow
September 8, 2013


A North Korean Flags. source: mega-flags

As the crisis in Syria unfolds, a less noticed problem has been the widening gap between China and the United States about how to handle another “rogue regime”—North Korea. After signs of growing cooperation with the U.S. earlier this year, China has reverted to a heavy emphasis on dialogue as a solution to the DPRK nuclear issue. ...

By Zachary Keck
August 26, 2013


Image: Flickr/James Vaughan. CC BY-SA 2.0.

It’s fashionable in Western security circles to proclaim that nuclear weapons never make a state more secure. This is hogwash. Nuclear weapons, more so than any other single factor, are why Western Europeans doesn’t speak Russian. ...

By Ai Weiwei
August 27, 2013


Source: Alison Klayman/Sundance Selects via Bloomberg

The just-concluded trial of Bo Xilai will be remembered as one of the most critical political milestones in contemporary Chinese Communist history. For many years after Chairman Mao’s death in 1976, show trials were straightforward affairs. For their role in the devastating Cultural Revolution, the Gang of Four were simply charged with “anti-party activities” and convicted. Today, a political trial needs to take into consideration many more factors. ...

By Chosun Ilbo
August 23, 2013


Thirty-six South Korean fishermen abducted to North Korea pose together on Mt. Myohyang in North Korea in 1974. /Courtesy of the Family Assembly Abducted to North Korea

The government divides citizens abducted by North Korea into two groups -- those kidnapped during the 1950-53 Korean War and those abducted after. ...